Across
Commentator's dread: champ producing masses of data? (8)
Broadway musical, The King and I, by a small opera company (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
K (King), I, S (small), MET (opera company), Adapted from a 1911 play of the same name and set to music lifted from Borodin, this musical opened on Broadway in 1953.
French are getting behind petition to host one group of stars (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
PLEAD (petition) contains [to host] I (one), ES (French for ‘are’ – makes a change from ‘art’!). In my ignorance I went for PILEADES here as I was banking on 2dn being RELY even though I was unable to parse it as such.
No great lecturer getting request to repeat something (6)
Place for whoopee cushion, perhaps, after replacing a glee cushion (6,6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Anagram [replacing]of A GLEE CUSHION
President implicating his country in exploitation? (5)
Accommodating description of race-track at times (4-5)
I backed limits on name for tavern — something anti-inflammatory? (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
I, then N{am}E [limits] + FOR + PUB (tavern) reversed [backed]
Be powered by what overlong speakers do? (3,2)
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A definition and a cryptic hint
Source of power wasted in loading train (8,4)
Dry, requiring feed of river? Digger produced (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
TOWEL (dry – vb) containing [requiring feed of] R (river).
Veteran less good without a right hand (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
WORSE (less good) containing [without – outside] A + RH (right hand)
Time after time bringing in second variable substitute (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
ERA (time) containing [bringing in] S (second), then T (time), Z (variable)
Sound of animal having returned without a saddle (8)
Down
Record fifth beer-pump? (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
TAP E (fifth beer-pump) when counting from TAP A
Bank assistance — pounds I will withdraw (4)
Runs out of gap on river in swimsuit? (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
B{r}EACH (gap) [runs out], WEAR (river in NE England)
Greeting PM? (3,4,2,3)
Adult insect? The writer's not entirely enthralled (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
I’M (the writer’s), AGO{g} (enthralled) [not entirely]
Second barbed comment? I fix upset artist (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
MO {second – moment), DIG (barbed comment), then I + NAIL (fix) reversed [upset]. He lived 1884-1920 and when I did an image search to look at his work Mr Google saw fit to blur the images in order to protect my innocence.
Locomotive to fail: no good stopping German one (4,6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
TANK (fail – as discussed here recently), then NG (no good) contained by [stopping] EINE (German one)
Sailor turning up in parsonage unexpectedly someone you want to see (7,5)
One-time rat transformed into model character? (10)
Disorderly, on the loose, climbing into barrow (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
OUT (on the loose) reversed [climbing] contained by [into] TUMULUS (barrow – ancient burial mound)
Various hearings end in trouble for one served legal notice (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Anagram [various] of HEARINGS, then {troubl}E [end]. Collins: In law a ‘garnishment’ is a notice warning a person holding money or property belonging to a debtor whose debt has been attached to hold such property until directed by the court to apply it. ‘Garnishee’ is the person to whom the notice is issued.
Patent finished before end of night (5)
Unspecified number evicted from stadium neighbourhood (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
ARE{n}A (stadium) [unspecified number – n – evicted]
Put down cards (4)
Type letters or click words in the clue