Across
Siamese possibly taking after northern European (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Siamese possibly taking after northern European CAT (=Siamese possibly) + À LA (=taking after, in the style of) + N (=northern)
Scared following reprimand (7)
Higher power backing up former leader (5)
Legless type calls briefly having lost at strip poker? (9)
Around Réunion perhaps Vogue wasn't successful (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Around Réunion, Vogue wasn’t successful (ÎLE=Réunion, i.e. French island département in the Indian Ocean) in FAD (=vogue, fashion)
Conflict shown by Islamism at chapel (8)
Young troops use coasts to swim (9)
Network's route curtailed (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Network ’s route curtailed LAN <e> (=route, path; “curtailed” means last letter is dropped); in IT, a LAN is a Local Area Network
Unit of hardness misrepresented at first (3)
Laziness of grant invested in pub these days (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Laziness of grant invested in pub these days DOLE (=grant, i.e. to the unemployed) in [INN (=pub) + CE (=these days, i.e. Common Era)]
Helpless charger accepting African currency for European (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Helpless charger accepting African currency for European ST E ED (=charger, i.e. horse for riding); “accepting African currency (=rand, in South Africa) for European (=E)” means the first letter “e” is replaced by “rand”
Tinker Tailor Soldier - and sure ultimately apt to include - Spy (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Tinker Tailor Soldier – and sure, ultimately apt to include Spy M (=spy, in James Bond films) in *(<soldie> R + <sur> E + APT); “ultimately” means last letters only are used in anagram, indicated by “tailor”
People welcome to accept love god not the first one (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
People welcome to accept love god, not the first one [O (=love, i.e. zero score in tennis) in HI (=welcome)] + [<a> POLLO (=god, in Greek mythology; “not the first” means first letter is dropped) + I (=one)]
Vocalists recalled lush Hollywood area (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Vocalists recalled lush Hollywood area SOT (=lush, drunkard) + LA (=Hollywood area, i.e. Los Angeles); “recalled” indicates reversal
Ambush of pressure avoided by what comes before it? (7)
Did bug like pine? (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Did bug like pine? As a coniferous tree, a pine has needles, hence “needled” could be “like pine”, cryptically; to needle is to irk, irritate, hence “bug”
Down
Editor leaving very happy sound on tracks (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Editor leaving very happy sound on tracks CHUFF <ed> (=very happy, delighted; “ editor (=ED) leaving” means letters “ed” are dropped); a chuff is the sound of a steam locomotive, hence “sound on (railway) tracks”
Cut absurd deposit (7)
Generosity of SSE? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Generosity of SSE? As capital letters are used, SSE could be described as “large sse”!
Average Agatha Christie novel (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Average Agatha Christie novel N or M? (=Agatha Christie detective novel, published in 1941)
Amateur works off tin can I suspect (10)
Suppose Muppet raised aggressive puppet (6)
Geometric shape in walls of former university cut from concrete (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Geometric shape in walls of former university cut from concrete F <orme> R (“walls of” means first and last letters only) + ACT <u> AL (=real; “ university (=U) cut” means letter “u” is dropped); a fractal is an apparently irregular or chaotic geometric entity, much used in computer graphics
Article for Elle say covering hit treatment for old bones? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Article for Elle, say, covering hit treatment for old bones? LE (=article for elle , i.e. a French word for the ) + [CHIN (=hit, strike on the chin) in E.G. (=say, for example)]; leeching was a treatment prescribed by the doctors of yesteryear, hence “old bones”
Can we remove record from sluggish churchman? (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
, leader of the Methodist movement
School engaged in unorthodox use of kitchen assistant (8)
Light turned up in US state (8)
More dark rum with a twist and hint of elderflower in cocktail (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
More dark rum with a twist and hint of elderflower in cocktail MUR (RUM; “with a twist” indicates reversal) + [ E <lderflower> (“hint of” means first letter only) in KIR (=cocktail, of white wine and blackcurrant liqueur)]
Nation mostly supporting Cork and Dublin? (7)
Warm out? (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Warm out? Cryptically, un-cool could mean “warm”; something that is uncool is not fashionable, hence “out (of fashion)”
Destroyed and constructed without independence (5)
Notice bad overwhelming good (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Notice bad overwhelming good G (=good) in SIN (=bad, evil, as nouns)
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