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Beg mischief-maker to take on new role (7)
Attend police station, not having caught one-time dropout (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
BE AT (attend) NIcK (a nick is a commonly used slang term in Britain for a police station or a prison)
State of hair in dogs outside bars? (9)
Month the Spanish produce literary work (5)
Chap inside stole tea (5)
Irish island where drinks are on the house? (9)
Control plant's rebirth (13)
C-in-C's orders one's studied at first in car (13)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
GENERA (orders) + IS (one’s) Studied in LIMO (car)
King Edward, possibly, digesting poem about a crawler (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
TATER (potato, of which the King Edward is a variety) containing A in ODE; a TOADEATER (originally a mountebank’s assistant who would pretend to eat toads [believed to be poisonous]) meant a crawler or servile flatterer; the more familiar ‘toady’ is believed to be derived fron this
Enemy captures leaders of soldiers storming ditch (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Soldiers Storming in FOE; old word for a ditch or a moat
For all players, express disapproval with note (5)
Young farm animal initially swimming lake during trial (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Swimming + L (lake) in HEARING (trial); a SHEARLING is a young sheep after its first shearing
US landowner managed revolutionary rabble to begin with (7)
Foot of gigantic bird that's legendary in the East (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
ROC (gigantic bird that’s legendary) in THE E
Down
Popular youngster primarily interpreting nightmares (6)
Maybe one astride a heavy carthorse? (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
if someone was perching on a horse, s/he might be said to be astride it; a Percheron is a compact heavy breed of carthorse; Le Perche (after which it is named) is a former province of France approximately occupying a place in modern-day south-east Normandy
Old friend in Paris collecting gear for pastime in Japan (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
RIG (gear) in O (old) AMI (French for friend); as far as solvers are concerned, the only Japanese pastimes are origami, bonsai, noh and haiku
Mournful English supporter going over Iowa and California (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
E LEG IA CAL
Member of cattle tribe thus invading waste container perhaps (5)
Memory defect mother raised upset first-class nurse once (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
reversal (raised) of MA followed by reversal (upset) of AI (first-class) SEN (state enrolled nurse)
New girl meets head of Roedean? I don't believe it! (5)
Scene of cat fights? Type disturbing a fellow (8)
Bring back army corps court covering most of county (9)
Artisan travelling north is crossing motorway (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
M in NORTH IS*
A contemptible person on a hill, one causing trouble (8)
New shrine ultimately south of a European river (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
SHRINE* soutH
Big fire? Deduce otherwise (7)
Alliance placing silver urn originally in shelter (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
AG (silver) Urn in LEE (shelter)
Continue to perform in part of West London (5)
Stunner posed again, given rise (5)
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