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1. Starred clues are those with the ESPANOL bent.

   ACROSS
   * 1. MOAN MOAN A whirlwind = MANO A MANO = duel
   * 6. He Answers, Suppose That Albert leads = HASTA = until
   9. link INTEL with RUDE = INTERLUDE = break
   * 10. CA R TA = CARTA = menu
   * 11. FIES TA = FIESTA = do
   12. P RE LATE = PRELATE = clergyman
   * 14. AU LA = AULA = lecture theatre
   15. PRO dancing IN SODAS = PROSODIANS = poets
   18. flagrantly MISUSE LIFE = EMULSIFIES = Makes mayonnaise, say
   * 20. CA SA = CASA = home
   * 23. drops a S, LOSES unexpectedly and takes PAN to heart = ESPANOL = Portuguese neighbour
   * 24. EC backed NOTE = CENOTE = waterhole
   26. faces of Saucy Erotica’s RUM = SERUM = bloody extract
   27. PAR SIMONY = PARSIMONY = frugality
   * 28. A splits MESS = MESAS = tables
   29. G AS FIELD S = GAS FIELDS = energy sources

   DOWN
   1. MAIN FRAME = MAINFRAME = complex computer
   2. NUT to be stripped of middling MEDAL = NUTMEAL = fruit powder
   3. fAcE cReAm leads to Terrific Effect = AERATE = pass wind through
   * 4. QUA A priority = AQUA = water (was irrigate in initial version of the crossword, since updated)
   5. OVERS and gets PASSE = OVERPASSES = goes beyond
   * 6. Hector HAD A NICE = HACIENDA = large estate
   * 7. SIRI ANA = SIRIANA = Syrian
   * 8. GA in AVE = AGAVE = alcohol ingredient
   13. T RUFFLE PI tailing smuG = TRUFFLE PIG = fungus finder
   16. E post SNAKE YES = SNAKE EYES = one doubled
   17. crazy SUITS holding MAN up = TSUNAMIS = waves grandly
   19. UM inSPIRE lost in rewrite = UMPIRES = judges
   * 21. A throwback LOX TO reverse evoLution’s fourth = AXOLOTL = amphibian
   22. IN hItchcock second after GEM = GEMINI = sign
   23. EPS OM = EPSOM = salt
   * 25. I revolutionary SIR = IRIS = coloured band