Across
Capital city the writer's visiting (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
I’M (I am; the writer is) contained in (visiting) LA (Los Angeles; a city)
Corporation's software abandoned half written (5)
Rosemary sometimes writing Her Former Majesty in pencil (4)
Cycling with back pulled in likewise revealing gear (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
BIKIN g (cycling) excluding (pulled) the last letter (back) G + I n also (likewise) excluding the final letter (pulled) N
There once was a woman from Tipperary? Doesn't work in this Irish city (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
LIMERICK (a LIMERICK is a form of humorous verse with a particular pattern of syllables in each line. ‘There once was a woman from Tipperary [11 syllables] doesn’t fit the pattern required for the first line, so this doesn’t work for Tipperary [another Irish city]) – this clue ould be classified as double definition
Vacuous criminal makes mad blunders (8)
Succeeded picking up inconveniently positioned plant root (5)
Underwear maybe porters put lower for an earl (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
B e ERS (porter is a type of beer) with OX (an animal that lows; lower) replacing (for) the first of two (an) E s (earl) to form B OX ER
Parade participant heading off someone with a bow (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
m ARCHER (parade participant) excluding (off) the first lette r (header) M
Oddly identified no address to return automobile (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
SEDAN ( letters 9 , 7 , 5 , 3 and 1 [oddly identified] of N o A d D r E s S) reversed
Unfortunately omit name for fossil (8)
Born in a home sadly ignoring social conventions (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
B (born) + an anagram of (sadly) IN A HOME
As Hegseth would say bomb West Asian country (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
I am not sure of the wordplay here. Pete Hesgeth is the US Secretary of War. The only reference I can find to his wishing to attack TURKEY is in an online description of a recent South Park cartoon episode where Hesgeth is portrayed as being unhappy with a TURKEY [bird] party or festival and chooses to attack te event)
Point following better point (4)
Place in the ground I access after Everton's opener (5)
Old tax man from Glasgow? (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
SCOT (descriptive of a man from Glasgow, the largest city in SCOT land) double definition
Down
Medium-sized milk dish leading couples selected (4)
Job needed this report of doctor's clients (8)
Spoil popular reefs in the middle of the sea (6)
Hairstyle for every maiden (4)
Village footpath or pedestrian shelters (6)
Cold-blooded predator caught legendary bird (4)
Perfect language (6)
Brought up dirt having swallowed nationalist pride (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
SOIL (dirt) reversed (brought up; down entry) containing (having swallowed) N (nationalist)
Something additional arising each spring (3)
Turn inside out nevertheless keeping some of the contents (5)
Setter starts to seem unnecessarily nuanced (3)
Act that unites legislative body (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
CONGRESS (a national legislative body) double definition
London borough abolishing old hereditary title (6)
Hamburger perhaps for one trying to lose weight (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
DIETER (someone trying to lose weight by eating less or more healthily) double definition
Finished after debut in acting amateur with lower energy (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
MATURE ( the letters in a MAT E UR following [after] the first A [ first letter of {debut of} A cting] with the E [energy] moved further down the letters to form MATUR E )
Egg-shaped figure over goal therefore removed (4)
Limitation of pupil under instruction originally upset teacher (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
I ( first letter of [originally] I nstruction) + (under in this down entry) SIR (form of address for a male teacher) reversed (upset)
Embodiment of love painful on the rebound (4)
Type letters or click words in the clue