Across
Day that is long (3)
Grate the last piece of bread after tea is cooked (11)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
GRILLE (grate) D (last letter or ‘piece’ of bread) after CHAR (tea) – we had to check this spelling as we would normally expect it to be CHA
Put the wrong end of foot into broken gumshoe (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
DE f ECTIVE (broken) with the ‘f’ (one end of foot) replaced by T (the other end of foot)
Back no back no back back? (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
BAC k missing the last letter or ‘no back’ + a reversal (‘back’) of NO
Vegetable from greengrocers we'd established (5)
Deputy anaesthetist to inject whiskey (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
NUMBER (anaesthetist – one who numbs) + TO round or ‘injecting’ W (whiskey in the phonetic alphabet)
Small rug from Barking Habitat I exchanged for money (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘barking’) of HAB i TAT with the ‘i’ exchanged for M (money)
Hockey venue that's 'horrible' girl admitted (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ICK (‘that’s horrible’) round or ‘admitting’ ERIN (girl)
Usually I'm alone in a bar - about 1000 beers I've drunk (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
M (1,000) in an anagram (‘drunk’) of BEERS I’VE
Family member in local taking top off and beginning to yodel (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
h AUNT (‘local’) missing the first letter or ‘taking top off’ + Y (first letter or ‘beginning’ to yodel)
Going in a particular direction academic follows points on the compass (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
DON (academic) following E and N (east and north – ‘points on the compass’)
Without belief in God this man exists in a higher place (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
HE (this man) IS (exists) in ATTIC (‘higher place’)
Right claimed by errant ageing heads of state in old England? (11)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A clue-as-definition: R (right) in or ‘claimed by’ an anagram (‘errant’) of AGEING, S, I, O and E (first letters or “heads’ of state in old England)
Every second of Dolph Lundgren's strip-search is available to watch online (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Second letters of dOlph lUndgren’s sTrip-search
Down
Something that protects you from bottom-smack (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
SEAT (bottom) BELT (smack)
Murder rock group's rendition of Tutti Frutti ? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ICE (murder) CREAM (rock group from the 60s)
Stringed instrument trio meant to play Beethoven's 2nd 3rd or 8th (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘to play’) of TRIO MEANT and E (2nd, 3rd or 8th letter in Beethoven) – we’re not convinced that a marionette could be described as an ‘instrument’ – however Chambers Thesaurus gives ‘instrument’ as a ‘contraption’, ‘device’ or ‘mechanism’ which could just about include a puppet?
Extract from Othello - 'green-eyed monster' (4)
Gently bite flower full of bees (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
NILE (‘flower’ – something that flows) round or ‘full of’ B B (bees)
Bring about 50 here for Vanessa Paradis and for her clothes (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
L (50 in Roman numerals) ICI (‘here’ in French, as spoken by Vanessa Paradis) in or ‘clothed by’ ET (‘and’ in French)
Repeatedly carry out the termination of birds - now they're extinct (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
DO (carry out) DO repeated + S (last letter or ‘termination’ of birds)
Attach number label to the foot of brown hedge sparrow (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
NO (number) CK (Calvin Klein – ‘label’) ‘attached’ to DUN (brown)
Liberal aimed to join new leader in constituency (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘liberal’) of AIMED + N (new) HEAD (leader) – Why choose ‘constituency’ as the definition for Maidenhead? Are we missing something?
One in motorcycle gang knocked out by American musicians on the street (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
B i KERS (motorcycle gang) with the ‘i’ (one) replaced or ‘knocked out’ by US (American)
One sitting with a paper late in the morning in bare feet (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
EX (late) AM (morning) IN f EE t missing the first and last letters or ‘bare’
Key enters in it prior to Bluebird running (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A clue-as-definition: G (key) ‘entering’ IN IT I (Bluebird – the setter) ON (working)
Part of leaf from flyer one's picked up (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A reversal (‘picked up’) of BIRD (flyer) I’M (one’s)
Grandma's piercing bleat - 'a giant gorilla wants to eat me!' (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
NAN (grandma) in or ‘piercing’ BAA (bleat)
German crew supporting the stern of ferry boat (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ACHT (German for ‘eight’ – crew in rowing) after or ‘supporting’ Y (last letter or ‘stern’ of ferry)
Own a car with nothing inside (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A VW (car) with O (nothing) inside
Type letters or click words in the clue