Across
Questionable brief moment when Juliet wanders away (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
j IFFY (brief moment) with the ‘j’ (Juliet in the phonetic alphabet) missing or ‘wandering away’
Ancient corrupter of youth reacts so egregiously (8)
Pastoral fellow's worker emptied trench cooker (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
BEE (‘worker’) T renc H (missing the middle letters or ’emptied’) OVEN (Cooker)
16a
(and 16 Across) Caprine outlaw? (5,3,3)
Cool Monkee detailed Tork initially being lazy (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
IN (cool – as in ‘trendy’) DOLEN z (Micky Dolenz, drummer with the Monkees) missing the last letter or ‘de-tailed’ T (first or ‘initial letter of Tork – Peter Tork was the bass guitarist and keyboard player in the Monkees)
Placing a short sentry near Jack’s car (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A GUAR d (sentry) missing the last letter or ‘short’ after or ‘near’ J (Jack – playing card)
27d
(and 27 Down) "Marauder" content to thank Ken Higgs for an upset (7,4)
See 11 Across
Cry from Jay, possibly about whiskey (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
CA (circa – ‘about’) W (whiskey – in the phonetic alphabet)
Small piece of furniture is not wobbly (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
S (small) TABLE (piece of furniture)
Relating to sequence from actor Dina Lohan (7)
Entrenched Republican suggested removing leader (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
R (Republican) m OOTED (suggested) missing the first letter or leader
Emperor has snooze by old Spanish city (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
NAP (snooze) O (old) LEON (Spanish city)
See 31 Across
Contentious issue about a stew and the skin of tomato (3,6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
HOTPOT (stew) T omat O (first and last letters or ‘skin’) round A
Keeps going with bogus SAS units (8)
28a
(and 28 Across) Visionary woman and sweetheart regularly paint on flat rock (4,2,3)
Down
Giving a quality to Mev's search engine takes one third of CPU (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
I’M (Mev’s – the setter’s) BING (search engine) round or ‘taking’ U (one-third of CPU)
Father due to reform complex bloke? (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
FR (father) + an anagram (‘to reform’) of DUE
Non-heinous to accept extremely inhuman noise from 25 on the farm? (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
OK (‘non-heinous’) round or ‘accepting’ I nhuma N (first and last letters or ‘extremes’) – a reference to Napoleon (25ac) the pig in George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’
Tease avant-garde composer for symmetrical part of his structure (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
RIB (tease) CAGE (John Cage – avant-garde composer)
Inform Geller (an inhabitant of Earth) (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
TELL (inform) URI (Uri Geller of spoon-bending fame) AN
Dorothy's speakers (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Double definition, the first a reference to Dorothy Sayers, the author
Primarily shunning hijabs, Iranian ladies overthrow hierarchy in historic battle (6)
Seen Cave tragically fade from memory (8)
Residents' peculiar slant surrounding Scottish island (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘peculiar’) of SLANT round IONA (Scottish island)
Potty war involved this political system (3-5)
Italian city and French port contracted spies (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
BRES t (French port) missing the last letter or ‘contracted’ + CIA (‘spies’)
Musical style reflected river and trees (3-3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A reversal (‘reflected’) of PO (river) WOOD (trees)
Abraham's city (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Double definition, the first referring to Abraham Lincoln
Louise tolerates streams (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Triple definition – we had not heard of Louise Brooks – an American film actress from the 1920s and 30s
Fresher at Oxford inspires legendary poetic woman (5)
See 14 Across
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