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Cooks taking requests from diners eg keep taking the tablets (7,6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Doctors = cooks as in ‘cook the books’; orders = requests from diners. Your doctor might say ‘keep taking the tablets’, mine does (or would if I could get to see him).
Metal jacket of interrogator being worn (4)
Sweet paintings etc gallery put back in container (5,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
TIN = container; insert ART and TATE reversed. Delicious upside-down-cooked apple tart created by the Tatin sisters in their French hotel in 1880, allegedly accidentally.
Worried surgeon clasping cold sponge (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
(SURGEON)* with C inserted.
Peacock: it goes flying around (6)
Where tester found parent snaffling page belonging to us? (4-6)
Shaft ending in channel secured by tool (4)
Difference in body having struck head (4)
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STIFF = body, loses its S.
Country where some litter scattered (5-5)
Warning about British prince (6)
Wrecked, came to (8)
Bird in cage: crime considering that won't open (7,3)
Communist march (4)
Gripped by film, therapist struck by western (6-7)
Down
Controlling minister, one punching face (11)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
RECTOR, I inside DIAL = face.
Great runner has run off after felon (5)
Pair of decisions favouring bowler confirmed (3-3-3)
Too much womaniser of course ultimately breaking hearts, say? (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
R, F, E, = last letters of ‘womaniser of course’; insert into SUIT = hearts, say.
On twenty-four hours earlier, old magistrate (5)
Develop complex (9)
Runner quietly failing to jump (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
SKIP = jump, lose the P for quietly.
Flash Croatian deputy? (5,6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A second-in-command from Split would be a Croatian deputy. I’ve been to Split, it’s a nice place, but then it was in Yugoslavia.
Judge and reader glower? (9)
Hope setting sun inspires girl visiting university (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
RA (Egyptian sun-god, or the sun to ancient Egyptians) into which insert UNI into which insert RITA a girl.R(U(RITA)NI)A. Fictional country in Eastern Europe, setting for the novels of Anthony HOPE, such as The Prisoner of Zenda.
Book, far from brilliant, cut (7)
Cycle round capital of Italy — or somewhere to the north (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
I inside TURN. City in north of Italy.
Exhilarated seeing books on the top shelf? (3,2)
Some fashionistas smoke dope (3)
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