Across
Ear of horse with hard growth on the front (7)
Hamper available that climber may need (7)
First-class kind of brainwave (5)
What tea bag does is ruined (4,2,3)
Staff receiving unexpectedly nice hug, but one is fired (7,3)
Losing energy, more refined sound from pet (4)
Accounts people boxed in have to give, after some swearing (11)
Let priest go casting out troublesome spirit (11)
Book, not initially non-fiction (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A subtraction: [t]RUTH (‘non-fiction’ treated as a noun) minus the first letter (‘not initially’). My first thought was [f]ACTS. Wrong Testament.
Son finally getting wheels, but not on this (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of S (‘son’) plus NOW MOBILE (‘finally getting wheels’), with a definition extended at least as far as ‘wheels’.
Vehicle needs insurance to go round university city (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘to go round’) of U (‘university’) in VAN (‘vehicle’) plus COVER (‘insurance’).
Prone to dishonesty (5)
Save nobody and nothing (4,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Definition and literal interpretation.
Young swimmer to plead being injured (7)
Down
Like a shellfish, might you say, sticky and damp? (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Definition and punning reference (or choose your own way of describing this clue).
Freshly arrange record in shelf (6)
Ben Hur for one a wildly enjoyable event — applause all round (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘all round’) of A RIOT (‘a wildly enjoyable event’) in CHEER (‘applause’).
Said to be one more than expected in golf trolley (5)
Composer has sweet child in India (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of CHERUB (‘sweet child’) plus ‘in’ plus I (‘India’ – not in Chambers).
To a degree, one may be master of these (4)
To which one does dad dancing? (3,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A pun.
Fail to get up to acknowledge formally (8)
Restrained right-winger attacked online (10)
A long read for the old folks' outing? (4,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Another clue which does not fit comfortably into the usual clue types, and as such is perhaps most nearly rendered as a cryptic definition. A saga novel is a set of novels following several generations of a family (e.g. The Forsyte Saga).
Some schools used to be ticked off (8)
Special nuptial mass for recent jubilee (8)
Swinging both ways in pool, manifesting sexual impulse (6)
Inadequate? Some agree, but only some (6)
Sausage of lowest quality for an audience (5)
Pass up a soft drink (4)
Type letters or click words in the clue