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Intense interest grips crossword compiler of some renown (5)
Seize money from Cape Town banks using small keys found on me (4,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
BAG (seize) + RAND (money from Cape Town), containing (banks) BY (using).
Still it produces German beers UK ale lovers put in report (3,6)
Shooting a plus score for the round, he's out of the Open (5)
Left kill to accept title of Man Hunter (6)
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reversal of (left) DO IN (kill), containing (to accept) MR (title of man). A biblical character that I know only from Elgar.
Produce notes making separate contributions to new degree (8)
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N + N (notes) separately inserted into (making separate contributions to) an anagram of DEGREE.
Acting with caution around Sicily's Madam White (10)
Winning shot from majestic Djokovic? (4)
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‘up’ (winning) subtracted from (shot from) SupERB (majestic). Referring to tennis player Novak.
Enthusiastic about tagging along without wife (4)
Go round and round offensive bow maker (7,3)
Perennial lover of lassie hidden in long grass (8)
Passenger's vacuous reaction to cold city (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
middle letters removed from (vacuous) PassengeR, then AGUE (reaction to cold).
Works by Van Gogh? Old Man captured in pieces (5)
Most unusual assignment for knights to receive is not for commoners (9)
Student of poor classes, one out of place in stream (9)
Laid bare, as Man is blind (5)
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aS WE ARe (as Man is), minus the outermost letters (laid bare).
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Chance to leave impression following lie about mathematician (9)
Gun man saying Rebecca used him? (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
a type of machine gun, and a character from Daphne du Maurier’s novel. I knew neither, but had all the checkers.
Ice fields on which bases are established (8)
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cryptic hint. The name of a baseball field on which the bases are laid out.
Signal page with buzzer first (4)
Old Peruvian liquor encapsulates "mind-numbing diversion" (5,5)
Fouled up on sticky diet? (6)
Up to about five hundred crews embrace change (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
AT (up to) containing (about), MEN + MEN (crews) which contain (embrace) D (five hundred).
Put off weightwatcher wanting the tiniest serving of ice-cream (5)
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DiETER (weightwatcher) missing (wanting) the first letter (tiniest serving) of ‘ice-cream’.
During dramatic interval, dance old mum's parts (10)
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ANTIQUE (old) which MA’S (mum’s) parts (splits). A comic or grotesque sequence or dance in a play performed before a more elegant or moralising part (a masque) to emphasise the contrast.
Appear like Lent with a sad tear? (9)
Exploit with energy drink lands someone in the Tower (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
FEAT (exploit) + E (energy), which BEER (drink) lands (contains).
Bones makes call tracking old vessel's location (8)
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MO (Medical Officer, “bones”), then RINGS (makes call) after (tracking) O (old).
This'll be spicy, let's wait up (3,3)
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NOT NOW (let’s wait) reversed (up).
Designs ways to express average income (5)
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triple definition.
Grounds for clergyman and poet occupying single bed (5)
A time to abandon assault course (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
‘a’ and ‘t’ (time) subtracted from (to abandon) atTACK.
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