Across
Relative partly installs fruit machine that talks? (9)
Heroic tale of half perhaps fleeing outbreak (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Heroic tale of half fleeing perhaps outbreak EPI <demi> C (=outbreak; “ demi – (=half) fleeing” means letters “demi” are dropped)
Jack turned on one supporter at top of column (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Jack turned on one supporter at top of column A (=one) + TLAS (SALT=jack, sailor; “turned” indicates reversal); an Atlas is a figure of a man serving as a column in a building
Rock destroyed remote locations lacking cover (9)
Come across smallest pig eating in ring (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Come across smallest pig eating in ring [IN in RUNT (=smallest pig, of litter)] + O (=ring, i.e. pictorially)
Person handling notes more like a country singer? (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
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Adage Rod composed in book fit for composting (13)
P Lingerie o (13)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Poet Stephen welcoming American hit Lingerie [US (=American) in SPENDER (=(English) poet Stephen)] + BELT (=hit, clout, strike)
Equine character of Aesop flies around (7)
Ambushed far west of city with papers (7)
Wickedness of six stopping in lodge naughtily (9)
You're texted by Nick about living in town? (5)
Quickly downed five in Le Café we hear (4)
Severity of exploit overwhelming first couple of sherpas (9)
Down
Section of mounted slide bore a nasty bug? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Section of mounted slide bore a nasty bug? Vertically reversed (“mounted”) and hidden (“section of”) in “slid E BORE A NA sty”; an anaerobe is a micro-organism that grows in an oxygen-free environment
Claw oddly scratched floor coated with bronze (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Claw oddly scratched floor coated with bronze <f> L <o> O <r> (“oddly scratched” means odd letters are dropped) in TAN (=bronze, as verb)
Female crosses further down: bear doesn't follow (14)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Female crosses further down: bear doesn’t follow [UNDER (=further down, below) + STAND (=bear, endure)] in MISS (=female)
Drum in time with game old doctors travelling north (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Drum in time with game old doctors travelling north T (=time) + AMBOUR (RU=game, i.e. rugby union + O (=old, as in OT) + BMA (=doctors, i.e. British Medical Association); “travelling north” indicates vertical reversal)
Saw clumsily into 50% of trees (7)
Horrid wearing stuffed shirt close to fire right? (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Horrid wearing stuffed shirt close to fire, right ? [VILE (=horrid) in PRIG (=stuffed shirt, prude)] + <fir> E (“close to” means last letter only)
Fruit drink primarily avoided after cold (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Fruit drink primarily avoided after cold C (=cold, on tap) + <s> HERRY (=drink; “primarily avoided” means first letter is dropped)
Shrub Mary and George maybe covered with layer? (14)
Toby unwrapped hearing thing (9)
Learners cycling naked in streets facing each another (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Learners cycling naked in streets facing each another UDE-N (NUDE=naked; “cycling” means first letter moves to the end) in [ST (=street) + TS (ST=street; “facing each other” involves the second “st” being reversed)]
People sort of supporting Glen actively (7)
Widow bet on event? On the contrary (7)
Mischief-makers infiltrated by the Spanish forces (6)
One replaced by bishop in a 1760-yard walk (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
One replaced by bishop in a 1760-yard walk A + M I LE (=1760-yard); “ one (=I) replaced by bishop (=B, in chess)” means letter “i” becomes “b”
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