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Suffer, with quite pained expression (5)
Briefly had success — they are about to retire (3,3,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
The syntax is tricky. Briefly HA[D], with success: HIT and THEY both (hence are) about (it).
End of camping? Love to stop at home! (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Camping is IN TENT (tee hee) and O for love stops, is stuffed into IN for home.
Tend to back employees running shows (5)
Taking off: one's mass movement in art (13)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Taking off gives IMPRESSION plus I’S M[ass]
Monarch no longer to block vote against old tyrant (4)
Make early sporting exit, but not be "distressed" (4,3,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
From golf, I think, where after a couple of rounds only the lowest scores go on the further rounds. Hilariously, you don’t get your hair/tress cut.
"Ta God" is, er a translation? (3,7)
Book with education essentials? It's fresh! (4)
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B[ook] with the three Rs of basic education, Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic. Don’t blame me.
One refusing to change out of uniform into elaborate stitched mink (5-2-3-3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Formed out of U[niform] in an anagram (elaborate) of STITCHED MINK.
Are Wanderers after quiet sort of tournament? (3-2)
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More golf, usually, where professionals and amateurs (usually famous for other reasons) are paired. (They) are wanderers – (they) ROAM after P for quiet.
Female porter maybe cross with artist (9)
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Porter is a kind of ALE, add X for cross and R[oyal] A[cademician] for artist.
Is earlier pressure one exerts moving Society? (3-6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
P[ressure] plus anagram of I (one) EXERTS plus S[ociety]
Lack, for the most part, somewhere peaceful (5)
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Most of HAVEN'[T], (you) lack.
Down
Fan of a fine old company performing song and dance (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Tried to make it some sort of air conditioning, but its A F[ine] old company: ICI, performing: ON (stage, etc) song and dance ADO.
Many failing to finish: a policeman's not happy? (3)
Jan's in this women's team in Italy (6)
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The abbreviated month. W[omen’s] team in Italy, that’ll be INTER Milan. Legend has it my excellent Mother in Law danced with every team member thereof when on holiday in Italy.
Rough for one to wear one? Right (4,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Okay, so HARSH for rough plus I (one) wears another I, in this case rather as a medallion in the middle plus R[igh]T. &lit
After function, leave for dance (5)
Unusual thing to have bloke close to union at? (3,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A third &lit, if you will. An anagram (unusual) of THING, with HE for bloke and the end/close of [unio]N. Obviously, a bloke coming up to marriage/union would more likely be at the stag do getting tied to a lamppost on Bodmin Moor.
Rash — with smell — concealing a strange mark (5-6)
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Smell gives you the colloquial HUM, and A strange: RUM, and mark: SCAR are interposed.
He's French, or would be indeed, if not very (4)
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A common enough French male. If V[ery] were not included, he would be YES, or indeed.
The end perhaps of Turkey's objections recounted by ministers (7,4)
Men raised Deutschmarks in tax: something for a rainy day? (5,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Men gives O[ther] R[anks]’, add the reverse (raised) of D[eutsch]M[arks], place both in STRAIN for tax.
Go out more? Missing Yankee's not spotted (9)
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Go out more and you STAY IN LESS. Remove the Y[ankee]
One's not sincere, on reflection, in thanks for snack (5,3)
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A confection of coconut and dried fruit. One’s not sincere gives I’M LIAR, which is reversed (on reflection) withing TX for thanks – perhaps the thin end of the wedge of the Sign of the Times setting up camp in our hallowed fogeydom.
Area quiet after 5-hour party (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
The wedge thickens? If you refer back to 5d, you’ll see it’s TANGO, NATO for T. Add H[ou]R, A[rea] and SH for quiet.
One addressing autumn ending of off-peak fare (5)
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And now the thin end of the TLS wedge: To Autumn (you probably know the opening line, “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”) is by this chap, made up of the end of [off-pea]K and EATS for fare.
Each smartphone download potentially interrupted by ring (1,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Another fairly recent synonym. APP is a download, stick in a ring, which looks like O.
For silly short film turned to Sky (3)
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And another. A short film, or VID[eo} is turned skywards.
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