Across
Four, minus our two points, equals the bottom number (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
F[our] + E[ast] + WEST 9 DAMNATION : DAM [mother – answer to 29] + NATION [land] 10 SHIVA : V [first letter of victorious] in SHIA [branch of Islam] 11 OUNCE : O[ld] +[d]UNCE: another name for the snow leopard 12 LOCAL CALL : LOL [laugh out loud] around CALCAL [CAL{ifornia} the state of Hollywood doubled up] 13 THIN AIR : T[ime] + HAIR [locks] round [securing] IN [home] – clever surface 15,27 BUNKER MENTALITY : some rather complicated wordplay here: BUNY [‘disheartened rabbit’] round [protecting] N [last letter of warren] with ET AL [and the others] outside, inside [trapped by] KERMIT [frog] 17,4 COOKIE MONSTER : anagram [new] of NOTICES MORE round [cages] OK [acceptable]: Kermit’s friend in Sesame Street 19 BOW LEGS : EG [say] in [blocking] BOWLS [game] 22 ASCERTAIN : anagram [pickles] of IN CAR SEAT 24 OTTER : a typical Paul invention: more OTT [over the top] 28 RESORTS : double definition [re-sorts] 29, 26 MOTHER-IN-LAW : a very clever anagram [funny] of WOMAN HITLER [2,8] and I suppose some might say &lit. I couldn’t possibly comment. [Isn’t Paul getting married some time around now?]
See 17
29-land's oath (9)
God, victorious leader in a branch of Islam (5)
Old fool defaced cat (5)
Where talk may be cheap, laugh out loud about the state of Hollywood, doubled up (5,4)
Time locks securing home into which one might vanish (4,3)
27a
False sense of security disheartened rabbit protecting warren, ultimately, and the others outside trapped by frog … (6,9)
4a
… whose friend notices more new cages acceptable (6,7)
Warped members, say, blocking game (3,4)
Discover pickles in car seat (9)
Relative of the weasel even more outrageous? (5)
See 29
See 15
More than one holiday destination makes further arrangements? (7)
26a
2 8 — funny sort of joke! (6-2-3)
Down
Dying sound causing clairvoyant scepticism, when heard (4-3)
Western country discovering Hamlet's frailty? (5)
Lick, in message from the lips, for an out-of-this-world experience (9)
Caribbean island cancelling party, book taxi (7)
Nosy people into rocket science, fifty (5)
Asian flag in East Indian capital, fluttering (9)
Jolly ambience's ending, entering meeting (6)
Mass murderer punched ballerina in the midriff (6)
Is shape close? Equilateral? Scalene? A little of each — or the other! (9)
Lift a lid to poke something proverbially soused, round vegetable (3,6)
Totals are up for old scholar (7)
First of broken articles, might one be split? (6)
Its output fine speech initially, then supplication (7)
Grace, I suspect, is more careful (6)
One shouting furiously for sportsman (5)
Finally, skirt hitched up, perhaps — so this revealed? (5)
Type letters or click words in the clue