Across
Strategy in Ring opera, promoting right to take drugs? (4-1-4)
Comes to the trails of ships (5)
Exposed to elements endlessly in Scottish town? (7)
Doctor beginning to isolate blood vessel outside theatre (5-2)
Third person's at that location reportedly (5)
Eccentric and intelligent cheat (4,5)
Tobacco container put out next to TV (8)
Attempt to seize power company at an end (4)
Unpleasant in a self-satisfied way, ignoring two leaders (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
{sm}UGLY (in a self-satisfied way) [ignoring two leaders]
Shrewd publication is a buzzkill? (8)
Go out with Iberian native (9)
Steer clear of area with invalid (5)
Caught in net, a timid, recoiling ape (7)
Pleasant heading off to choose climbing tool (3,4)
Lean on pupil occasionally showing boredom (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
{l}E{a}N {o}N {p}U{p}I{l} [occasionally]. This clue lost me a lot of solving time as I wrote the answer in carelessly and then had to try to find an answer at 2dn ending with a U.
Lethargy when running around India for a great distance (5,4)
Down
Severely criticise ruler getting upset about nothing (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
TSAR (ruler) reversed [getting upset] and containing [about] 0 (nothing)
US criminal and others embracing universal proposal is an impossibility? (9,6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
PERP (US criminal – perpetrator) + ET AL (and others) containing [embracing] U (universal), then finally MOTION (proposal)
Show Conservative military group beginning of Times Jumbo, say (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
AIR (show), C (Conservative), RAF (military group – Royal Air Force), T{imes}[beginning of…]
No longer interested in explorer's burn, perhaps (8)
In French, German artist's not finished last (6)
Fancy reason to save instant messages (6)
Stay out of sight of ale, if people work drunk (4,1,3,7)
Machine packing seed for bird (9)
Sub confused with advice to submerge with tank? (5-4)
Brief time running banks (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
FLEEING (running) contains [banks] T (time)
Programme is on a lease — that's clear (8)
One regulation I'd set up for religious festival (6)
Passed down directly from new alien vessel's base (6)
City Democrat also called Republican (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
D (Democrat), AKA (also called – also known as), R (Republican). Capital of Senegal.
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