Across
Court opening rarely unfilled (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
CHANCE (opportunity; opening) + RY ( R arel Y excluding the central letters arel [unfilled])
Suspicion about entering sauna? (6)
Regrettable crumbling of nature holding fruit back (11)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Anagram of (crumbling) OF NATURE containing (holding) NUT (fruit) reversed (back)
Time to abandon historic ballet move (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
PAS T (historic) excluding (to abandon) T (time)
Fine attitude is not quite the greatest? (4)
Person making unusual contact greeting radio transmission (6,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
MEDIUM (in spiritualism, the person through whom spirits are said to communicate with the material world; person making unusual contact) + WAVE (a greeting)
Final thing fitted into facade at home (5)
Very happy with line in Times after the event (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
( ELATED [very happy] + L [line]) contained in (in) BY (times, as in 5 by 9=45)
Furtive, engaging creditor on the slightest basis (9)
American aboard vessel refusing soft Japanese food (5)
Inexperienced legislators giving description of some climate impacts? (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
GREEN (inexperienced) + HOUSE (legislators, such as the US HOUSE of Representatives)
Speculation linked to a test (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
BET (speculation) + A
Fear our group is lagging Australia (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A (Australia) + WE (our group)
Annoying permutation to be reordered (11)
Dull-witted but more than right (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An OBTUSE angle is greater than a right angle and less than 180° [more than right] – double definition
Incline in good time to exclude America, showing concern (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
TEND (incline in some direction) + E a RLY (in good time) excluding (to exclude) A (American)
Down
Very pleased: first of checkers removed from board (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
C (initial letter of [first of] Checkers) + HUFFED (technical term in the game of draughts meaning an opponent’s draught has been removed from the board for failure to make a capture)
Female entering continent starts to try every consonantal sound (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
( F [female] contained in [entering] AFRICA [continent]) + TE ( first letter of [starts to] each of T RY and E VERY)
Fifth vehicle in queue perhaps is giving concern (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
CAR (vehicle) + E (fifth letter of the alphabet) so CAR E could be the designation for the fifth vehicle in a queue
Road almost completely overwhelmed (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ROUTE D (completely overwhelmed) excluding the final letter (almost) D
Male beset by his mature failing: joint pain (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
M (male) contained in (beset by) an anagram of (failing) HIS MATURE
Beginning greeting in Hawaii, but with slight shift of character? (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
AL O HA (Hawaiian greeting) with the O changed by one place in the alphabet (slight shift) to P to form AL P HA – there are not many words in English with four consectutive vowels, but Hawaiian is one of them.
Legwear is set up amongst garden lines (7)
Notice I will participate in race, moving from the centre (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
( AD [ AD vert; notice] + I ) contained in (will participate in] RALLY (motor race, e.g. the Monte Carlo RALLY )
Mysterious texts involved in shutdown (10)
Shakespeare’s expression of surprise about recording one of Falstaff’s crew (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
BARD (Shakespeare is sometimes referred to as the BARD of Avon) + ( OH [expression of surprise] containing [about] LP [long-playing record; recording])
Terrible couple, keeping son in poor condition (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
( DIRE [terrible] + PAIR [couple]) containing (keeping … in] S (son)
South America reduced protection applied to old cactus (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
SA (South America) + GUAR D (protection) excluding the final letter (reduced) D + O (old)
Pictures aim to change European country after bloke departs (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Anagram of (to change) AIM + GER MAN Y (European country) excluding (departs) MAN (bloke)
Employ specialist? No pressure (5)
No place for sudden expenditure increase (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
S PL URGE (spending of a lot of money; sudden expenditure) excluding (no) PL (place)
Question on papers is something to be chewed over (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
QU (question) + ID ([identity] papers)
Type letters or click words in the clue
