Independent 11,615 / Filbert

[*(EVA IN THE) + N (=name)] in DICE (=game of chance); “cast (=thrown)” is anagram indicator; the reference is to the 1971 historical drama film by Luchino Visconti, based on the 1912 novella by Thomas Mann

<t>ELL<y> (“naked” means first and last letters are dropped) + I <s>P<y> S<p>I<e>S (“regularly” means alternate letters only are used); the definition is formed by the three dots at the end, indicating that some text has been omitted

*(I SNOOP); “around” is anagram indicator

RE- (=again) + DRUM (=beat regularly); “reversing” is anagram indicator; the “administration of poison (=entry at 10)” to someone is murder!

EVA (=woman in 1A, i.e. mentioned in the clue) + <c>LU<b> (“characters inside” means all letters bar first and last) + ATE (=had, consumed)

AD (=trailer, i.e. advert) + HERE (=present) + R S (Q’s successors, i.e. the letters following “q” in the alphabet); adherers form bonds, make things stick

GREETS (=welcomes); “switching endings (=first and last letters) for television” means letter “t” becomes “n”

DRY (=tedious) + ROT (=nonsense); the “pinewood” of the definition refers not to the studios but to timber!

THO’ (=but) + ROUGH (=using violence)

*(O O + M FRETS); “double” means 2 x letter “o” are used in anagram, indicated by “about”

[D (=director) + IS] in EON; the reference is to the US inventor of e.g. the phonograph Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

DEF (FED=agent, of FBI; “that’s turned over” indicates reversal) + ACE (=winning card)

BAR (=check, restrain) + ONE’S (=your, i.e. less formally) + S (=spades, in cards); the reference is to crime writer P D James (1920-2014), who was Baroness James of Holland Park

STRAIGHT (=for Bond, preferring women, i.e. heterosexual) + FLUSH (=with funds, well supplied with money)

Homophone (“sounding”) of “elle (=French she, i.e. the French word for she)”; an ell is a measure of cloth

Once someone has acquired a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree and a doctorate, you might call him a doctor!

INSUR<e> (=cover, i.e. against risks; “under cover” is the entry at 12; “tailed” means last letter is dropped) + GENT (=man)

Hidden (“from”) in “operatiVE’S PERSpective”

NAP (=sleep) + PA (=assistant, i.e. personal assistant); nappa is a soft leather made from sheepskin or goatskin

CHI<p> (=something to bet, in e.g. roulette; “needs parking (=P)” means letter “p” is dropped); chi is the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet

MONTE (= (a Spanish-American) card game) + (GONE + R<eally> (“initially” means first letter only); “badly” is anagram indicator

*(UNDE) + RC (C<hai>R; “with middle cut out” means all but first and last letters are dropped; “around” indicates reversal) + OVER (=balls, in cricket)

*(<martin>I + ON MENU A LOT); “back” means last letter only is used in anagram, indicated by “shaken”

[L (=large, of sizes) in GO (=try, attempt, as noun)] + BET + ROT (=perish)

<phon>E (“back on” means last letter only) in [TOT (=short, i.e. measure of spirits) + BA (=airline, i.e. British Airways) + <targetin>G (“ultimately” means last letter only]

Double definition: Omega is a make of watch preferred by James Bond AND omega is the end where alpha is the beginning

Hidden (“in”) and reversed (“toppled”) in “lifT CAge”; & lit.; since Vesper’s death in Venice (=entries at 5 1) happens in a toppled lift cage in the Bond film Casino Royale!!

Cryptically, a sis is not a big brother, but rather a little (=abbreviated) sister!; SIS stands for Secret Intelligence Service