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Distance required for Frenchman to attend his maritime locations … (5)
… and to cover his city following article in study … (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
PARIS (French city) after A (article) in CON (study) – a new word for us – to cover a horse with an ornamental cloth.
… and to get chitchat about his novelist from tutor (9)
Leave after embracing new American sibling (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
QUIT (leave) around or ’embracing’ N (new). Not sure about the role that ‘after’ is playing.
Apparently veto a different electoral system (15)
Dodgy action - runs cocaine in - or other drug? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Joyce quickly entered NICOTINE before realising that the anagram didn’t work – it’s actually an anagram (‘dodgy’) of ACTION, R (runs) and C (cocaine). Thanks Hovis for the correct parsing here – we had missed ‘in’ (the inclusion indicator).
Shake up justice: old fashion is heartless (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
J (justice) O (old) ST y LE (fashion) missing middle letter or ‘heartless’
Special regret when taking top off coconut tree (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
SP (special) RUE (regret) around or ‘taking’ C (first letter or ‘top’ of coconut)
Native American welcoming fashionable people with new material from France (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
CREE (native American) around or ‘welcoming’ TON (fashionable people) and N (new)
Local man and wife lay out money for children as before (15)
Britten speciality accepted by Europe? Radical (5)
Various things about dispute may be sources of pain (9)
Greek in time leading people attending Mass (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
GR (Greek) in AGE (time) + GATE (people attending)
Leave ship when monarch boards? Outrageous (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
GO (leave) SS (ship) with R (king or queen – ‘monarch’) inside or ‘boarding’
Down
Mini gears crashed? Painful stuff (9)
Measure of energy in back muscle or other muscle (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
EV (electronvolt – ‘measure of energy’) in LAT (back muscle) OR
More confident female abandoning water sportsman (5)
Plant requiring small switch in a range of growing conditions? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Swapping the ‘e’ and ‘i’ (‘small switch’) changes CLIMATES (‘range of growing conditions’) into the climbing plant
Plan to keep orbiting craft circling throughout (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A reversal (‘circling’) of MAP (plan) around or ‘keeping’ ISS (International Space Station – ‘orbiting craft’)
Libertine seen around queen’s castle making cheese (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ROUE (libertine) ‘around’ Q (Queen) + FORT (castle)
Extend talk about home (7)
Fertiliser chemical - some spurn it religiously (5)
Vary its locale after disruption (9)
Still interrupting other shop’s opening for a snack (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
EVEN (still) inside or ‘interrupting’ ELSE (other) + S (first letter or ‘opening’ of shop)
Prudence storing old record as a first move (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
PRUE (short form of Prudence) around or ‘storing ‘ O (old) LOG (record)
Operetta composer in memory supplied by Austrian composer (7)
Chamber piece after reductions needing almost twelve around (7)
Film I presented in rice production centre (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
I inside or ‘presented in’ PATNA (area where rice is grown)
Plant life I had eradicated in US state (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
I’D (I had) missing or ‘eradicated’ from FLOR id A (US state)
Weak king working with Government is incorrect (5)
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