Across
Judge made to pay for hearing (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A homophone (‘for hearing’) of FINED (made to pay)
Star trio cast as double-crossers (8)
Venetian possibly has a cry about dead end (5,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
BLIND (Venetian possibly) A + a reversal (‘about’) of YELL (cry)
Crush soft stuff left behind by old flames (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
P (soft) ASH (stuff left behind by old flames)
Drunk is irate behind whiskey plant (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘drunk’) of IS IRATE ‘behind’ W (whiskey in the phonetic alphabet)
Beastly disease classy lady keeps back (5)
American in the way of DC hero unplugging Tesla (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ALA (in the way of) BA t MAN (DC hero) without or ‘unplugging’ ‘t’ (Tesla)
Attending events with becoming old hat (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
With a considerable amount of help it is a double definition. We had to reveal the answer for 15d as we were stuck on 15d and 15a. Once we had the initial letter we guessed it was DATING (becoming old hat) but we were not confident that ‘attending events with’ is really the same as ‘going out with’ in a romantic relationship
Voluntary contribution from Willesden matched by Fulham (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
The first three letters from WIL lesden and FUL ham – the ‘matched’ refers to the fact that the same number of letters are used from each one
Away from home, as ever so restless (8)
Second lot of players get worked up (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
S (second) TEAM (lot of players)
Where to get some spice after temperature changes quickly (2,1,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
IN A c URRY (‘where to get some spice’) with ‘c’ (cold) becoming H (hot) or ‘temperature changing’
Nightclub closing early, one may slip round the back (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
DISC o (nightclub) missing last letter or ‘closing early’
Distant bloke Methuselah is first to applaud lines one's penned? (4,6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
FAR (distant) MAN (bloke) I’M (Methuselah – the setter – is) + A L (‘first’ letters of Applaud Lines)
27a
(and 27 Across) Pair of sketches rendering a harp with laundry (5,3,4)
See 26 Across
Down
Note written by India during losing streak: "maybe catch something" (4,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
FA (note) with I (India) in LLLL – presumably if a team was on a ‘losing streak’ it would be recorded as LLLL (four lost matches)
Musicians with nothing in the way of service? (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
If there was NO NET on a tennis court there would be ‘nothing in the way of a service’
Once again pick up relative by bank (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
REL (relative) EARN (bank)
Eden regularly snubbed kindly old liberal (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Alternate or ‘regular’ letters in k I n D l Y o L d + L (Liberal)
Work by poets is moving here and there? (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
OP (work) and an anagram (‘moving’) of POETS IS
Crossword setters you shouldn't have trapped in vice suffer (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
US (crossword setters) TA (you shouldn’t have) inside or ‘trapped in’ SIN (vice)
Tearful Hollywood wrongdoer wants in (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
LA (Los Angeles – ‘Hollywood’) CRIM in AL (wrongdoer) without or ‘wanting’ ‘in’
Sort of carriage I could go on dressed in awfully fab fur (6,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ETC (I could go on) inside or ‘dressed’ in an anagram (‘awfully’) of FAB FUR
One spotted crow always disappeared eventually (4,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
DIE (‘one spotted’ – as in the singular of ‘dice’) DAW (crow) AY (always)
Town's oddly impish sorceress leaving trap (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
‘Odd’ (not even) letters of I m P i S h + a homophone (‘leaving trap’) of WITCH (sorceress). We spent some while checking whether T = trap before we sorted out the correct parsing.
Foreign character comic's irony is totally out of bounds (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
c OIMIC ’s i RON y missing the first and last letters or ‘out of bounds’
It sounds like male heir resorted certain letters (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Homophones (‘sounds like’) of MALE HEIR the other way round or ‘resorted’
Sensitive crossword setter's embracing one very loudly (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
MY (crossword setter’s) around or ‘embracing’ I (one) FF (very loudly)
Plumbing problem leads to class action somewhere in New York (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
UTI (urinary tract infection – ‘plumbing problem’) and C A (first letters or ‘leads’ to Class Action)
Type letters or click words in the clue