BUT (contrary to expectation) reversed (returned) — Fifteensquared

J (judge) then rULES (gives verdict) missing R (right) – author Jules Verne perhaps — Fifteensquared

anagram (drunken) of NUNCIO containing R (runs) — Fifteensquared

WONK (studious person) reversed (knocked back) — Fifteensquared

found inside sectioN IN THe – Beethoven’s ninth is known as The Choral Symphony — Fifteensquared

double definition — Fifteensquared

B (bye, cricket) then ALHAMbra (palace) missing BRA (supporter, something that supports) — Fifteensquared

Container

WYE (synonym="the river Wye") in NEAR (synonym="tight, mean with money") = NEWYEAR

RAN (managed) containing (without, outside) Y (yen) – character from film Saving Private Ryan — Fifteensquared

SO (very) NICe (delicate) missing E (note, of a musical scale) — Fifteensquared

sounds like (audibly) “tacked” (changed direction) — Fifteensquared

GRYPH sounds like (for audience) “Griff” (comedian Griff Rhys Jones) then ON — Fifteensquared

last letter (close, to end) of targeT inside CHASE (hunt) — Fifteensquared

SCARe (fright) missing last letter (end-less) — Fifteensquared

O (old) AN (article, grammar) all reversed (about) then MI (the M1, motorway) — Fifteensquared

double definition – a prop in a play (piece) and a rugby player — Fifteensquared

I’M PLANT (the setter of this puzzle admits to spying) a plant is a spy — Fifteensquared

TRInidAD (Caribbean island) missing N ID (papers) — Fifteensquared

suffers

Charade

H (synonym="husband") + AS (synonym="As, arsenic") = HAS; definition: "suffers"

Scrabble

Charade

C (first_letter="champion's") + LAW (abbreviation="rule") = CLAW; definition: "Scrabble"

T (tense) SUN then AMIS (writer Kingsley Amis) — Fifteensquared

double definition – a burn is a a stream in N. England and Scotland — Fifteensquared

WISH (desire) then A W (wife) — Fifteensquared

double definition — Fifteensquared

anagram (foul) of JUAN then anagram (out) of RAY — Fifteensquared

found inside (guarded by) canNY FERryman – the Welsh rive Afon Nyfer , known as the River Neven in English — Fifteensquared

H AND Y are the outer letters (borders) of HungarY — Fifteensquared

NIxON (Richard Nixon, Tricky Dicky) replacing X (a vote) with N (new) — Fifteensquared

bonus

Reversal

EX (synonym="partner, no longer") + ART (reversal="works") = EXTRA; definition: "bonus"

some sort of cryptic definition perhaps? Bromptons are folding bicycles, so perhaps to do with wheels (things that spin, cycle)? But surely Bromptons (more then one Brompton) have to have at the very least least four wheels. Perhaps it just means two cyclists who may be making a tour (going round)? — Fifteensquared

CAT (pet) FOR D (daughter) — Fifteensquared

G (good) I (one) contains (around) U (posh) C C (clubs, twice) — Fifteensquared

a palindrome (unaffected by revolution, reversal) — Fifteensquared

double definition – Rope is the title of a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock (the Master of Suspense) — Fifteensquared

promise

Charade

O (abbreviation="Love") + AT (from clue) + H (abbreviation="hotel") = OATH; definition: "promise"

couple

Charade

PA (synonym="old man") + IR (synonym="Irish") = PAIR; definition: "couple"