Across
Early text dismissing model of Ford Escort (9)
Pink organ pinching (5)
A pair of animals, or an insect, for instance? (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A NAG RAM [pair of animals] – ‘an insect’ is an anagram of ‘instance’
Jersey etc stolen by a European back in Italian city (7)
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CI [Channel Islands – Jersey etc] in a reversal [back] of A SERB [ a European]
Team boasted (4)
I'm ready for anything, so tackle book about origin of crosswords (4,2,2,2)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
SO + KIT [tackle] + TOME [book] round C [first letter – origin – of Crosswords] – John Halpern [Paul] has written several books about crosswords, including ‘The History of the Crossword’ – great clue
Professional performer: I start dancing, beginning to entertain (7)
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An anagram [dancing] of I START + E[ntertain]
County allied with rose, briefly (7)
Composition of red lentils covering offbeat Jamaican-style bread (3,7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
DAL [lentils] round SKA [offbeat Jamaican style] + PITA [bread] – with a neat definition
Ending in food, peculiar herb (4)
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[foo]D + ILL [peculiar]
Drink less gin to inspire sheer love (7)
3d
Carried away, rotates? (5,2,5)
Travel for miles the wrong way in US city (5)
Stupefied, practising social distancing? (6,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A wittily topical double definition
Down
What dog with fleas and a cold might do, with essence as yet undiscovered? (7,3,5)
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The first part is self-explanatory, I think: see here for the second definition
A playboy in love — small pecker? (8)
See 25
Sound around shape initially absent in hypothetical tunnel (8)
Drink served up, suitable for antelope (6)
I don't know what my self-flagellation does (2,5,2)
Trademarked material in novel, cross-referenced (6)
Last lot* silly? Each to his own (2,5,3,5)
A country once in centre of stormy peninsula (4,5)
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A SIAM [country once – now Thailand] + IN + [st]OR[my]
Fine seafood, bream unfortunately swiped by grimalkin (8)
River rapid on fresh bit of water (8)
Put wrath in provocative writing (6)
Eat, tongue in cheek by the sound of it? (6)
Box 5 in trial upended (2,3)
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V [five] in a reversal [upended] of TEST [trial]
Type letters or click words in the clue