Across
Cat losing seconds repeatedly chasing shy rodent (5)
Plan to squander and run off (9)
Home with trees arranged in small group (9)
Atmosphere about street is bustling (5)
Live with success around German city (6)
Change the appearance of flag, not new (8)
Dismantle vehicle for the purpose of working a series of panels (5,7)
Brief result I brought about? Far from it (12)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Anagram [brought about] of BRIEF RESULT I. I think most if not all of the clue is the definition. To filibuster is to obstruct (often legislation) by employing delaying tactics. This was one of the long answers that contributed to my difficulties although I know the word well.
Victorian work is old anthem entirely unfinished (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
I{s} + OL{d} + ANTHE{m} [entirely – all – unfinished]. Not the most helpful of definitions but the wordplay was useful in identifying the well-known comic opera by Gilbert & Sullivan
Perhaps dredge river in front of submarine dock (6)
Something that may give one a lift from doctor on Thursday (5)
Balance arm is caught in edges of one (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
EQUIP (arm – supply), then IS contained by [caught in] O{n}E [edges]. Another word that took me ages to construct from wordplay. It’s not one I’m particularly familiar with although I remember TV advertisements for ‘equipoise lamps’.
At one time included, quoted in vain (9)
Delightful one for the king in lodge (5)
Down
Note girl is after hairstyle that's refined (3-5)
Rhea, perhaps under three feet, captive in the US (8)
Cube confused with exponential? Unlikely to be called out (15)
Float to purchase a container for oxygen (4)
Odd time almost completely quiet (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
UNEVEN (odd), T (time), FUL{l} (completely) [almost]
Film a sheep running under tree on old homestead (6,2,3,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
PLANE (tree), TOFT (old homestead), then anagram [running] of A SHEEP. This was another answer that gave me major problems as it was one of my last clues solved and its long absence deprived me of checkers to help with four words in the troublesome SE corner. I realised when writing the blog that I had failed to account for T OF T but fortunately the SOED came to my assistance with this entry: toft – a homestead, the site of a house and its outbuildings. Freq. in toft and croft, an entire holding, consisting of the homestead and attached plot of arable land. OE. I never ever ‘eard of it!
Know instinctively northern dweller accepts temperature (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
INUIT (northern dweller) contains [accepts] T (temperature)
Seat of power good for European crowd (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
THRON{e} (seat of power) becomes THRONG when G (good) stands in for E (European)
British worker embracing to some extent chaps in exile (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
B (British), ANT (worker) containing [embracing] ISH (to some extent – suffix) + MEN (chaps)
Lead with buffet covered in fruit (8)
Division of church in ten parts roughly (8)
Mexican, note, cross with detective (6)
Adviser to Charlemagne Gauls caution regularly (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
{g}A{u}L{s} C{a}U{t}I{o}N [regularly]. This was Alcuin of York (735-804) scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher. I didn’t know about his association with Charlemagne but I was aware of him from the age of about 7 when I attended a prep school named in his honour.
Kitty's daughter chasing light-hearted pleasure (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
FUN (light-hearted pleasure), D (daughter)
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