Across
Scientific study of scalp thus prodding nit (12)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘prodding’) of TROPHY (‘scalp’) plus SIC (indicating an error copied from a source, not an error in the copying, ‘so’) in ASS (‘nit’).
Item of furniture, very Indian? (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An implied envelope: V (‘very’) ‘in’- -‘dian’.
Indian dish greater in US city (9)
Dry tree made for squirrel (7)
Soother, eg Assam? (4,3)
Unsatisfying resolution where claimant I gathered has got cross (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of ANTICLIMA, an anagram (‘gathered’) of ‘claimant I’; plus (‘has got’) X (‘cross’).
Mean for name, say, to have an M removed in Indian city (4)
Wheeze while visiting doctor (4)
New Delhi bad, or unsentimental (4-6)
Recollection of passage from intermezzo, so romantically, tenderly played (7)
Connoisseur engaging US vice-president and British PM in conversation? (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Sounding like (‘in conversation’) GORE (‘US vice-president’) plus MAY (‘British PM’).
Hot drink, case of cocoa fed to a sheep (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘fed to’) of CA (‘case of C oco A ‘) in ‘a’ plus MERINO (‘sheep’).
Dig ground initially bare? (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An implied envelope of G (‘ G round initially’) in NUDE (including the in, ‘bare’).
Twice make for poser (7,5)
Down
Supporters voted, as a Liberal stuffed by Conservative (9)
Course: figure office has cancelled it in city (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of TEN (‘figure’) plus DEN (‘office’) plus ‘c[it]y’ minus IT (‘has cancelled it’).
Ring doctor about card game (5)
Wobbly flab in store where one's fed breakfast and evening meal (4,5)
Darn pain! (6)
Voices heard in paper, reportedly? (5)
Cricketing format has transformed Indian state (6)
Country in India surrounded by wild bears (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘surrounded by’) of I (NATO alphabet, ‘India’) in SERBA, an anagram (‘wild’) of ‘bears’.
Lover tickling Maria, not Oscar (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘tickling’) of ‘Maria not’ plus O (NATO alphabet, ‘Oscar’).
Honour girl crossing over the hill and sea (4,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘crossing’) of OLD (‘over the hill’) plus MED (Mediterranean, ‘sea’) in GAL (‘girl’).
Inhospitable housing union men built with pillars (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘housing’) of U (‘union’) plus MNE, an anagram (‘built’) of ‘men’ in COLD (‘inhospitable’).
Custom of south-west India beat it! (2,4)
Finish off muck guzzling the stew (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘guzzling’) of ‘the’ in DIR[t] (‘muck’) minus its last letter (‘finish off’).
Popular Indian leader, shut your face! (6)
The end of my eight gates ajar, all opening (5)
Good capacity for curry (5)
Type letters or click words in the clue
