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Suggesting my words are false introduces pressure (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
I’M LYING with P inserted.
Revolutionary has fun pets (6)
Ruler favouring the Tories crows, stifling unknown protest forcefully (3,4,6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
CR (Charles Rex), BLUE (Tories) MURDER (collective noun for crows), insert Y an unknown. I admit I biffed this and parsed it afterwards.
Retailer's opening guide for one making a career (6)
They may hold drugs from ace smugglers smuggling a lot of marijuana (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A[ce], MULES (smugglers) with PO[t] inserted. Another one solved first and parsed afterwards.
Wide, rotten boat full of animals covers miles (3,3,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
OFF (rotten), THE ARK with M[iles] inserted.
It holds large quantity of alcohol still ultimately doubled (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
still = BUT, double the last letter = BUTT. A butt can store wine, or beer, or be a water butt in your garden.
Go nuts, giving a twirl (4)
Hack off lizard's tail with inarticulate sound? Man perhaps admits it (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
D (end of lizard), ISLE (Man perhaps), insert GRUNT.
Sunny capital of Eritrea maybe pedestrianised around the outside (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Pedestrianised could be CAR FREE, insert E[ritrea]. No need to go looking for Asmara.
As yet struggling to dress wife covered in beads (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
(AS YET)* with W[ife] inserted.
Scottish runner offering to conserve energy now (3,3,7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
FORTH (Scottish river), PRESENT (offering), insert E for energy.
On vacation, Croatian houses dear in Split (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
insert LOVE (dear) into C[roatia]N.
Sort of music that is at a higher tempo than the rest (8)
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Entertainer accepting a dodgy role on stage (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
MC (entertainer), insert A, DUFF = dodgy. I wasn’t keen on this clue. An MC is the bloke who introduces the entertainers, not the entertainer per se. Does duff mean dodgy? And a random pick of a million possible stage roles to get to one from the Scottish play.
Athlete ably running in set places (3,3,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
(ATHLETE ABLE)*.
Youngster losing head hands round drug, one unlikely to work (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
[k]ID = youngster losing head, L and R are hands, insert E our usual drug.
Socialist Party in summer time uprising (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
RAVE inside AUG[ust], all reversed. Another clue I’m luke warm about. I thought Che was a Marxist, not a Socialist.
Game is fine, with Reds put in new positions on the wings (4,5)
Half-hearted, cross staff (3)
Sign nothing's missing in substandard holiday accommodation (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
a POOR TENT could be substandard holiday accommodation, remove an O = nothing.
Account not meriting credit or PIN in refined neighbourhood's banks (5,6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
URBANE (refined), insert LEG (pin) gives you URBAN LEGE, add N[eighbourhoo]D.
Pernod drunk hot and cool? It makes you feel good (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
(PERNOD)*, H, IN = cool. This one I solved from the wordplay.
He leaves the lecture in an emotional state (7)
Someone who sells fish turned over a kipper? (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
all reversed; REP (someone who sells), EELS (fish).
50 old songs played at gig coming up, including It's Not Unusual? (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
L (50), IT, O[ld], SET reversed. If you don’t know what a litotes is, it’s not unusual, look it up.
What's up with album's mindless followers? (5)
Soldiers see gun (3)
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