Across
Winning gamble — result! (6)
Brown has muzzled dog, keeping it quiet (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A matryoshka clue. IT kept in CUR (dog) “muzzled” by TAN (brown)
Greek character in second statue? (8)
Fancy horse that's hugging rails initially (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Horse gives you FILLY, insert the initial letter of Rails
Place no longer functions, decorate building on high street? (4,6)
Wrong pace after retirement (4)
Something soft on the ground (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Really easy once you see it: two definitions
OK, one has cut source of fibre — half one's loaf? (5,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Supposedly the more visual and intuitive side, probably the bit that helps most with solving cryptics. OK is RIGHT, then you have I (one) in BRAN, a source of dietary fibre.
Courage is lacking in this mug, lovely chap? (10)
Writer of silent work shut up (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
John CAGE’s best known work is 4’33”, this being a very slightly noisy recording.
A musical, but not a book (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
The musical required is CATS. Include the A at the beginning, remove the A in the musical, and you have book 5 in the NT.
About to fail — like one's indicators? (2,3,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Virtually a double definition. You can argue that indicators are not blinking unless they’re doing their job.
Fines collected, last of those stuffed into trousers (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Product placement. The E from the end of thosE placed into Levi’s®, a way of making workaday trousers expensive.
Course that's hard in Notts town (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
The Nottinghamshire town is WORKSOP (if pushed, I would have said it was in Yorkshire). Insert H(ard)
Ask for private trainee (8)
Old carriage I observed in pursuit (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
I have one from 1902 that is longue and not a carriage, but this one is and is I inside CHASE for pursuit.
Down
Book one has expert on cheese (9)
Move south and north touring old US city (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
An anagram (first of the day!) of SOUTH plus N(orth) pus O(ld). We have no problem.
Draw string (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
So indeed draw as in football score, string possibly intended as that sort of tie
With all players expressing disapproval, sending off no good (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Expressing disapproval is TUTTING, knock off the N(o) G(ood)
Furniture item, rope securing pedal? (6,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Pedal means of the foot, or in our case OF FEET. Tie a CABLE rope round the assembly.
Laugh, glugging whiskey in state of excitement (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Now X of course. Laugh is TITTER, and the W comes from Whiskey courtesy of NATO.
Measure sovereign (5)
Relative Fleming, say, rubbed out in Russian fiction novel (5,6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Don’t do what I did and cast around for a Dostoyevsky. Instead, take IAN (Fleming) away from RUSSIAN, add FICTION and scramble (novel).
Fish swimming around hooks (3)
Clever voiding of guarantee, unions I suspect defending it (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Void guarantee, leaving just the GE, insert into an anagram (suspect) of UNIONS I.
Italian maestro edges away from junction, heading for Italy (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Composer of the Lone Ranger theme. Junction is CROSSING, knock off the edges to leave ROSSIN and put on the first letter (or indeed the IVR code) for Italy.
English accessing castle, tipsy — is one hammered? (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
The keyboard with hammers, sound of the Sugar Plum Fairy. E(nglish) included in and anagram (tipsy) of CASTLE
Island oddly curved then (5)
Skyscraper, say, erected on what? (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
It’s RE for on or about, and WOT the less couth version of what. Chambers does not confirm.
Mythical bird bigger, so gigantic ultimately (3)
Type letters or click words in the clue