Across
African nation importing fifth of sugar beet (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
CHAD has the last letter of sugaR inserted.
Rash little rascal with naughty books (9)
Difficulty moving head after small contretemps (9)
Daughters break bank (5)
Boyfriend with case of non-vintage wine (6)
Help to preserve mass transport in thriving area (4,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
BOON (help), insert M (mass) TOW (transport).
Public commotion behind hospital is upsetting (12)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
OVERT (public) H (hospital) ROWING (commotion).
A stickler for hard work, Mrs Keats sits fulminating (12)
Missive about variable architectural feature (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
EPISTLE with Y a variable inserted. We’ve seen epistyle before; its an architrave, if that helps.
One who fought J. Frazier with extremely combative hostility (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
J. Frazier fought M. ALI, then C E outer letters of combative.
Forecasting tax increases, conservatively at first (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
VAT (value added tax) I C (initial letters of increases conservatively). Vatic simply means related to prophecy or forecasting.
Four brave guards gad about (9)
Wind battering ten rowers (9)
Quits the day before exhausted nurses (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
EVE (day before) N S (outer part of nurses).
Down
Spooner's contemptible chef collected records (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Dr. Spooner could have said BASE COOK.
Vibrant diamante pants (8)
The exact thing (8,7)
The same doctor briefly turned up (4)
Attack with gun whilst I pop out (6-4)
Dispassionate representation of Monteverdi's aunt (15)
Inventive American journalist beginning to interview boy (6)
Regularly treat one unspecified condition (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
T E T (alternate letters of TREAT) ANY (one unspecified). Tetany is a nasty condition of spasms caused by a calcium imbalance.
Degenerate dons curse sign of slowing down (5,5)
Legacy media at the start is not in retreat (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
retreat = HERMITAGE, take away the M (start of media) and you get HERITAGE. As in heritage carrots, in the drivel I see these days on menus.
A distress call about most dangerous material (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A, SOS, insert BEST = most as in “do the best / most you can” perhaps.
Holiday on far side of Moon? It makes a change (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
LEAVE = holiday, N the “far side” of moon. Leaven being a substance such as yeast or baking powder that “makes a change” by creating CO2.
Teetotaller entering place for stiff drink (6)
Slight speech problem (4)
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