Across
Returning show restricted by extremely corny humour (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
DEMO (show) reversed [returning] contained [restricted] by C{orn}Y [extremely]
Name a soft drink containing a hint of orange (7)
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A, P (soft), PINT (drink) containing O{range} [a hint of…]
Spice Girl accompanying a legendary soprano (5)
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MEL B (Spice Girl), A. Dame Nellie Melba.
Call into question opinion given by magazine? (4,5)
A way of identifying weapon immediately (2,1,6)
Collection of books covering standard, illusionary works (2,3)
Instrument does maybe turn around (4)
Teacher fabricated rubbish about God (3,7)
Bird of course mostly seen in wild gardens (10)
Parsnip oddly lacking flavour at first? Yeah, right! (2,2)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
{p}A{r}S{n} I{p} [oddly lacking], F{lavour} [at first]
Empty spaces in front of Tate taken on by an esteemed artist (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
T{ate} [front of…] contained [taken on by] AN + RA (esteemed artist). Before I had checkers I toyed with ATRIA here for a while but the wordplay saved me from myself. Antrum is a cavity in bones or a part of the stomach.
Bachelor being slimy and being inclined to insobriety (9)
Helicopter shortly to be scrambled for law enforcers (3,6)
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Anagram [scrambled] of HELICOPTE{r}. I felt the setter was playing with us here as a slang word for helicopter is ‘eggbeater’.
Demonstrated, perhaps, what couturiers may use (5)
Continue to obtain cheap Aussie wine from here? (4,3)
Deadhead ultimately invested in excellent selection of albums? (2,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
{deadhea}D [ultimately] contained by [invested in] CRACK (excellent). My other outlier for which I eventually resorted to aids as I never considered the possibility that the two letter element may be an abbreviation.
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Guy friends draw parallels between adopting daughter and son (9)
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COMPARE (draw parallels between) containing [adopting] D (daughter), then S (son). Although the answer was write-in I puzzled a while when preparing the blog over the presence of ‘guy’. A little research reveals that a ‘compadre’ is specifically a male friend, and the female equivalent is ‘comadre’. One lives and learns! Amusing, given that in English the term ‘guys’ no longer necessarily makes that distinction.
Virile guards fighting Trojan? (7)
Departs too soon, at significant cost (6)
Racehorse runs into lake, uncontrollably (5)
Ready to keep on getting corrupted (8)
Time for a quick coffee? (7)
Action of lifting the foot (5)
Writer gets rising pulse (8)
Cheered up after games machine finally arrived (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
CONSOLE (games machine), {arrive}D [finally]. This should have been easy but I was looking for something more specific for a games machine, possibly a brand name that everyone but me would know.
Dissident about to join family heading north (9)
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RE (about), FUSE (join), then KIN (family) [heading north]
Love in Macbeth represented great sacrifice (8)
Emissions target number set up. It means nothing! (3,4)
Colourful arrays of Bond baddies very nearly dead just before the end (7)
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SPECTR{e} (James Bond baddies) [very nearly], {de}A{d} [just before the end – tricky!]
Film, we're told, wasn't a hit (6)
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Aural wordplay[we’re told]: “mist” (film)
Type of suit that's partially water-resistant, I guess (4-1)
Aerospace company dismissing old person (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
B{o}EING (aerospace company} [dismissing old]
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