Exellent brain exercise as always
ACROSS
1 Herbaceous plant showing dark spot? Always one MACLEAYA MACLE AY A macle is a dark spot in a crystal
6 Mordant and reprehensible BASE dd
9 Not inflamed? Henry’s to worry, with nude dancing around UNHEATED H EAT in (NUDE)*
11 Mostly privy about girl and guy’s date CLOG-ALMANAC GAL+MAN IN CLOAC[a] cloaca is a privy or sink of moral filth
12 What’s strong about individual drug user? STONER ONE in STR
13 Indian art, note, accepted by Muslim leader MEHNDI N in MEHDI
14 Morning service failing to complete baptism AMRIT AM RIT[e]
17 Emigre around UK colony subject to demands for payment EXIGIBLE GIB[raltar] in EXILE
18 Bad names if linked to one – may do this? INFAMISE (NAMES IF I)*
22 Judgement? Interviewees spurning it GUESS GUES[t]S
23 Critical after one’s run out of blood product SEROUS SER[i]OUS
24 Rodent to damage most of seed MARMOT MAR MOT[e]
26 Landowner who, with wife, would plough the meadows with little hesitation HOMESTEADER (THE MEADO[w]S)* ER
27 Turned caustic about tangled line in fishing gear TRAILNET (LINE)* in TART<
28 Father apparently returned twice PAPA APAP<
29 Man left old soldier in area in Switzerland HELVETIA HE L VET I A
DOWN
1 Thinks to eradicate drug disorder MUSS MUS[e]S
2 Knocks out class in school with teacher’s latest manoeuvring CHLOROFORMS FORM in (SCHOOL R)*
3 One day after Christmas, recalled meteor LEONID NOEL< ID
4 Peace, no longer lack of order, taking in sun ATARAXIA RA in ATAXIA ataxia is also the inability to coordinate voluntary movements
5 Promoters approve bringing in Director ADMEN D in AMEN
6 Old letters composer failing to finish one BRAHMI BRAHM[s] I
7 Walk awkwardly on board in bandaged SWADDLES WADDLE in SS
8 Endless exercise roughly gathering 1000 compounds EXCIMERS M in (EXERCIS[e])*
10 Elevation? Component’s brought about that of German city ENNOBLEMENT BONN< in ELEMENT
14 American is cool about depth halfway along vessel AMIDSHIP D in AM IS HIP
15 Blend of tangerine and grapefruit unusual in a lemon MINNEOLA (IN A LEMON)*
16 Article found in peculiar Flemish cattle feed FISHMEAL A in (FLEMISH)*
19 Energy in a crowd overcoming a simple creature AMOEBA E in A MOB< + A
20 Old time cricket score rising – play this way? NURDLE (ELD RUN)< nurdle is to score runs by gently pushing ball with bat
21 Frenzied journey in Arctic, taking little time MUSTH T in MUSH
25 It’s a repeated farewell TATA TA TA
( )* = anagram [ ] = omit < = reverse dd = double definition
Thanks Jed. Fine puzzle again. Beelzebub is the high point of my week.