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Angle this writer primarily adopted, lacking animal feed (8)
Composer briefly associated with a Hindu god (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
BRAHM{s} (composer), [briefly], A
Rascal nearly closed paper, swallowing hallucinatory drug (6)
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TO (nearly closed – door) + RAG (paper) containing [swallowing] E (hallucinatory drug)
Exchanging small place in East London (8)
Young hawk in European state making a comeback (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
E (European), SAY (state) reversed [making a comeback]. NHO this and apart from a couple of Mephistos this is its first appearance in the TfTT era since 2006 and before I started contributing as a commenter. On that occasion it was defined as a nestling. SOED defines it as: A young hawk in the nest, or taken from it for training; a hawk whose training is incomplete.
Lacking justification, as dispossessed cricket club may be? (10)
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A straight definition with a cryptic in support
Girl embracing soldier, perhaps, in Mediterranean port (8)
Opening of oyster bar in Scottish resort (4)
Hairstyle brought back in superior fashion (4)
Bully pinching hair confiner — hers, maybe? (8)
Uncultivated grammarian, one pursuing game (10)
Change course, finding equestrian gear (4)
Chap needing hot water in W African state (8)
Riddle in French initially intriguing key family member (6)
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EN (in, French), I{ntriguing} [initially], G (key), MA (family member)
Female victim of murder on island (6)
Cold wind enveloping plant in cathedral city (8)
Down
Mild sarcasm from fellow in City regularly (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
RON (fellow) contained by [in] {c}I{t}Y [regularly]
Instrument mixed choirs finally confused with another (11)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
HARP (another instrument), anagram [mixed] of CHOIRS, then {confuse}D [finally]. I can see an alternative parsing that works just as well but this is the one I’ve gone with.
Attractive, getting involved (8)
Suffer financial depletion, just before the fall? (4,4,7)
Alcoholic drink, something the setter would appreciate, it's said (6)
Current measure a national leader set up (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A, PM (national leader) reversed [set up]
His fate disheartened men working in part of pit (9)
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Anagram [working] of HIS FATE M{e}N [disheartened]
Flowering plant, most unconfined, widely encountered (11)
Sublimity of some poetry son's absorbing frequently (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
LINES (some poetry) + S (son) containing absorbing OFT (frequently). SOED: sublimity – the state of being dignified or lofty in bearing.
Accommodates at least four pints without hesitation (8)
Strait-laced class, at Lancing originally (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
FORM (class), A{t} + L{ancing} [originally]. Lancing College is a public school near Worthing.
Eccentric English lord's first form of desert transport? (5)
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CAM (eccentric), E (English), L{ord} [’s first]. Collins: cam – a moving piece of machinery, as a wheel or projection on a wheel, that gives an eccentric rotation or a reciprocating motion to another wheel, a roller, a shaft, etc., or that receives such motion from it
Patient man's line of business (3)
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