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Standard car coat (5)
Record numbers peer at back of tower (4,5)
Hasty notes about using non-slip footwear (9)
Complete lunatic, off his head (5)
I give a hand, at the outset specifying highest standards (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
I DEAL giving a hand at cards, plus S[pecifying] at the outset.
Chief not involved in modern industry (8)
What reduces exposure to UV round area better? (5,5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Round is O, area is ZONE, and then better as somone who lays a bet gives LAYER. Ozone chicken is not a thing.
Above patronising theatre performance (4)
In the past year turned to a system of exercises (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
In the past is AGO, add y[ear] and reverse (turned).
Diesel adds different way to experience horse-power (10)
Bread agency delivered pancake mixture (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
The agency is the CIA, followed by what sounds like (as delivered) BATTER for pancake mixture.
Woman's appeal about to make an impact (6)
Tough only child (5)
A piece of drapery cushioning husband's heavy fall (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A piece of drapery is A VALANCE, which “cushions”, surrounds H[usband]
Officer in scrap cut just above the chest (9)
Exhausted writer nursed by good man (5)
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Clergyman bored by the author's unknown meanness (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
This time “the author’s” gives I’M, to be positioned within PARSON for clergyman, with Y for unknown added.
French wine: dissolute type drinking gallons (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Dissolute type ROUÉ, insert G[allons]
War hero in Far East regularly catching cold (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
The even letters of fAr EaSt with CHILL for cold inserted.
Decisive punch, extremely harmful, is cause of black eye (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Dark make-up, from a decisive punch KO and the extremes of H[armfu]L
In hairy situation finally get in a rage (10)
Revolution supported by what may offer entitlement (6)
Tea turned out to be free of additives (9)
Almost broken chain is light to carry (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
I think broken must be represented by TORN, from which you cut the end and add CH[ain]
Official publication I run in government (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Publication is MAG, add I then R[un] in STATE for government.
Wildly revelling, so tragic I collapsed (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Another anagram (collapsed) of SO TRAGIC I.
Popular stop where almost everyone gets on (9)
They fly in for summer having entered a race from far away (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
MARTINS, like swallows, are summer visitors. Enter the extra A.
Painter perhaps turned into almost complete artist (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Our painter is the perennial RA, here reversed (turned) and inserted in an incomplete WHOL[e]
Copper base raised somewhat (5)
Ill-gotten gains Hercules stores up (5)
Vegetable for example not used in keg beer (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
knock of the e.g. from Keg and add ALE for beer.
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