Across
Most sensational tablets stored in container for preacher (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ES ([ecstasy] tablets) contained in (in) PULPIT (the ‘container’ where the preacher stands when delivering a sermon)
27a
(and 27 Across, 9 Across) Novel description of Methuselah, plus six of his characters (3,3,3,3,3,3)
See 6 Across
Every so often, rare medusa's shocking couple catching waves (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Anagram of (shocking) RR ( letters 1 and 3 [every so often] of R A R E) and MEDUSA
Character back to fight insect superhero? (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
MU (character in the Greek alphabet) + T ( last letter of [back to] FIGH T ) + ANT (insect)
See 5 Down
Sort of reaction produced by commercial poetry (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
AD ( AD vertisement; commercial) + VERSE (poetry)
Shipwrecked boy discovered orang and hyena evacuated with another predator (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
PI (reference the boy shipwrecked in the novel The Life of Pi) + RAN ( letters remaining in O RAN G when the outer letters O and G are removed [dis-covered]) + HA (l etters remaining when the central letters YEN are removed from [evacuated] H YEN A )
Spot clergyman getting unsolicited feedback from Cockney (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
FR (Father; priest; clergyman) + H ECKLE (unsolicited feedback [Oxford Dictionary of English lists HECKLE as a noun as well as a verb], pronounced by a Cockney as ‘ ECKLE without the leading H )
See 5 Down
Embarrassed sleuth breaks into exasperated expression (8)
25a
(and 25 Across) Murdoch publication seethes with a hate that's out of order (3,3,3,3)
Landowners like stealing Irish resources, ultimately (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
(- ESQUE [suffix forming adjectives from nouns, especially proper names, and denoting in the style or manner of or similar; like] containing [stealing] IR [Irish]) + S ( final letter of [ultimately] RESOURCE S )
See 23 Across
See 6 Across
Graze from sabre unsheathed when principal spins around (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ABR ( letters remaining in S ABR E when the outer letters S and E are removed [unsheathed]) + AS (when) + ( NO [number] + I [Roman numeral for one] – number one [principal]) reversed (spins around)
Down
Some fish guts on the counter ... pass the bucket (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
UGH ( reversed [on the counter] hidden word [some] in FIS H GU TS)
Fool comes up with wise quotation (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
SAP (fool) reversed (comes up; down entry) + SAGE (wise)
Perfect bits of lovemaking requiring no tips (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
S EX ACT S (bits of lovemaking) excluding (requiring no) outer letters (tips) S and S
12d
(and 13 Across, 19 Across, 12 Down) Subtitle translated from French? (6,8,7,5,3,3)
Mistake is seized on by extremely tiresome bully (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
( ERROR (mistake) + IS ) contained in (seized by) TE ( outer letters of [extremely] T IRESOM E )
A lot of ground covered by chauffeur as I abscond (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
EURASIA ( hidden word in [covered by] CHAUFF EUR AS I A BSCOND)
Refined men chose eel spread (5,6)
See 5 Down
Was private flogged raw after exposing lies? (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
SOLD (flogged) + IE ( letters remaining in L IE S after the outer letters L and S are removed thereby exposing the central letters IE ) + RED (raw)
Unequal readings of caesium and uranium give you pause (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
CAES ( four letters of CAES IUM) + URA ( three letters of URA NIUM) – four and three being different readings
Blokes shortly get Scrooge half-cut with Bob (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
GE T excluding the final letter (shortly) T + EZER ( the last four letters of eight [half-cut] of EBEN EZER [Scrooge]) + S (shilling; known informally as a bob)
Fancy aesthete binning a certain Lawrence novel (3,3)
Spud sampler doesn't want seconds (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
TA S TER (sampler) excluding (doesn’t want) S (seconds)
For example, Ovid's number one (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
EG (for example) + O ( first letter of [number one] O VID
Type letters or click words in the clue