Across
Fish the deep bay? (8)
Stop measure by lawyers (5)
See 5
Unity's lost diary in tatters outside institute (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (in tatters) of LOST DIARY round I (institute)
Old compact Danish city (6)
Material about eastern Mediterranean area (8)
Famous silent film character left before last of the crush (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
TRAMP (famous silent film character, as portrayed by Charlie Chaplin) + L (left) + [th]E
Labour on retrospective cover-up (7)
Beautify, being fairly excited (6,2)
Intertwine branches of fruit around line (6)
One who endures sees signs of ageing (5,5)
Little dear for an essayist? (4)
Take by force? Nice! (5)
Water runs through this county estate with ultimately little resistance (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
CO (county) + LAND (estate) + [littl]E + R (resistance)
Down
One who progresses the motion of drones circling London's financial centre (8)
Don't embrace husband when star's around (4)
Swears to move main residents (6)
Disapprove of Democrat research to do away with vote (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
D (Democrat) + E[x]PLORE (research) minus x (vote)
10a
Censored dodgy assets for the generation of future profit (4,4)
Precis of two books about dissecting fly (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
BB (two books) + RE (about) in (dissecting) AVIATE (fly)
Surrealist Brontë novel (6)
Variation on a Haydn theme: Hearts Neglected to Set a Match Date (4,3,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (variation) of A [H]AYDN T[H]EME – minus either of the Hs (hearts neglected) – great surface
See 17
15d
Top song base (3,3)
Eastern US state linked to brown hamper (8)
Mark's parcel accepted by school (7)
Forced into bankruptcy, one breaks under review (6)
Cheapest leather covers grinding tool (6)
Was an MP with ecstasy supply too much? (4)
Cat joints can be heard (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Sounds unequivocally like ‘links’ (joints)
Type letters or click words in the clue