Clue contest No 46

Cut tariffs to upset Don the Con? (3-3,6)

RIP + *TARIFFS TO def = Don the Con (DBE)

One who screws stripper? (3-3,6)

Double def: ‘one who screws’ and ‘stripper’ (i.e. an artist who rips off clothes)

Trickster’s way to get to tariffs (3-3,6)

Reverse anagram (OFFARTIST)*rip gives “to tariffs”

Forge or forger? (3-3,6)

CD (as it can be read both ways)

Sharp final message I broadcast with soft fart (3-3,6)

RIP+ISOFTFART*

Rat, primarily insidious fraud, profits improperly? (3-3,6)

&lit: (RAT + I + F + PROFITS)*

Trump is involved in dodgy profit - he's a conman! (3-3,6)

fart (trump) + is inside (involved in) profit*

Afrit’s tip for cack-handed plagiarist (3-3,6)

Anagram of AFRIT’S TIP FOR

Conman's deranged import tariffs lose money (3-3,6)

Definition: conman. Anagram (deranged) of IMPORT TARIFFS losing M (money)

Criminal, at first, with never-ending profit! (3-3,6)

&lit. ATFIRSTPROFI(t)*

Hustler has face of Rapunzel and fine pair of tits after treatment (3-3,6)

Hustler(def) has face of R[apunzel] and fine F PAIR OF TITS* after treatment

Chiseller stiff at prior wriggling (3-3,6)

stiff at prior [anagram]

Trump taken in by maverick spirit of confidence trickster (3-3,6)

FART (trump) in *SPIRITOF

Often, letters from OAP first identify scammer (3-3,6)

Letterbank (often letters from) OAPFIRST = def

Chiseller's epitaph to spoilt musician (3-3,6)

RIP (epitaph) + OFF (spoilt, as in food) + ARTIST (musician)

Cancelled photographer bearing grave message for Hustler (3-3,6)

Def: Hustler / OFF (cancelled) + ARTIST (photographer) bearing RIP (grave message)

Cowboy in grip of fart is trembling (3-3,6)

Hidden

I stiff or trap criminally! (3-3,6)

&lit, *ISTIFFORTRAP

Deranged "patriots" riff for grifter (3-3,6)

Anagram (deranged) of PATRIOTSRIFF for the definition (grifter)

President Donald J. Trump's ludicrous import tariffs wasted millions (3-3,6)

Anagram (ludicrous) of IPORTTARIFFS ("import tariffs" -m)

Heartfelt message after death of female singer and stripper? (3-3,6)

Wimsical-ish def: strip is a synonym for rip-off (i.e. stripping someone of money, etc.) --- RIP (Heartfelt...death) + OF (lit) + F (female) + ARTIST (singer?)

Clue for prima donna conman (3-3,6)

Reverse engineered clue. Rip-off = PRI (anagram of rip), artist = MADONNA, combined to give prima donna.

Drip of fart is thankfully revealing grifter (3-3,6)

Hidden in dRIP OF FART IS Thankfully; def=grifter

Is after profit badly - without a shred of ethics! (3-3,6)

&lit. Anag. ('badly') of ISAFTERPROFIT* without E ('a shred of ethics')

Rotten musician Shaw almost in tears before start of trial as fraudster (3-3,6)

OFF + ARTI(e Shaw) in RIPS + T(rial)

Constable perhaps follows tearaway and crook (3-3,6)

Def: crook. ARTIST (Constable perhaps) after (follows) RIP (tear) + OFF (away)

If prof is confused with Turner, say, he cheats (3-3,6)

*if prof + Turner= artist. Def=he cheats

Break wind in clenched hand after saw ocean shark (3-3,6)

FART inside FIST all after RIP (saw) + O (ocean)

Cheat at sport? Fair if Harry lost first (3-3,6)

def: Cheat = ATSPORTFAIRIF* - A (lost first letter of alphabet)

Loud flatulence! I come back round to find someone who'd take advantage. (3-3,6)

Loud = F (fortissimo)., Flatulence= FART. Come back = RIPOST round (around FFARTI)

One who does it for tips far away? (3-3,6)

ITFORTIPSFAR* (away)

One plugging stiff parrot deceptively? (3-3,6)

I in [STIFF PARROT] anag. ref. Monty Python Parrot Sketch, &lit.

Who”s that clown going in rubbing his eyelid? Pierrot himself! (3-3,6)

Def: (who’s that) clown. OFF (going) in PI[e]R* (del, rubbing; E[ye] llid); anag, rot) + [performing] ARTIST (himself!, the person who is ‘Pierrot’)

He puts on the pounds and leaves you feeling light? (3-3,6)

Cryptic def

Fair profits? That's a little funny to grifter (3-3,6)

DEF grifter | ANAG funny *fairprofitst(hat's)

Scammer making a profit first (3-3,6)

APROFITFIRST*

Trump is tense after grave declaration of fraud (3-3,6)

Def: fraud; FART IS + T (Trump is tense) after R.I.P. OF (grave declaration of)

Sharpie? Trump's epitaph is bound to last in that! (3-3,6)

Def: sharpie~cheat/swindler; RIP OF FART (Trump's epitaph) + IS bound to (tha)T. And obviously it has to be written with a big felt pen.

Endlessly ripe old duke holds in fart for stripper. (3-3,6)

RIP + O + F[FART]IST

Conman's interpretation gives Minnie Erton (3-3,6)

Conman =Def. The rest is a 'reverse clue' - we are interpreting RIP OFF ARTIST as a clue: Minnie Erton is the artist MINNIE RIPERTON less RIP, and is given by RIP OFF ARTIST

One thieving abroad starts to rake in fat profits (3-3,6)

(R(ake) I(n) FAT PROFITS)*; def = one thieving

A first profit makes a sharp operator! (3-3,6)

A first profit (fodder) makes (anagrind) a sharp operator (definition)

Dupe Rembrandt perhaps? (3-3,6)

Dupe = Rip-Off Rembrandt = Artist

Parrotfish flit about shaking off quilltail and hammerhead shark (3-3,6)

Anagram of (PARROTFISHFLIT)* with L (tail of quill) and H (head of Hammer) removed.