I didn’t detect any over-arching theme in this puzzle, although the appearance of the word NINA in the sixth column could well mean that I’m missing something.

Across
1 HUM,MIN(GB,IR)D
9 W,OR,SE - “facing” as in the compass opposites of those in the clue itself.
10 LI(MESCAL)E
11 MUESLI BAR - (a sublimer)*.  Not being a health-food freak myself, I’m glad that Araucaria saw fit to qualify the &lit-ness of this with a question mark.
13 TEE,MING - “tea”; again the question mark seems appropriate, to flag the mental leap of China=Ming
15 E(YE)D - solvers =”ye” is atypical piece of Araucarian jiggery-pokery.
18 PE(THAT)E - one for all the schoolboy humorists out there.
24 PAU,LJ, ONES - a (presumably flirtatious) dance of yesteryear.
27 M,OVER - ….as in  movers and shakers.
29 THEM,A,NO,FLAW - fortunately I’m better at bluffing my way in Chaucer than Shakespeare, so this one came quicker than it might have otherwise.

Down
1 HAW(KM)O[-r]TH - again I lucked out on the literary reference.  The only reason I know that the Bronte Parsonage is in Haworth is because my grandmother used to have table mats featuring “The Historic sites of Yorkshire”!
2 MURDER,ER - (Re Red Rum)<  A similar device helped to form the denouement in a Listener Crossword a couple of years back.
3 I,DEAL - ref. the card-playing convention; “You cut, I’ll deal”.
4 GOLF, BAG - “upbeat” = flog<
5 I,M,MERSE[-y]
8 GEE-GEE - the central letters of “dogged”.
16 CAR,NIVAL - not quite sure what purpose the is served by the phrase “coming up” .
17 BED,STRAW
19 DE(PLET)E - where “some droplets” is ther contents indicator.
20 PRUSSIA - I’m guessing that the colour Prussian Blue can be obtained via some sort of acidic reaction.
21 SPUR,GE
25 JUMBO - the second half of mumbo-j.

An excellent themed puzzle by Radian, timed, I expect, to coincide with Sebastian Faulks’ new James Bond book on the centenary of Ian Fleming’s birth, I think.    I got the theme almost instantly with the Czech town, BRNO, 24 across, making me look at 19 down and seeing DR NO.     Solving time, 21 mins, most completed in about 11 mins, with the last three or four taking a while to track down.

* = anagram

1 FLANDERS    The muddy battlefield of World War I and the Flanders and Swann duo (had to verify the latter).

5/10   12 is BOND   CA SIN O\R O YALE

9 AR M (b)AND S    Marks and Spencer

12 BOND(I) Beach   In Australia

13 WATER-SKIE R   (wake tires)* R  &lit

15 SEC RET S ER (VIC) E

18 LIV (Ullmann) E AND LET DIE   (delineated)*

22 G (OLD F) INGER

24 BRNO  B for D in DR NO

27 BI (R) DER    Good -  bide = wait

28 BAZOOKAS   “Centurions knocked out by them in Jordan’s front line?”   Understand they could knock out the the Centurion tanks, but don’t get the reference in the rest.

29 EDWARD Bond, playwright

30 ETON CRO P   (coronet)*

DOWN

1 F LAM (B) E

2 A M MAN   Capital of Jordan and M is Bond’s boss

3 DRAX   A X for NO in DR NO    Character in 26/25

4 RED TAPE  “Paperwork’s reduced with part-exchange”   I don’t understand this, though the letters of ‘part’ are in there.

6 AT (O) MS    Nothing in the cash machines

7 IT ALIC (IS) E   Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland

8 ONE-ARMED   Got this straightaway from ‘bandit’ and enumeration i.e. slot machines.  Guess the rest refers to an event in one of the books/films but did not check it out.

11 Rudolf HESS   Nazi leader who flew to Scotland in World War II

14 UCLA   Hidden

15 SAVILE ROW  (Oliver was)*

16 REDS   Does not refer to clue 15 but to the number of red balls in snooker (frame).   Also to ‘reds under the bed’ from the Cold War era in which Bond operated.

17 ELIGIBLE   Hidden - she’s a character in the books, I think

19 DR NO   R = ringleader in (b)OND (reversed)

20 ELEGANT   Ga (Georgia) for me in element

21 G (OS SI) P   ‘is so’  uppity i.e. reversed in a down clue contributing to a good surface

23 FREYR  (ferry)*    Norse god

26/25 MOONRAKER   (Rank Moore)*    Appropriate fodder as Roger Moore played Bond.

Common abbreviations used
dd = double definition
cd = cryptic definition
ha = hidden answer
rev = reversed or reversal
cha = charade
ins = insertion

After my baptism of fire with The Master, I am equally blessed this week with my assignment, blogging Pasquale aka Don Manley, whose Crossword Guide (Chambers) was a trusted companion during my early crossword days. Quite an entertaining puzzle with some new words for me.

Across
8 CAMOMILE Cha of CAM (river/flower) O (old) MILE (lots of yards, 1760 to be exact)
9 TO A MAN Ins of A MA (a mother) in TON (fashion)
10 NARDOO Cha of NARD (aromatic plant) OO (ducks) I quite like the imagery of aquatic birds being drawn to an aromatic plant
11 RIGADOON Cha of RIGA (capital of Latvia) DO ON (party taking place)
12 EDGE dd
13 EPISTOLARY *(Italy prose)
15 FEBRILE Cha of FEB (month when it should be cold for the Northern Hemisphere) RILE (bother)
16 COLOGNE Ins of LOG (record) in CONE (something locking road) Could there possibly be a misprint and locking should be blocking?
18 OSTEOPATHS *(as the stoop)
19 CLEG Cha of C (circa/on) LEG (to dash away) Somehow I am uneasy with “at maximum speed” to indicate LEG
20 BANNERET Ins of ANN (girl) in BERET (hat)
22 REFUSE - referee use
23 CLOSET Ins of L (large) in CO (firm) + SET (group)
24 CONSERVE Cha of CON (Tory) SERVE (minister)

Down
1 SAN ANDREAS FAULT cd This earthquate-related geographic feature lies in the vicinity of Los Angeles where Hollywood is
2 COLDHEARTEDNESS What a clever and cheeky way to graphically show that C (cold) is in the middle of ICE
3 BIT ONES LIP Ins of I-TONES (one sounds) in BLIP (minor deviation) Devilishly clever clue that escaped me the first time …. this parsing due to collective wisdom of the community. Thank you.
4 GEORGIA This state anthem Georgia On My Mind was by Stuart Gorrell and Hoagy Carmichael. It was a huge hit for Ray Charles
5 STAG ha
6 DANDELION COFFEE *(no offence laddie) Is there really such a drink?
7 LABOUR-INTENSIVE Charade of LABOUR (party) IN (at home) ins of IV (4) in TENSE (nerve-racking)
14 TROUSERING How does one categorise this kind of clue? Punny definition? But I learned another meaning for ‘trouser’
17 STATICE Cha of STATIC (not going anywhere) E (energy)
21 ROTH Philip *(authors minus a us)