Across
Trickster handy with a card (9,5)
Had been to take boat trip for Christmas cheer (7)
More inquisitive about one getting extra rowdy (7)
Arrangements one may be reduced to (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
In the army, being "reduced to the ranks" is another term for being demoted.
How does the decimal system work? I have concentrated (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
IN TENS ("how does the decimal system work") + I'VE ("I have")
Instrument made in red and orange, strangely (4,5)
Tall thin plank you cut down (5)
A pair of bishops at scripture, one wearing a mitre perhaps (5)
Muscle that might make chins pert? Yes and no (9)
Gangster carrying gun round, warning to get out (4,5)
Revive Frenchman with whiskey (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
RENE ("Frenchman") with W (whiskey, in the NATO phonetic alphabet)
Pretended son played badly (7)
Run a short fiddle in cases of meat (7)
Long lost texts found mixed up in local addresses (4,3,7)
Down
Electricity essential for this working meal? (5,9)
Lack of two principal characters ruining scene (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A + B ("two principal characters") + *(scene) [anag: ruining ]
After tea say took charge of games as coach perhaps (9)
Coming to see one's vocation (7)
Pine not turning up: it's worth thousands of pounds (4,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
LONG ("pine") + <=NOT [ turning up ]
Bulb working – something positive, possibly (5)
Subversion headed off in issue of book (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
(s) EDITION ("subversion") with its head off
Bugs a crew precisely dealt with (6-8)
Secure dog perhaps in vehicle (4,5)
Angry pub scene results in hail of missiles (7)
Wife on horse, as it were, has to wrap up (7)
Be very busy, certain to hitch up something off the shoulder (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
HUM ("be very busy") + <=SURE ("certain", to hitch up )
Thin wrapping can frustrate (7)
Directed media to reform (5)
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