Across
Goes haywire seeing Trump and Vance? (4)
Reportedly off colour but that's what I meant (3)
Equipment that can force rector to feed prostitute perhaps (6)
Extraordinary alpine language (6)
Newsletter read aloud in church about unknown architectural feature (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
EPISTLE (a reading from one of the letters in the New Testament, as part of a church service) around Y (mathematical symbol for an unknown quantity). Another word for architrave: a horizontal beam across the top of a row of columns.
Indigo American duck (4)
Ngorongoro prominence perhaps keeping our path jaggedly elevated at first (5)
Thick cord official discovered (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
[p] ROPE [r] (official = authorised) without the outer letters (dis-covered).
Hollow void separating the stars soulless character in the centre of Ball Room (10)
Escort's appeal when top stripped off (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
[p] LEAD (appeal, as a verb = ask earnestly) with the first letter (top) removed. Escort, as a verb = lead = take someone somewhere.
Drop last trace of fat to be highly desirable (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
PLUM [p] (fat = overweight) with the last letter (a trace) dropped). As in “a plum job” = one you really want to get.
Individual delivering a reckoning in the Library? (10)
Not a pretty sight in the Dining Room (4)
In disarray when horticultural centre's behind (5)
No margin to avoid lethality in Lounge (4)
Going according to plan that's unfortunately not great (8)
Reference mark's ragged edges changed around (6)
Outsiders to control Earl wicked thing! (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
C AND L (the outside letters of C[ontro]L), then E (abbreviation for earl). An old crossword favourite: a candle is a thing that has a wick.
Occasionally gluing piece (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Alternate letters (occasionally) from G [l] U [i] N [g]. Generic term for a firearm, used by experts in such things who like to be precise about terminology (and sometimes insist that specific types of firearm shouldn’t be called guns).
Maybe main church leader's love supplanted by ego (4)
Down
Whodunit? Investigate leads from the clues (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A somewhat unusual clue, but logical enough. The initial letters (leads) of the clues in this puzzle (across and then down) are an acrostic, spelling out GREEN IN THE DINING ROOM WITH THE THIRTY-ONE A. Replace “thirty-one A” with the solution to 31a DAGGER, and you have a possible resolution to our theme game Cluedo (Clue). So the killer is Reverend Green (or Mr Green or Mayor Green, depending on your version of the game).
I censored articles about understandably stiff-looking Captain (7)
Tolerate stew of Kitchen's missing chicken (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Anagram (stew) of KITC [hen] S without HEN (chicken). Stick, as a verb, generally used in the negative: “I couldn’t stick it for long” = I gave up because I couldn’t tolerate it.
Hint: something wielded in the Billiard Room (3)
The first to move with impact and energy (5)
High rent Hall curtailed for entrance (7)
Entering an American state quietly I can't abide an Islamic one (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
CAL (abbreviation for the US state of California) + P (p = abbreviation for Italian piano = quietly, in musical notation), with I inserted (entering), then HATE (as a verb = can’t abide). An Islamic state.
To some extent hope a cockroach might be a more beautiful insect (7)
Horribly inane foundation for philosopher's golden ages (9)
Inferior brought back tied up when Conservatory finally ruled out (3)
Rocky Mountain resident turning up pickled? That's too much (3)
This may be hot - had better put on a raised bar inside (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
MUST (had better? – I’d interpret that as a strong recommendation rather than a requirement), before (above, in a down clue = put on) A + R [aise] D (bar the inside = without the inner letters). A condiment that may be more or less hot depending on the variety.
Yearning without profit after drug high? Or checking out? (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Y [earn] ING without EARN (profit, as a verb = make a financial gain) after E (slang abbreviation for the drug ecstasy), then UP (high). Check out, as a verb = eye up = to examine someone or something. I’d spell it “eyeing up”, but the dictionaries accept either form.
Obtuse as this may be fisherman finishes early (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ANGLE [r] (someone fishing with rod and line), without the last letter (. . . finishes early). An angle is defined as obtuse if it’s between 90 and 180 degrees.
Now finally Study includes the first person to open up (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Last letter (finally) of [no] W + DEN (study = a private room), including I (in grammar, the first person singular).
Enter the dock and perjure oneself on trial (5)
Attraction of corporation on the rise (3)
Type letters or click words in the clue