Across
Settee Moir abused in bits of Shooting Stars ? (10)
Stalk 9 criminals with police backing (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
S ( final letter of [ AT LAST , entry at 9 across]) CRIMINAL S ) + MET ( MET ropolitan Police) reversed (backing)
One who held up Heaven gets time in the end (6)
Four involved in archly contrived gallantry (8)
Piece of rabbit that a couple will share? (8)
A shelter for little piggies in Wellington? (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
TOECAP (shelter for toes [little piggies])
Promote Delaware and Maine repeatedly as all the same in Paris (10)
Old red line some players must not cross? (4)
Star necking bit of temazepam gets surprise (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
SUN (star) containing (necking [drinking]) T ( first letter of [a bit of ] T EMAZEPAM)
Sadly got AA memo about McLean's end just now (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Anagram of (sadly) GOT AA MEMO containing (about) N ( final letter of [end] McLEA N )
Priest shot retired gypsy in organised persecution (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
P (priest) + GO (attempt; shot) reversed (retired) + ROM (gypsy man; ROM any)
Huge firm with a large holding in forfeiture (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
( CO [company; firm] + A + L [large]) containing (holding) LOSS (in forfeiture)
Dis nurse in charge related to very old Greeks (8)
Hard to entertain tenor showing no interest (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
SOLID (hard) containing (to entertain) T (tenor)
One that might have a hand in a bungled action (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
MUFF (clumsy or bungled action) double definition
Picture that doesn't say a thousand words? (10)
Down
Use up a bit of energy doing no good around north Ohio (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
E ( first letter of [a bit of] E NERGY) + ( AT IT [engaged in criminal activity; doing no good] containing [around] N [North]) + O (abbreviation for the US state of Ohio)
Demand Congress must release last of files (5)
Singer on drug taking break in squalid room (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
( RAT [American slang term for someone who informs on others; singer] + E [ecstasy; drug]) containing ( HOL ( HOL iday; break)
Facial hair of jazz fan sent up by the Man (5)
Pin hoax on model-type and the French (7)
As dope cut fantastically might become thus? (9)
Bachelor in Barking hears Aussie's gas constantly (7)
Musical symbol lent force in new arrangement (9)
Old head of Orica is brilliant Australian (3)
I used to think of God and naked beaux (7)
Gangster flash northern detective nuts (7)
Sick European brought up boy for novelist (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
( ILL [sick] + E [European]) reversed (brought up; down entry) + SON (boy)
Icy city spies will infiltrate close to Poyang Lake (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
( LA [Los Angeles; American city] + CIA [Central Intelligence Agency; spies]) contained in (will infiltrate) G ( final letter of [close to] POYAN G) + L (LAKE). Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in China)
Rhodes and other parasites Catholic rejected (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
( LICE [wingless parasitic insects] + C [Catholic]) all reversed (rejected)
'Small' Conservative old females mock (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
S (small) + C (Conservatives) + O (old) + ( F [female] + F [female] giving females)
Type letters or click words in the clue
