Across
Stop ruling Germans out (4,2)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
REI G NIN G (ruling) excluding [out] the two occurrences of the letter G (Germans)
Party with northern group of actors, becoming dispirited (8)
Instruction to get Tina in make-up? (3,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
WARP AINT is a cryptic instruction to form TINA * where WARP is the anagram instruction) + AINT (is the anagram fodder)
Picked up unpopular duty creating structure of language (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
SYN TAX ( sounds like [picked up] SIN TAX (duty paid on something unpopular, for example, or just an ‘unpopular tax’ which probably describes every tax in the view of many solvers)
Troublemaker Harry Shearer ill (4-6)
One beginning to make a mark as Muslim leader (4)
Alternative name for E, everybody assumed, is going to be a damp squib (4,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
F FLAT (The note E on a piano keyboard could be described as F FLAT ) containing (assumed) ALL (everybody)
Speculate excessive wind can be stopped by doctor (6)
Apportions when claiming tax back (6)
Run over, as Mike admits hiding diamonds (4,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
M (Mike is the international radio communication codeword for the letter M ) + ( OWN [admit] + OWN [admit], the two occurrences giving ‘admits’) containing (hiding) D (diamonds)
Advantageous to protect decorative pillar (4)
Ring celebrity quietly about a subgenre of music (7,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
GANG (crew; ring) + ([ STAR {celebrity} + P {piano; quietly}] containing [about] A )
Returned Ames tests containing parasite (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
TSETSE ( reversed [returned] hidden word in [containing] am ES TEST s)
I cry for help and somehow stay in a balanced state (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
I + SOS (An internationally recognized distress signal in which the letters SOS are repeatedly spelt out, as by radiotelegraphy: used especially by ships and aircraft; cry for help) + an anagram of (somehow) STAY
Carried out surgery; chose to take a long time (8)
Husband gatecrashes rubbish party (6)
Down
Make happy European tardy (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
E (European) + LATE (tardy)
Feminine version of French far-right politician raised in foreign land (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
LA PEN (reference the French right-wing politician Marine L E PEN with the masculine form of ‘the’ ( LE ) changed to the feminine form ( LA ) to give LA PEN ) then all reversed (raised; down entry)
Novelist McEwan perhaps upset converted Christian (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
IAN (reference IAN McEwan [born 1948], British novelist and screenwriter, an example of an IAN ) reversed (upset; down entry) + PAUL (reference St PAUL who became a Christian on the road to Damascus)
When visiting romantic partner, start to transfer file (4,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
( AS [when] contained in [visiting] DATE [romantic partner]) + T ( first letter of [start to] T RANSFER)
American cleaner used to be hard to tease (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
WAS (used to be) + H (hard, when describing pencil lead) + RAG (to tease)
Ratified two companies welcoming new editor (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
( CO [company] + FIRM [a company] giving two companies) containing (welcoming) N (new) + ED (editor)
Kelvin abandons hunting groups turning up around American naval base (5,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
( WOLF PAC K S [hunting groups] excluding [abandons] K [kelvin]) all reversed (turning up; down entry) and containing (around) A (American)
A large loan to get drink? Absolutely! (3,4,2)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A + L (large) + LEND (loan) + SUP (drink)
"Take care of tool," freak snarled (4,5)
FBI agents in clique creating division (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
G-MEN (FBI agents) contained in (in) SET (clique)
People briefly sling swimsuit on top of deckchair (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
MANKIN I (A man’s swimming costume consisting of a narrow V-shaped piece of material extending from the crotch to the shoulders; male swimsuit) excluding the final letter (briefly) I + D ( first letter of [top of] D ECKCHAIR
Most of war cry is complete failure (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
WA ( 2 of the 3 [most of] the letters of WA R) + SHOUT (cry)
Picked up change in place of worship (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ALTAR ( sounds like [picked up] ALTER [change])
Part of foot is under bottom, reportedly (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ARS (sounds like [reportedly] ARSE [bottom]) + IS – as this is a down entry the letters IS are ‘under’ the letters ARS
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