| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | MALEFACTOR | |
| Offender’s manly characteristic (10) | MALE + FACTOR | |
| 6 | GRIP | |
| Handle complaint briefly (4) | (GRIP)E | |
| 10 | DEMONIC | |
| Hellish protest against turning in leader of cult (7) | DEMO + (IN reversed) + (C)ULT | |
| 11 | CONTACT | |
| Get through to fraud with subtlety (7) | CON + TACT | |
| 12 | OBSTACLES | |
| Drunken constable is not counting in bars (9) | Anagram of CONSTABLE IS minus IN | |
| 13 | O-RING | |
| Seal section of floor in garage (1-4) | floOR IN Garage | |
| 14 | RESTED | |
| Estate with investment in wine ceased activity (6) | EST inside RED | |
| 16 | FOOTING | |
| Metal, transported by mistake, brought back for foundation (7) | TIN inside (GOOF reversed) | |
| 17 | CAN | |
| Adolescent slipped out of food outlet with drink container (3) | CANTEEN minus TEEN | |
| 19 | BASTION | |
| Italian wine stocked in good French stronghold (7) | ASTI inside BON | |
| 20 | WIND UP | |
| Good conditions for sailing to finish (4,2) | Double Definition | |
| 23 | TRIAL | |
| Aussie showman returned after end of important court action (5) | LAIR reversed after IMPORTAN(T) | |
| 24 | THE MATTER | |
| Those people with treat arranged may be wrong (3,6) | THEM + anagram of TREAT | |
| 26 | LEANS ON | |
| Child who doesn’t like fat bullies (5,2) | LEAN SON | |
| 27 | EMINENT | |
| Renowned enterprise’s closing mine on border of Northern Territory (7) | ENTERPRIS(E) + MINE + NT | |
| 28 | SEEM | |
| Appear to identify with mass (4) | SEE + M | |
| 29 | GERMINATED | |
| Mutated form of garden mite began to grow (10) | Anagram of GARDEN MITE | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | MEDIOCRE | |
| Doctor holding oxygen on pedestrian (8) | MEDIC outside O + RE | |
| 2 | LIMES | |
| Uses basic stuff to fertilise fruit trees (5) | Double Definition | |
| 3 | FUNDAMENTALISM | |
| Support a leader of theology after people misinterpreted Islam’s uncompromising religious beliefs (14) | FUND + A + [(T)HEOLOGY after MEN) + anagram of ISLAM | |
| 4 | CACKLE | |
| Egg supplier’s informative call? (6) | Cryptic Definition | |
| 5 | OCCASION | |
| Part of casino is accommodating uplifting event (8) | casiNO IS ACCOmmodating reversed | |
| 7 | REALIGNED | |
| Was king, accepting all, largely straightened out? (9) | REIGNED outside (AL)L | |
| 8 | POTAGE | |
| Soup, for example, a superior served up (6) | (EG + A + TOP) reversed | |
| 9 | INDOCTRINATION | |
| Training concerned with GP and triathlon race (14) | IN + DOC + TRI + NATION | |
| 15 | STAMINATE | |
| Male, a minister, imprisoned by political power (9) | (A + MIN) inside STATE | |
| 16 | FAN | |
| Cool person who provides support (3) | Double Definition | |
| 17 | CONTINUE | |
| Maintain unit set up inside volcanic hill (8) | UNIT reversed inside CONE | |
| 18 | SPIRITED | |
| Lively insect’s wings tied up by agitated spider? (8) | (I)NSEC(T) inside anagram of SPIDER | |
| 21 | STILLS | |
| Suppliers of alcohol not moving spirits in the end (6) | STILL + SPIRIT(S) | |
| 22 | REDEEM | |
| Buy back diamonds owned by emeer abroad (6) | D inside anagram of EMEER | |
| 25 | TREAT | |
| Menacing statement not supported by hospital doctor (5) | THREAT minus H |
I was a bit worried about the min contained in st a ate. I believed it should only be the initial. Eventually I used google to prove that once again that David had done his research, and min was valid.
Didn’t even occur to me to question it Arthur. Just took it as read.