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Drink this periodically, not out to lunch (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Poirot’s preferred beverage, a herbal infusion. Alternate letters of ThIs, then not out to lunch is SANE
Puffed up old French president's losing papers (7)
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Took me a while to remember George POMPIDOU. Keep the ’S , remove the ID papers.
Changing name to Mark, a friend abroad shows taste (5)
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Formally recognised as the fifth basic taste in 1985, alongside sweet, savoury, salty and bitter. A friend abroad, is UN AMI, change the N to an M[ark]
Causing tears in uniform, adjusting clothing gently (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
U[niform] plus SETTING for adjusting cloths/surounds P for gently, in musical notation.
Spiralling banking charge resident incurs now (9)
No experts in computer usage put in place (5)
Deal, for example, with fashion houses (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Deal is touted as a very pleasant seaside town in Kent. Fashion’s TON gives house room to W[ith].
Perhaps Parisian dives in sea, swimming with mittens (10)
Moving picture frame for resident amid handiwork hassle (5,5)
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Clint Eastwood, 1971. The outside letters of R[esiden]T inside DIY for handiwork, followed by HARRY for hassle.
Poet showing how ode to London could start? (4)
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War poet Wilfred Owen. London was christened the Great WEN, a cyst or boil on the face of the earth, by ruralist William Cobbett in the 1820s. So a (rather disparaging) ode to LONDON might start “O WEN!”
Clear out house to the west of mine (3,2)
Hounds running with horse somewhere in Canada (6,3)
Message from caller failing to entertain old man, we hear (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Failing is VICE, insert O[ld] and add a heard version of male for man, which gives MAIL
Where Riviera tourists may go, wanting energy boost (5)
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Riviera tourists might go TO NICE. Remove the E[nergy] and concatenate.
US gun outside London attraction was a revolver? (7)
Picked up books on tragic figure (6)
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Wildly taunt Red Guards caught short (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
An anagram (wildly) of TAUNT RED “guards” C[aught]
In two different ways, fight bird (7)
Fixed home up, installing a light (6)
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Careful separating needed. Home is IN, which is reversed with A installed. The LED for light follows
Meat-filled snack in final section of reference work? (5)
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The last section of a reference work will be PAST (section) Y
Maybe steely marine's outside, of great stature and in charge (8)
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The outside letters of M[arin]E plus TALL for of great stature, plus I[n] C[harge]
Wheel — one damaged side's eaten by rust, say (7)
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One of these days I’ll remember that by is times is X, but until then I’ll puzzle my way through wordplay that doesn’t quite work. Wheel provides the shape of O, the one is I, and damaged side gives you the anagram DISE. Put them together, and insert that X.
Express carrying goods far from firm (5)
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Express is SAY, insert two G[oods]
Set off and shot round borders of Savoie area (3,2,3)
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Shot is PUTT (on the green), round give O as wheel does above, the borders of SavoiE and A[rea] complete the set.
Dog in show put on lead, barking with energy (8)
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Show is AIR, add an anagram (barking) of LEAD and E{nergy]
Alexander VIII of Germany in wind-powered vehicle (4,5)
Obscure way kid's snubbing Oscar and Hazel, say, over time (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Chambers has it hyphenated, I have it as invented especially for this puzzle, but it’s BOY’S, kid’s, without the O[scar], and TREE indicated by hazel as an example, plus T[ime]
On long tours I put a new coat on (7)
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RE is on (the subject of) the PANT for long surrounds I.
Chuck out to interrupt Don in on-line event (7)
Kind heart of friend for Sally (6)
Loiter in van in Hertford with some deliveries (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Van is a (slightly archaic?) way of saying the front of, in this case H[ertford] and some deliveries (six, usually) is an OVER in cricket.
Challenging nurses over secret supply (5)
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Challenging is HARD, and O[ver] is “nursed”.
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