Across
Help son to cut curly hair with regret (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
AID (help) + S (abbreviation for son) inserted into (cutting) AFRO (short for Afro-Caribbean curly hair).
Nothing unprofessional about beauty treatment (6)
Boat race hosts uncovered sordid hierarchy (13)
Disorganised leave today without packing (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
SCAT (slang for go away = leave) + T [oda] Y without the inner letters (packing). Scatty = absent-minded = disorganised.
Everyone returned after peak time one flat fare (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ALL (everyone) reversed (returned), after TOR (hill = peak) + T (abbreviation for time) + I (one). Spanish food (fare): the word can mean either unleavened bread or a potato omelette, but both could be described as flat.
Equip elderly fellow to fight the final battle (10)
Cut fuel used by American hospital (4)
Impressive set Prince offered regularly (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Alternate letters (. . . offered regularly) from [s] E [t] P [r] I [n] C [e].
A little half-pint hero undaunted on central stage (10)
Place in Spain has new agents after so long (8)
250000 pages is unrealistically ambitious (6)
India's sun poem misrepresented as lacking heat (13)
On top of it all a mushroom (6)
Ship's access to fresh water you'd say level with strand (8)
Down
Spooner's thrown a long way a record (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Spoonerism of CAST FAR (thrown a long way). There seem to have been a few records (recorded songs) called Fast Car , but I’m going for the 1988 one by Tracy Chapman. I think that’s what Filbert intended, rather than the latest attempt on the world land speed record.
A pound for white top (3)
Proud lover kept up by Fanny Cradock (5)
Unused baseball glove holds dictionary open (7)
Cologne newspaper probes Germany's neighbour (9)
Nice girl so upset with graze finally gets pretty round plaster (11)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Anagram (upset) of NICE GIRL SO + final letter of [graz] E . A decorative circular feature made of plaster in the centre of a ceiling.
Abolish America's donut flatly (7)
Which name encompasses that female 80s right-winger? (11)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
THAT (which) + CITE (name, as a verb = identify), around (encompassing) HER (that female). A follower of the policies of Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Prime Minister in the 1980s.
A bishop's rotten apple is unfinished Cox (9)
Strip taking pulse without reason (7)
Tesla showed its weird van (7)
Never really cross Mick's content living with no fixed abode (7)
Daughter annoyed seeing lake disappear without water (5)
Number of clean sheets taking up most of line (3)
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