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A very enjoyable puzzle, but can't quite square this one up:-
43 Across - "Slippery customer in "Eastenders", say?"
The answer would appear to be SOAP, but I can't equate this word to a slippery customer. I know that a person can be referred to as a "Joe Soap", so would this be OK?

I thought if it as referring to a bar of soap being slippery in the bath

Yes, I expect the "slippery customer" is actually the bar of soap!

Agree this was a good puzzle. Just stuck on last one. 21 across - "Notional full-moon day that is curtailed." I have ?D?S. I thought it might be IDES but can't make sense of the clue.

Id est is Latin for 'that is' - and where we get 'ie' from. It's shortened, curtailed and gives Ides, notional full moon day.

4a One of these routes he found in gamble (10)
Broadsheet? Not sure of the definition.

29d Facing drunk holding gut up (7)
Towards? I can't see the gut in the answer.

Presumably The Times is “one of these”.

To draw is to gut, eviscerate, as in hung, drawn and quartered, reversed in sot

29 if you read GUT backwards as TUG, it could be the DRAW. It seems rather unfair, though!

Hanged, not hung, for the pedants, of course ;)

Thanks but I don’t think that The Times is “one of these”, ie a broadsheet. It’s a tabloid. The only daily national newspaper left in the UK that still prints on broadsheet paper is the Telegraph.