Across
Bird: irrational figure in coal mine (5)
Stretch limo shortened it to make deadline (4,5)
Electronic form in register is a good example (4,5)
Film franchise? I will avoid Scream (5)
Expense from parts of arrangement being switched? (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
LAYOUT (arrangement) [parts of…being switched]
Branch bearing a half-Andean vegetable (4,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
LIMB (branch) containing [bearing] A, then {And}EAN [half]
Agree cops should release head of Roman church (9)
Mixture of everything two-thirds of crossword solvers recalled (5)
Acceptable area to house South African in Japanese city (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
OK (acceptable) + A (area) containing [to house] SA (South African)
Cut deal with university after money and drink (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
COIN (money), TREA{t} (deal) [cut], U (university). Orange flavoured liqueur.
Composer, German, with quiet success (8)
Just appear pale, in the grip of drink (4,2)
A lot of maps moving westward end of water table (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
ATLA{s} (maps) [a lot of…], reversed [moving westward], {wate}R [end of…]
Italian maestro's Italian opera: popular, repeatedly returning (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
TOSCA (Italian opera) then IN + IN (popular, repeatedly) reversed [returning]. The acclaimed conductor died in 1957 so I imagine many solvers may not know his name although it lives on through his many recordings.
Cheap tyre burst, for example (9)
Start of hundred inch garden feature? (5)
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A pregnant soprano losing lead in Puccini having developed unacceptable figure (7,3,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Anagram [having developed] of A PREGNANT SO{p}RANO [losing lead in Puccini]
Trial scheme bringing in electric current (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
PLOT (scheme) containing [bringing in] I (electric current)
Tense? My rising alarm shuts out constant sources of drumming (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
T (tense), then MY reversed [rising], PANI{c} (alarm) [shuts out constant]. Apparently this is an alternative spelling of ‘timpani’ – kettledrums. Since the Y is unchecked this clue may prove to be something of a beartrap for speed solvers who don’t bother to parse everything fully as they go.
Considerable trouble in darkest Yorkshire at the outset (4)
Obstinate type trimmed US magazine to help rising use of many information outlets (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
MUL{e} (obstinate type) [trimmed], TIME (US magazine), then AID (help) reversed [rising]
Scoundrel losing head in American city opera house (2,5)
Man penning newspaper's last stories about French city (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
MALE (man) containing [penning] {newspape}R [’s last] and LIES (stories) reversed [about]
Astonished and attracted to almost certain start of presidential revolt (5,2,8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
TAKEN BY (attracted to), SUR{e} (certain) [almost], then P{residential} [start of], RISE (revolt)
Branch of medicine that could make you stay chirpy (10)
Question over description of sea omitting one island in equation (9)
Supply heater's source of wood (3,4)
Flaxen fibres gently touch hard walking surface (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
TOW (flaxen fibres), PAT (gently touch), H (hard). ‘Tow’ is sometimes used to describe very fair hair, as is ‘flaxen’. Debussy wrote a famous piano solo called La fille aux cheveux de lin which is usually translated as The Girl with the Flaxen Hair.
Radiant, unconfined free spirit (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Anagram [free] of {r}ADIAN{t} [unconfined]
I fish, letting nothing escape is key (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
I, S{o}LE (fish) [letting nothing escape]. Key is a low island, sandbank, or reef, as in ‘Florida Keys’.
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