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Without afterthought, cops now stick together (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Start with COPS, remove the PS afterthought, and add HERE for present
Taps into data and nicks stuff (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
The taps are C[old] and H[ot], insert into FILES of data.
Fit dad cycling along (3,2)
Appealing E in Algebra, unfortunately, and English (9)
Calculus vexes tenor (9)
At home with half-sister in Bury (5)
Press club (4)
Fools small people with essentially untrustworthy evaluation (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Fools ASSES plus S[mall] people: MEN plus the essential/middle letter of untrusTworthy.
Plebeian girl following cow about (5-5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A cow is a LOWER, about is C[irca] and the girl a LASS.
Look back, and carry on (4)
Stones murderer, stifling resistance (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A pile of stones, then. CAIN is your original murderer, with R[esistance] enclosed
Friendly clot clutching nickel (9)
Pericles dancing with son is very amusing (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
An anagram (dancing) of PERICLES with S[on]
Golf fanatics retiring hurt (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
NATO G[olf] and NUTS for fanatics all reversed (retiring).
Bold on the phone at the end of each day (7)
Some masseur gently pressing (6)
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Cleaner wrongly supporting Greek cook (9)
This naked boy turned up and shot Spanish gent (7)
Retired old man's boring meal (6)
Ludicrous situation in remote church (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Remote is FAR, and church is C [of] E (while we still have it). Once again prompted back to the sixties with Brian Rix at the Whitehall.
Most wary of learner driver on scary road (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
L[earner driver], scary gives EERIE and road ST[reet]
Contemptuous expression upset one Tuesday regular (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Our contemptuous expression is BAH (think Scrooge) which is upset or set up, one is I, and add TUE[sday]
Sharp turn (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Another double definition; I think sheer as in sharp drop, turn as in sheer away.
Constant excitement and drinking (8)
Nonchalance in a sense is affected (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
An anagram (affected) of A SENSE IS. Lose time by trying to make IN part of the anagram fodder instead of IS.
Elite go to bed drunk, according to Spooner (3-6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Spooner might render it FLOP TIGHT.
Protestant clumsily dropping books in part of church (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Drop the N[ew] T[estament] books from PROTESTANT, then anagram (clumsily). On edit: N[ew] should be O[ld], or we end up with PROSTATE, which may be a part of the Church supporting the secular government.
Wife heartlessly walloping fish (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
I’ve checked, you can still get whiting in Tesco’s, though it can mean almost any white fish. For us, it’s W[ife] plus HITTING from walloping with its middle T obliterated.
Gourmet in despair, oddly lacking salt? (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
The odd letters missing from dEsPaIr plus salt, alluding to the process of CURE-ing, for example, whiting.
Tricky question of China losing grip (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
China is shorthand for TEA SERVICE, lose the VICE-like grip.
Mafia boss ultimately shown to be chicken (5)
Tough hack entering empty city (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
If you overcook your whiting? Replace the IT emptied from CITY with HEW for hack.
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