No 14217, Wednesday 03 Jul 2024, Spinner

Solution to 15A has been deliberately left unsolved and is to be answered only by a non-regular / novice commenter, with proper annotation. Those who have answered earlier in the week, please give others a chance.

Open for anyone to answer, if not solved by 1 PM.

ACROSS

1   Following Pythagoras' lead, peculiar nerd turned at ninety degrees (13) PERPENDICULAR {Py...r}{PECULIAR+NERD}*

10 Percentage of quota not fulfilled (5) RATIO RATIOn

11 West Indies coming with extremely laurelled aces - they don't need to get through qualification! (4,5) WILD CARDS {WI}{La...eD}{CARDS}

12 Work from test site owned by us (6) LABOUR {LAB}{OUR}

13 Guess English's complicated, at times! (8) ESTIMATE {E}{AT+TIMES}*

15 Line-up comes before kick-off, as time runs out in front of essentially tempestuous audience! (9) ?I?T?N?R? (Addendum - LISTENERS {LIST}{ENtER}{t...eSt...s} - See comments

16 Dealing with love, silly! (2,2) ON IT {0}{NIT}

20 Female choir's reverberation (4) ECHO [T]

21 Get shot by mistake while not being the intended target? (9) PHOTOBOMB {PHOTO}{BOMB} &lit

24 Dodgy check is caught in large heist upfront (8) TICKLISH {TICK}{L}{IS}{He..t}

26 Deceitful U-turn awkwardly exposed leader (6) UNTRUE {U+TURN}*{Ex...d}

28 Support side finally with new captain, as old as you and me! (9) ENCOURAGE {sidE}{N}{C}{OUR AGE}

29 Intense performance about upper-class eccentricities, primarily (5) ACUTE {AC{U}T}{Ec...s}

30 Caution : Spinner's returning with power and will! (13) DETERMINATION {DETER}{I'M<=}{NATION}

DOWN

2   Doctor hails best form (9) ESTABLISH*

3   Publicity over channel beginning to sell goods! (8) PRODUCTS {PR}{O}{DUCT}{S}

4   Scientist not working for slippery customer? (4) NEWT NEWTon

5   Clarify incorrect American cess trapping top taxpayers (10) ILLUSTRATE {ILL}{US}{Ta...s}{RATE}

6   Mischief-maker swaying without taking either side (6) URCHIN lURCHINg

7   Patriarchy shackles parts of the heart (5) ATRIA [T]

8   Faithfully obedient after troubling at first (5) TRULY {RULY}<=>{Tr...g}

9   Basically adds forced stress? (7) ASSERTS {Adds}{STRESS*} &lit

14 Fanaticism perhaps unseats him? (10) ENTHUSIASM*

17 Main menu cooked with complete, unending love (6,3) NUMERO UNO {MENU*}{ROUNd}{0}

18 Accepts sender's first letters randomly with no address, essentially! (7) SETTLES {Se...s}{LETTErS}*

19 Every association worker is rich (8) ABUNDANT {A BUND}{ANT}

22 Set clues having a catch! (6) CLAUSE {CL{A}USE*}

23 Enjoy part of movie featuring chief villain (5) REVEL {RE{Vi...n}EL}

25 Hoard auditor's money (5) CACHE (~cash)

27 Spotted rival players getting exercise on the sides (4) SEEN {S}{N} over {Ex...sE}

Reference List

English = E, Large = L, New = N, Captain = C, Upper-class = U, Publicity = PR, Over = O, Love = 0,  Rival players = S(south), N(North)