Across
Rush towards Rome? It's warmer! (6)
British don't have to fight — that need not be understood (5,3)
Signal folder can provide something enthralling (11)
Pole, say, heading off, finds somewhere to go (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
SLAV (Pole, say) without the first letter (heading off)
Driver from west — heading that way? (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
W (west) A GONER (heading that way?) To ‘go west’ means to die. Of course the surface is lovely here (and maybe even counts as a semi-&lit) because covered WAGONERs in the United States rode west. I recall seeing a better version of this wordplay somewhere, which was something like “Six feet under, or heading that way? (4,3)”.
Description of sister we understand that's universally unpopular? (7)
Surprisingly, many falling in with parking issue regulation (6,8)
Versatile accessory, awfully swanky, misfires (5,4,5)
Ex-prisoner given word of encouragement for keeping in trim (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
OLÉ (word of encouragement) in (for keeping in) PARE (trim)
Most lean on one, matchless all round (7)
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ON + I (one) with BEST (matchless) all around
Such as refund returned periodically? (3)
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every other letter of REFUND, reversed (returned periodically) This is the noun form of DUE, as in “pay one’s dues”.
Drinking too much, perhaps, and sharing a bit? (11)
Wrongly declare one's piece of data in note (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
I’S (one’s) STAT (piece of data) in ME (note)
Handle number in retreat with minimum staff? (3-3)
Down
His few faults one loudly broaches? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
HIS FEW anagrammed (faults) with I (one) F (loudly = forte, in music) inside (broaches) FISHWIFE is the referent of ‘one’ in this descriptive phrase. It’s a bit unfortunate that the clue also contains the pronoun ‘his’, because the clue could equally be referring to whoever ‘he’ is.
One who's succeeded in broadcast once before (3)
Officer, one refusing to fight on his own, left (7)
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CO (one refusing to fight = conscientious objector) LONE (on his own) L (left)
Boy phoning, ringing no Scottish or Italian number (2,5,1,6)
It's time unit of key personnel stood on two legs! (7)
Maybe oligarch's rage after charge for possessing island (11)
Seen in Roman square, a once leading British female missionary (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A in (seen in) XVI (Roman square = 16) + ER (once leading British female)
Medical procedure welcome before finding work (3-11)
Officers in reserve prepared retreats after fighting (4,7)
Something fashionably labelled might have had this shape (8)
Hit and stab in back (4-3)
What's most important, having family doctor at home (7)
Working practice of French secretary upset primates (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
MO (working practice = modus operandi) + DE (of [in] French) + PA (secretary), all reversed (upset)
Doctrine generally somewhat clumsily recalled (3)
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