Across
Copy type of smart card, getting glib about it (9)
Light shawl principally found in Central Manchuria (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
F I the first letters, CHU centre of Manchuria, as above. If I hadn’t seen this word in a previous crossword, I’d never have known of it.
Drone, perhaps, initially caught high in tree (5)
Cranky chap touring cape with very little money (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
ERIC a chap goes round C for cape and CENT very little money.
Old flame playing for time, speaking off the cuff (with son, not unknown) (15)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
EX (old flame) TEMPORIZATION means delaying, playing for time, change the Z to an S for son.
Liberal in criticising local government procedure (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
insert L into PANNING = criticising.
Promise offered by place to west of border (6)
Flop about, laughing out loud before cut (6)
Skipper of boat identity theft knocked back! (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
all reversed, NAME (identity) GRAB (theft).
In England her tales involved two fairy-tale siblings (6,3,6)
Cast doubt on record right to prepare for publishing (9)
Subscriber loses head, seeing glowing coal (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
MEMBER loses M.
Egyptian town with a hospital on the outskirts (5)
Lines by stylish woman dismissing knight's sharp practice (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
CHIC (sylish) ANNE (a woman), lose an N (dismissing knight as in chess), RY = railway, lines.
Down
Flaubert's first clever story (5)
Downcast, emblem having dropped off wall? (11)
Animal smell appalling at first in pub (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
HUM (smell) A[ppalling], inside INN a pub.
One church sure to be inaccessible in winter? (8)
Greek mathematician, 50, in Brussels police department (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
EU (with HQ in Brussels), CID, insert L for fifty.
Be unsuccessful catching insect? A pigeon? (7)
Vehicle needing a lot of attention (3)
International firm showing careless indifference (9)
Unflinching Catholic dignitary holding up in current board (11)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
DOM a Catholic dignitary, inside IN, I (current), TABLE = board.
Old college principal rejecting a painter's many-sided figures (9)
Disallow simple song, mostly one for robbers (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
BAN (disallow) DITT[Y] = mostly song, I = one.
Take too much time with respect to trip (7)
Plant Asquith, say, endlessly encountered in Georgia (7)
Writer crossing a road, like certain poets (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
BIC a writer, pen, insert A, RD for road.
Large vehicle runs into small parrot (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
R for runs, inside LORY a small parrot.
In folk-tales, a wicked gnome (3)
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