Across
Personal appeal from cleaner's mother (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
CHAR IS (cleaner’s) MA (mother)
Car getting bashed to avoid marks? (6)
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DODGE (avoid) M (marks)
Say senseless crook close to treasure — is it seen in large chest? (8)
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A homophone (say) of SILLY (senseless) + CON (crook) + E (last letter or ‘close’ of treasure)
Note Caruso perhaps articulated (6)
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A homophone (articulated) of TENOR (Caruso perhaps)
Decorate with regular picks from garden? (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Alternate or ‘regular’ letters ‘picked’ from gArDeN are A, D OR N
Hair-to-rug transformation seen in spin supremo? (4,5)
Plug hole in motorway certain to produce accident (12)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
AD (plug) VENT (hole) in M1 (motorway) SURE (certain)
Crestfallen heir ends date explosively (12)
Country moans — rain all over the place! (3,6)
Much enthusiasm about brother's wild horse (5)
Fur coat taken from Vera — by Tees? (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
v ER a (without the first and last letters or ‘coat’) MINE (by Tees)
Learned river ebbs to cover old coin (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
DEE (river) reversed or ‘ebbing’ round DUCAT (old coin)
Security emptied trunk in procedure (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
S ecurit Y without the middle letters or ’emptied’ STEM (trunk)
Intimate insect devours distressed diner (8)
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FLY (insect) round or ‘devouring’ an anagram (‘distressed’) of DINER
Down
Share bill where daughter leaves cooking apple? (2-4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
COSTAR d (a variety of cooking apple) without the ‘d’ (daughter)
Answer Joycean protagonist having come out (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A (answer) BLOOM (Joycean protagonist – Leopold Bloom from ‘Ulysses’)
Topless man given peeled carrot (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
v INCENT (man) without the first letter or ‘topless’ + g IVE n without the first and last letters or ‘peeled’. There may well be comments from solvers who don’t like the use of ‘man’ to identify a random name. We are not keen on this device.
Entanglement with Amos, Gene and Rita? (6,1,5)
Zombie oath used regularly in Caribbean sorcery (5)
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Alternate or ‘regular’ letters in zOmBiE oAtH
Willing to forgive corrupt surgeon smuggling in ecstasy (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘corrupt’) of SURGEON round or ‘smuggling in’ E (ecstasy)
Swallow meat regularly for disciplinarian (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
MARTIN (swallow) + alternate or ‘regular’ letters of mEaT
Motown maestro direct about idea on Detroit to start with (6,6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
STEER (direct) round VIEW (idea) ON D (first letter or ‘start’ of Detroit)
Final character in set troubled revolutionary philosopher (9)
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An anagram (‘troubled’) of Z (final character) IN SET + CHE (revolutionary)
Old Roman god guards unknown ship for hero (8)
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O (old) DEUS (Latin for God) round or ‘guarding’ Y (unknown) SS (ship)
Waves and cheers to welcome star on unfinished film (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
TA (cheers) round or ‘welcoming’ SUN (star) + MIS t (film) without the last letter or ‘unfinished’
Sailor worried and died — sank? (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
AB (sailor) ATE (worried) D (died)
Hydra moving across lake only with great difficulty (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘moving’) of HYDRA round or ‘across’ L (lake)
Seconds refused, sandwich for Schwarzenegger? (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
s ARNIE (sandwich) without the ‘s’ (seconds)
Type letters or click words in the clue