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Renoir upset king by mistake (7)
Receive word about husband with open-ended 12 month break (6)
Greek poet old boy deported by those who hate foreigners penning article (10)
Brilliant Swiss knight put in jail (4)
Wife promoted to head of a Jersey city? (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A COW (perhaps a Jersey = a breed of dairy cows), with the W (abbreviation for wife) moved to the front (promoted to head). City in Texas.
Organised Utah tribal ablution ceremony (10)
English retired vicar coming round to swing (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
E (abbreviation for English), with REV (abbreviation for Reverend = title for a vicar) reversed (retired) coming around it. Swing = veer = deviate from a straight path.
Problem children (5)
Queen administered India (4)
Flying into the unknown? (10)
Hospital radio host taking a trip to Mecca (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
H (abbreviation for hospital) + DJ (disc jockey = radio host), containing (taking) A . Also spelled Hajj, or other variants: the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca.
Kills 40 on board with a single arrow? (4)
Northern terraces like this line from Amy Winehouse song (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
BACK TO B [l] ACK (Amy Winehouse song) without the L (abbreviation for line). Back-to-back terraced houses, often associated with industrial towns in the North of England, were built with two rows of houses sharing a rear wall (without any garden or yard between them).
Film-maker Mack reported governing body (6)
One found in a tree in Mexico stoned (7)
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Yellowhammer - in January it escapes (4)
0-60 (min time for action!) (8)
Chef Harris cooked tropical catch with spit (10)
Outlaw eating right source of dietary fibre (4)
Disorder and mayhem without old Dave's partner? (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
CHA [o] S (disorder and mayhem) without the O (abbreviation for old). The late musician Charles (Chas) Hodges, one half of the duo Chas & Dave.
Filling in date of birth Jay sorted out his main employment (6)
Morgan for one regularly peeled red onions (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Alternate letters (regularly peeled) from [r] E [d] O [n] I [o] N [s]. Irish male given name, used by (for example) the cricketer Eoin Morgan.
Finished eight ahead I'm told (5)
Leaders of Sri Lanka invested in home-grown product a key part of the (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
First letters (leaders) of S [ri] L [anka] inserted into TEA (home-grown product: Sri Lanka is one of its major producers). The US electric car company, one of the world’s most valuable companies, which features in the US stock exchange NASDAQ (22 down).
American baseball legend forced into error of judgement (10)
Looking fit Mark somersaults expending last bit of energy (5)
Note: before lunch tramp consumed the equivalent of six bottles (8)
New question about British supermarket stock listing in the US (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
N (abbreviation for new) + Q a(bbreviation for question), around ASDA (British supermarket chain). Stock exchange in the US: in full, National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations Stock Market.
Dog runs off at first call from umpire (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
[r] OVER (supposedly a common name for a dog) with the initial R (abbreviation for runs, in cricket scoring) removed (runs off at first). In cricket, the umpire calls “over” after a sequence of six legally-bowled balls, to indicate that the next bowler should start from the opposite end.
High-pitched sound live put on record (4)
Italian greeting found in Chicago every now and again (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Alternate letters (every now and then) in C [h] I [c] A [g] O . Informal greeting in Italian, used for either “hello” or “goodbye”.
Bill's partner left with it (4)
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