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Sport, an energy-filled fight (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (-‘filled’) of E (‘energy’) in WAR (‘fight’).
Jam pot’s first in hamper (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of CRAM (‘jam’) plus P (‘ P ot’s first’).
Half a ball missing in match (4)
Postwar children pack large underclothes (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘pck’) of L (‘large’) in BOOMERS (in full baby boomers, ‘postwar children’ ).
Festival you will shortly open getting closer (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘open’) of YE’L[l] (‘you will’ – some setters indicate the antique YE) minus the last letter (‘shortly’) in EID (Muslim ‘festival’).
I’m surprised, eating cereal, it sticks to the chin (6)
I censor a depraved plot summary (8)
Lecturer gives this pain, to secure first in Italian (9)
For Linnaeus, say, maggot active isn’t bad (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of BOT (‘maggot’) plus A (‘active’) plus NIST, an anagram (‘bad’) of ‘isn’t’.
Learnt about income from property (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘about’) of ‘learnt’.
Book Month: nothing surpasses a good book (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of OCT (October, ‘month’) plus AV (Authorised Version of the Bible, ‘good book’) plus O (‘nothing’), with ‘surpasses’ indicating the order of the particles.
New love in the far north for a number? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of N (‘new’) plus ARCOTIC, an envelope (‘in’) of O (‘love’) in ARCTIC (‘the far north’).
Turning stomachs, dirty talk (4)
Young swimmer constantly circling lake (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘circling’) of L (‘lake’) in EVER (‘constantly’). An elver is a young eel.
Answer by half the people, or all of them (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of A (‘answer’) plus MEN (‘half the people’, the other half being women), with ‘answer’ bein carried over to the definition – ‘answer by … all of them ‘ in church.
Down
One composer and another shortly visiting down under (7)
In life, king’s vigour (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘in’) of R ( Rex , ‘king’) in BIO (biography, ‘life’).
Not happy about one having to mount platform (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A reversal (‘having to mount’) of an envelope (‘about’) of I (‘one’) in SAD (‘not happy’).
Mayfly makes border in record time (8)
A short whisky say at noon that dulls the pain (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of ‘a’ plus SPIRI[t] (‘whisky, say’) minus its last letter (‘short’) plus N (‘noon’).
Taking afternoon off, make for island (5)
Time to cut down forest for first book in series (3,6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of T (‘time’) plus HEW (‘cut down’) plus ARDEN (‘forest’), for the firsr book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series by Anthony Trollope
Scold shedding a tear over Trump’s policy, something biblical (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of ‘te[a]r’ minus the A (‘shedding a’) plus MAGA (‘Trump’s policy’) plus NT (‘New Testament, ‘something biblical’).
Shorebird from the pole (5)
Attempted murderer maybe has a bit of respect for one old lag (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
POISONER (‘attempted murderer maybe’) with the first O (‘one old’ – one of the two) replaced by R (‘a bit of R espect’).
Vain man from Apple for one with tidy hair (7)
Scientist forced to lie long ago: no good coming out of that (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘forced’) of ‘lie lo[ng] ag[o]’ minus the letters of ‘no’ plus G (‘good’), with an extended definition.
For Aristotle and Euclid to appear from the start among elements of basic education is not so normal (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An interweaving (‘to appear … among’) of A and E (‘ A ristotle and E uclid … from the start’) in RRR (the three Rs, ‘elemnts of basic education’). At best, an awkward construction.
Its journey being through Russian city, one van avoiding periphery (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A subtraction: ‘[o]ne va[n]’ minus the outer letters (‘avoiding periphery’). The ‘Russian city’ is Saint Petersburg.
Why Norwegian king can’t relieve himself? (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
O LAV (no lavatory). The most recent was Olav V.
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