Christmas puzzle, with one 47-letter answer over 5 normal grid entries – this made it a more difficult puzzle than usual from Quixote, but I was eventually able to work it out as crossing letters helped along with the anagram fodder. Solving time, 32 mins.
* = anagram < = reversed
ACROSS
1 C(AS)H bread = money as = when ch = child
3 UGLY SISTER (gristly Sue)*
10 ANNELID (Lindane)*
11 O (R) P (HE) US
12/23/4/27/28 PEACE ON EARTH AND MERCY MILD GOD AND SINNERS RECONCILED (Clear-eyed canon reddened no end proclaiming Christmas)* This is from the carol “Hark the Herald Angels sing”
15 G (OLD) EN
16 RADICLE “Radical”
18 E (QU) AT OR
20 SLOUGH Double definition
26 MARTIAL Ditto – Latin poet
29 I RIS(k)
DOWN
1 CHAMP AGNES
2 SANTA CLAUS (Satan)* “clause”
5 YE OMAN ReallY
6 IMP U TED
7 TWEE cf tree
8 REST Hidden
9 SLE EVE Ernie Els<
13 SCRUTINEER (one recruits)* less o
14 METHODISTS (this modest)*
17 GRIM ALDI
19 TEN SION Sion = Zion
21 L (A) YING
22 WRASSE cf Wasser (water in German)
24 A MIR(e)
23 CROC(k), I think