Times Grand Final Puzzle 2

[bamberger]

Sadly 90 man minutes have been spent by myself and colleagues trying to unsuccessfully work out the wordplay for:

4d May the second, Milne's penning New Statesman? Ans is Hawaiian.
The statesman is the Hawaiian. AA comes from AA Milne. N is from New . Second might be ii. This still leaves haw but in any case I can’t see where the may and penning fit in .

6d Extremely rapid fire, seeing pilot releasing anger. Ans is fastest =extremely rapid. Test = pilot but how do we get fas?

12d Jerk up an elongated fish at end of hook –that’s good work! Ans Kangaroo-hop.
Jerk =kangaroo-hop (as in learning to drive!) . End of hook =k good =g work =op but still missing an arro h .

15d Fraud? (In that, in the past, billions missing) Ans quackery. . Quackery=fraud but no idea.

22d He’s “mislaid” case of claret, say. Ans Edwin. I can see r Edwin e but can’t see how you remove the r & e .

Astounding that the whole puzzle was solved in maybe 10 mins by so many!

Thanks

[jim360]

Looks like 6d at least might be Fire + as (seeing) + test - ire.

[shoota]

22d Mislaid case - outside lost = R E

[frugalfred]

May = hawthorn

[jim360]

Also 22d "mislaid case" => mislay (or lose) the case of redwine, so that you lose the R and E.

[jim360]

15d, finally, seems like it might be (b)ack in Query -- where the "query" is indicated by the "?" in the clue!!