Across
Circle of stones Charlie left in Italian city church (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
C (Charlie – NATO alphabet), then L (left) contained by [in] ROME (Italian city), CH (church). I eventually assembled this from wordplay and checkers but still didn’t recognise the word so was pleased to find it was correct. Its last outing was in a 15×15 puzzle in 2021.
Wearing rings, left for wine-exporting city (6)
Dying to bury bone in mass of earth (8)
Solitary member of island group meeting Italian (6)
Freezing foreign terrain, mostly wild (13)
Tightfisted son's resources (5)
Gloomy, having a fit during function (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A + TURN (fit) contained by [during] SINE (trigonometric function)
Baseball player's two garments (9)
Controls tropical weather, so it's said (5)
Day old American head grasps book's superficiality (13)
Clown about in protective cover (6)
French poet in US city, one visiting literary compatriot (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
LA (US city) + I (one) contained by [visiting] VERNE (literary compatriot of Verlaine). What with Flaubert in the QC yesterday and these two today, I seem to be attracting French writers in my blog puzzles at the moment.
Passionate little Dickensian girl switching day and time (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
DORRIT (little Dickensian girl) becomes TORRID when D (day) and T (time) are switched
Greedy European, one admitted by certain conservationists (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
E (European), then I (one) contained [admitted] by SURE (certain), then NT (conservationists – National Trust)
Down
Firm undertaking to accept Mike's trade-off (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
CO (firm) + PROMISE (undertaking) containing [to accept] M (Mike – NATO alphabet)
Your and my time on radio? (3)
Pushes for places to meet, perhaps (7)
Talk about losing heart in adaptation of building (12)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A{bou}T [losing heart] contained by [in] CONVERSION (adaptation of building). I think it’s more usual for ‘losing heart’ to indicate the removal of only the central letter of a word.
Empire damaged by Republican head of government (7)
Idealise Catholic connection, thus rising internally (11)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
ROMAN (Catholic), then TIE (connection) with SIC (thus – Latin) reversed [rising) and contained [internally]
Reluctant to abandon leader: you can swear it (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
{l}OATH (reluctant) [to abandon leader]
Spoilsports quietly start to reveal mistake in new operas (5,7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
P (quietly), then R{eveal} [start] + TYPO (mistake) contained by [in] anagram [new] of OPERAS
Tire at workplace, initially receiving naval chief (4,7)
Dogged sibling endlessly dipping into a set of books (10)
Capital outing, on Long Island principally (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
TRIP (outing), O{n} + L{ong} + I{sland} [principally]
Stocktaker's way to occupy governor, perhaps (7)
Small wound in rabbit's tail (4)
Fury when head avoids sack (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
{f}IRE (sack – dismiss) [head avoids …]
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