Across
Setter recovered from the ‘hood (6)
Ranks include first of garrison’s fighters (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
TIERS ("ranks") include [ first of ] G (arrison)
24a
After what’s taken by Wags, that woman’s right about author (4,6)
Unsettle spirit and fifth columnist (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Triple definition, the third referring to an undercover agent.
LS Lowry’s detail is obtuse (4)
Nags if out of drugs (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
HORS (without, so "out of") + E's (ecstasy tablets, so "drugs")
Jointly attempt to reverse effort to create nation-state? (7)
Lay ripped to pieces: ready to be sent back (5-4)
Late Democrat after US leader of the War on Drugs (4)
Weapons! – a Republican manuscript (4)
Writer of rag denied misbehaving (5,4)
29a
Spy readies boy to go on the run – one way to get out (7,4)
See 9
Bona fide leader, the Sea Admiral at last (4)
Djokovic’s end leads tennis authority to a lesser star (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
D (jokovic's) E (nd) [ leads , i.e first letters] + LTA (Lawn Tennis Association, so "tennis authority")
See 23
King is in groin’s first waxing (6)
Weird kid – but worth a flutter? (4-2)
Down
Omit 26, it’s used on piste (3,4)
Debauchees: artist keeps no records (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
RA (member of the Royal Academy, so "artist") + KE(EP)S with no EP ("record") Clue would work better if it were "record""records".
Reduces intensity of cores of cheapo assets; consults quietly (5,2)
Pyongyang’s domain slammed into surrounding well (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
*(into) [anag: slammed ] surrounding NK (North Korea, the capital of which is Pyonyang, thus "Pyongyang's domain")
US actor beheaded uncertain physicist (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
(Werner) (h) EISENBERG [ beheaded ] Werner Heisenberg was a German physicist who worked on the German nuclear programme during the Second World War. Jesse Eisenberg is an American actor and playwright who was nomintaed for an Oscar when he played Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network .
Excitedly sourced, having hunted high and low (7)
Coffee, Mr Biden? (3)
51 on second team (5)
Cooking – mine kills – in ovens (9)
Dilettante – in the buff? (7)
Struggling harder – having taken pill, tried again (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
*(harder) [anag: struggling ] having taken E (ecstasy, a drug taken in tablet form, so "pill")
One who determines entry in party or 8 (7)
City where bird entertains new date (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
LOON ("bird") entertains N (new) + D (date)
Is in charge of the French after ribbing upset leaders (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
LES ("the" in "French") after R (ibbing) U (pset) [ leaders ]
Spanish show of approval for Hackney slum? (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
In Hackney, or even 'Ackney, where people sometimes drop their H's, HOLE ("slum") would be pronounced ' OLE
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