Across
False hope develops around New Year (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
( Anagram of [develops] HOPE containing [around] N [new]) + Y (year)
Brave call following positive response from Putin? (6)
So blue after first love's gone off the boil (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
S o LOW (so blue) excluding the O [character representing zero; love score at tennis] of s O , this one being the first O in the phrase
Find fault with regularly sharing deeper arrangement (9)
Provides continuity in cat broadcast (5)
River estuary flounders - a source of riches for the nation? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Anagram (flounders) of R (river) and ESTUARY
More alternative comedians ultimately follow the French (4)
Slovakia's imprisoning number two spy (5)
Mass rejection of mouthpiece for computers perhaps? (4)
Vagrant seen with warm clothing from Savile Row? (8)
British team wears no ill-fitting trousers from the East (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
LIONS ( reversed [from the east] hidden word in [trousers] wear S NO IL l-fitting)
Worked notice after returning to clear order (9)
Royal has given up lying - finally? It's true (4)
Everybody's cribbing the day before examination (6)
Henry arises half-cut after stripping down Ford Mustangs? (6)
Down
Milky white oil’s transformed each year in place of independence (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
O i L with the I replaced by (transformed) PA (per annum; each year)
Weak spirit left over weeks in ewers lacks body (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
L (left) + O (over) + ( W [week] + W [week] giving weeks) + IN + ES (letters remaining in E wer S when the central letters wer are removed [lacks body])
Two teachers picked up rubbish (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
( SIR [form of address to a male teacher] + BED ([Bachelor of Eucation; qualification held by many teachers]) all reversed (picked up; down entry)
Cuckoo pecked at recorder? (8)
Cats touch hearts from time to time (6)
Old impressionist releases second retrospective (4)
Uproot and rip out air freshener (9)
Fake news about East German subject (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
LIE (untruth; fake news) containing (about) ( E [East] + G [Ferman])
Regulates decoys changing hands (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
L U R ES (decoys) with the L (left hand) and R (right hand) changing places to form R U L ES
Talks of speed chess finishing early (8)
Iron doesn't begin to support type of rock passage (8)
Special Branch's home? Far end of Petticoat Lane (6)
Diver guarding North Dakota’s capital (6)
Completely out of order (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
DEAD (not working; out of order) double definition
Unlimited trips for section of church (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
l APSE s (blunders; trips) excluding the the outer letters (unlimited) L and S
Type letters or click words in the clue