Across
Gets sex in centre wearing pair of smalls (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
CORE (centre) in S + S
Look around the empty place (6)
6d
Director from Italy collapsed first (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
FELL IN + I[taly]
Tramp working to fill-in for top person (7)
Growing business? Good – get firm, initially lost, to enter promotion (6,9)
Woman did lie about duke (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
D in LAY
Firm with smoking gun? Fit with a silencer? (10)
Better talk after email is hacked (10)
Bowl over with star catching last from mid-wicket (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
[mid-wicke]T in SUN
Unknown state of steel that’s wearing at front (15)
Pulling through idle chat in middle of night, grabbing number (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
N[umber] in YAK IN [ni]G[ht]
Docking fee from price in the end after beer turns in barrel (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Reverse of ALE in KEG + [pric]E
See 8 Down
Arm-twisting? Getting robe over uniform (6)
Down
Romantic couple not excited: back to being boring through trip (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
COUPLE less UP (excited) + [bein]G in RIDE; the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the founders of the Romantic Movement
One sacks Republican adviser on right (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
R[epublican] + AIDE + R[ight]
Wife-swap and make love with Romeo – one goes both ways (5,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
SWING (to wife-swap) + DO (make) + O (love) + R[omeo]
Tree-hugger from left to disagree having ignored leader (5)
See 8
One husband not in short swimming trunks (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Anagram of I+ SHORT less H
25a
Mad at flat décor ultimately concealed by Prime Minister: reason close allies lost respect? (11,6,8)
Drunk intended to grab woman’s bottom: big deal? (4,7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
HIGH (drunk) + [woma]N in FIANCÉ (intended)
Found holes in up-ended can: opened with sharp tool (9)
Beats virus: a lot suffering (9)
One might be scrambling with bride getting kit off (4,4)
Race and Archie’s skin linked with King Charles and Queen (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A[rchi]E intermixed with CR + ER – the surface is a reference to alleged remarks made by an unknown member of the Royal Family about the skin colour of the son of the Duke & Duchess of Sussex
Supporter to wear yellow (5)
Blows a fuse as resistance fades (5)
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