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Restrain light blow (4)
Probes without warning place threats on board (4,6)
Jump onto seat after ordering drink here (3,4)
Run a fiddle, taking a little off small cases of meat perhaps (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
R(un), A, VIOLI(N).
Painter in boys' home tangled with urchins (10,5)
I catch parent outside nurseries (6)
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I NET (I catch) inside PA (parent). Pineta are plantations of baby pine trees, plural of pinetum.
Criminal related to manager? (8)
Showing pale irises we had planted round garden walk (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
another which took a while. I’d have hyphenated it, but Collins doesn’t. WE’D with ALLEY inside; is an alley a garden walk?
Weapon gives gunners massive support (6)
Consider very important what squirrel may do (3,5,5,2)
Where His Nibs used to take a dip? (7)
Admit ambition is an embarrassing mistake (3,4)
Girl maintaining missive from school gives fake news (10)
Raise embankment in sound (4)
Down
Hastily seize the sauce (5,2)
Fair rental, I conceded, is different, not identical (9)
Fruit pulp always first class (6)
Hypocrite begins meal, unpacked from cases (8)
Once was joining a revolution, now am more sophisticated (4,4,6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
(I) HAVE BEEN = (I) once was, A ROUND = a revolution.
Pyramid builder short of energy food (5)
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CHEOPS loses E for energy. The pharaoh Cheops is alleged to have commissioned the great pyramid at Giza. I’d vaguely heard of him.
Slide woman under narrow opening (7)
In the boozer these, drunk, chatter idly (5,3,6)
Long access road at house? Stop being proud? (5,4)
Vicious gaoler is in women's wing (8)
Pleasure: I'm holding an ace and four kings (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Even with all the checkers, this took me an age to see. WILL = pleasure, as in “free time at will” for example, then I’M with A for ace inside. Four English Kings; William I, (the Conqueror) William II (W. Rufus), William III (of Orange) and William IV. There was one in Scotland as well. Clever, headache-creating clue.
Changing sides in allegiance — to them? (7)
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LOYALTY (allegiance) changes its L to R.
Old car is something between Mercedes and Cortina (6)
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well, I don’t remember seeing a hidden clue with “and” in between the parts before. I had a Ford Escort RS2000 for a short time, it went far too fast and sideways round corners.
Agreed to welcome fine couples (5)
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