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Enemy's cover protected by spy on the other side (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Outer letters (cover) of E [nem] Y , contained in (protected by) BOND (spy: the name’s Bond . . . James Bond).
Wife to go down after hot date – that's a bonus (8)
Giant athletic climber (8)
Imagine not having an Independent cryptic puzzle! (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Anagram (cryptic) of [i] MAGINE with one I (abbreviation for Independent) removed.
Pull it together to dump fiancée at last during drink (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
CRAP (dump = slang for defecate) + last letter of [fiance] E , inserted into (during) SUP (to drink).
Most boring cricket match involving Durham's tail-enders (6)
Wilde's second poem written in friend's house (11)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Second letter of [w] I [lde] + SONNET (poem), written inside MATE (friend). More usually spelled with one N, but Collins accepts the NN variant: a small house, or a flat with its own external door to the street.
Mum shot dead in the shadows (6)
Frank or Luke's place? (8)
Two vessels travelling west in city (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
WOK (a cooking vessel) + ARK (a sea-going vessel), all reversed (going west = reading from right to left). City in Poland.
Exercise securing high salary freeze (8)
First to review online follower's business (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
First letter of R [eview] + E (e- = prefix indicating electronic or online) + TAILER (follower).
She doesn't appear to eat contents of bowl (6)
Down
Extremely rare broadcast of Irish writer's triumph (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
End letters (extremes) of R [ar] E , then a homophone (broadcast = spoken on the radio) of JOYCE (Irish writer James Joyce).
Boat dispatched to save swimmer somewhere in Africa (8)
Mutilated head on stick (6)
Rattle steel nut loose (8)
Swear about loud football hooligans (6)
Spot book on language with preface missing (7)
Present coverage featured in 7A 8A 12A 13A 1D 14D 15D 16D and 21D (13)
Way for American to act crabby? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Definition and cryptic definition. US word for a footpath at the side of a road (in the UK we’d call it the pavement, though in the US that word rather confusingly means the road surface); or to walk sideways as a crab typically does.
Perhaps Dennis bores by going on and on (8)
Get hard cuddling Rosemary? Sweetie! (7)
Don't stop parking sensor going off (7)
Youngster put up with crap Fiat (6)
Some nudist ran down beach (6)
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