Across

• 1. Friendly communist is relative? (7)
• 5. Spasm around bull turns deadly. (5)
• 8. Your top 3 for 2006 person of the year? (3)
• 9. Camera lens shot eel hotpot (9)
• 10. British author's lentils? (4)
• 13. Deep as in rubbish? (4)
• 14. Church with heads of an original statue from Bedlam. (5)
• 15. Weed, meat and potato chopped up. (4)
• 16. Labels stag-do over! (4)
• 18. Maintain contained river for fad (5)
• 19. Artefact of internet culture made empty twice! (4)
• 21. Free, wild coastal ecosystem. (4)
• 26. Improves and imposes it carelessly (9)
• 27. Cancel exactly 3/7ths then backflip. (3)
• 28. For starters killed Atwood, Frost, Keats and author of "The Trial" (5)
• 29. Speak to smock after the year of our lord (7)

Down

• 1. Kelvin looked at vandalised car? (5)
• 2. Shotgun blasted digits. (7)
• 3. Tore off repeatedly? (4)
• 4. Dial up the painter. (4)
• 5. Kind of font? (4)
• 6. Ox has adapted for South African culture. (5)
• 7. Passes over a game with 2 down (7)
• 11. Harps played off key? (5)
• 12. Smash, hash and British cash. (5)
• 15. Amateur ridicule of sailor's bed. (7)
• 17. Middle era gave transformation (7)
• 20. If Tom composed theme. (5)
• 22. Fingers stringed instrument and worries... (5)
• 23. Novel typographic unit, mother (4)
• 24. "The East" of Slovenia in Alcoholics Anonymous (4)
• 25. Preowned ecstasy wrapped in American cash. (4)