Across
Revolutionary soldiers with guns, repelling city police (7)
Something huge in women’s cricket? (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charase of W (‘women’) plus HOPPER (the insect, ‘cricket’).
Character overshadowing book gets cut (1-4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘overshadowing’) of B (‘book’) in TONE (‘character’).
Worn-out bear for the most part, very attractive (4-5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of MOTHE[r] (‘bear’, verb) plud A TEN (‘very attractive’).
Rye port is working to protect old warehouse (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘to protect’) of O (‘old’) in REPSITORY, an anagram (‘working’) of ‘Rye port is’.
Somewhat user-friendly one is bound to work (4)
18a
Be opportunistic – Ted Talk’s introduction’s enthralling as long as the man’s hiding brightness (4,3,5,3,3,6)
See 14
Whistleblower taking on European bank (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘taking on’) of E (‘European’) in REF (‘whistleblower’).
Astounding – this writer’s not actively resisting having made a case for resistance! (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A substitution: I’M P[a]SSIVE (‘this writer’s not actively resisting’) with the A replaced by RE (‘having made a case for R esistanc E ‘).
Electronic signal getting gangster moving (9)
Newspaper discovered hairdressers maybe starting to get off the ground (5)
Keeper probably very near the batsman – losing focus in a boisterous way (7)
Sanitise driver’s competition, taking motorway out during second half of race (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘during’) of LE [m]ANS (‘driver’s competition’) minus the M (‘taking motorway out’) in CE (‘second half of ra CE ‘).
Down
On the subject of act making comeback (6)
Hanging ordinary work in flat (6)
One looks sweet in dashing Cuban heels (7,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘dashing’) of ‘Cuban heels’.
Check retired multimillionaire’s imprisoned (5)
Confusing extra wait for harbour transport? (5,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘confusing’) of ‘extra wait’.
Occasionally seeing couple in public (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Alternate letters (‘occasionally’) of ‘c O u P l E i N ‘.
Feeble old man the jerk pursued … (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of PA (father, ‘old man’) plus ‘the’ plus TIC (‘jerk’).
… pursued quickly – one delivering a tirade inspires a following (3,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘inspires’) of ‘a’ plus F (‘following’) in RANTER (‘one delivring a tirade’).
Row 9 potentially called in lottery? (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
I have a feeling that I am missing something obvious, but I cannot figure this one out. Over to you. That did not take long. Thanks KVa @1.
A walk in the park means a healthy 1 down without much exertion (4,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
RETURN (‘1 down’) as MONEY. The comments offer various versions of the parsing here; I chose (but did not name) Definition and literal interpretation. Thanks to Fed @40 for giving us his definitive version, with part of my “literal interpretation” as definition, and charade wordplay (as also from FrankieG @11).
Swimmer’s temperature taken by ship’s doctor (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘taken by’) of T (‘temperature’) in SURGEON (‘ship’s doctor’).
Climbing records cycling club could be topping (8)
Deny 1 down’s contrived (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘contrived’) of I (‘1’) plus ‘down’s’.
Finally Madness chose It Must Be Love for Chesterfield, say (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Last letters (‘finally’) of ‘madnes S chos E i T mus T b E lov E ‘.
Church assuming priest remains (5)
Caribbean location’s housing provided internet connection (2-2)
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