Across
Grand, far too large home constrained by appalling fuel economy (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘constrained by’) of OS (outsize or oversize, ‘far too large’) plus IN (‘home’) in IMPG (1 mile per gallon, ‘appalling fuel economy’).
Magazine regularly feeble on the radio (6)
Removing earth, make big effort to overturn band of rock (1,3)
Greek goddess by herself quietly perfect (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of PER SE (‘by herself’ – gender unimportant except for the surface) plus P ( piano , musically ‘quietly’) plus HONE (‘perfect’, verb).
Marksman again tacks back (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A reversal (‘back’) of RE-PINS (‘again tacks’).
Serious hope, on and off, to comprehend Irish spelling book (8)
Pulse so weak, hydrate madly (7)
A small Christmas scene completed with minimum of expensive credit (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of ‘a’ plus s (‘small’) plus CRIB (‘Christmas scene’) plus E (‘minimum of E xpensive’).
Apparently soft drinks range catches constable out at first (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘catches’) of COP (‘constable’) plus O (‘ O ut at first’) in ALPS (mountain ‘range’).
Hall proprietor, motorist at first tense, captivated by highway (2,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of M (‘ M otorist at first’) plus RTOAD, an envelope (‘captivated by’) of T (‘tense’) in ROAD (‘highway’), for Toad of Toad Hall, who first appeared in Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows . The definition is extended.
Got overlay? (10)
Secret drawer’s opening chest (4)
Ability to taste article in dish (6)
One wearing your shirt beginning to mix in two infusions (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘in’) of M (‘beginning to M ix’) in TEA plus MATE (‘two infusions’).
Down
Unfading bloom? In a few weeks nothing’s left for a painter (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A MONTH (‘a few weeks’) with the O replaced by ‘a’ plus RA (member of the Royal Academy) (‘nothing’s left for a painter’). The definition suggests an everlasting, but I cannot trace any amaranth so used; however, at least one species does provide a red dye, which might account for the ‘unfading’.
Into position, tease cable (4)
Infant crab perhaps, one with turn of speed (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Triple definition.
Homes for wise old birds, low-rise, new-built, energy included (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘included’) of E (‘energy’) in OWLRIES or OWLERIS, an anagram (‘new-built’) of ‘low-rise’.
Expert manager sporting trench coat (10)
Marianne’s sister extremely eager to install wipe-clean flooring (6)
Losing heart, rubbish stored on your premises here? (6)
Amazing disinfectant, name curiously covered up (10)
Domestic animals cross over this? (8)
Lounge about one luxury resort (8)
Classify old stars going supernova? (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘going supernova’ Anagrind overkill!) of O (‘old’) plus ‘stars’
Secure a uniform for horse-drawn carriage (6)
Caught one poking nose in fruit (6)
Two-thirds failure? Half, when combined (4)
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