Across
Everyone in house married and blessed (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
ALL (Everyone) inserted into H~O (house) then WED (married)
What petrified Eugénie finally in Dumas novel (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Last letter [finally] of {Eugéni}E in anagram [novel] of DUMAS
Verb in detailed line rewritten for film (4,3,3,3)
Mystic character in Palladium trimmed plants (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
RUNE (Mystic character) in P~D (Palladium – chemical symbol)
Fancy smithing? It's hard labour (8)
Virgin first to seduce dignitary: interesting (10)
Might this be the right attitude? (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
I wasn’t really comfortable with attitude and SIDE being synonymous, though the following sentence might work if I squint a bit: “When times are tough, I appreciate your supportive SIDE/attitude.” . The mildly cryptic first part of the clue indicates where the answer appears in the grid. . Feel free to pipe up if you can parse this any more satisfactorily…
Revolutionary soldiers love fanatical submariner (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
MEN (soldiers) reversed [Revolutionary] then O (love) . Why fanatical? I’ve not read either of the two books in which NEMO appears, but a quick Wiki check reveals that “Jules Verne portrays Nemo as a man consumed by grief, vengeance, and hatred of oppression, which drives him to extremes.”
Small stations reduced in crazy plan (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
S (Small) TERMIN{i} (stations) reduced by removing the last letter, stuffed into MA~D (crazy) . ‘MASTERMIND’ and ‘plan’ as verbs here
With a short, short, short sleep, travel overseas? (5-3)
Wild god beginning to abandon priest in country (6)
Crowd by church in troubled US state: this one? (13)
Audibly exhale in relief — vital for spirit (6)
Article backed sightseer shunning old stripper (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
AN (Article) reversed [backed], then T{o}URIST (sightseer) without [shunning] the O (old)
Down
On the loose, smilodon, say, not caught by mammoth? (2,5)
Missionary's surviving pit (11)
Join together fencing area in open country (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
WE~LD (Join together) containing [fencing] A (area)
Father in Berlin is entertaining American artist (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
DAD (Father) A (American) IST (German for ‘is’ i.e. in Berlin) . Heavily influenced by WWI, DADAISTs rejected violence, war, nationalism and modern capitalist society, using nonsense and protest in their works. The whole point behind Dadaism was to prove that anything could be art if the artist declared it to be, which in turn proved that if everything could be art, then nothing could be art. This outraged many artists as Dadaism deemed their labour-intensive artworks meaningless.
Raised some progeny, so men might divine woman (9)
Senior cleric devouring Mitford-approved turkey? (3)
Drove point home: moved fast to capture attention (7)
Witness term disrupted in Dryden's alma mater (11)
Following approved line one's wise to keep minutes (2-7)
Dutch scholar's problems are mounting (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
SUMS (problems) ARE all reversed [mounting] . Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (c. 1466–1536), commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply ERASMUS, was a Dutch humanist, Christian theologian, and philosopher.
Satan initially possessing popular saint (7)
Undoing nurse's jacket this writer covered in pickle (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Outside letters [jacket] of N{urs}E, then I (this writer) covered in MES~S (pickle)
Penny and Oscar are candidates put forward (5)
Like certain wines found in these cellars? (3)
Type letters or click words in the clue
