Across
In line of strikers, spot light-fingered criminal (10)
Fighter pilot crossing river in Brazilian state (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
ACE (fighter pilot) containing [crossing] R (river). NHO this region in NW Brazil.
The writer's servants given quarters of colossal size (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
I’M (the writer’s), MEN (servants), S + E (quarters)
Noble embracing love poet (7)
Part of Scotland originally inspiring Schubert song (5)
Lacking will, belonging to trial rowing team, we hear (9)
Old man or woman heretic securing Irishman as MP? (15)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
PARENT (old man or woman) + ARIAN (heretic) containing [securing] LIAM (Irishman). Of course parents don’t have to be old, but here we have a reference to the somewhat disrespectful way that offspring sometimes refer to their mother or father as ‘the old man / woman’.
Infection requiring relief till work appears (4,7,4)
Beggar is unable to fix one at first (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
MEND (fix), I (one), CAN’T (is unable to)
Motive for returning, avoiding a strong headwind (5)
Caught on TV initially wearing toupee, perhaps (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
T{v} [initially], WIGGED (wearing toupee, perhaps)
Dull woman appearing in short film (7)
Bess's man, heading off for wild party (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
{p}ORGY (Bess’s man) [heading off]. Porgy and Bess is an opera by George Gershwin.
Derrick's advert for a geraniaceous plant (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
CRANE’S (derrick’s), BILL (advert). Neither the plant nor its description meant anything to me. The answer has appeared only once before in the TfTT era in a Club Monthly puzzle, but I never venture into that territory.
Down
Cheek, weighing into Greek characters about diatribe (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
LIP (cheek) contained by [weighing into] PHI + PI (Greek characters), then C (about). Another unknown.
Beast of burden mostly encountered in the Golden State? (5)
Stingy girl doing what 1 ac aims to do (5-8)
Element regularly faked in new music (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
{f}A{k}E{d} [regularly] contained by [in] anagram [new] of MUSIC
Fibrous substance produced by English: first out? The opposite (7)
Charge female leaving continent for republic (5,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
COST, (charge), A{f}RICA (continent) [female leaving]
Call to mind the first lady touring Oklahoma (5)
It's immediate in fellow soldiers primarily employed in Intelligence (13)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
IN, STAN (fellow), TA (soldiers – Territorial Army) , then E{mployed} [primarily] contained by [in] NOUS (intelligence)
Giving in about gin, sadly, drinking fast (9)
Manic rule oddly expressed in figures (9)
Roam with this writer and that Cockney woman (7)
Dismissed, sleeps over in S African grazing area (7)
Saw second official principally digesting Times (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
MO (second) + O{fficial} [principally] containing [digesting] T + T (times)
Bath, say, before greeting old cavalryman (5)
Type letters or click words in the clue