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Artist heading for shops, getting French bread (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
John Singer, American born in Florence 1856,and living and working mostly in Europe until 1925. The S that heads Shops plus French bread, not pain for once but ARGENT, money
Cheer up tot in depressed area (7)
Long to host current party game (9)
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PANT for long (“as pants the hart for cooling streams”) hosts I for (electrical) current with BALL for party.
Most insignificant article to stuff in case (5)
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A for article, inserted into LEST for in case.
Terrible overreactions in the players' training area (13)
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Musical players, that is. A perfect anagram (terrible) of OVERREACTIONS
After warning, put up with distant relative (8)
Return of comic with, say, novelty (6)
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Comic is WAG, then W[ith] and EG for for example, all returned. A novelty such as “a present from Clacton” of no practical value.
Take too much vermouth during day periodically? This is rum (6)
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Take too much: O[ver]D[ose], with IT[alian] vermouth, contained by the odd letters of D[a]Y
More stout and ale, drinking large one (8)
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PORTER is a kind of (dark brown malty) ale which drinks in L[arge] I (one)
Stopping speaking, Conservative reluctant to give aid for domestic workers (6-2,5)
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Stopping speaking DRYING UP C[onservative] plus LOTH for reluctant. Insert a hyphen if the grid hasn’t done it already, though nobody will mind if you don’t.
Bishop with responsibility to provide blessing (5)
Spooner's freezing ear is a nuisance in the street (9)
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Speverend Rooner’s Swegendary lopping of lirst fetters give the messed up version of our answer as BITTER LUG, freezing ear.
After son moves back, fizzy drink settles (5,2)
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Product placement alert! SEVEN UP is the fizzy drink. Push the S[on] back four spaces.
What's penned by Diderot — an essay about lawmaker (7)
Down
Tribal group determined to seize power (4)
Complain about resistance one's seen on line (7)
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RAIL is to complain, then C[irc]A, about and R[esistance]
Eschew restaurants cooking without rind? (3,2)
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Cooking would be HEATING, without rind banishes the H and G
Some paper by whizz going over economic shortfall (5,3)
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Some paper is PAGE and whizz, DART, combined reversed (going over) and respaced. Lost time trying to work in ream.
Become active, ultimately subsisting on fruit (2,4)
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the last letter of [subsistin]G plus OLIVE, the fruit.
Workers caught in completely outrageous plot (9)
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No ants or bees, these workers are just MEN, caught by ALL OTT, completely O[ver] T[he] T[op] outrageous.
Fighter stops old Chinese leader giving people a hand (7)
New area for sufferers, drinking anaesthetic down (10)
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N[ew] WARD for area for sufferers drinks in ETHER, an anaesthetic.
Welcoming crossing ring road that's not too steep (10)
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AFFABLE stands in for welcoming, crossing, or surrounding O (ring) and R[oa]D
Plant experts in NATO? Its buildings in need of emptying out (9)
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A mildly complex anagram (out) of NATO, ITS and emptied B[uilding]S
Refuses to patronise children around bed time (8)
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Children are BOYS for this purpose, around COT for bed and T[ime]
Woman who's experienced desire over clothes (7)
People very shortly getting astride horse (7)
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A verb form. IN A BIT is very shortly, H[orse] a-stridden.
Sacking crony, create friction the wrong way (6)
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Crony is PAL, create friction is RUB, put the two together and follow the instruction to put them the wrong way.
Work by Schiller perhaps staged in ancient theatre (5)
Russian king court occasionally expelled (4)
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The even letters from kInG cOuRt for a generic Russian.
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