Across
Liable to involuntary laughter in such a tricky situation (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
It’s not something I’d come across before, but Chambers includes difficult/tricky as meanings for ticklish and I’ll try to remember to use that in future conversations when such situations arise.
I say purchase pasta, for example, that goes in kitchen cupboard (6)
One called up to study one’s lines (9)
Criticise minor injury in time at the crease (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Triple definition – knock can mean to criticise, a small or minor injury, or having your turn to knock some balls when batting at the cricket crease.
Possibly made radioactive, so no admittance, unfortunately (12)
Food for Nancy that may stick in the throat (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Nancy is a city in France so this is referring to the association of frogs’ legs with French cuisine, as well as ‘having a frog in one’s throat’.
Emphasise how one’s counted as a teenager? (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Someone aged 13-19 would be aged ‘under [a] score’ i.e. less than 20 years old.
Irish saint almost laid out, harbouring unfatherly thoughts? (10)
Lack of guile in what may be shown on the screen (12)
Italian team doesn’t take the lead in some three months (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Referring to the the common name Inter Milan for Football Club Internazionale Milano. I think this is WINTER (some three months) minus the first letter (doesn’t take the lead).
From abroad obtain more unusual diet (9)
Irritating person after wander about has to race away (6)
Pilgrim’s Progress for example involves travel right through narrow lane (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
GO (travel) + R (right) inside (through) ALLEY (narrow lane) for the literary device, of which Pilgrim’s Progress is an example.
Down
Friar stabbed, not the first (4)
Calorie associated with single ice-cream (4)
Reader in church sounds like Hannibal? (6)
Emitting gasp, I staggered to see my double (8,5)
Gathering family I head for black state (8)
Mark address wrong too, perhaps (10)
Something on toast for hotheads? (5,5)
Moody secretary taking age without using any paper (13)
Disconcerting, to be away on the golf course? (3-7)
Signed up, but got less (10)
Singer in large church lifting one hand, then the other (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
MINSTER (a large church) with the R shifted up (lifting one hand), + L (the other hand)
Bad scare about parking: a scuff (6)
Cover over swimming pool (4)
Married over a year, so eyed as naive (4)
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