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Strong desire to get rich, turn to crime, maybe making a hit (11)

At fountain I compounded folly (11)

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Strong desire to get rich, turn to crime, maybe from making a hit (11)

Definition: Strong desire
Insinuation (a hit) => Infatuation
Rich = Fat
Crime = Sin

Appreciation for flip-flops left at university? (11)

&lit (ish!)
appreciation = INF L ATION
for - link
flip-flops - a "swapping" indication
left = L
at university = AT U
Q mark for &lit defn.

Swapping "l" for "at u" in inflation gives infatuation.
Students can be obsessed with footwear...

Home? Greece, apparently --- a country that lost its head for you, it's said, being totally obsessed (11)

home: IN
Greece apparently: FAT
a country that lost its head for you, it's said: nATION becomes U(you)ATION
being totally obsessed: definition

Obsession with problem fat? No - I ain’t u! (11)

problem = anagram indicator

Usually 12-20 Yen? (11)



12-20 teenage, yen desire.

Hint of lard not lust - creates a crush (11)

hint = insinuation
lard = fat
lust= sin
crush = definition

Obsession if an irregular perfect tense is recalled (11)

Definition = “Obsession”; “if an irregular” = anagram of “if an”; “perfect tense is recalled” = reversal of “No 1 taut”.

The way fritter is made: turn, cut right away, and...crush? (11)

The way fritter is made: IN FAT
turn: U
cut(,) right away (R)ATION
crush: INFATUATION