Across
Drink a large coffee at the outset before work more than once (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A, L[arge], C[offee], OP, OP.
Gruesome lairs tons avoided (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
HIDEOUTS loses its T.
Element in National Trust into reforming tourism (9)
Corvette, say, lacking power versus a destroyer (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
SHI[P], V, A. One of the three top Hindu Gods.
Being in jail, in custody receiving constant allowance (13)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
IN, CARE (custody), insert C (a constant), RATION (allowance).
Correspond about officer commanding move (8)
Working granite when one's missing more colourful stone (6)
Plan of school heads in early mainstream education (6)
Massacre of Manchester City in safe game (8)
Short story by Oscar in Italian, perhaps involving politician's reverie (13)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
CONTE (a short story, from the French word); MP (politician), LATIN (perhaps Italian) with O for Oscar inserted.
Report eating British food (5)
Old arbalest could be such an old instrument (9)
Cheerfully banning book with good reason (7)
Bashful modesty of company head (7)
Down
Recess well over prior to the end of June (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
SPA (well) reversed, [jun]E.
Warm drink (7)
Grass snake in enclosed space might cause this? (5)
Abbot's number two has it, with yen for preference (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
a PRIOR being a number two to an abbot, IT, Y for yen.
Meat for each picnic basket (6)
I fight in engagement that's unequal (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
insert I SPAR (I fight) into DATE = engagement.
What could make one cry receiving private investigator's view (7)
People after deer, not what one expects in the Flow Country? (10)
Lawyer's plain text nicked by men (10)
Able to enter Nato, regularly (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
COMPETE (to enter), odd letters of NATO as above.
Hoped to have the House go against Conservative hairsplitting (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
HOPED loses HO[use], so PED, ANTI (against) C.
Help steal American's purse (7)
Bond worked over weakling — not the first (7)
A quiet airy ground where one keeps hives (6)
Cream engine, the last on railway (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
IVOR THE ENGINE being an animation TV series by Oliver Postgate, add Y from the end of railway.
Real highlights of English Mikado's lead in G&S (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
put E M into G and S.
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