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Writer of prose can start to turn verse out (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘out’) of ‘can’ plus T (‘start to T urn’) plus ‘verse’. Miguel de Cervantes, whose masterwork is Don Quixote , also published a long poem Viaje del Parnaso .
Problem has engineers attending vehicle (5)
Measure copper coin (5)
Our unusual day-to-day record is beginning to trouble medical expert (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of URO, an anagram (‘unusual’) of ‘our’ plus LOG (‘day-to-day record’) plus ‘is’ plus T (‘beginning to T rouble’).
Point made by idiot, learner expelled (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
DOLT (‘idiot’) minus the L (‘learner expelled’).
Secret agent put out in prominent position (6,5)
Office worker about to be dismissed as member of religious group (7)
New hotel bringing in a new intoxicant (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘bringing in’) of ‘a’ plus N (‘new’) in ETHOL, an anagram (‘new’ – the first one) of ‘hotel’. The chemical name for what is commonly called alcohol.
Examined excellent item of furniture (7)
What’s exciting for male? It’s to do with what mini reveals (7)
Mum, one of the celebs who values goods above godliness? (11)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of MATER (Latin mother, ‘mum’) plus I (‘one’) plus A-LIST (‘the celebs’).
River settlement not quiet (3)
Grown-up, one getting on, receiving a fan’s fawning (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘receiving’) of ‘a’ in ADULT (‘grown-up’) plus I (‘one’) plus (‘getting’) ‘on’.
Cooked a suet dish (5)
Old characters travel around to get meat (5)
Most fond of outdoor life, stops delving into screen message (9)
Down
Baddy captured by American agency’s chirpy types (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘captured by’) of CAD (‘baddy’) in CIA’S (‘American agency’s’).
Bishop into something radical, mostly very cold and inhuman (7)
Be got hold of by a merchant working in reception area (11)
Sporting contest – time for Jack to travel (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
JOURNEY (‘to travel’) with the J replaced by T (‘time for Jack’).
Curse of firm limited in growth (7)
Port imbibed by patriot (3)
Country woman given education in statistics group (7)
Poet not to lounge? (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Definition and literal interpretation. The ‘poet’ is probably Edith Sitwell, although her brothers Osbert and Sacheverell aslo both wrote poetry.
Maybe like things put into boxes or chests I made specially (11)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘specially’) of ‘chests I made’.
Fish old fellow catches quietly in Italian river (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A double envelope (‘catches’ and ‘in’) of P (‘quietly’) in O (‘old’) plus MAN (‘fellow’) in PO (‘Italian river’).
Story told originally in a French book about a Moabite woman (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘in’) of T (‘ T old originally’) in UN (‘a French’) plus RUTH (‘book about a Moabite woman’).
Nobody was such a writer (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A reference to the comic novel The Diary of a Nobody by the Grossmith brothers. Nobody lived at The Laurels, Brickfield Terrace, Holloway. Who was he?
Receiver gets hold of excellent glazed earthenware (7)
Hermit with cunning plan to eat half a cake (7)
Shining, keen to hide slightest bit of blackness (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘to hide’) of B (‘slightest bit of B lackness’) in LAMENT (‘keen’).
This writer’s going after a goal (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of ‘a’ plus I’M (‘this writer’s’).
Type letters or click words in the clue