Across
Satisfied Press Association, say, over large print ad? (4-4)
Open posh prawn cocktail (6)
Like common people in Bristol entering without guidance (8)
Ex-boozers acquiring unknown pub to host market (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘to host’) of Z (mathematical ‘unknown’) plus (‘acquiring’) AA (Alcoholics Anonymous, ‘ex-boozers’) in BAR (‘pub’). The word ordering of ‘acquiring’ and ‘to host’ is tortuous, but not impossible. We have to go back to Wednesday’s Carpathian for the same answer (and definition), with different wordplay.
As a result of love song's opening (3,2)
Food from no ordinary urban quarter in unnamed European country (9)
Announcing retrospective - assign it a glum or pessimistic segment (12)
Manufacture prototype one's seen on runway? (7,5)
Run a piece about hedonist (9)
Use covering of tinfoil to wrap uncooked fish (5)
Awful jerk's penning paper (6)
Show confusion as small club's getting to grips with Arsenal at last (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘getting to grips with’) of L (‘Arsena L at last’) in S (‘small’) plus PUTTER (golf ‘club’).
Delay as detective meets the resistance (6)
25 fences largely exposed in competitive environment (5-3)
Down
Establishes heaps after gender reassignment (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
MOUNDS (‘heaps’) with the M changed to F (‘after gender reassignment’).
State discovered art by Turner? (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of LATHE (‘turner’ – deceptive capital) plus ‘[a]r[t]’ minus its outer letters ‘dis-covered’). ‘State’ as in ‘in a state” – perturbed.
Cover up bucket and regularly ruin collection (9)
One might be in the pit as a Little Mix musical starts in tune (6,6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of GREASE (‘musical’, stage and film) plus M (‘a little M ix’) plus ON KEY (‘in tune’), with ‘starts’ indicating the order of the particles. In the definition, the ‘pit’ might be in a body shop.
Welsh town's tidy hotel (5)
Correct terminal of Stansted Airport for excursion of sorts (4,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘correct’) of D (‘terminal of Stanste D ‘) plus ‘Airport’.
Possibly breakfast time (8)
Writer of Black Swan keeping completely on topic (9,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘keeping’) of ALL (‘completely’) plus (‘on’) POINT (‘topic’) in B (‘black’) plus PEN (female ‘swan’).
Stunned as Kanye maybe getting into a fight (3-6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘getting into’) of WEST (‘Kanye’) in ‘a’ plus RUCK (‘fight’).
Changed camp (8)
Surprisingly partisan candidate (8)
Ultimately wanting Apple to supply computer (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘supply’ – in a supple manner) of ‘appl[e]’ minus its last letter (‘ultimately wanting’) plus ‘to’.
Blood banks to control rough rate (6)
Ally in uniform caught man on board (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of U (‘uniform’) plus NITE, sounding like (‘caught’) KNIGHT (‘man on board’, chess).
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