Across
Got into bed with a criminal (8)
Reveal all after country club investigation quietly dropped (6)
Best wedding programme? (5,2,3,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A cryptic hint precedes the main definition. The title may well have been used around the world but in the UK it refers to this programme.
Eastern people's side welcoming different temperatures (6)
Mention a misapprehension that head has left (8)
Teenager thrilled, I hear, by beer drinking party (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
ALE (beer) containing [drinking] DO (party), then SCENT sounds like [I hear] “sent” (thrilled – slang from the jazz age)
Contents of paper binder, quaintly dated? (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
{f}OLDE{r} (paper binder) [contents]. ‘Quaintly dated’ as in ‘olde worlde’.
In recession corporations producing coarse material (4)
EastEnders failing to provide any hope? (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
The cryptic hint refers to the assumption rife in Crosswordland and elsewhere that Cockneys don’t pronounce the sound of h at the beginning of a word. It’s certainly a handy if somewhat overworked device for setters. I found this quotation in SOED that may be of interest: M. Edgeworth: ‘Londoners are always aspirating where they should not, and never aspirating where they should’, suggesting that a Cockney may well pronounce the answer to this clue as ‘HASPIRATION’. The spelling ‘EastEnders‘ is not an error; it’s the style adopted as the title of a long-running BBC TV soap opera.
After deal crime boss is exploited (6,2)
Bitter substance girl preserved apparently (6)
Facing equivalent challenges, as punter and companion may be (2,3,4,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A definition and a hint with reference to ‘punt’ as a type of boat
Various people going under (6)
Journalist I dispatched back to cover unknown English region (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
ED (journalist) + I + SENT (dispatched) reversed [back] containing [to cover] Y (unknown). Land of the Geordies.
Down
Crowd turning on poet in blitz (7)
Cartel audit going wrong, it's said (11)
Indian leader employing some dour henchmen from the south (5)
Collapse of penthouse maybe owned by banker (7)
Poet hurls out pad (9)
Warning sign the Speaker's studied (3)
Young criminal describing time of his life? (7)
Unplanned broadcast of Peanuts soon? (11)
University's new stewards becoming sloppy (2,7)
Cocktail dress inspiring painting? (7)
One fussing a lot about new necklace (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
PEDANT (one fussing a lot) containing [about] N (new – again already!)
"Paw" included in dictionary — or not? (7)
Hook up in Asian hotel, did you say? (3,2)
Occasionally stroke a little piggy? (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
{s}T{r}O{k}E [occasionally]. As in the nursery rhyme.
Type letters or click words in the clue