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Dog training ahead of test? It requires careful manipulation (8)
Summit where clubs vote to accept overseas capital (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
C for clubs, X for vote, insert LIMA the capital of Peru.
Significant time to worry about losing face (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
worry, about = ERAC, lose the C. I nearly biffed ETA (estimated time of arrival) then realised I needed to “lose face”.
Protest ignited India towards destruction (10)
Heading for shelter from conflict in city (8)
It contains stuff from the east, infused with a soy-based sauce (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
take IT, insert RAM, reverse it all, insert A. It’s like soy sauce but different.
Collection of people having no right to enter university (2,2)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
GROUP loses R for fight. I went up in 1966; do people still say “go up” to uni?
Huge fuss around finale of spectacular TV show (3,7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
huge fuss = BIG BOTHER, insert R the last letter of spectacular. Glad to say, I have never watched it.
Pips possibly from fresh limes in a G&T (4,6)
Machine part broken by large blockage (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
L inside COG.
When power and fury combine, shoot for the stars! (6)
Certain animals, primarily horses included in my analysis info (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
H (primarily horses), inserted into COR (my!), DATA = analysis info. Animals with a spinal cord, including all vertebrates.
I've nothing more to say about a fancy donut! (4,3,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
OVER (about), A, (DONUT)*.
Angry and tired, though not at first (3)
Finest head journalist outsmarted (6)
Young relative also thus taken in by good prank periodically (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
G[ood], [p]R[a]N[k], gives you GR…N, insert AND (also) SO (thus).
Down
Official caught in tricky situation on the runway? (9)
Flatten out gold beneath thin sheet of silver? (7)
Make charming final piece on organ (6)
Providing corrective action in respect of me fizzling out (9)
Lesser celeb's monastic life devoid of love (1-6)
Fellow almost entirely overwhelmed by daft vernacular (9)
A plane maybe circling popular race venue (7)
In part, Republican denies freaking out leader (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
PT (part) with R (DENIES)* inserted. Sort of topical, this one.
Holidaymaker perhaps heading for basically every Indian state, we're told (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
B[asically], EACH (every), GOER sounds like GOA.
Singing centrally features in one great new style of music (9)
This month, material of mine is available to buy (2,5)
Horned mammal seen to the south of one cold country (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
I (one) C[old], ELAND a horned antelope.
The French tennis great ultimately squanders lead more than once (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
LE (the French), ASHE (Arthur, tennis player of yesteryear), [squander]S. This took me an age as I was fixated on the tennis player being [L}AVER and couldn’t for the life of me see the clever definition, ‘lead more than once’ = more than one dog leash.
Dish that's initially covered in a tiny amount of salt (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A GRAIN of salt, with T[hat’s] inserted.
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