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Youngster wanting good story book tucked into treat and drink (11)
Triumphant exclamation upright character ignored in US state (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
OH [i] O (US state) without I (an upright letter).
Nabokov - a tease somewhat elliptical (5)
That lady cooks cakes given hot tip (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
SHE (that lady) with BAKES (cooks, as a verb) around it (caking it), then H (abbreviation for hot). Tip = money given as a thank-you.
Gently drilling metal base for tall structure (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
P (p, in musical notation = abbreviation for Italian piano = quietly or gently) inserted into STEEL (metal), then E (in mathematics, e = the base of natural logarithms).
Sweet Polish-American bagging business qualification (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
RUB (polish, as a verb) + A (abbreviation for American), containing (bagging) MBA (a Master in Business Administration postgraduate degree). Sweet = dessert, in this case a cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.
Times setter's seen cryptic crossword setter (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
X (times = mathematical symbol for multiplication) + I’M (setter’s = the setter of this crossword is) + anagram (cryptic) of SEEN . Pseudonym used by the cryptic crossword setter Derrick Somerset Macnutt, also a writer on the “rules” of cryptic crosswords.
My acceleration due to gravity checked by device used when driving train (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
COR (cor! = my! = expressions of surprise), then G (g = symbol for the acceleration due to gravity) contained in (checked by) TEE (a device used to support a golf ball when a player is preparing to drive it). Cortege = train = a procession.
Bit of a joint model rolled inhaled by utopian writer (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
SIT (model = pose for an artist) reversed (rolled), contained in (inhaled by) MORE (writer Thomas More, who wrote the book Utopia ). Part of a mortise-and-tenon joint in woodworking.
Old magistrates awfully idle in the main after retiring (7)
Supplier of eggs and mushrooms receiving a confirmation request from abroad (9)
Leader of pack seen in two lakes side by side (5)
Prohibit cycling league in America (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
BAN (to prohibit), with the letters “cycling” around so that the N moves to the front. Abbreviation for the National Basketball Association, the league for the professional game in North America.
Perhaps the creative force behind Tango and Sprite changed job (11)
Down
Wear diamonds entering a bank in Glasgow (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
D (abbreviation for diamonds in playing cards), inserted into A + BRAE (Scottish, so Glasgow, word for a hillside = bank).
Noble god over time displaying eternal youth (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
PEER (noble = aristocrat) + PAN (ancient Greek god), containing (over) T (abbreviation for time). J M Barrie’s fictional “boy who never grows up”.
People like Thomas Cook used to blather vacuously (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Anagram (cook, as a verb, perhaps as in “cook the books” = to falsify records) of USED TO + B [lathe] R (vacuously = with inner letters “emptied” out). “Doubting Thomas”: in the Gospel of John, Thomas wasn’t with the other disciples when the risen Christ appeared to them, and wouldn’t believe the news until he saw for himself.
One tends to fire small person smoking marijuana say (6)
Area by border invaded by servicemen in WWII battle (6)
Zero added to fifty plus one for English mathematician (8)
Give me strength and energy to shelter in oases in desert (14)
Without rumpy-pumpy romancing is possibly a brief activity? (14)
Above isle spots shooting star? (8)
E.g. Mary Beard gives away one First from Cambridge for discriminating type (8)
Brilliant quality of artist one inspired by art (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
RA (abbreviation for Royal Academician = artist), then I (one in Roman numerals) contained in (inspired by) DANCE (an art).
Encourage coitus wearing nice pants (6)
Product that's often shipped from Ostia Antica or Canopus say? (6)
This person wears coat of Leatherette sound like a cow hide (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
I (this person) contained in (wearing) the outer letters (coat) of L [eatherett] E , then LOW (to make the mooing sound of a cow).
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