Across
Policeman getting stoned, in a dreadful state (12)
Hands clasping bird, one dwelling in trees (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
L R (left right – hands) round EMU (bird)
Fish cakes flipping green, with dessert being yellow (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
COD (fish) round (cakes, as in caked with mud) a reversal (flipping) of RAW (green) + ICE (dessert)
Opposes further exams head of school's introduced (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
RESITS (further exams) round S[chool]
Nearly trick chess champion, making exchanges (7)
Means of buying audio version of The Unbearable Lightness of Being? (10)
According to reporter, East End trio's at large (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
As an East Ender might pronounce ‘three’ (trio)
Bishop abandons Italian riverbank (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Ti[b]er ( Italian river) minus b (bishop) a neat ‘lift and separate’
One might get played in auditor's vile scam (4,6)
Storybook prefaced by a Spanish translator's intro (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
RUTH (book of the Old Testament) after UN (a Spanish) T[ranslator] – and another ‘lift and separate’…
Person in Black Sea abroad catches old vessel (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
… and another: MER (French – ‘abroad’ – for sea) round O (old) URN (vessel)
Luvvie, attacked by bee crossing river, hobbled (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
HAM (luvvie) + STUNG (attacked by bee) round R (river) – I queried the definition but I should have known better: ‘hobble’ can be transitive, too (Collins: ‘to fetter the legs of {a horse} in order to restrict movement’)
American, as it happens, is quick (5)
Outspoken genius rejects one scientist playing God (12)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
FRANK (outspoken) + E[i]NSTEIN (genius) minus i (one)
Down
Syrian's theatrical work missing right part of it? (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
D[r]AMA (theatrical work) minus r (right) + SCENE (part of drama) – the question mark indicates definition by example
Exaltation and short satisfied expression for one in bed (8)
Old Brits, perhaps still way to the north (5)
Strike idiot in neck and face in scrap (4,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
TOOL (idiot) in DOWN (neck – slang for drink) + initial letter (face) of Scrap
Parent into Jack Kerouac at last — it's On The Road (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
MA (parent) in TAR (Jack) [keroua]C – a super clue; a ‘lift and separate’ and, of course, Jack Kerouac wrote ‘On The Road’
Animal that grazes in pen put up on island (5)
Idle, following extremely casual father (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ERIC (Monty Python’s Idle) after C[asua]L
Struggle eating animal produce? Such a person would (6)
Stole M Sartre's case in waterside shed (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
BOA (stole) + THOU[sand] (M) + the ‘case’ of S[artr]E
Navy brought in new look for navy emblem (3,6)
Fashion items around posh Hollywood area for model (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (fashion) of ITEMS round U (posh) LA (Hollywood area)
T Rex oddly covering It Hurts Me — it's a hit! (6)
Pupil hasn't started rewarding activity (6)
New Yorker's behind acceptable British driver (6)
One might record duration of brief uprising (5)
Enchanting person's publication — the Guardian? (5)
Type letters or click words in the clue
