Across
Sort of pet cosmetic? Tad ridiculous! (11)
Where people read of marriage not working (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
UNI ON (marriage) excluding (not) ON (working)
Mistake made by scary person taking temperature (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
T ERROR (a scary person) excluding (taking) T (temperature)
European people covering Master of Arts in effluent (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
( E [European] + NATION [people]) containing (covering) MA (Master of Arts)
Gawpers getting a load of king with no clothes on? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
STARERS (gawpers) containing (getting a load of) K (king)
Variety of green fruit sent by English company (6)
Protective cover cold sailor put on end of oars (4)
Fellow responsible for locking up greatest possible lag (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
( F [fellow] + BEHIND [responsible for as in ‘She was BEHIND the decision to do something’ meaning ‘She was responsible for the decision’]) containing (locking up) ALL (everything; greatest possible)
Corrections sent madmen off the rails (10)
What might come after 14 vehicles son brought to front? (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
CAR S (vehicles) with the S (son) moved to the beginning [brought to the front] to form S CAR
Go for vile Count ultimately with pointed stakes (6)
Given replacement equipment soldiers did a dance (8)
I'd act badly with love to get a life of luxury (9)
Musical from 26 with first four parts cut (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
EVITA ( letters remaining in DOLC E VITA [entry at 26 across] when the leading four characters [first four parts] DOLC are removed [cut])
Heading to puritanical relations can be hell (3)
Track by grey-haired bloke like Keith Richards? (11)
Down
Medic on English ship gets drug and small bandages (7)
Old lady alarmed about food delivered to Paddington? (9)
Hit bar having left foremost of pubs for King's Head (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
STRI P E (a band or bar of colour) with P ( first letter of [foremost] of P UBS) being replaced by (left for) K ( first letter of [head] K ING) to form STRI K E
Drunken nurse on the rebound breaks into drunken diatribe (10)
California bands beginning to outrageously rock (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
CAL (California) containing (bands) O ( first letter of [beginning to] O UTRAGEOUSLY)
One who could have worked with Reed on The House of Usher ? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
THATCHER (Nurse THATCHER is a character in The House of Usher, a novel by Edgar Allan Poe [ 1809 – 1949]. The actor Oliver Reed [1938 -1999] played the lead role in the 1989 film of the novel) cryptic definition linking THATCHER and Reed
A Parisian and Hoskins performing the act of love (5)
Grunt about one with no top on being inflamed (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
GI (a grunt is a term for an infantry soldier [American GI ] or United States marine) reversed (about) + U NITED ([as] one]) excluding the first letter (with no top on) U
Liberal admitted males hate dancing still (10)
Criminal noticing jacketless cop in a disguise (9)
Superstar picked up by gangbuster for loafing (8)
Excited cougar about to cuddle priest and my boss (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
PUMA (the cougar) reversed (about) containing (to cuddle) ( P [priest] + ED [editor, a crossword editor is the setter’s boss])
Time left-wing Mirror covers undue bureaucracy? (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
( RED [communist; left-wing politically] + APE [emulate; mirror]) containing (covers) T (time)
Aussie birds in cruise ships taking top off for maiden (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
L INERS (cruise ships, with the first letter [top] L being replaced by [off for] M [maiden]) to form M INERS
Old humanist seen around in Hotel Oceania (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
COLET ( reversed [around] hidden word [seen in] in HO TEL OC EANIA)
Hoskins will go after German unit (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
G (German) + I’LL (Hoskins [the setter] will)
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