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Picked up someone going without waterproof coat? (7)
Show how to upset collected VIPs (7)
Swimmer's jog around University (5)
Fore! some characters repeatedly snarled with no mistakes (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Anagram (snarled = tangled) of FORE with the E and R characters repeated a few times.
Apprehension about one flaky financial period (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
FEAR (apprehension), around I (one in Roman numerals) + SCALY (flaky = with the surface coming off in pieces).
Supports cash cut (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
BRAS [s] (slang for money, especially coins = cash) without the last letter (cut). Supports for the bust.
In a position to win game of darts quickly (11)
Bishop drops drinks next to queen's puzzle (11)
Couple in Madrid reportedly sleep in very basic accommodation (4)
Notice two Best Supporting Actress Oscar winners make decision (10)
Cite chart that's excited designer (9)
It is worth a point in Scrabble which is useful (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
In the game of Scrabble, the U TILE (like all the other tiles with vowels on) is worth one point. A word for useful, derived from Latin via French; probably obsolete in this form, but it survives in variants such as “utility”.
Examine bit of pitch during cricket? (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
First letter (a bit) of P [itch], inserted into INSECT (of which a cricket is an example, indicated by the quesiton mark).
Sanitiser is discarded on the counter important for seeing membranes (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
SANIT [is] ER with the letters IS discarded, reversed (on the counter). Retina = the layer at the back of the eye on which images are formed = a membrane for seeing. I’m not sure what “important” is for, unless the definition is “important-for-seeing membranes”?
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Discharge in more ways than one (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Multiple definitions, because “let off” can mean “discharge” in several ways (though some of them are probably related). To fire a gun or explosive charge; to release someone from employment or from a commitment; to release waste gases, as in “let off steam”; and I suppose if someone is charged with a criminal offence and then let off without going to trial, they could be said to be dis-charged.
Pick sweets over the phone (6)
Highly reliable scan (10)
Shrill and voracious but not at first (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
[g] REEDY (voracious) without the first letter. Reedy (of a sound, especially a voice) = shrill = high-pitched.
Friendly con-artists abandoning female - they will cause trouble (9)
Go green ringing fearsome individual (4)
Washington border troubled Cabinet (8)
Bowl a no-ball as clear record broken by Stokes (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
OVERT (clear = deliberate and in plain sight) + EP (abbreviation for extended-play record), containing (broken by) S (abbreviation for stokes, a scientific unit of viscosity). In cricket, the umpire calls a no-ball when the bowler oversteps a line before releasing the ball.
Torque unit can vary and it can restrict flow (10)
Most stylish butt seen in Italian port briefly (9)
A friend curtailed drug problem in Arabian city (8)
Taps engaging American's bottom and robes (8)
Helping shop to stock newspaper (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
RAT ON (shop, as a verb = slang for betray someone to the authorities) containing (to stock) I (the newspaper known as i ). Ration = helping = an allocated portion.
Tricolour's first among equals in flags (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
First letter of T [ricolour] inserted into PEERS (equals). The surface suggests that the definition is peter = the Blue Peter flag (flown when a ship in port is about to sail), but it may also be as in “peter out” = weaken and fade away = flag.
Spread boron out say (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
[b] UTTER (a spread used on bread) without the B (chemical symbol for boron).
Diamonds repeatedly cut into cubes (4)
Type letters or click words in the clue
