Independent 10,025 / Tees

V (=see, i.e. vide) + EL (=the Spanish, i.e. a Spanish word for the) + VET (=check, inspect)

HEM (=border) in [EP (=record, i.e. extended play) + ERA (=time)]; ephemera are insects with a very short life, hence “they rapidly pass”

P (=phosphorous, in chemical formulas) in *(RUIN COCOA); “when replanted” is anagram indicator; a mine is rich source, an abundant supply of something, hence cornucopia

NAP (=sleep) + <fractur>E (“closing” means last letter only is used)

DIK (KID=hoax, ruse; “about” indicates reversal) + TAT (=rubbish)”

Cryptic definition: “show” refers to e.g. a play, panto and “trial'” to a trial run, hence rehearsal

H<ug>E (“extremely” means first and last letters only) + FT (=feet, as abbreviation); to heft is to lift, pick up

RENTS (=tears, gashes) in [BASE (=low, vile) + A (=area)]

*(FOR<t>UNATELY); “only a single time (=T)” means one letter “t” is dropped from anagram, indicated by “flustered”; Cedric Errol is Little Lord Fauntleroy in the 1886 children’s book by Frances Hodgson Burnett

<on>E <put>S <u>P <toda>Y; “last places” means last letters only are used

IN (=cool, trendy) + A<b>RAHAM (=patriarch, in OT; “to dismiss bishop (=B, in chess)” means letter “b” is dropped); “returned” indicates (here full) reversal; a maharani is an Indian princess, the wife of a maharaja

[K + ER (=royal couple, i.e. a king in chess or cards AND Elizabeth Regina] in FAY (=girl, i.e. a girl’s forename)

Hidden (“in”) in “tuB AT Home”; & lit.

Cryptically, “hand me (some) down” would be “my request for feathers”; clothes passed on from one to another are hand-me-downs

DO (=party) in CONNED (=tricked)

AG (=silver, in chemical formulas) in DAME (=woman honoured, e.g. Dame Judi Dench); damage means cost in e.g. What’s the damage?

E (=European) + MOTIVE (=driver, reason for doing); something that is “able to get (people) going”, get people worked up is emotive

Vingt-et-un is 21, i.e. “score (=20) one increased (+1), in French

T<alks> A<re> C<autious> I<n> T<one>; “leaders in” means first letters only are used

<t>EMPER (=mood, humour; “beheaded” means first letter is dropped) + OR (=other ranks)

HEAT (=excite) + HENRY (=physicist, i.e. the American Joseph Henry (1797-1878))

MAN (=factotum, servant) + IA (A1=excellent: “looking up” indicates vertical reversal); a mania is a thing, obsession, as in to have a thing about something

Hidden (“in”) in “tRIPOS TEst”

A in BALD CHIN (=seemingly beardless); a baldachin is a canopy over a throne, pulpit, altar, with “fine” meaning ornate, rich

H (=hearts, in cards) in *(KIDS’ HOME); “ruined” is anagram indicator

{[RA (=artist, i.e. Royal Academician) + P (=parking)] in A A (=two areas)} + HO (=house)

Homophone (“reportedly”) of “rained (=fell)”

ERIW (WIRE=cable; “rising” indicates vertical reversal) in PIG (=gorge (on), as verb); the “locks” of the definition are hair

PH (=pub, i.e. public house) in AID (=assistance)

AM (=American) in FED (=FBI agent)