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Comic role in Shakespeare: slip up dropping one pole (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
FA i L (slip up) excluding (dropping) I (Roman numeral for one) + STAFF (rod; pole)
Hard time recalling forename of WWI heroine (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
( H [hard] + TIDE [a time of ebbing, of flowing, or both]) all reversed (recalling)
Leave with detective before finale - that’s a bit of good fortune (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
GO (leave) + DS (detective superintendent) + END (finale)
Problem involving husband, bar, drunk - it generates conversation (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
RUB (difficulty; problem) containing (involving) H (husband) + an anagram of (drunk) BAR
Recommend fruity drink when going round a part of Ireland (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
TIP (advise; inform; recommend) + PERRY (fermented pear juice; drink) containing (going round) A
Everybody gathering around closed part of the Maldives (5)
Arctic region - leader stricken with illness calling me in (9,6)
Business graduate seen following beginnings of song and dance (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
SA ( first letters of [beginnings of] each of S ong and A nd) + MBA (a graduate who is a Master of Business Administration)
One might catch you saying it doesn’t measure involuntary responses (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
POLYGRAPH (if you say a POLYGRAPH doesn’t measure involuntary responses, it might indicate [say] you are a liar as a result of its use as a lie detector) – cryptic definition
Preferring solitude in urinals when tipsy (7)
Wages bringing in 14, say, in Scottish town (7)
2 getting end away in German city (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ESSEN e (entry at 2 down) excluding the final letter E (getting end away)
The sound of thieves makes you cry in exasperation (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
KNICKERS (sounds like [the sound of] NICKERS [thieves])
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(and 23 Down) Eccentric upset, coming round with letter (8)
Zealot contributing to upturn in pureness evidently (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ESSENE ( reversed (upturn; down entry) hidden word in (in) pur ENESS E vidently)
Soldier and sailor of renown producing magical plant? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
MAN (soldier) + DRAKE (reference Sir Francis DRAKE [c1540 – 1596], English sialor)
Big fight, not initially crazy, about artist (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
d AFFY (crazy) excluding the first letter D (not initially) containing (about) RA (Royal Academician; artist)
French cathedral good - go there (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
BEAU (French for ‘beautiful’ or ‘good’) + VAIS (French for ‘go’)
Cocktail? Fix a soft drink before lawyer appears (4,6)
Adolescent limped: he’s gone over on uncovered toys (11)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
HOBBLED (limped) + HE reversed (gone over) + OY ( letters remaining in t OY s after the outer letters T and A are removed [uncovered])
Street resident finally turning up in street, possibly (11)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
G ( last letter of [finally] turnin G ) + an anagram of (possibly) UP IN STREET
Rascals splitting least colourful historic document (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
IMPS (rascals) contained in (splitting) PALEST (least colourful)
No place for tit’s wing in remarkable bird (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
STAR t LING (remarkable) excluding (no place for) T ( first or last letter of [wing] T i T )
European piece of film on convulsive movement in part of the heavens (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
E (European) + CLIP (piece of film) + TIC (convulsive movement)
Fetch up carrying old queen’s wig (6)
Good connecting passage provided by a Russian composer (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
G (good) + LINK (connecting passage) + A
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