### Clue: Describing Hamlet and his rotten state (6)
### Answer: DANISH 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Describing, Hamlet,his rotten state
  Double defn. as well as a semi-&lit.  Wordplay:  **Anagram of**(rotten state) AND HIS.  1st defn:  Describing Hamlet, the great Dane; and 2nd defn:  Describing his rotten state of Denmark – it is Marcellus (and not Hamlet) who says:  "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark".   A cleverly constructed clue.