Across
Steady progress? Judge wrong turning outside sporting blunder (3-4)
Something loopy and irrational about religious books (5)
Plant, end of stem becoming black, declined (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
EMBED(plant) with the last letter of steM becoming B(black)
Quilt stuffing placed on rock for makeshift bed (9)
Love to come together briefly to spin a little mischief! (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
NIL(love) and MERGE(come together) minus the last letter, all reversed
Complaint harboured by Anthea on meeting Rachel (7)
Baked small crumbles for function (6,4)
Girl falling just short of the record? (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
ANNAL(the record) minus the last letter
Soft food in time something that flies mysteriously rebuffed? (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
T(time) then UFO(something that flies mysteriously) reversed
Harsh call by the way to split a medical department (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
RING(call) next to ST(way) inside A, ENT(medical department)
There's word of action every so often being at plant (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
VERB(word of action) and alternating letters in bEiNg At
West Ham's football stars making international European team (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
I think I see this now – the West Ham football stars are F.A. ‘EROES?
A new strategy for crossing river in inhospitable territory (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A, N(new), TACTIC(strategy) containing R(river)
Physicist backing Whistler's claim? (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Whister’s claim could be I’M REF – reversed
Party before long for senior member (5)
Drinks at college assembly (5-2)
Down
Unemployed girl getting word from well-wisher? (7)
Exploitation of gasfield annoying people (8)
Son au naturel, perhaps, got up (5)
Salesman with top drawer, see, concealed in counter (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
RA(artist, top drawer) and V(see) inside TELLER(counter)
Verse work recalled English essay (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
OP(work) reversed, then E(English), TRY(essay)
Game starts in confusion, opening once, and never finishing (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
first letters of Confusion and Opening, then ONCe, and ANd without the last letters. I think this has only appeared once in a Jumbo, and it stumped several commenters
Hint for one? Dunce needs to have 3! (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
EG(for one) and NIT(dunce) all reversed (3 down was RISEN)
One who composed message on Mother's Day gift? Revolting, oily stuff! (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
the composer is Alban BERG, and a Mother’s Day gift may be inscribed TO MA – reverse that
Shower cap placed around heated bath (9)
Social worker getting one's child to stop going on slide (4-4)
Maybe wanting fare controlled by US bank (8)
Flirts outrageously with Yankee in front of others (7)
Self-promotion developed fully, with energy rising (3,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
GOT RIPE(developed fully) with the E(energy) rising
Cooper? In short, one thing that coops (3,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
biffed this. HENRY Cooper was a British boxer, remove his last letter and add ‘UN(one)
Sex with a dish (5)
Drive off after payment picked up for shawl (5)
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