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Saw a setter’s method initially adopting suggestion of alternative (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A + PHI’S (our crossword setter’s) + initial letter of M [ethod], containing (adopting) OR (something said to suggest an alternative). Saw = aphorism = an insightful saying.
Artist’s difficulty after returning source of funding (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
RA’S (Royal Academician’s = artist’s) + RUB (difficulty, as in “there’s the rub” from Hamlet ), all reversed (after returning). Official in charge of finances, especially at an educational institution.
Eggs vehicle’s collecting the Latin way (6)
Very many backing a new deliveryperson (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
MYRIAD (very many) reversed (backing), then A + N (abbreviation for new). In the UK at least, there are still a small number of companies delivering milk to the doorstep; but I think “dairyman” suggests a farmer running a dairy farm, and there probably aren’t many people who do both.
Instead set out for Austrian city (10)
Passing fashion’s energy to decline (4)
Consent to overlook a church in European country (6)
Teacher will absorb article from France better (6)
Desserts? Against abandoning indulgences (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
[v] ICES (indulgences = pleasurable but bad habits), without the V (abbreviation for Latin versus = against). Another name for ice creams.
Judge our new top-ranking correspondent (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
J (abbreviation for judge) + OUR + N (abbreviation for new) + A-LIST (top-ranking).
Conflict of stork and eel depicted by Anglo-Hungarian writer (8)
Sarky comments about new German squad? (6)
50s Oscar-winner beginning to rattle someone victimised (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
MARTY (1955 romantic drama that won the Oscar for Best Picture: I’ve never heard of it but Wikipedia has) + first letter of R [attle].
Never to dine around midday? (8)
Down
Celebrate hosting top discussion (8)
Work up stories about most of soccer team beginning to show refinement (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
OP (abbreviation for Latin opus = a work of music or literature) reversed (up, in a down clue), then LIES (stories) around TEN (most of an 11-a-side soccer team), then the first letter of S [how].
Fruit supplying vitamin I believe? Not entirely (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
C (a vitamin found in fruit and vegetables) + I TRUS [t] (I believe) without the last letter (not entirely).
Articles about book crime showing spirit (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A + THE (indefinite and definite articles in grammar), around B (abbreviation for book) + SIN (crime). Spirit = alcoholic drink.
Not avoiding booze quite a target (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
PRE [tt] Y (quite, as in pretty well = quite well = reasonably well), without TT (abbreviation for teetotal = avoiding booze). My last one in by a very long way: I could guess the definition from the crossers, but the wordplay almost defeated me. Prey = target = an animal that is typically eaten by a larger one.
Record of visit suppressing an ugly rumour (6)
Newspapers etc note becoming central (6)
Conflict in Gulf then covering two leagues at greatest extent (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Anagram (conflict – it’s a pity we’ve already seen that in 23a) of GULF THEN , containing (covering) L L (two of the abbreviation for league, as in a sporting organisation).
Coaxing a British physicist to ditch uranium during uproar (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A + JO [u] LE (the physicist James Prescott Joule, whose surname is used for the scientific unit of energy) without U (chemical symbol for uranium), inserted into CRY (as in “hue and cry” = uproar).
Daughter with another daughter embraced by drunk Aussie is put off (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
D (abbreviation for daughter), then another D contained in (embraced by) an anagram (drunk) of AUSSIE . Dissuade = put off = try to convince someone not to do something.
Charity event mostly to provide money for series of performances (6)
A lot of hard work by nearly everybody regarding singing (6)
Scent navy being upset about end of admiral - this one? (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
NOSE (scent, especially in wine-speak) + N (abbreviation for navy, as in RN for the Royal Navy), all reversed (upset = upwards in a down clue), around the last letter of [admira] L . Extended definition: Admiral Horatio Nelson – the navy were presumably very upset when he died during the Battle of Trafalgar.
Place: it’s within borders of Shropshire (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
IT within the outer letters (borders) of S [hropshir] E .
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