Across
Don’t be cruel to old comedian, simple at heart (2,4,2)
Duck as light motorcycle loses one wheel? (6)
Leave secretly, ramp unavailable (5,3)
Contended resistance stops suffering from malaria (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘stops’) of R (‘resistance’) in AGUED (‘suffering from malaria’). This clue became distinctly easier when I read ‘contended’ rather than contented.
Go up: temperature perfect for returning (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A reversal (‘for returning’) of T (‘temperature’) plus PURE (‘perfect’).
Great area on Earth’s exterior in which woodlice are found (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of CRUST (‘Earth’s exterior’) plus ACE (‘great’) plus A (‘area’), with ‘on’ giving the order of the particles in the across light.
Intuit a chess blunder, making up for it (12)
Resentful air spoiled farewell observances (7,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘spoiled’) of ‘resentful air’.
Such mathematics left audience floundering (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anargam (‘floundering’) of L (‘left) plus ‘audience’.
Be terrified of judge’s pronouncement (5)
Homeland Security for one get on closing clubs in E Coast city (6)
In depresssed area knight spies city (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of VALE (‘depressed area’) plus N (‘knight’, chess) plus CIA (‘spies’).
They are beaten less, or flogged (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘flogged’) of ‘less or’.
Game that looks easy for beginners in brief sketches (8)
Down
Effusive person’s good conduct (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of G (‘good’) plus USHER (‘conduct’, verb).
The Great Escape – film and book (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Triple definition, although they are closely related: the flight of the Israelites from Egypt, the film based on the book by Leon Uris (involving a ship of the name), and that book or the book of the Torah and Bible.
Inducement to include small number in series (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘to include’) of WEE (‘small’) plus TEN (‘number’) in SER (abbreviation, ‘series’).
Apparently warming up, beginning to harry senior minister (6,6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of OFF ICE (‘apparently warming up’) plus H (‘beginning to H arry’) plus OLDER (‘senior’).
Weight of stone accepted in shopping basket (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘in’) of A (‘accepted’) in CART (‘shopping backet’). The ‘stone’ is of the precious kind.
Honest admitting name, sort of burglar in dock (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘admitting’) of N (‘name’) plus CAT (‘sort of burglar’) in TRUE (‘honest’).
It’s good this getting shot of a pest (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A cryptic reference to the expression “good riddance”.
Doubt the gospel? (8,4)
What noon means to some people: time correction (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of A.M. END (‘what noon means’) plus MEN (‘some people’) plus T (‘time’).
Coming in last, contrary to expectations (5,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Definition and literal interpretation.
Batters liable to be caught in the bar (8)
Drawer twice the size of another (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
I think this just says that PENCIL has 6 letters, and PEN has 3, I would like to extend this to involve C being twice L in Roman numerals, but that would leave I hanging.
Highest standards of ladies’ dancing (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘dancing’) of ‘ladies’.
Suffer, beyond medical help, disabled (5)
Type letters or click words in the clue