Across
5d
Too dry to wear something up top (2,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
TT (teetotal – dry) in (to wear) A HAT (something up top)
10a
One man’s name and number being ill-directed? (8,8)
I’ll take badgers a drink (3,3)
See 6
Fish with it: rivers matter (11)
A near-Earth asteroid with the coordinates of comms facility (7)
Code bearer carries refined poet’s words along parts of canal (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
DNA (code bearer) round U (refined) + ODE (poet’s words)
Birth to 2-year-old & 9+-year-old groups look to be excluded from these (3-8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Please see DuncT @4
24a
Briefly horrible, honking smell at source? (8,8)
Repair 75% of car light bulbs (6)
See 22
Understood terms have not been taken in (2,4)
Down
Brand new university appointee’s mislaid cope (4,2)
Predator plunges medic upside down into Löwenbräu? (4-6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A reversal (upside down, in a down clue) of DIPS (plunges) DR (medic) in BIER (Löwenbräu?)
Prepares for engagement feast and stocks reserves (6,2)
Carmen playing in top theatre is inspired? Mercury seen to rise in it? (1,5,2,3,5)
See 4
One leading Kurds from the south can unite (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
K[urds] + a reversal (from the south) of TIN (can)
We’re not for feeding easy answers from the floor (4)
Forgetting conflict, rather wary about part of army set (2,3,5)
14d
Weaver locked in cell since not entirely religious event of 1819 (8,8)
See 13
Coke woman’s snorting up features in Scottish tour (3,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A reversal (up) of SHE’S (woman’s) round COLA (coke)
Virgin hunted down in reception (6)
What’s at #20 – with missing humour – is ___ (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Please see DuncT @4
Left downtrodden, 20 writer does object to worship (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
L (left) after (downtrodden) I DO (this – answer to 20dn – writer does)
Type letters or click words in the clue