Across
Jar filled with a colourful liquid (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
PINT (of beer) with A inserted.
Out, local female in hat (9)
Fold last of pages in dictionary inside comic (5,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
comic = CLOWN, insert OED, insert [page]S into that.
Monster secure, it's reported (5)
That man behind alto, when sozzled, can't stand (6)
Recess measures one metre exactly at the opening, caver finally going in (4,4)
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FEET (measures), I (one), M E (first letters of metre exactly), insert [cave]R.
25 across, or what — does that suggest? (5,1,6)
Humiliate further and give it some welly? (3,3,4,2)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
cryptic DD.
Fast runners, crooks did you say? (8)
Weather in Chartres is terrible (6)
Stand firmly against, do (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
if you want to stand firmly opposed to something, you can BE A NO, and beano is a beanfeast, a party.
Unknown chest found in Rhodes, unexpectedly (4,5)
Blow a gasket while parked alongside West Indian housing block (2,7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
the answer came easily from (2,7) and the checkers, but the parsing was cheeky; we have a GOAN (from the western part of India, not the West Indies!) with BAN (block) inserted, adding AS = while.
Equestrian qualification (5)
Down
Steal old currency tucked inside thin coat (8)
I hear about two notes in worship (8)
Queen hit, Don't Stop Me Now (3,4,4,2,2)
Lap up in game (4)
Villain's broken rank to stop one going up and down (4,6)
That legion slaughtered, number totally exposed (2,3,10)
Wind or gas in thermal? (3,3)
One refusing a measure of hose (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
another DD, two pronunciations.
Alert operative (8,2)
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another DD.
Customs finally put foot down when character smuggled in object on domestic flight? (5,3)
King Charlie not prepared to carry key climbing gear (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
K for king, NIT for charlie, RAW (not prepared) reversed, with A (a key) inserted. I was delayed by thinking it was beginning with CR and failing to lift and separate “climbing” and “gear”.
Diamonds get cooler (3,3)
Area for planting a bulb regularly lacking soil (6)
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BED (garden area), A, [b]U[l]B.
Olympian shows courage having lost lead (4)
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DARES loses its D. Greek god of war, one of the twelve Olympians.
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