Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
1 | BUSYBODIES | |
Disruptive boy in coach stops troublemakers (10) | Anagram of BOY inside (BUS + DIES) | |
6 | SMSS | |
Electronic communications yet to be deleted from reconfigured systems (4) | Anagram odf SYSTEMS minus YET | |
10 | MALADMINISTERED | |
Master providing housing for lad with little education managed poorly (15) | MASTER outside (LAD + MINI) + ED | |
11 | PAVEMENT | |
Walk quietly with people guarded by a returned soldier (8) | P + (MEN inside A VET) | |
12 | AGLOW | |
Silver, soft and luminous (5) | AG + LOW | |
14 | HOISTS | |
One, surrounded by accommodating people, uses an elevator (6) | I inside HOSTS | |
16 | ADHESION | |
Bond had changed sound around (8) | Anagram of HAD + (NOISE reversed) | |
18 | ANNALIST | |
One who records what happened with an inventory containing sodium (8) | (AN + LIST) outside NA | |
20 | GYRATE | |
Guys oddly value spin (6) | GuYs + RATE | |
22 | RITES | |
Admission of culprit established customary practices? (5) | culpRIT EStablished | |
24 | PORTRAIT | |
Left deserter clinging to one picture (8) | PORT + (RAT outside I) | |
27 | CHEMICAL WARFARE | |
A few claim archer organised fighting using destructive agents (8,7) | Anagram of A FEW CLAIM ARCHER | |
28 | LOPE | |
Cut off end of line bound (4) | LOP + LIN(E) | |
29 | DOWNPLAYED | |
Complete pad, newly redecorated, is understated (10) | DO + anagram of PAD NEWLY | |
Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
1 | BOMB | |
Retreating throng head from battlefield with explosive (4) | MOB reversed + (B)ATTLEFIELD | |
2 | SALVATION | |
Tub, one included in beauty parlour’s restoration (9) | (VAT + I) inside SALON | |
3 | BUDGE | |
Push financial plan with time lacking (5) | BUDGET minus T | |
4 | DRIVER | |
Club record initially claimed by one entering pool, perhaps? (6) | (R)ECORD inside DIVER | |
5 | EVICTED | |
Temperature showing in faulty device should be put out (7) | T inside anagram of DEVICE | |
7 | MURAL | |
A strange, mounted, large wall decoration (5) | (A + RUM) reversed + L | |
8 | SIDEWINDER | |
Missile is sent up by axis, say, filled with gas (10) | IS reversed + (WIND inside DEER) | |
9 | STRATEGY | |
Contract not put forward in odd plan of action (8) | GET reversed inside STRAY | |
13 | THEATRICAL | |
Reviewed article that greatly exaggerated? (10) | Anagram of (ARTICLE THA)T | |
15 | TALL SHIP | |
Everyone keep quiet boarding crown’s sailing vessel (4,4) | (ALL + SH) inside TIP | |
16 | ACT | |
A cabaret dropping a naked performance (3) | A + (CABARET minus A BARE) | |
17 | IMAGINARY | |
A spirit dwelling in the body of one biblical character is not real (9) | (A + GIN) inside (I + MARY) | |
19 | SOPRANO | |
Singer is very taken by new rap number (7) | SO + anagram of RAP + NO | |
21 | DRAW IN | |
Reduce waste primarily lodged in outlet (4,2) | (W)ASTE inside DRAIN | |
23 | TIE UP | |
Tether that is bitten by ram (3,2) | IE inside TUP | |
25 | RURAL | |
Country regular worked less, for example (5) | Anagram of REGULAR minus EG | |
26 | NEED | |
Want what a masseuse can do orally (4) | Sounds like KNEAD |