It's been a month already! Very generous Saturday puzzle to mark the occasion. Lots of anagrams, little bit of an apt pair with STARRY EYED and BROKEN HEARTED.
Across
- 1
- No-one it'll cast out of a group of stars (13)
CONSTELLATION — anagram (out) of NO ONE IT'LL CAST - 10
- Expert at holding a lot of fish fingers? (3,4)
DAB HAND — cryptic def. - 11
- Yew, say, made up part of lexicon, if erroneously (7)
CONIFER — hidden in lexiCON IF ERroneously - 12
- Put on the record before saint flips sides and plays host (10)
ENTERTAINS — ENTER (put on the record) TAINS (saint swapping first and last letters) - 13
- Swimming pool game (4)
POLO — anagram (swimming) of POOL - 15
- Counter blow (6)
BUFFET — double def. - 17
- Porters at Spooner's underworld dances ... (8)
BELLHOPS — Spoonerism of HELL (underworld) BOPS (dances) - 19
- ... ran through claret after weeks of debauchery (8)
SKEWERED — anagram (debauchery) of WEEKS, RED (claret) - 20
- Got wind of hero of Shakespeare's midwinter (6)
LEARNT — LEAR (hero of Shakespeare's) NT (middle letters of winter) - 23
- Somalia's heart land (4)
MALI — hidden in soMALIa - 24
- Stifle and hold back favourite member of the family (10)
STEPMOTHER — SMOTHER (stifle) containing reversal (back) of PET (favourite) - 27
- Lionises game reserve (7)
REVERES — anagram (game) of RESERVE - 28
- A crafty role in aircraft control (7)
AILERON — A, anagram (crafty) of ROLE IN - 29
- On one's uppers there and melting down in the dumps (6-7)
BROKEN-HEARTED — BROEK (on one's uppers), anagram (melting) of THERE AND
Down
- 2
- Circle interior of exterior bits (5)
ORBIT — hidden in exteriOR BITs - 3
- Romantic stay in awfully seedy housing (6-4)
STARRY-EYED — anagram (awfully) of SEEDY around TARRY (stay) - 4
- Bring closer to complete attention (6)
ENDEAR — END (complete) EAR (attention) - 5
- Parasites seen troubling mine host (8)
LICENSEE — LICE (parasites) anagram (troubling) of SEEN - 6
- Brazil, say, backed up a bluefin, say (4)
TUNA — reversla (backed up) of NUT (Brazil, say), A - 7
- Queasy or sleazy? (3-6)
OFF-COLOUR — double def. - 8
- Raved hysterically over second part of speech (6)
ADVERB — anagram (hysterically) of RAVED, B (second) - 9
- New wars or old weapons (6)
ARROWS — anagram (new) of WARS OR - 14
- Manual adding ultramarine to most of greens (4-6)
BLUE-COLLAR — BLUE (ultramarine) COLLARd (greens, without last letter) - 16
- Glutton for complimentary offal (4-5)
FREE-LIVER — FREE (complimentary) LIVER (offal) - 18
- Scrap from jumbo is lying within 1000kg limits (8)
JETTISON — JET (jumbo), IS inside TON (1000kg) - 19
- Painful to keep doctor in the dark (6)
SOMBRE — SORE (painful) around MB (doctor) - 21
- Can threes split into two and ace? (6)
THRONE — THR (first half of threes), ONE (ace) - 22
- Party drug stashed under patio turned out to be narcotic (6)
OPIATE — anagram (turned) of PATIO, E (party drug) - 25
- Sixth or seventh to cover charger (5)
HORSE — hidden in sixtH OR SEventh - 26
- Extended stage set for the weekends (4)
TREK — last letters of seT foR thE weeK