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Across: 1 Moan about spiking whisky on the rocks — it’s unethical (11)
9 The start of Hamlet’s short speech for his friend (7)
10 Exhaust female with fever once, holding it back (7)
11 Haggard character’s hotel in Home Counties (3)
12 In Arundel it is terribly snobbish (7)
13 Traveller, Irish, about to get stuck into fizzy stout (7)
14 Dorothy’s point (3)
15 Skinflint in the main steers in odd places (5)
17 Woman avoids second number (5)
18 Conservative noble brought back fawn (5)
20 Old currency smuggled into football club (5)
22 Discharge a person of faith (3)
24 Get excited about Republican support for rider (7)
25 Nearly claim run-out quite quickly (7)
26 Shelter returning swimmer (3)
27 Aromatic ingredient is filling a requirement (7)
28 It’s mean to state how old someone is (7)
29 Attempt to sell French newspaper for everyone (4,2,5)
Down: 1 Stalinist miner foolishly seizes unknown communist (7-8)
2 Battery element ignited, unpleasant smell engulfing one (7)
3 Bouncers finally shift flyers here at night (5)
4 Spies eat after recruiting European — here? (9)
5 Independent books, offensive, make unwelcome entrance (7)
6 Using hall elsewhere, employ outside means of communication (7,8)
7 Protect main feature of coats of arms (6)
8 Person on board ignores leading CID officer and cleric (6)
16 Key player depresses it, thus activating felt pad (4,5)
18 One of the leads cut apple (2-4)
19 Social climber not at first engaging in wild rave-up (7)
21 Irish girl left 26 over in do (7)
23 Constant enthusiast’s plant, 21’s favourite? (6)
25 Scare in the style of Royal Marines (5)
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