Across
Meeting class outside university (5)
Luxurious City bar is demolished (9)
Arsenic? Sure to suss out (9)
Change mind about cross person that's annoying (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
VEER (change mind) containing [about] X (cross). One thinks of ‘veer’ as changing direction rather than one’s mind, but I suppose it works figuratively.
Infected doubter dismissing Covid initially (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
S{c}EPTIC (doubter) [dismissing C{ovid} initially]
Staff go moving around back of theatre not visible to audience (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Anagram [moving around] of STAFF GO, then{theatr}E [back]
Trainee programme opened up by Institution of Civil Engineers (10)
Riddle mostly over hospital for doctors and nurses perhaps? (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
SIF{t} (riddle – sieve) [mostly] reversed [over], then H (hospital). I was baffled by the definition but have come up with ‘nurse shark’ and ‘doctor fish’. The first is familiar but the latter is not, however Wiki advises it’s actually called the red garra and it’s used in spa treatments where it feeds off the dead skin of humans. Yuk! If there’s another explanation, please let me know.
Crossing over a period of days (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
FOR (over a period of), D (days)
Reviewed the cooling of human culture (10)
Book (classical) virtuoso pianist (8)
Corrupt chamber is concerning (6)
Raft beginning to sink in Welsh lake (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
S{ink} [beginning] contained by [in] BALA (Welsh lake). I knew the light wood from model aeroplanes but not that it can also mean a light raft.
A university eleven complain bitterly over unknown supporter (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A, U (university), XI (eleven), then RAIL (complain bitterly) reversed [over], Y (unknown)
One showing some French skill in beginnings of "cogito ergo sum"? (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
DES (some, in French), then ART (skill) contained by C{ogito} + E{rgo} + S{um} [beginnings of…]
Press down? Nothing's left to peruse (5)
Down
Draw attention to workers that will keep up standards (9)
Step right up and go over (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
PACE (step) + R (right) reversed [up]
Ordered, trim and neat for strict disciplinarian (8)
Literary poet showing lots of ostentation (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
SWAN{k} (ostentation) [lots of]. My AI assistant advises: The nickname “The Swan of Avon” for William Shakespeare originated with Ben Jonson, a contemporary playwright. It appeared in a poem Jonson wrote as a tribute to Shakespeare, which was published in the First Folio collection of Shakespeare’s plays in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare’s death.
Charitable payment to the sick reduced to small coin (10)
Delight in artist with power over hearts (6)
Tons cutting outside income contributing to government revenue (9)
Pioneer studying radiation remedy involving iodine (5)
Utter guile — the art of politicians (10)
Plane curves from airborne fighter with missiles in South America (9)
Chap is after part of London common (9)
Deluge came down as many matches are played (8)
Mistakes noted during Canberra talks (6)
Like one's brain's evolutionary design at the front? (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
L{ike} + O{ne’s} + B{rain’s} + E{volutionary} + D{esign} [at the front]
Sudden inundation's well over western parts of Tewkesbury (5)
Spotted deer unknown in Asia, mostly running (4)
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