Across
Doctor prescribed after damage seen in monkey (8)
Devil concealing tail goes around performing musical form (6)
I dread setting poorly, having lost judgment (13)
A Rupert Bear broadcast? (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
as in Rupert Brooke the poet, and Brooke sounds like brook which is a synonym for ‘bear’. I used to like Rupert, the annuals were a regular Christmas present. They are still published, and those like mine from the 1950s are collectors items. I see I could buy a complete set (1936-2000) for only £7,500.
Star in wooded valley left strangled by snake (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
I thought I knew my stars, but this was a new one to me. I knew of DENEB which is in Cygnus, but DENEBOLA is apparently in LEO and the word derives from Arabic, meaning tail of the lion. I put it in from the wordplay; DENE a wooded valley, BOA a snake, with L inserted.
Shakespearean lieutenant with a pie ordered for queen (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
another clue with an astronomical link which gave me the answer. CASSIO is a soldier in Othello, and (A PIE)* is added. Cassiopeia was a queen in Greek legend, mother of Andromeda, and both were far too vain.
Know about Porter finally finding musical contemporary? (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
KEN = know, insert R being the end of Porter. Jerome Kern, songwriter of the time.
Powerful god still meeting resistance (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
THO an abbr. for though = still, R for resistance.
Patient men on following carriage (10)
Way to communicate in period without company (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
IN, TERM (period), insert CO for company.
Metal, extremely thick, insulating uranium (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
SO DIM = extremely thick, insert U the chemical symbol of uranium.
This chap a rock, might we presume? (7,6)
CIA for example means business (6)
Letters with italic form, perhaps reading through? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
in italic form could be LEANING, insert the R for reading as in the three Rs. A man of letters, a man of learning.
Down
Gossip surrounds party on Republican right in state (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
ANA being a collection of anecdotes, gossip perhaps; insert DO = party, and R R for Republican right. I’ve been to Andorra a few times, once was by accident crossing the Pyrenees in thick fog, then going round the first roundabout 100 metres into Andorra and driving straight out again before being stopped by a French douanier as a possible smuggler.
Fail to see accurately (with swindle involved)? (11)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
MISS (fail to see) TRUE (accurately) with CON (swindle) inserted; I think this could be a semi-&lit but I never am quite sure when &lits are concerned.
Stray from path, brought to church thereafter (5)
Old sewer's part altered having collapsed (7)
Period under psychotherapist is withering experience (9)
Catch insects here and there (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
alternate letters as above.
Little child left in stranger's care after time (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
T (time) ODDER (stranger) with L inserted.
Thirteen break out: criminals at last practise Buddhism? (6,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
(BREAK)* > BAKER, S (last of criminals) DO ZEN = practise Buddhism.
One should exit refinery? It's related to the smell (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
OIL FACTORY being the refinery, remove the I = one.
Suspend setter for example, guilty in manner (7)
Coming into dance, rocker's rival shows style again (7)
Particle beginning to trigger inside nerve cell (7)
We should put up a standing stone! (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
LET’S = we should, reversed (put up); A; I knew of a STELE being an upright stone and guessed this was an alternative spelling (or Latin).
Bristle now with anger initially, flipping (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
first letters of Now With Anger, reversed.
Type letters or click words in the clue