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What can calm taken by mouth mostly? Sleeping draught perhaps (9)
Lie about strength of character (5)
What makes round brown circle in sampler (7)
Horse and knight advance in battle (7)
Copy Martin, perhaps, as a name from an earlier generation (10)
Reported murderer for punishment (4)
Type of work aspiration for Cockney artist (5)
Shade regularly keeps spinning endlessly in grave (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
ShAdE (shade, regularly) containing TURNINg (spinning, endlessly).
Series of shots initially are downed easily after a lot of pasta (9)
Special constable not allowed to reconnoitre (5)
Shut up about old farm worker (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
PEN (shut up) containing O (old).
Bird, one very loud, at first calling hidden in cut hay (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
I (one) + FF (very loudly) + the first letters of Calling Hidden, all contained by CHAFF (cut hay).
Occupy hotel, soon to go outside (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
H (hotel) contained by IN A BIT (soon).
Still to be evaluated back on Manchester United ground (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
last of manchesteR + UNITED, all anagrammed.
Druidic council axing hollow dead shrub (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
GORSEdd (Druidic council) minus the D’s (outer letters from ‘dead’).
Bug within pelt one put away (9)
Down
Places erected including European institute (3,2)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
PUTS (places) reversed, containing E (European).
What child may do with penny toy (7)
Judiciously restrict the consumption of supporter (10)
Raid gold in possession of fairy (5)
Entrust to support group making decisions (9)
First-rate tarts turned out light (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
FIRst ratE, with anagram reversal of (turned) ‘tarts’ omitted (out).
"British" and "English" align badly in a foreign tongue (7)
Work in copper, perhaps making a bolt? (9)
Lawyer's dull discourse upset court (10)
Children start well (9)
Sight pâté being prepared for this dish (9)
Surround with small dam (7)
Local drink has never to be tipped in flute (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
remove all the ‘tips’ from lOCAl dRINk hAs.
Down with viral infection following start of freeze (5)
Sweet — for instance doughy pudding — not finished up (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
EG (for instance) + DUFf (doughy pudding, not finished), all reversed.
Priest born in Lincoln? (4)
Type letters or click words in the clue