Across
ULEZ boundaries backed by prosperous financial centre (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A reversal (‘backed’) of first and last letters only or ‘boundaries’ of U LE Z + RICH (prosperous)
Admit Galatians includes old, embarrassing mistake (3,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
OWN (admit) GAL (Galatians – abbreviation in the bible) around or ‘including’ O (old)
Fairly inexperienced solver, no good, is hopeless to begin with (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
YOU (solver) NG (no good) IS H (first letter of hopeless or ‘to begin with’)
Devil-woman wantonly hit on one in fifties (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘wantonly’) of HIT on I (one) in L L (fifties) – we had to check this one
Khan’s stately home - by a non-Tamil state of India (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
X (by) A tamil NADU (state of India missing Tamil)
Italian scorer scores pig hides in the middle (8)
Foretell of conflicts undergoing polar shift (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
WAR s (conflicts) with S (south) changing to N (north) – a ‘polar shift’
Folded in half then turned back sides of origami paper (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
FOL ded (half only) then a reversal (‘turned back’) of O rigam I (first and last letters only or ‘sides’)
Holiday job initially involves a day trip to Saudi (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
H oliday J ob (initial letters only) around or ‘involving’ A D (day)
Used Hoover Dam upper curve whilst overlooking river meanders (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘meanders’) of DAM U (upper) and CU r VE missing or ‘overlooking’ ‘r’ (river)
Grizzly relative I knocked out first with attack on both sides (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
I with KO’D (knocked out) first and then A ttac K (first and last letters only or ‘on both sides’)
Doctor thrown into Russian river under cover of darkness (6)
Measure what one eats a bit at a time (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
INCH (measure) MEAL (what one eats). A new word for us which we needed to check in Chambers.
Somewhat insult an Arab ruler’s wife (7)
Two characters making the case for Romeo having married by chance (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
R AND O (the two letters at either end of Romeo or ‘making the case’) and M (married)
Down
Robots requiring gold to make all transistors and leads (8)
70s Jagger's sexually ambiguous rock sound (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
BI (sexually ambiguous) + a homophone (‘sounds like’) of ANCHOR (rock)
Empty calabash, excellent for tea (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
C alabas H (missing the middle letters or ’empty’) AI (excellent)
Horse turf tipped to be ready (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A reversal (‘tipped’) of H (horse) SOD (turf)
Rambling hikes along one of our national symbols? (7,3)
Tarot card ladies who meet by thorium gaslight? (4,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
FOOL (Tarot card) WI (ladies who meet) TH (thorium)
Ugly exfoliating skin rash problem caused by bug? (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
u GL y (middle letters only or ‘exfoliating skin’) ITCH (rash)
Foreign fabricator follows fellow feeding a French friend (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
LIAR (fabricator) following F (fellow) inside UN (a in French) AMI (friend)
Got to retire delirious once free from obligations (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A reversal (‘retiring’) of DELIR ious without or ‘free from’ IOUS (obligations)
Nervous society filled with tense people unable to take sides (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
NEURAL (nervous) S (society) around or ‘filled with’ T (tense)
Full range of notes expressed in sad piano movement (8)
Nearly a thousand missing outside (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A + M (thousand) with LOST (missing) outside
Fats make protein-building acid non-active (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
DO (make) a MINO (protein building acid) without ‘a’ (active). The Fats is Fats Domino.
One country's nationalist going to question another (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
IRA (one country’s nationalist) Q (question)
Complain about BBC English (4)
Type letters or click words in the clue
