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Beat guttersnipe lacking modicum of respect for religious figure (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
CAP (beat) + UrCHIN (guttersnipe), lacking the ‘r’ or the first letter of, or a bit (modicum) of respect. A friar.
Officer who might appear tight-lipped? (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
a naval officer, and who might pucker their lips.
Male friendship beginning to bother Catholic Church (8)
Be full of anger having lost almost everything for sure (6)
Learning assumed by one that runs a course in France (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
LORE (learning) is clothing (is assumed by) I (one).
Inimitable type of music making a comeback in on-line broadcast (9)
Best place to start job on staff (4,8)
Plant business barely increased activity to begin with (12)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
TRADE (business) + SCANT (barely) + Increased Activity to begin with. Note to self: now you have seen it, you can’t claim to have never seen it before. #WJSNHO
State-controlled newspaper in Cologne? (9)
Unique case of atypical individual (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
first (case) of Atypical + LONE (individual).
Viewer's complaint is about critic after taking sides (6)
Area 51 opens up belief in invisible controlling powers (8)
Watch person with a particular interest in game? (6)
Evergreen shrub with upright stem (8)
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Work at last in stone (6)
Competitor who's earning very attractive return (6)
Escort a former president under revolutionary compatriot's protection (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A + PERON (former President) contained by CHE (revolutionary compatriot).
Shining Path traced back to Peruvian empire? (12)
University management course covering right shady area! (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
U (university) + MBA (management course), containing R (right).
What helps one remember work over in US (8)
Suggestive note about "fast" clothes (8)
Declaration in the year peacekeepers unite (12)
Mock leader out of weakness (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
lIMITATION (weakness) without its ‘leader’.
Rather formal attacks upset members of school (8)
Categorised groups into different types of duty (8)
Scandalous book all about keeping love and sex apart (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
reversal of ALL, containing O (love) and IT (sex) but not contiguously (apart).
Drink in every gesture showing approval (6)
Increase in wage level accommodates union's core requirement (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
RASE (level, as in ‘raze’, to the ground) containing the middle letter of unIon.
Type letters or click words in the clue