Across
Angry Sri Lankan POW's cynical notion of work (10,3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”. An anagram, with angry the slightly unusual indicator, of SRI LANKAN POW’S. I’ll let you know if it’s true once I’ve finished the blog.
Doughty at heart, fondle ferret (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
The middle of douGhty plus RUB for fondle. Ferret as the verb to rummage around.
Report on particular fielder (5,5)
Complex flavonoid initially lacking in curry (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
An anagram (complex) of FLAVANOID without its initial F.
Glimpse one impersonating copper (6)
Writer's gripped by odd sound (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Setter’s self referential I’M contained by UNPAIRED, as in an odd sock.
Smart set regularly wasted stuff (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Odd letters of SmArT sEt. Stuff as in eat to capacity.
Express contentment, parking posh luxury car (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
P[arking], U for the Mitford posh, RR for a Rolls Royce.
Ribaldry and ebullience when Henry moves (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
HEARTINESS would be ebullience, move the H[enry] to where it fits.
Look after a fine female pigeon (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Look is (an) AIR, set after A F[ine] F[emale]. Via pidgin, a corruption of the Chinese word for business, pigeon is one’s affair or concern.
Swift perhaps to pursue boy with unknown bug (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
The maybe swift is just a BIRD, placed after LAD for boy and Y for unknown.
Patience maybe of one manager overwhelmed by stupor (5,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Patience, or Bunthorne’s Bride, is a Gilbert and Sullivan spoof on the arty elite of the time. Here it’s I COPER, one manager, enclosed in a COMA or stupor.
Low-down half-wit (4)
Re-enacted racy plays in support facility (3-4,6)
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Pal refusing to swim in Asian sea (7,4)
Mad boozer keels over unconscious (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A boozer is a BAR that in this case is overturned, and then you have the unconscious source of all our baser drives, the ID.
Clean it up, shifting blame (9)
Deliverer of bouquet nicking half of it (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A Slightly easier clue, I think, than we had on Monday. Bouquet is SAVOUR, insert half of IT (I’ll let you work out which half).
Emperor in tears, intermittently missing Old Dominion (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
September 96 to January 98 following the assassination of Domitian. The odd (even) letters of iN tEaRs and VA from Virginia, known as the Old Dominion, if not by me.
People watching lovely boy (7-2)
Briefly crave pasty (3)
Tragedy of feline pet throttled by alpha male (11)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
OK. So it’s feline: CAT and then pet: STROP enclosed in A from alpha and HE from male.
Death of ethics over time (9)
Dry and extremely delicate late husband cocked up on drug (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
The outer letters of D[elicate] followed by TARDY (late) H[usband] reversed (cocked up) and the the drug E.
Mostly depended on village's banks for aid (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Depended on gives RELIED, from which you detach the last letter. The “banks” of V[illag]E complete.
Port and fine German wine (5)
Try and empty elegant basin (5)
Random piece of period drama (3)
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