Across
Lexicographer’s book appearing in short film (7)
Bag abandoned in college (7)
One that is interrupting King, on more slippery ground? (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
I (one) + IE (that is) in CR (Charles {Carolus} Rex – king)
Red revolution backed by large number, we hear (9)
Indian policy located travellers’ organisation outside Indian city (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
SAT (located) + YHA (Youth Hostels Association – travellers’ organisation) round AGRA (Indian city) – the term coined and developed by Mahatma Gandhi for his practice of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience I was familiar with the policy but didn’t know the term for it, so really enjoyed piecing it together (AGRA (Indian city) was a helpful start)
Mostly tense and sort of cross (3)
Inauspicious record over ancient city, no longer young (12)
Time remained out of joint in the morning (4,8)
Shakespeare character’s insufficiently sound (3)
Bed for us is kept by alien – green man on a journey? (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
COT (bed) + OUR (for us) + IS (from the clue) in ET (the familiar crossword alien) – a witty reference to the green man in the pedestrian traffic light
Reason sailor turned in, full of old beer (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A reversal (turned) of TAR (sailor) + IN (from the clue) round (full of) O (old) + ALE (beer)
Wings of angel frequently in heaven? (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A[nge]L + OFT (frequently)
Old percussion instrument from area outside the country? (7)
Old Pope restricting limits of the ordinary? That’s heartbreaking (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
PIUS (old pope) round T[h]E + O (ordinary – as in O Level?)
Down
Question about the writer’s small expression of fantasy (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
WHY (question) round I’M (the writer’s) + S (small)
Extensive campaign to introduce new pancake (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
BLITZ (extensive campaign) round N (new) for this pancake
Mistake over a company investing in odd parts of team’s ground (5,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ERR (mistake) + (over, in a down clue, A FIRM (a company) in TeAm
Current Director leaving club (5)
Whitish plant and mineral found between rugby posts – ground not grey (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ORE (mineral) in H H (rugby posts – it’s a while since I’ve seen this device but I like it) + [gr]OUND: this abbreviation for grey is in Chambers – I suspected that it might be horse racing parlance and was pleased to find this Here’s the plant
Arab currency to rise and retreat (4)
Recycling of minor stuff suppressed by a cross pilot (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
VIATRI (a recycling of the two halves of TRIVIA, minor stuff) in A X (a cross)
Judge abruptly turned, blocking the way, leading to profanity? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A reversal (turned) of GAUG[e] (judge, ‘abruptly’) in LANE (way) – I think the definition is a reference to the fact that a profanity is sometimes met with the admonition, ‘Language!’
Water the Parisian and I in fact boiled to make hot drink (4,2,4)
Hackneyed stuff: playboy in pursuit of college bird (9)
Observed Arab possibly cutting support (8)
Difficulty, nothing less, circumvented by Greek soccer club (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
H[o]LE (difficulty, minus o (nothing) in ATTIC (Greek) – name for some football clubs, e.g. Charlton
I’m prepared to slip into knockout gown (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
I’M ON (I’m prepared) in KO (knockout)
Idiot surrounded by boundless racket may get ear pain (6)
French ready to be upset about Welsh idiot (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A reversal (upset) of PRÊT (French ‘ready’) round W (Welsh)
Australian and American responses on rearing bean plant (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
The last clue, my last in – and I can’t see how to parse it! Please see comments 1 and 2
Type letters or click words in the clue