Across
One detecting tail of carpet snake (6)
Woolly tops of cabaret artistes dancing in drag (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
C[abaret] A[rtistes] (IN DRAG)*.
Understanding similar spirit after time (6,2)
Emerged from second crash (6)
Clipped very accommodating pet backwards and forwards (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
SO (= very) with TAC CAT (pet backwards and forwards) inserted.
Naughty fun is ultimately immoral and bad (6)
Puritan press team (8)
Joined in thread broadcast on radio (4)
Turn informer, regularly using espionage (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
alternate letters as above.
Dispatch star heartlessly (8)
Spot papa parking in valley (6)
Unknown soldiers returned with famous Cavalier (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Y, OR (unknown, soldiers), reversed, gives ROY; A-LIST = famous. One of the other lot, not Cromwell’s lot.
Film average Gulf resident without clothes (6)
Ecstasy in handbag strangely getting nod at rock concert? (8)
Very involved in living without poverty (4-4)
Report missing setter, lazy individual (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
DOSSIER loses I, the setter.
Down
Respondent travelling via Crete (8)
Cheers double feature (4-4)
Bother cook with graduate job (9)
Acting on her suspicions and expertise (15)
Strip beside privet hedges (7)
Airmen able to stop half-cut lass writing on wall (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
RAF and FIT (airmen, able) inside GI[RL].
Petty new leader eschewing laughter (8)
Sprightly old lady embraced by accomplished girl on farm (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
AIRY (sprightly), MA (old lady) all inside DID = accomplished.
Spooner's gang collapsed in bar (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Rev. Spooner would say “BAND SANK” for gang collapsed.
Road with bend ahead in Lancaster? (8)
Vacuously silly subject entirely upended curriculum (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
S[ill]Y, then all reversed, SUB[ject], ALL.
Problem of island swathed in shade (8)
Nick grandad's last cabbage (7)
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