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At the heart of things, friend is after money, right? (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charae of CENT (‘money’) plus R (‘right’) plus ALLY (‘friend’).
Held back love, meeting heartless female relative (2,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of O (‘love’) plus NI[e]CE (‘female relative’) minus the middle letter (‘heartless’).
Talked about an American city (7)
Barman maybe offering sample outside front of pub (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
No, not a composer for once. An envelope (‘outside’) of P (‘front of P ub’) in TASTER (‘sample’).
Little growth? Time to get hairpiece (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of T (‘time’) plus WIG (‘hairpiece’).
Show contempt for horrible spiders etc. (10)
Asian folk label a diary (7)
River board offering description of water? (7)
A fine female with competence and friendly disposition (10)
Girl endlessly radiant after somersault (4)
Little birds with minimal energy given tags (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of E (‘minimal E nergy’) plus AGLETS (‘tags’ – the bits at the ends of shoelaces).
Engineers attending a rip behind (4,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of RE (Royal ‘Engineers’) plus (‘attending’) ‘a’ plus REND (‘rip’).
Frost's heard what Frost wrote (5)
Secret things drunkard hides in English heather (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘hides in’) of SOT (‘drunkard’) in E (‘English’) plus ERICA (‘heather’).
Down
Solid figures that could be tidier with a corset – ah! (15)
Providing with gift, due after death (8)
23d
Kitchen item in funny dream grabbed by its user? (10)
Transient affair involving headless runners? (8)
Food eaten by boys, terrible (6)
Expression of surprise about politician coming to place to see concrete? (9)
Visitor to market, one on foot (3,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
“This little piggie went to market”.
Endless alarm – why adherent suffers, making progress with difficulty (5,3,4,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘suffers’) of ‘alar[m]’ minus the last letter (‘endless’) plus ‘why adherent’.
Beaten journalist weighed down by personal baggage (9)
Name of massacre, with safe gents maybe hiding below (8)
Report of missile going over home (8)
Oldies in state of uncertainty? Yes, possibly (6)
Over to one side, on a roll (6)
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