Across
Packed Oslo twice up for development (8)
Get into a habit that is holding back career (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Reverse of RUN (to career) in I.E.
No longer the thing, to retire? (4)
Means to go east of state road (10)
Pretentious sitcom character by chance catching cold in this country (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
C[old] in UK, all in BET (chance). The character is Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced “Bouquet”) from the sitcom Keeping Up Appearances. The Special Instructions say that “the clue for 12ac has been amended to provide the correct complement of vowels”: I didn’t see the previously incorrect version
My name is – goodness – dirt! (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
I’M (my name is) + PURITY (goodness). A very weak clue in my opinion, with PURITY having the exact same meaning in both definition and wordplay
Date agreed? Possibly lower (7)
Musician reversing taxi, grabbed by the male police officer (1,1,1,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Reverse of CAB in HE PC. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was one of the many children of Johann Sebastian, and a notable composer in his own right
Key used in song of praise – a bugbear (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A (musical key) in ANTHEM + A
Paper is, however, full of decay (6)
Now into April and start of Spring presidential reviews of troops? (5-5)
Give up blow? (4)
Loud footwear is tacky (5)
Paint bird and cat soaking up sun (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
EMU + S[un] in LION
Down
Every reason you should order sex on cue! (2,6)
Clean break when book replaced by daughter (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
BUST (break) with B replaced by D
Follow the sun and be destroyed? (2,4)
One month before electronic components will be contamination-free (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A SEPT + IC (integrated circuit)
Smart but somewhat inhibited (4)
Paying member, inferior to writer, Regina (10)
Caught ascending with loss of pressure to achieve take-off (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Reverse of TRAPPED less one P
Handy means of felling oak with the car’s explosive power (6,4)
Report the old man (3)
Something spotted when one had got up, eyes opening (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Reverse of I’D (one had) + E[yes]
Commercial produce around tree cut (4,4)
Stand is protecting England’s earliest plants (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
DAIS (stand) + E in IS
Parvenu ancestral housing shade (6)
Hike – or gym exercise? (4,2)
Fool around with second hand (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Reverse of SAP + S[econd]
Klimt’s definitive work? Plonker! (4)
Type letters or click words in the clue
