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Choose not to take part in work with solicitor (3,3)
Fine food shop to provide food, mostly (8)
Check next to one river and another for animals (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Check: REIN plus the river DEE and a R[iver]
Elite individuals go after information (6)
Terribly bad, bad local I repeatedly trashed (10)
Has drinks, but no starter (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
One expression for drinks is DOWNS. Take off the first letter.
Article in Libération covering Northern French city (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Libération is a French journal so the definite article in front of a plural would be LES. Insert N[orth]. Appropriately Lens is indeed in Northern France, unless it’s in Belgium. Or Switzerland.
Beset by trouble, degenerate shows sign of slowing down (5,5)
Frequent drinking you ultimately had reduced (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Spent a while working this out, though nothing else fits. To frequent is to ATTEND. insert the last of [yo]U and ATE for had.
Prejudice in book reported to be cut back (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
B[ook] plus SAID for reported cut short and reversed.
Tool does some calculations, we're told (4)
Vessels requiring knotted ropes at bow (5,5)
A very loud, cool thing (6)
It's not important to gossip about an award (2,6)
Used sneaky tactic filling in legal document (8)
Short, extremely showy gesture of respect (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
CURT for short and the outer letters of S[how]Y
Down
In part, Republican denies manoeuvring for the top job? (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
R[epublican] plus an anagram (manoeuvring) of DENIES in P[ar]T
Old writer featuring in upcoming total collected works (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
O[ld] plus NIB for writer contain in SUM for total reversed (upcoming)
Cup match level until just before the end (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A level is a TIER. Remove its end.
Greek party in charge of suppressing resistance (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Party is DO, plus I[n] C[harge] with R[esistance] inserted.
Support key objective with sources of extra reserved money (5,6)
Nicola messily devours the filling from any creamy pastry (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Not surprisingly, an Italian cream filled pastry. An anagram (messily) of NICOLA plus the content of [a]N[y].
Cycle around centre of big Italian city (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Cycle gives TURN, and for the second clue in a row, the extra letter, I, comes from the middle of a 3 letter word, this time [b]I[g]
Political group identified by your and my piece in LA Times (6,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Your and my piece translates to OUR PART, enclosed in LA (given) and BY for Times, with a slightly naughty capital letter.
Fit cheap, tatty clothes (3)
Cold male lacking pretence (9)
I shout out loud and look up and down (7)
Somebody maybe taking a punt eating tail of foul fish (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
So not a BLETTER, then, but a BOATER for one in a punt, with the last letter of [fou]L inserted
Excellent, regularly noted author (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
I think its use is now only in dated hip hop movies, but DEF meant excellent, to which we must add the O and E of nOtEd.
Overcome, journalist enjoyed the delights of Bordeaux? (5)
One held by host? (3)
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