Genius 211

[saladdodger]

6 clues have surplus letters in wordplay
further 6 clues are lacking letters

15d Evacuation caused by damaged smoke detector (9) i think the answer is NOSEBLEED...hoe does that parse please?
14a Tibetan ascetic's leader: "I'm all excited about international post" (5,4) SNAIL MAIL ?
I can see im all anagram in there but not the rest ?
8d Form group gets a new character on top (8) FEDERATE ??


26d Urchins burst into tears (4) ?U?S possibly anagram f burst with 1 extra letter ...but can't see it ...??

[scorpiojo]

15 a smoke detector could be a nose

[Paigntonian]

Tibetan leader is lama

[Neveracrossword]

26 Runs, tears (hurries). Take off the thematic bit and anagram (burst).

[saladdodger]

Thanks scorpiojo, Paigntonian and Neveracrossword...still don't see how snail mail works though.

[ProfessorMaisie]

Take 'beta' from Ti[beta]n for tine = sn + anag 'I'm all'

[ProfessorMaisie]

...sorry, typo - 'tin', not 'tine.'

[bobbinwales]

anagram involving IMALL + something?
Defanition is post

[ProfessorMaisie]

...+ A(scetic) 'leader' + I(nternational) for the anag, of course.

[bobbinwales]

sorry yours werent there Prof when opening this

[ProfessorMaisie]

I'm just too slow, bobbinwales (and even then I needed a few goes to get it right!).

[ProfessorMaisie]

There's a similar deletion in the clue for 8d, the clue reads - ''Form group d[eta]ined... more than once'' (= 'fed' +'ate') around RE for the lesson [reversed].

[saladdodger]

Many thanks for the explanations