Anagram

anagram of LAW, + HANDRAILS = HADRIANSWALL

king

Reversal

Reverse of SAD I’M, giving the mythical king whose touch turned everything to gold — Fifteensquared

Diarist

Deletion

ANNE (synonym="ANNE") + FRANK (synonym="honest") = ANNEFRANK; definition: "Diarist's"

Leisure

Container

(Jacques) IBERT in L[ibrar]Y — Fifteensquared

in suspense

Deletion

ABBEY less one B + ANT (worker) — Fifteensquared

One

THUMB’S CREW — Fifteensquared

not considered

Double definition

Double definition

Make

Hidden word

Hidden in boREDOm

Food additive

Anagram

MUESLI* + I.E. in FR — Fifteensquared

Abrasive

A republic, i.e. an anti-monarchist, would want to SCRAP E.R. — Fifteensquared

A little

Container

M + C in ODIUM — Fifteensquared

this part of the country?

Charade

MIDDLE (synonym="MIDDLE") + SEX (synonym="SEX") = MIDDLESEX

Crop

Homophone

Homophone (“some say” – possibly not all) of Emma (novel by Jane Austen). Emmer is a type of wheat (new to me)

country

Anagram

anagram of NESTSITUATED ("nest situated") [anagram: "Scruffy"] = UNITEDSTATES; definition: "country"

Conservative

Hidden word

HIDE (disguise) + U in [James] BOND — Fifteensquared

Define

Hidden word

D[ate] + ESC (key) + RIB (part of an architectural vault) + E — Fifteensquared

country

Acrostic

VITAL with its first letter “spent” + Y — Fifteensquared

Beyond compare,

Anagram

anagram of NO + PLAINER = NONPAREIL; definition: "Beyond compare,"

carried gently

Container

AFT (synonym="back") in WED (synonym="made one") = WAFTED; definition: "carried gently"

city

Container

HAS (synonym="HAS") in LA (synonym="Los Angeles") = LHASA; definition: "Capital"

charm

Charade

A + MULE (cross) + middle letter of alTar — Fifteensquared

Rough

Charade

S (first_letter="special") + KETCH (synonym="executioner") = SKETCH; definition: "Rough plan"

made up

Container

COMPROMISED less OM. This seems to be using the “wrong” use of “comprised”, i.e. “made up” (often in the phrase “comprised of”), as opposed to the traditional sense of containing or included – the difference between “this puzzle is comprised of 30 clues” and “this puzzle comprises 30 clues” — Fifteensquared

Reversal

SITCOM (a TV “show”) in reverse (up) of SEA (which is “not land”) — Fifteensquared

Stew

Anagram, Charade

anagram of STEW ("Stew") + WILD (synonym of "like") [anagram: "made"] = WILDWEST; definition: "the American frontier?"

Start again

Deletion

PRESUME less P — Fifteensquared

Observe

Charade

RE (synonym="Religious Education") + MARK (synonym="gospel, which might be studied in RE") = REMARK; definition: "Observe"

Java

Charade

APPLE (tempting fruit from the Garden of Eden story, though it isn’t called an apple there) + [baske]T. Applets in web pages are (or were) written in the Java programming language, now mostly unsupported because of security concerns — Fifteensquared

Managed

Charade, Container

RAN (synonym of "Managed") + DO (synonym of "party") [container: "suppress"]; definition: "a health hazard"

start a fight

Charade

XI (synonym of "Team") + MIT (synonym of "university"); definition: "start a fight"