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More work defaced with your flipping clipart? (7)
Blubber on the belly of Basil Brush? (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
WEEPER (someone who weeps = blubs = cries) + middle letter (belly) of [ba] S [il].
Terms of economic policy address insufficient growth (4)
Nova Scotia almost botched missions (9)
Elle Macpherson in retreat holding a cigarette (5)
Determined expression of girlfriend tackling a Brockwell Genius (4,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
GF (abbreviation for girlfriend), containing (tackling) A + ME (Brockwell, our crossword setter), then ACE (genius = expert). A determined expression adopted to intimidate an opponent during a sports contest, or more generally while concentrating hard on something.
Son admitted to lying about police record (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
S (abbreviation for son), inserted into CID (abbreviation for Criminal Investigation Department = police) reversed (lying about).
Exeter’s wingers go after draw in defensive formation (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Outside letters (wingers) of E [xete] R , after TOW (draw, as a verb = pull). A structure traditionally built for defence.
Kitty’s back to stay (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
POT’S (pot = kitty = money contributed by the members of a group for a common purpose) reversed (back).
Jockey regularly steers Tiger Roll (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Anagram (jockey, as a verb = shuffle around) of alternate letters from S [t] E [e] R [s] + TIGER .
Bill Clinton’s original hell (5)
Industry quarrel about Keith Chegwin’s No.1 hit (4,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ROW (quarrel) reversed (about), then an anagram (hit = damaged) of KEITH + first letter (no. 1) of C [hegwin]. Industry = work ethic = a hard-working attitude.
Group typically made up of runners heading to finish (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
SKIS (runners), with the first letter (head) moved to the end (finish). Rock group known for their elaborate face paint (make-up).
Avoided Europeans on vacation dressed like Superman (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
E [uropean] S (on vacation = after emptying) + CAPED (dressed like Superman).
Tense over following injury (5,2)
Down
Spooner’s house-elf is stiff (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Spoonerism for DOBBY (a house-elf from the Harry Potter stories by J K Rowling). Stiff = slang for a dead body.
Day for Cristiano Ronaldo to meet international comms leaders, like O2 (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
DIA (the word for “day” in Portuguese, for example as spoken by Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo) + TO + first letters (leaders) of M [eet] I [nternational] C [omms]. O 2 = symbol for an oxygen molecule, which is diatomic (composed of two atoms).
Pass time with composer (6)
Tango with Oti Mabuse exhausted Romeo and love rat (3-5)
Selection of Waitrose toffees in foil (3-3)
Calls on arrest for dictator (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Sound-alike (for dictator) of SEIZE (arrest). Call on = see = to pay someone a visit.
Business mogul essentially throws out 14 from Disney Castle (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
CO (abbreviation for company = business) + middle letter (essentially) of [mo] G [ul] + anagram (out) of THROWS . Disney films aren’t really my thing so I needed some help with this one. It seems that Cogsworth is a castle employee who is transformed into a clock by a witch’s spell.
The writer is restricted by red ring (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
I’M (the writer is), contained in CHE (Che Guevara = Argentinian Marxist = red).
Notice male snorting line (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
COCK (a male bird), containing (snorting = inhaling) L (abbreviation for line). Clock, as a verb = notice = become aware of.
Reeled in trout at sea intermittently on date (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Alternate letters (intermittently) of T [r] O [u] T [a] T [s] E [a], then RE (on = on the subject of) + D (abbreviation for date). Reel, as a verb = totter = move unsteadily.
Poseidon embracing power of conversation (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
SEA KING (Poseidon = Ancient Greek god of the sea), containing P (abbreviation for power).
Welshman pulled up over occasionally narrow encroachment (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
DAI (Welsh male name) reversed (pulled up = upwards in a down clue), containing (over) alternate letters (occasionally) of N [a] R [r] O [w].
Absent parent to throw husband out over nothing (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
C [h] UCK (throw) without the H (abbreviation for husband), then O (abbreviation for over, in cricket scoring) + O (zero = nothing). A bird that leaves its eggs for other birds to care for.
Sensible questions in audition (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Sound-alike (in audition) of WHYS = plural of the question “why?”.
Lazy person getting the bullet (4)
Type letters or click words in the clue