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Navy occupying vast river that's long (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An insertion of N in HUGE, followed by R. Some dictionaries do give N as a stand-alone abbreviation for ‘Navy’.
Clip wings of enormous wading birds (6)
What's found in tower? Try again! (6)
Sorrow indeed! said old philosopher (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Aural wordplay (‘said’) for RUE SO. Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU, the Genevan-born writer and philosopher from the Age of Enlightenment.
Has some wine at supper (4)
Snake wees all over the place around source of seismic faults (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An insertion of S for the initial letter of ‘seismic’ in (SNAKE WEES)* with ‘all over the place’ as the anagrind.
Wreck a job by performing a lot of nonsense (11)
Rammed in door when she crashed after consuming whiskey (10)
Runner with zero energy (4)
It's hard to get on when relative catches cold (8)
Two dimensional design artist inverted (6)
Unhappy exhausted delegate carrying large burden (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of SAD and L inserted into DE for the outside letters of ‘delegate’. The insertion indicator is ‘carrying’.
English explorer with fine hat (6)
Down
Spotted one cat he twice disturbed (7)
Submarine endures choppy area (8)
Make another picture using red green or blue? (6)
Hint of ecstasy found in open pub at first (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of INN and E inserted into UNDO. The insertion indicator is ‘found in’.
Spouse carelessly works (6)
Deals including 100 pieces of fish (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An insertion of C for ‘100’ in SALES. The insertion indicator is ‘including’.
Fruit preserves are in the middle on top of range daughter fixed in advance (11)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An insertion of R (‘are in the middle’) in PEAR, followed by RANGE and D. The insertion indicator is ‘preserves’.
Brother with endless stomach pain devours cold vegetable (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of BRO and an insertion of C in COLI[C]. The insertion indicator is ‘devours’.
Kinky bottomless American sweetheart you called honey bear (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
I had KANGAROO in here because I couldn’t make head or tail of the parsing, but then the perimeter nina told me that couldn’t be right. A charade of KINK[Y], A, JO and U, aural wordplay (‘called’) for ‘you’. The Scots Language centre tells me that JO is a Scots variant of ‘joy’, and can mean a sweetheart or lover, or be a term of endearment akin to ‘dear’ or ‘darling’. I know why the setter has had to use this word (naff all else fits) but in my opinion this is obscure and the Scots dialect word is rather unfair.
Considers exchanging ketamine for good stuff (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
The setter is inviting you to change the K in THINKS to G for ‘good’.
Annual report from local man accepted (7)
Easy clue oddly written by party for coin (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A charade of EaSy ClUe and DO. The old currency of Portugal.
Smart and very quietly absorbed in retrospective study (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An insertion of PP in READ reversed. The insertion indicator is ‘absorbed’.
Type letters or click words in the clue