Across
Waves card around at sport (6-7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ROLLERS=sea “Waves”, plus KING=playing “card” around AT (from surface)
Aware of article following working party (2,3,4)
Thrust using energy after breather (5)
Humorous style of club comedy at last (5)
Record of employment from phone company on network in Bristol (4,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
EE (Everything Everywhere, “phone company”) after MESH=”network”, both inside TIT=”Bristol” “Bristol” is rhyming slang: ‘Bristol city’=’titty’
Competition missing Tango – Strictly's biggest character quits (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
definition as in ‘call it quits’ / ‘call it evens’ EVEN-[ T ]=”Competition” minus T (Tango, NATO alphabet); plus S-[trictly’s] “biggest character” i.e. capital letter
However, large book covering business is expected? (3,2,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
YET=”However”, plus TOME=”large book” around CO (company, “business”)
Press regularly film one in Provence drinking wine (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
definition: to pester, to make repeated requests regular letters from [f]-I-[L]-M, and UNE=”one” in French (in the Provence region of France); both around PORT=”wine”
Give up in year contestants' foxtrot's censored (5)
Get bruise opening shop (9)
Breaks statues (5)
Teacher's tips for our orchestra before musical King and I (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
end letters (“tips”) of [ou]-R [orchestr]-A, plus BB (B.B. King, the musician) + I (directly from surface)
Elaborate move abroad right away (9)
Somehow gentrifying centre of Balham in an alarming way (13)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
anagram/”Somehow” of (gentrifying lh )*, with the lh taken from the centre of Ba- lh -am
Down
Published five books on European defeat at the polls (7)
Keep out of the way 6 times (3,2)
Schedules with time diminishing for cook (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ROTAS=”Schedules” with the T (time) moving down in the word (“diminishing”)
Distance remote controlled oven nearly starts (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
anagram/”controlled” of (remote)*, with KIL-[n]=”oven nearly” placed at the start “controlled” as anagram indicator, somewhat similar to ‘manipulated’
Every way to penetrate politician's falsehood (4,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ALL=”Every” + ST (street, “way”); all inside TORY=”politician”
Positive or negative news about old love (3-4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
two ‘news’: N (new) + N (new), around O (old); plus ZERO=”love” [tennis scoring]
Romances by Shakespeare, originally including moving period piece mostly involving Romeo (6-7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
first letters (originally) of B-[y] S-[hakespeare]; around anagram/”moving” of (period piec )* and around R (Romeo, NATO alphabet) piec in the anagram fodder is piec-[e], mostly
Abandoned feud – arrest the cleaner (7,6)
Destroying protection from the sun – American becomes red (9)
I may tune out boxing ring – whatever! (3,4,2)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
anagram/”out” of (I may tune)*, around (“boxing”) O=”ring”
Perhaps Mario Balotelli's header, excellent at first, goes over the bar ultimately (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
definition: Mario the Nintendo video game character is a plumber (and for the surface reading, Mario Balotelli is a footballer) first letter (header) of B-[alotelli]; with PLUM=”excellent” going first”; all going over last letters (ultimately) of [th]-E [ba]-R
Tangle as some girl ran sneakily uphill (7)
Detectives number sample (3,2)
Staff stay in? (5)
Type letters or click words in the clue
