Across
Grip metal joint with reversible faces (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
LEAD (metal) HOCK (joint) with first letters switched (reversible faces) This was my last in, biffed. I overlooked the possibility of this wordplay device, because the faces are not ‘reversible’ here, but rather ‘reversed’.
Sweet nothing (6)
Part of cathedral day out ends in panic and patriarch in flap (4,6)
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DAY anagrammed (out) last letters of (ends in) PANIC and PATRIARCH in LAPEL (flap)
Too emotional, some cases (4)
Players indebted to closing season display (6-8)
Mo, I should add muscle (7)
I'll ask you to raise your glasses to Daisy's relative (7)
Inordinately proud to leave school unqualified (4,3)
State I entered in treatment for my own good (7)
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I in (entered in) anagram of (treatment for) MY OWN + G (good)
Routine studied in guest house, say (5-3-6)
Putin's agreed to render part of wall (4)
Bankrupt rogue hosts balls (10)
Forget it — Ned's no longer coming about pests (6)
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NEVER MIND (forget it) without NED (Ned’s no longer coming about) Wow, this is very good.
Drew small craft, back to front, alongside front of dock (8)
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KETCHES (small craft) with last letter put first (back to front) + (alongside) first letter (front) of DOCK
Down
Dope accompanying a large female on a cycle (7)
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WITH (accompanying) A L (large) F (female) with the letters cycled (on a cycle)
Movement for music and not for drama (9)
According to recital, the Pobble does sugar! (7)
What ladies mark at ball includes both the last and the first dance (7)
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CARDS (what ladies mark at ball) around both (includes separately) Z and A (the last and the first) Did not really get the ladies marking cards business but there aren’t many dances with Z in them!
Stop circulating right-wing lie (4,5)
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STALL (stop) with letters cycled (circulating) TORY (right-wing)
Terms at writing school may be stressed by them (7)
I'm on key with 3, doing puns outrageously (5,4)
I try this out on husband of a certain age (9)
Ridicule "100-year-old" bones (7)
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RIB (ridicule) C AGE (“100-year old”)
Sooner make do with drop in energy (7)
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PERFORM (do) with E lowered (drop in energy)
Victoria's one clip encapsulates beginning of loving marriage (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
WE (Victoria’s one) DOCK (clip) around (encapsulates) first letter (beginning) of LOVING
Luxuriant new houseplant has irregularly shaped leaves (7)
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anagram of (irregularly shaped) HAS removed from (leaves) anagram of (new) HOUSEPLANT
Set about arranging letters in the grid (7)
Type letters or click words in the clue