Across
Olympian sprinter heard Misha's tin rattling (4,5-5)
Melt the ice with excellent - no ace - Sunday meal (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
DEF (slang term, originally from hip-hop culture, meaning excellent or brilliant) + RO a ST (sunday meal) excluding (no) A (ace)
At first you use carpet combs, anxiously searching for Adam's needles (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
YUCCAS ( initial letters of [first] each of Y ou, U se, C arpet, C ombs, A nxiously and S earching)
Splendid friend with a wagging tail (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
PAL (friend) + A + an anagram of (wagging) TAIL
Line not seen in tree's curve (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
l ARCH (tree) excluding (not seen in) L
Asian king's quiet sound of realisation (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
SH (direction to be quiet) + AH (expression indicating sudden realisation)
Poet rehashed a bluer idea (10)
Outsiders from Marseille left German bread for French mathematician (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
M AND E ( outer letters of [outsiders from] M arseill E ) + L (left) + BROT (German for bread)
Cut a groove into two-master when king's away (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
k ETCH (two-masted sailing vessel) excluding (when … away) K (king)
Surrealist artist in the morning performs volte-face (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
( RA [member of the Royal Academy, artist] + AM [ante-meridiem; in the morning]) all reversed (performs volte-face])
Extremely fast shot ultimately typifies finest Clooney show (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
S ( last letter of [ultimately] typifie S ) + CREAM (elite; finest) + ER (George Clooney [born 1961] starred in the television series ER)
See 8 Down
Pause blood group therapy - in the end, it soothes kids (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
LULLABY (a song to lull children to sleep; it soothes kids)
Disorganised bartender I cast out (14)
Down
Hawkwind EP that's extensive (2,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
IN DEPTH (hidden word in [?] hawkw IND EP TH at’s)
Ghastly Blunt, essentially overcome by terrible flaw (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
U ( middle letter of [essentially] bl U nt) contained in (overcome by) an anagram of (terrible) FLAW
Drink onboard and dance in competitive game in sarcastic fashion (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
( PORT [a drink] contained in [onboard] SS [steamship]) + BALL (dance) – the SS is implied in the wordplay by the use of onboard to describe the location of PORT ]
Brief passage: "furry mice, mule and mare skinned outside school" (15)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
EXTRAC t (short passage taken from a text) excluding the final letter T (brief) + URR ( letters remaining in f URR y when the outer letters are removed ) + similar treatment of m IC e , m UL e and m AR e to generate IC + UL + AR
Bean producer finally hires Spanish painter who's no good (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
S (last letter of [finally] hire S ) + g OYA (reference Francisco Goya [1746 – 1828], Spanish painter) excluding (no) G (good)
Embodied On The Road perhaps, beat's half-smashed in Nebraska (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
IN CAR (travelling on the road) + ( AT [ 2 of the 4 letters [half-smashed] of be AT ] contained in [in] NE [abbreviation for the US State of Nebraska)
25a
(and 25 Across) Former England cricket captain Cook, and that woman equestrian (7,6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
HEAT (cook, in the sense of boil or roast) + HER (that woman) + KNIGHT (Knights of old were often seen on horseback; equestrian)
Old footballer discussed wine store's popular product (4,6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
BEST (reference George BEST [1946 – 2005], Northern Irish footballer) + SELLER ( sounds like [discussed] CELLAR [wine store])
Obscure park keeper mentioned plant (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
HYDRANGE s ounds like (mentioned) HIDE [obscure] RANGER [park keeper]. No doubt there will be some debate about the effectiveness of the RANGEA / RANGER homophone.
A slim hot nudist regularly shows nuts (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A + LMONDS ( letters 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 [regularly] of s L i M h O t N u D i S t)
Historian Sandy's crushed by vehicle (7)
Set up Mev's goal for City (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
( I’M [I am, Mev is the setter of the puzzle] + AIM [goal]) all reversed (set up; down entry)
Don't take out missing lad in cowboy hat (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
STET son (hat traditionally worn by cowboys) excluding (missing) SON (lad)
Type letters or click words in the clue