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Host welcoming English man with his peculiar device (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
MC (host), insert E (English), then (MAN HIS)*. I confess I put this in from the terminal M checker, then parsed it.
Incident is occurring in recording poem (7)
Miser's personality recalled after vicious creatures returned (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
EGO reversed, after ORCS reversed.
A small amount that's penned about part of tyre (5)
Delighted song No. 1 in Estonia, in conclusion (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
END = conclusion, insert CHANT and E[stonia].
French are looking less well, slipping back in this? (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
ES (French second person singular for “are”), PALER (less well), all reversed.
Worker missing high point in stage work (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
worker = OPERATOR, lose the TOR = high point.
On leaving, marks time? (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
HONOURS (marks) loses its ON.
Subsequently less sensible, losing head (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
DAFTER loses its D.
Successful student receiving new piano (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
successful student being GRAD[uate], insert N.
Nuts about Beethoven's Third, beginning to rave over conductor (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
MAST being (beech) nuts, insert the [Be]E[thoven], add R[ave], O[ver].
What coiner produces — good simoleon in counterfeit form (9)
Party — our group — beginning to resist payment for union (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
DO (party) WE (our group) R[esist]. I pencilled in DOWRY but had to re-think.
Liquid carrier's first thing needed for big run (7)
Film director joined ranks, heading for immortality (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
joined ranks = FELL IN, I[mmortality].
Opening in chess later had revised place for bishop (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
C[hess], (LATER HAD)*. I was at first trying to make an anagram with B in it and recalling names of chess openings I once knew.
Down
Become expert in microwave device, having invested time (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
a MASER is a microwave amplification device, as a LASER is for light; insert T for time.
Parody of East German leaving Central American country somehow true (10)
Fruit drink company's rise covered by a volume (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
all reversed, SODA (drink) CO (company) V, A.
Still turn up, very lost (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
INVERT (turn upside down) loses V.
Wicked made moral in this? (9)
Large number upset after US detective produces weapon (6)
Single line by individual (4)
Garden worker adopting couple of articles separately as protection from sun? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
our gardener is a HEDGER, insert A twice in different spots.
Gentle touch on posterior? Punched by female, a pioneering spirit (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
PAT on HINDER, insert F for female.
Well-adapted, efficient, and thus pithy? Not initially (9)
Dampen sound of activity? I'd provided way, ultimately (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
HUM (sound f activity), I’D, IF (provided), [wa]Y.
Suggest liqueur is lacking a bit of excitement (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
ADVOCAAT, the yucky eggy liqueur, has an A removed and E (bit of excitement) added.
Unclear change that's reduced offer (6)
No afternoon exam could be unethical (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
an A.M. ORAL would be a morning exam so not afternoon.
Soldiers had an impact in area of operations (5)
Greedy person — upset of course (4)
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