Across
Working with CIA somewhere in the Midwest (7)
US footballer left Maine cycling north (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
L (left) MAINE with the ‘ma’ moved to the back or ‘cycling’ + N (north)
Principal banker in Frankfurt (4)
Newspaper students rejected (3)
Noble head of Yorkshire or Lancashire? (6)
I'd come round with the greatest festival of light (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A reversal (‘come round’) of I’D + W (with) ALI (Mohammed Ali – ‘The Greatest’)
Put too much burden on D-Day operation area prioritised for Resistance (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
OVERLO r D (‘D-Day operation’) with A (area) replacing or ‘prioritised for’ ‘r’ (resistance)
Attention-seeking actions got Piers aroused (8)
Starts to write incredibly rude electronic message (4)
Gather American has quit the valley (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
GLE a N (gather) with the ‘A’ (American) missing or ‘quitting’
Clan arrived outside empty pub by large loch (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
CAME (arrived) round or ‘outside’ P u B (missing the middle letter or ’empty’) + L (large) L (loch)
Very advanced scam involving a Thailand island holiday (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
V (very) A (advanced) CON (scam) round or ‘involving’ A T (Thailand) I (island)
Stress backing for Ulster skills (6)
Condescend to accept second plan (6)
Nick getting suspension overturned (3)
Small present which we hardly ever get at Xmas? (4)
Extend length of prison sentence (7)
Disturb Joe visiting ace art gallery (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
GI (‘Joe’ – American soldier) in or ‘visiting’ A (ace) TATE (art gallery)
Down
Visualise the Three Wise Men - popular outgoing Eastern (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
MAGI (‘the three wise men’) with IN outside or ‘outgoing’ + E (Eastern)
Dye found in Madras nowadays? (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Hidden in c HEENA i (new name for Madras)
More delicious Italian plonk (in theory) regularly downed (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ASTI (‘Italian plonk’) in alternate letters (‘regularly downed’) of ThEoRy
Longed to dump husband having just got married (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
h ITCHED (got married) missing or ‘dumping’ ‘h’ (husband)
It's only fair for politicians on TV hustings to order tequila on Knut (9)
Set off tense when heading north transported by hot shot pilot (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A reversal (‘heading north’) of TAUT (tense) in or ‘transported by’ ACE (‘hot shot pilot’)
I gulp cinnamon swirls without any fuss (13)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘swirls’) of I GULP CINNAMON
Anagram of Evita Peron not quite efficacious (9)
Most serious parties enter the fringes of government (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
RAVES (parties) in or ‘entering’ G T (first and last letters or ‘fringes’ of government)
Mail coat of lead and silver for East German (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
PB (chemical symbol for lead) AG (chemical symbol for silver) round or ‘coating’ OST (East in German)
Yobbo nicking charity money knocked to the ground (7)
Spread out? (6)
Scripture group at school put back to square one (5)
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