Across
Like inflamed viewer's false statement about reptile (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
BLOOD’S HOT (‘false statement about reptile’: “ most reptiles today are cold-blooded “).
A medical practitioner returning with additional notes (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A reversal (‘returning’) of DOC (‘medical practitioner’) plus ‘a’. The definition refers to a musical composition.
Plant providing semiconducting material — mass turned out (8)
This writer's nonsense is naughty (6)
Elusive cat mum lost in pit (6)
Tennis — it is played in Chinese city (8)
Appealed audibly to the Lord, as profited from in an exploitative manner (6)
Endures horrible son showing incivility (8)
Trick female employed, making one puzzled (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of CON (‘trick’) plus F (‘female’) plus USED (’employed’).
Flyers did what they do, endless game of chance (6)
Let oboes play like serpents? (8)
Fruit reported — heavy hanging masses (6)
Travelled over water, getting kicked (6)
Most fastidious theologian that is participating in Lent? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘participating in’) of DD ( Divinitatis Doctor, Doctor of Divinity, ‘theologian’) plus I.E. (‘that is’) in FAST (‘Lent’). The definition strikes me as questionable, although faddy as picky about food is somewhere close.
Group of actors back for a month (4)
Hasten to land, with a little help in the dark (9)
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Girl brought up overlooking area in Dutch city (5)
Work with a business community — there's a lack of transparency (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of OP (‘work’) plus ‘a’ plus CITY (‘business community’ – particularly London).
Flower is squashed in time (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘squashed in’) of ‘is’ in DAY (‘time’).
Rodent seen in Nottingham's terrible (7)
Somehow isn't leader, last in marches to depart? (4-5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘somehow’) of ‘i[s]nt leader’ minus the S (‘last in marche S to depart’), with an &lit definition.
Nautical item is on top of vessel, not bottom (7)
Is girl taken in by naughty lad getting the boot? (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘taken in by’) of ‘is’ plus MISS (‘girl’) in DAL, an anagram (‘naughty’) of ‘lad’. I have included ‘getting’ in the definition, as a gerund, but it could be just a link word, with ‘the boot’ as definition.
England batter sure to be restricted and unable to blossom? (9)
Bit of a letter, final bit in rambling screed (9)
Vagrant having minimum of food subsequently eating egg (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘eating’) of O (‘egg’) in F (‘minimum of F ood’) plus LATER (‘subsequently’).
Falsely accused prisoner — uncontrollable fury dies when one is released (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘uncontrollable’) of ‘fury d[i]es’ minus the I (‘when one is released’). L’Affaire Dreyfus was a French miscarriage of justice as a result of which Alfred Dreyfus served nearly five years on Devil’s Island, being eventually pardoned and then exonerated. The ‘fury’ was stoked by Émile Zola’s letter J’accuse…! , so the clue has an extended definition.
Top viral infection expert achieving through chance (7)
Lever journalist into China? (5)
Surrounded foe finally in defeat (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘in’) of E (‘fo E finally’) in BEST (‘defeat’, verb).
Type letters or click words in the clue