Love it or Lathe it

(7,4) Dive helps you get a leg up in competition?

(6) Aged arboreal goat, guts removed, lends whisky its flavour

(4) Report of death as a result of initially reckless journey around planet

(3,5) You should sleep on it shortly before being taken in by a disturbing dream

(8) Am I right to carelessly trap tiny squirrels for sandwich meat?

(4) Loose fried noodles

(6) Spinner, perhaps, will help you come out clean

(4,3,3,1,4) With 10d - Let you ride it out or maybe leave you penniless after one game of roulette?

(4) Smooth, flattened circle nonetheless contains creases

(7,4) Exotic laborers quietly skirt boys in blue but can be seen gyrating above shopfronts to attract a mostly male clientele

(6,5) Lose middle part of floor and fail to work around MOT - common feature of a Morris

(4) Bike aggressively inside - sure to produce a flat

(3) We're told animal outfitter drops their needles

See 15a

(4) Match on the radio has one small half and one big half