Across
Friend ringing a seabird taking protective interest (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
PAL (friend) containing A + TERN (seabird).
Caught by light suggesting stop — there's curve in road (6)
Auntie's boss precise or vague? (8,7)
Clown, Greek character to work hard in cooking medium (7,3)
Wild cat's course by the sea reported (4)
Priest is featured in Times championing exclusive group (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
ELI (priest) + IS contained by TT (times).
Vengeful spirits certainly associated with Hibernia (7)
Make call to the writer in linguistics unit (7)
Cinders, initially wearing shoe, causing public outrage (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
first of Cinders contained by SANDAL (shoe).
False god lacking originality — not new (4)
Say Blixen, Pontoppidan and Kierkegaard, or 27s of a sort? (5,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
famous Danish authors, or barkers/dogs.
Genius is on test cricket ground (6,9)
One earning crust from bread engages right tout (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
BAKER (one earning crust from bread) containing R (right).
Here goes Oscar with child say, heading west (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
O (oscar) + MINOR (child) + EG (say), all reversed.
Down
Stalk learner seen among Vegas rollers after training (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
L (learner) contained by DICE (Vegas rollers) after PE (training).
Go off to climb, finding rocky height (3)
Think again about wayward son consumed by drink (10)
A pair of spectacles wrapped in pink paper in train (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A, then OO (pair of spectacles) contained by FT (pink paper).
Karenina's twelve pies? (4)
Only dry bran to be mixed for this literary character (5,6)
Wedged beneath bank briefly, cuts slacks off (7)
Posh theatrical part in G&S showing unfair condition? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
U (posh), then LINES (theatrical part) contained by G and S.
Vital energy deployed by lothario — might he ask for your hand? (11)
Slowing down where article blocks crumbling dirt road (10)
Speculator initially tense — gold pinched in robbery (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
first letter of Tense, then OR (gold) contained by HEIST (robbery).
Black dog coats produce shine — it's the local food (3,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
PUG (dog) contains B (black), then RUB (produce shine).
Carlyle so thought to contain kingdom (7)
Adventurous heroine in charge bringing beer round (5)
Olympian goddess in seven-gated city without walls? (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
tHEBEs (seven-gated city) missing its outermost letters.
Ugandan dictator's name held in disdain regularly (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
regular letters from dIsDaIn.
Type letters or click words in the clue