Across
Left-leaning material used by writer on power (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
So not full on communist, then. Writer’s INK is tacked on to P[ower]
They plan school education regulations; Republican pushed back (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
School education regulations become SCH[ool] ED[ucation] RULES. Push them together and send the R towards the back end.
One very in favour of medium protein variant (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
I (one), SO for very, in favour of: FOR and M[edium]. Not in Chambers, but Collins has “any of several forms of the same protein, derived either from the same gene or from different genes, each of which is similar in function to the others”. I reasoned it worked the same way as isotope, and couldn’t see any indication that it was not a thing.
You and I start to believe church engaged in online discussion (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
You and I make WE, start to B[elieve] plus CH[urch] and AT instead of engaged in.
Missing company boss is at personal risk (2,4,3,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Missing company, one is ON ONE’S OWN. Boss is the HEAD. More familiar as “on your own head be it”, so if there’s anything wrong in the blog I have no-one to blame but myself.
Poet's reimagined Italian sauce (5)
Revolutionary metallic solar screens swing to and fro (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Brilliantly reversed hidden (revolutionary…screens) in m ETALIC SO lar. The definition was kind.
Drunk welcoming former serviceman with little post on social media (4-5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Another where Collins beats Chambers. Drunk is LIT as in a famous inebriated commentary on the BBC. Introduce VET for former serviceman and WEE for little. I lost time because I thought drunk had to be SOT.
Musical instrument from India adopted by George Harrison, for example (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Pretty close to an &lit since the whole is an accurate statement. Harrison learned sitar under Ravi Shankar’s tuition, and played it on Norwegian Wood and Within You Without You. The clue also works as STAR (which GH undoubtedly was) with I[ndia] inserted.
Something to reduce friction, irritation and suffering (6,7)
Pizza from California region (7)
Lacking care, like pack prior to game (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Yet another where Collins is more in favour for this meaning. Fortunately, the state of a pack of cards before a game is obvious.
Closely examine artist's muse's backside in shock (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Who hasn’t? Closely examine is SCAN, the artist’s is Salvador DALIS and the back side of muse is E. ¡Caramba!
Twisted facts and figures slightly (1,3)
Down
Means to devalue company's reason for producing fewer Teletubbies? (6,4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
I’m not sure I get this. The definition is a straight precis of business practice when fighting off, say, a takeover bid. “The” Pill is responsible for lowering rates of reproduction. But why poison and why Teletubbies? Enlightenment, please… has dawned. Tinky Winky and Dipsy are male, and Laa-Laa and Po are female, and whatever they get up to in private has limited results because “Po is on pill”. Innocence shattered.
American right-wingers in Colorado blocking gas supply's introduction (3-4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
The standard abbreviation for Colorado is CO. Use it to block NEON, the gas, and add the first letter of Supply.
Gold toilet covers for officer in command (9)
King of Northumbria drank alcohol when cycling (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Drank alcohol is WINED. Start the word at the E instead, which is what cycling does.
Rack and ruin of Bermudan stall (8,5)
Chained up spiny anteater (7)
Son had food glut (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
S[on] ATE. Glut as a verb.
Keep principal male in a certain commercial's final shot? (3,3,3,4)
Divided Easter egg supply with daughter (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
An anagram (supply, in a supple way) of EASTER EGG and D[aughter].
Rhythmic music from, say, Liverpool and Birmingham football club? (4,5)
How group of geese fly over plain (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Try reading it in reverse (over). All in a V, the typical and efficient formation of geese
Journey on craft made in three sections (7)
Scottish geologist's large cry (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Charles , not too difficult to extrapolate from L[arge] YELL. Significant player, with Darwin, in extending the understood age of Earth from 6,000 years to billions.
Numbers is a book of the Bible (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Numbers as in acts performed on stage.
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