Forget it

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VERMIN (synonym="‘rat’-") in NED (synonym="‘either Edward or Kelly’; a familiar form of the name, and one such being the Australian outlaw Ned Kelly") = NEVERMIND; definition: "Forget it"

Sad

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TU (synonym="‘Parisian you’") in CUP (synonym="‘bit of lady’s underwear’") = CUTUP; definition: "Sad"

instructions for man taking tablets

Cryptic definition

An envelope (‘about’) of ANDM, an anagram (‘silly’) of ‘damn’ in T (‘tense’) plus EN (enrolled ‘nurse’) plus COMMENTS (‘speaks’), with a cryptic definition. — Fifteensquared

another

Charade

A charade of HAS (‘is in possession of’) plus H (heroin, ‘one drug’), the definition being ‘another’ drug, hashish, a marijuana product. — Fifteensquared

search­ing for wild animals

Charade

ON (synonym="‘running’") + SAFARI (synonym="‘a web browser’ from Apple") = ONSAFARI; definition: "search­ing for wild animals"

Drink

Charade

PINOT (synonym="PINOT") + NOIR (synonym="as in film noir , ‘hard-boiled, perhaps’") = PINOTNOIR; definition: "Drink"

African animal

Charade

IN (synonym="‘ I moge N ‘s jacket’") + DRI (synonym="DRI") = INDRI; definition: "African animal"

man who’s a bit of an animal

Charade

SAT (synonym="‘didn’t stand’") + YR (synonym="‘younger’") = SATYR

flip-flop in America

Charade

ABOUT (synonym="Fit") + F (abbreviation="female") + ACE (synonym="wonderful") = ABOUTFACE; definition: "flip-flop in America"

promotion and praise

Charade

An envelope (‘receiving’) of CO (commanding ‘officer’) in ‘a’ plus CLADE ( Emil , WW11 Luftwaffe ‘pilot’). … but see russtoo @2 for a parsing which avoids the name unfamiliar to many (at the expense of using ACE in two adjacent answers). — Fifteensquared

a West African language

Charade, Container

I (abbreviation of "I") + GO (synonym of "try") + B (synonym of "bishop") [container: "in"]; definition: "a West African language"

dogging

Anagram

HOT (synonym="HOT") + ON (synonym="‘fancying’") + THE (synonym="THE") + HEELS (synonym="HEELS") + OF (synonym="‘wearing’") = HOTONTHEHEELSOF; definition: "dogging"

Manufacturer of pop

Charade

An envelope (‘drinks’) of AS (‘like’) plus I (‘one’, Roman numeral or personal pronoun) in OS (Ordinary Seaman, ‘Jack’), for one of the pop music bands so named (but not the soft drink – it is a brand name of the drink, not its manufacturer, and ‘pop’ generally refers to something carbonated; thus the definition is cryptic). — Fifteensquared

One bringing up issue

Anagram

anagram of ARISENMUD ("arisen with mud") [anagram: "wrestling"] = NURSEMAID; definition: "One bringing up issue"

nick

Reversal

A reversal (‘up’ in a down light) of H (‘hard’) plus CTOH, an envelope (‘accepted by’) of T (‘time’) in CON (‘criminal’). — Fifteensquared

game

Homophone

VENI (synonym="vidi, vici ‘word spoken by Caesar’; the famous phrase is recorded as being written by Julius Caesar, but the single word would obviously have been spoken by him") + SON (synonym="‘child’") = VENISON; definition: "game"

Cross

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An envelope (‘inside it’) of O (‘nothing’) plus (‘covering’) A (‘area’) in RD (road, ‘thoroughfare’). — Fifteensquared

Something penned by William Blake?

Hidden word

Hidden in "something penned by willIAM Blake?"

mess, say

Charade

A charade of D (‘Roman numeral, ‘500’) plus In (home) plus IN (home, hence ‘homes’) plus GROOM (‘tidy up’). — Fifteensquared

clangers?

Homophone

Sounds like (‘we hear’) SYMBOLISTS (‘poets’, of a style pioneered by Baudelaire)

drinking vessel

Charade

A charade of TANK (‘fail’) plus ‘s A c R e D ‘ ‘removing odd bits’. — Fifteensquared

a danger to cricket?

Charade

An envelope (‘with … in’) of TIC (‘jerk’) in PE (‘sports’) plus SIDE (‘team’). — Fifteensquared

plots

Charade

An envelope (‘probing’) of N (‘note’) in S (‘special’) plus TORY LIES (‘government’s dishonesty’). — Fifteensquared

at times

Charade

NO (synonym="NO") + WAND (synonym="‘problem for wizard’") + THEN (synonym="‘this being the case’") = NOWANDTHEN; definition: "at times"

nut

Anagram

A charade of PISTACHI, an anagram (‘crazy’) of ‘chap is it’; plus O (‘character resembling a football’). — Fifteensquared

Ancient writer

Charade

TACIT (synonym="‘understood’") + US (synonym="‘Guardian readers’") = TACITUS; definition: "Ancient writer"

American capital

Charade

An envelope (‘is consumed’) of U (‘you heard’) plus GUST (‘blow’) in AA (Alcoholics Anonymous, ‘teetotallers’), for the capital city of Maine. — Fifteensquared

taken out

Charade

A charade of O (‘old’) plus F-FED (‘G-man with a stutter’). The definition is colloquial for killed. — Fifteensquared

Make black

Double definition

Double definition

Amused expression

Hidden word

HE (synonym="HE") + HE (synonym="HE") = HEHE; definition: "Amused expression"