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Sauce and beans occasionally found in pancake (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
TACO = pancake, insert B A S alternate letters of beans. I put Tabasco on things, a lot.
Measure Juliet put into pub's glass container (4,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
ELL (measure) J[uliet] all inside BAR.
Sheep kills time in an easterly wind (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
REEL = wind as in reel in a fishing line perhaps; reversed = LEER, insert ICES T for kills time. Being in Rutland next to said county, we are surrounded by fields of Tom’s Leicester breed sheep. Very daft animals, they just stand in our road and look at the car waiting to pass. Tom’s Dad says “sheep are born to die “- but aren’t we all?
Northern town taxi turned towards a centre (5)
Showing heart, cross about conflict, one trained to attack (6,7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
CENTRE = heart; FORD (cross) around WAR.
Patent protecting firm — origin of Apple Mac? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
OVERT (patent) around CO, A[pple]. As in mackintosh.
Duke ingesting MDMA joins a celebration (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
MDMA is 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, commonly called ecstasy or E; insert it into FIST (duke) and add A.
Despair initially avoided may become hope (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
despair, lose the D, so (ESPAIR)*.
Trap a king — what's stopping merry old one? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
the merry old king being COLE, insert A K and EH? for a king, what?. As in “shut your trap / cakehole!”
Take serious risks? Ditch the idea, bowling round wicket (4,4,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
insert W for wicket into (DITCH THE IDEA)*.
United by wise tradition (5)
Daughters in coffee bar that's contemporary (6-3)
Family outside on marks close to royal citadel (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
KIN = family, insert RE (on) M (marks) L (close to royal).
Second sin St Anthony embodies? (7)
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Count to play the informer (4)
Impatient exclamation from Scot splitting cheese roll (7)
Beatles manager once leaving record for writer (5)
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Brian EPstein loses his EP. Gertrude Stein was a rather unattractive lesbian novelist and poet and a Nazi sympathiser, I’ve never read her stuff.
Spontaneous occurrence before the public holiday (8)
Whistler secured in bank that's robbed? (6)
Debauchee having left island, knight Edward VII embraces? (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Edward VII was known as Bertie to his friends, family and mistresses, so L for left, I for island, BERTIE with N inserted.
The Fool — as shown in the cards? (7)
Disowned aide, put out, getting into the wine (10)
Character billed as old and decrepit — nothing to it (6,4)
Short file, kept by alliance in Somerset, that goes sideways (9)
Outlaws part that's wrapped with note (8)
Select times for admission to A&E? That's ground-breaking! (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
PICK (select) A E, insert X = times.
Old Greek character given support raised snakes (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
O (old) PHI (Greek letter), AID (support) reversed. I knew this word, saw it recently in a GK crossword (was it weekend before last?)
Taken to beer without opening tin cans? (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
SN = Sn, symbol for tin; insert TO, [A]LE.
Partners in crime? (5)
Crew said something at Chiswick in Boat Race (4)
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