Across
Bananas split best from the end (8)
Just small hint (6)
Spoil one's partner (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Charade of I’M + PAIR (one’s, or one is, partner). It took me a while to realise that this works only if “partner” and “pair” are construed not as nouns (as the surface grammar would seem to insist) but as verbs, as in “partner/pair up” with someone. Very cunning
Large lady sings at the end of Salome broadcast (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Anagram (broadcast) of SINGS AT E (the end of Salome)
Stingy tea hosted by university board (12)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Insertion (hosted by) of CHAR into UNI + TABLE
Short chap who puts his finger up inside filthy place (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Insertion of UMP (chap who puts his finger up) into STY
"You're welcome," unlikely after "No thanks" (3,2,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
NO TA (no thanks) + TALL (unlikely, as in tall story)
African croc swims among carp (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Anagram (swims) of CROC inside MOAN
Family on father's side turned brown in time (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Reversal (turned) of TAN in AGE. The definition connotes people descended from a common male ancestor. A new word for me
Nonsensical fellow reassigned aircrews in lounge (5,7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Anagram (reassigned) of AIRCREWS inside LOLL
Difficulty meeting once a year, some paper claims (8)
Irish county town's bar good at all times (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Subtraction of G (bar good) from GALWAY’S
Rickshaw takes two Anatolians leaving third behind (3,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
TUrK TUrK (two Anatolians) each without the third letter
Start at the end of riddle, they teach you (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
STRAINER (riddle) with the first letter moved to the end
Down
Strange people full of one thought (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
RUM NATION (strange people) around I (full of one)
Loud noise making bottom hot in lesson (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
CLASs with its final letter (bottom, in a down clue) changed to H
Show a little light on one side of ship? (7)
New telethon begins, time to react to poverty (7,4,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Anagram (new) of TELETHON BEGINS, plus T
Popular quartet back in concert after quiet rest day (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ABBA (popular quartet) + T (last letter of ‘concert’) after SH (quiet)
With holes made in the cupboard, possibly test temperature inside for hens (4-5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
MOT (test) +HEAT + EN (inside of ‘hENs’). I suppose the ‘possibly’ could equally apply either to the definition or to the word ‘test’, given that other kinds of test are available
See, nearly see, no longer see? (4)
Member of the team keeps tardy worker on track (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
PLAYER (member of the team) around (keeps) LATE
According to Spooner, diver could earn extra (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Spoonerism of LOON MIGHT (diver could)
Sticking-up hair that's unpleasant under hood (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ICK (that’s unpleasant) beneath COWL
Gulf state prepared with US president dropping round (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Charade of A LA (prepared with) and OBAMA minus the O (dropping round). The gulf in question, of course, isn’t the Arabian one but the one that orange-lovers now call the Gulf of America
Seats on the front and back of garden tree (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
“Seats on the front” could mean those in ROW A, plus N (back of garden)
Singer sounding like 8? (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
LU + LU, with LOSE (8d) being an ostensible soundalike for LUs (as in, more than one LU)
Type letters or click words in the clue
