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Stuck up small head by mistake (8)
Uproar behind you and me (6)
State has plenty of time and means (8)
Stick poster in this place (6)
Meet and greet ghetto revolutionary (3,8)
Poisonous beast consumed by jerk (5)
Following overdose music producer, born in Sultanate, finds fixer (3-3,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
OD (short for overdose) + DJ (someone who plays music), then B (abbreviation for born) in OMAN (a Sultanate in the Arabian Peninsula). Odd-job man = a general maintenance worker who fixes things, rather than a specialist in a particular trade.
Searched and managed to fire journalist (9)
Begin letter without introduction (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
[r] ENTER (letter = someone who rents / lets a property), without its introductory R.
Brief special vehicle branch of the police (6,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
FLYING (brief, as in a “flying visit” = not staying for a long time) + S (special) + QUAD (I don’t think I’ve seen this by itself as a name for a vehicle – but it could be short for quad bike, quadcopter drone, or various four-wheeled or four-passenger vehicles).
Arouse interest in article about vigil (6)
Original member of family left out after bit of controversy (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
RE [l] ATIVE (member of the family) without the L (left), after the first letter (a bit) of C [ontroversy]. Creative = original in the sense of “not just doing what’s been done before”.
Attempt to embrace man with love in ideal situation (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
TRY (attempt), containing (embracing) HE (man) + O (zero = love in tennis scoring). As in “in theory it would work, but in practice . . . “.
Stretches back to get steamy photograph (8)
Down
Kills merriment aboard ship (10)
Public dismissal is too much (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
OVERT (public) + AXING (the act of dismissing someone from a position).
Do butchers extract all nutritious offal first of all? (5)
Frame guides showing ways to access multiple places (8,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
SKELETON (frame) + KEYS (key = guide = explanatory notes, for example alongside a diagram to explain colour-coding or abbreviations). Skeleton key = a key that will open several different locks.
Suggestion from subordinate, tense individual (9)
Support lord vocally (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Homophone (vocally) of PEER = lord.
Cook ineffectual politicians upset (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
WETS (derogatory term for moderate Conservative MPs who opposed Margaret Thatcher’s hardline policies), reversed (upset = upwards in a down clue).
Republican and Democrat droned on about keeping house plant (12)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Anagram (about = scattered) of R (Republican) + D (Democrat) + DRONED ON , containing (keeping) HO (abbreviation for house). Flowering shrub or tree; the name is Greek for “rose tree”.
Clumsy American couple thrive without Flo (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A (American) + MATE (couple, as a verb) + [flo] URISH (thrive) without FLO.
Factor in dirt engine churned up (10)
Loudly regret returning after tea with posh driver (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
FF (in musical notation, ff = Italian fortissimo = instruction to play very loudly) + RUE (regret) reversed (returning), after CHA (slang for tea, from Asian languages) + U (posh, as in “U and non-U”).
Second party for rascal (5)
Women behind drift (4)
Stun and partially confound a zealot (4)
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