Across
Couple concluding Kerouac stops grand lady — is this On The Road? (7)
Note muddle about one Aristotelian literary term (7)
Sacked US lawman's flipping stunned (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
FED (US lawman) reversed [flipping], ROCKED (stunned)
In Ireland, force a tedious person back (5)
AI's eschewed in fair vote returning revered figure (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
F{ai}R [AI’s eschewed in…], then AYE (vote – ‘the Ayes have it’) reversed [returning]. Freya was the goddess of love and fecundity in Norse mythology.
Veterans on horse behave touchingly? (4,5)
Two sons getting a good deal on underwear item? It's worth little (5,8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
BRA (underwear), S+S (two sons), FAR (a good deal), THING (item). There’s a saying ‘not worth a brass farthing’ with reference to the defunct unit of currency that was worth very little.
One tells a future doctor to get in to free uni, oddly (7,6)
You heard right: cover of iconic song creates irritation (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Aural wordplay [heard]: U / “you”, then RT (right), I{coni}C [cover of…], ARIA (song). The medical term for a nettle rash or one that resembles it.
Don't leave any energy drink bottles behind for all to see (3,2)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
U (for all to see – Universal, film classification), SUP (drink) contains [bottles] E (energy)
Taunt Stoic regularly? Everyone must join in (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
T{a}U{n}T {s}T{o}I{c} [regularly]. Seen in music scores sometimes when the whole orchestra is about to play at the same time.
US singer's swish and mostly eager to receive publicity (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
CHIC (swish), KEE{n} (eager) [mostly] containing [to receive] AD (publicity). Aka the titmouse. Mae West and WC Fields famously made a film called My Little Chickadee released in 1940.
Exciting tale shot on camera briefly (7)
Yankee flourished, putting away whiskey provided (7)
Down
Upset about party's position that's sometimes silly? (3-3)
Anglican carrying iron rod in drinking establishment (6,3)
Bits of information concealed in play's model scene (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
1 + O (bits of information) contained [concealed] in DRAMA (play). 1 and 0 are the fundamental building blocks of all digital information.
What milliners do, bringing up small ecstasy rush (4,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
When bringing up S (small), MAKE HATS (what milliners do) becomes MAKE HAST, then E (ecstasy)
Tinker picked up award for achievement (5)
Stick up hotel, beset by drunk police still (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
GUM (stick) reversed [up], then H (hotel) contained [beset] by SOT (drunk). Note: Early posters have pointed out that MUG (stick up) without reversal also works and on reflection I agree although when I first considered it when blogging I wasn’t sure that that ‘mug’ and ‘stick up’ were necessarily quite the same thing.
Alluring person about to feed lust? (5)
Maybe Leo Delibes's finale getting poor ratings (4,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
{Delibe} S [’s finale], anagram [poor] of RATINGS. One of Delibes’s most popular works is the ballet Coppélia which contains this cheerful Mazurka.
Machiavellian characteristic of speech breaking friendship (9)
I'm stunned by that tambourine Verdi deftly incorporates (1,5,3)
Liberal, in a loud voice, gets excited (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
L (Liberal) contained by [in] A + F (loud) + UTTER (voice)
This will soothe female leaving work (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
{f}UNCTION (work) [female leaving]
With luck, Ken's rolling a joint (7)
Join in mission to follow TikTok or Instagram? (6)
Gathered scripture up showing distinctive symbol (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
MET (gathered) + OT (scripture) reversed [up]
Explore area for play, given limits of Cymbeline (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
REC (area for play – recreation ground), C{ymbelin}E [limits of…]
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