Across
5a
Hopping mad — we get VAT on traditional British fare (4,3,3,3)
See 1
Now their work became less acceptable (4,4)
One type of racing at venue for another — largely a shambles (6)
Slightly backtracking, show deference to biblical couple going steady (2,2,4,4)
Escapes, just about, on hearing wife's in the vicinity (4,6)
Bill's old trouble (3)
Neckwear could be junk, mostly (3)
Plant ground more millet (10)
Checking work from one of the Royals playing game? (12)
They may be in bed — one's about to get up (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘about’) of RISE (‘get up’) in I (‘one’) plus (apostrophe) S from the clue.
Like a teacher, used role-play at one college (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of DID ACT (‘used role-play’) plus I (‘one’) plus C (‘college’).
29a
'That OK then?' Lad rudely: 'I'm not interested!' (4,2,3,4)
See 28
Down
Admit money originally cut (4)
Dangerous to leave hotel, which is spacious (4)
One fashionable piece of writing? Could be yes and no (8)
Countryman's pronounced stoop (5)
Nag's sounding off — wife cross (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of W (‘wife’) plus HINNY (‘cross’ between a male horse and a female donkey).
Cutting through corruption, start to speak to meeting in a deeply emotional way (10)
Sentimental slush — see right through the German beauty queen? (4-6)
Poet taking sweetheart round Spanish city (6)
Protestant archbishop's first proscription overturned — past it sadly (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of A (‘ A rchbishop’s first’) plus NAB, a reversal (‘overturned’) of BAN (‘proscription’) plus APTIST, an anagram (‘sadly’) of ‘past it’.
Can you connect with this form of humour? (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A play on ‘can’ as lavatory.
Half, nearly three quarters of words explosive (6)
United lifted in first leg a long time ago (5,3)
Move French regularly interrupting at the back (6)
Tenor Domingo's initial break (5)
Given up before, this smoker (4)
Holed in one side, catamaran partly capsized (4)
Type letters or click words in the clue