Across
Temporary profession of players (6)
Gently boils some carrots, immersed (7)
Any number packed into space wherein contest is held (5)
Noticing old bishop helping at Mass? (9)
Chief royal figure almost first to insult China (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
PRINC[e] + I[nsult] + PAL….been reading the news, have we?
Arab maybe having a throat problem, we hear? (5)
Record middle of opera in box at La Scala? (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
LOG + [op]E[ra].
Craftspeople come in beset by grumbles (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
CARP(ENTER)S.
A son's tried to develop skill (10)
Endless pity for fraud (4)
Fraudulent American introduced by John (5)
Holy father drinking coffee with late queen seen as sycophant? (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
F(LATTE)R + E.R.
Concerned with commercial risk bearing returns with existing coverage (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
ACTUA(AIR backwards)L.
Boy wanting more dance (5)
Study NT book in European country (7)
Vessel has possible indicator of nationality attached (6)
Down
A couple of pianos in a room associated with a type of singing (1,8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A C(A, P, P)ELL + A, an easy biff.
Call after match creating rows (7)
Subtlety is absent from annoying individual (6)
Source of fibre and iodine girl's eaten up (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
LAS(I)S upside-down.
Drug hospital injected into leg — more needed externally (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
MOR(P(H)IN)E.
I emerge after travelling — a settler in another land (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Anagram of I EMERGE, really a French word as we would not normally use gender in English.
Good university in Durham, say, to carry on without a break (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
SE(G,U)E. A see that is not Ely!
Customers initially order ungarnished beef (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
C[ustomers] + O.M. + PLAIN.
Fair exam ought to be like this? (8)
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Cryptic hint.
Person who helps ruin one possessed by the devil (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
SA(MAR I)TAN.
African city family has to be housed in South Africa (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
KIN + S(HAS)A.
Trendy leader's deserting Sussex resort (5-2)
Board sacking old, old president (7)
Possibly to do with parts of USA at last being reformed (6)
Fifty in group exciting little interest? (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
B(L)AND.
Digital means of projecting film? (5)
Type letters or click words in the clue