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Foxtrot with nimble steps (6)
Sacked Head of Personnel, sick and old (8)
Tom Paine accepts consequence of decay (8)
Bones in back and front of arm (6)
Brahms and Liszt are skint in former homeland (8)
Canny Katherina perhaps departs (6)
Try and sanction an Eastern martial art (8)
Picks pockets of two coppers (4)
Dismal and ultimately dejected state (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
{dejecte}D + ARK. Arkansas, I guess?
Purchase scrap of cloth to plug dyke (8)
Realise English National Curriculum has changed (6)
Toxic element in half of this garlic? (8)
Green or red ancillary vehicle (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
triple definition (?) TENDER = ‘green’ as in inexperienced TENDER = ‘red’ as in sore and apparently TENDER is a small vehicle attached to a larger one; for instance in a train, an attached carriage that holds fuel and water
Philosopher's follower removing carbon using hydrostatic pressure (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
{c}ARTESIAN I’m not sure I understand artesian wells even after looking up the definition. Here’s a reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artesian_well
More sluggish, with yen for sugar (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
FLATTER (?) + Y Not sure I totally see flat = sluggish, but there you have it.
Old magistrates from Home Counties turn back (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
SE (Home Counties) + VEER reversed
Down
The scholarly elements of elite rationalism (8)
Girls of boyish charm and singular spirit (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
GAMINES (girls of boyish charm) + S Again, not a definition of GAMINESS I knew, but I suppose deer meat has spirit.
Mischievous book, full of twists (9)
Appoint entirely unconventional diplomat (15)
Rebellious boy chopped notch in twig (5,2)
Place to grow lilac, oddly neglected shrub (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
GARDEN + {l}I{l}A{c}
Absolutely avoid someone doomed to failure (4,4)
Gypsum plant behind an experimental facility (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
ASTER after A LAB (an experimental facility)
Fidgets terribly, swallowing single brandy? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
anagram of FIDGETS around I (single)
Put books on top of ancient organ (8)
Demoted in caste, girl leaves India after a month (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
LASSIE without I (India, NATO again) after DEC (a month)
Parties regularly supporting retrospective gun control (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
{p}A{r}T{i}E{s} under LUGER reversed
Most gorgeous female consumed by desire (7)
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