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Place with newspapers found on university hike (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
U (university) PL[ace] I, FT (two newspapers).
Where people may be caught abroad with some grass (8)
Silk Road city — a spot in desert? (9)
Two rivers in the country (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
R for river, URAL a Russian one.
I want you to understand it may be men got Ted (4,3,2,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
anagram of MEN GOT TED is DON’T GET ME, so “wrong”.
Prevent crime writer dropping The Times (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Colin DEXTER, of Morse fame, drops the X = “times”.
Pretentious type of word common in Old Norse (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
VERB (type of word) LOW (common) inside O N.
Certainly not Falstaff for Thursday evening perhaps (9)
Girl going short without hot eastern food (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
SUSI[E] with H inserted.
Is jazz band mostly rubbish in engagement upset? (14)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
IS COMBO (jazz band) BUL[L] (mostly rubbish) inside DATE = engagement. An excellent word, which I do use occasionally.
Scent hard work writing out a verse (5)
Cheeseparer has to strip surface from something hard (9)
Shortly drunk outside English pub (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
E inside (SHORTLY)*.
Prince introducing odd extracts from Yemeni songbook (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Prince HAL again as in the Bard, has Y e M e N i inserted.
Down
Silly wind-up does upset (6,4)
Colour of apple shown by Monet? (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
I think this is a hidden word clue with the “indicator” in between, thus APPLE MONET.
Collector of food in aid of increasingly old person (7)
Inappropriate French article and a couple from Italy (5)
Cut of beef's fine — or Brie crackers (7)
Messing about on or close to barge sure is wrong (9)
Herb died diseased (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
D for died, ILL for diseased.
Chorus splits regarding key (4,4)
Expense relating to teeth after incisors half removed (10)
Classic play has to contend with most of these around it (3,6)
Right work in hospital department in charge of rising disorder? (8)
Streamlined fairing's new, with excellent lines on plane's tail (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
N (new) ACE (excellent) LL (lines) E (end of plane.) The cover on a plane’s engine.
Small lock and key finally oiled? (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
S (small) QUIFF (lock of hair) Y (end of key).
Amplifier initially made a signal very clipped at both ends (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
M A S (initial letters of made a signal) ER (vERy, clipped). A MASER (an acronym) is an amplifier of microwaves, as a LASER is one of light; if you didn’t know it, you could deduce it from the wordplay.
Strange fiction in article (5)
Pine resin has the top left off (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
PITCH (plant resin) has its P left off.
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