Across
Organic coal and Big Oil in conflict (10)
Possibly inappropriate part of speech has moved you (3-1)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Words or actions avoided by posh people, a category invented by Alan Ross but popularised by Nancy Mitford. Just NOUN, the part of speech, with its “yoU” moved.
Capital of America to celebrate short Scottish singer (8)
A bit left in Sprite? (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Way too slow on this one just L[eft] within the sprite FAIRY. And I watched Hook yesterday.
Converts plug by fitting sulphur (6)
Single part rejected by composer (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
A reverse of ROLE for part tacked on to the composer BACH.
Shooting the wrong way in football match, perhaps getting sack (8,4)
A patient asks about Bangladesh before sovereignty (4,8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
An anagram (about) of A PATIENT ASKS for the earlier name of Bangladesh.
French chapter replacing intro to holy book, accepting that's how it was written? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
So, the holy book is the KORAN, where the first letter is replaced by C[hapter] and SIC, “that’s how it was written” is inserted. Corsica is French territory, of course (Napoleon et al) but as a language it is not French.
What could give old man wage reduction (3,3)
Better to skip last performance without rehearsal (6)
Confident United supporter backing attack (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
U[nited] plus supporter, FAN reversed, plus RAID for attack.
Observed fish under discussion (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
EYED, aural wordplay (under discussion) of IDE, a freshwater fish like a chub.
Doubly hard to follow small creature in practice (3-7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Two versions of hard, H[ard] and ROUGH, set after RUNT, the smallest of a litter.
Down
Where takeaway choices may be ordained (2,6)
Capable of concealing sign (3)
Boasting about American genius (5)
Cyprus harbours endless grievance, likely to fall apart (7)
Deploy mouse over cold stuff (4-5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
The select button on my mouse. LEFT as in left over, plus C[old] plus LICK from stuff, both informal versions of beat soundly.
Lionesses struggling with empty locality still (11)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
An anagram (struggling) of LIONESSES with L[ocalit]Y emptied.
Charles de Gaulle's refusal to store more, mostly in hold (6)
Pressure on firm getting into traditional drink determined in advance (11)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
P[ressure] RE (on) SURE for firm, the last inserted into MEAD, a traditional (I suppose) drink still available in Tescos
Defender of literature chewed cud with voters (4,5)
Welcoming South American playing old instrument (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
S[outh] A[merican] with LUTING, a verbal form for playing the lute.
Swan trap snaring head of unusual bird (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Possibly from the Welsh pen: head, and gwyn: white. maybe not. Here it’s PEN for swan and GIN, trap, absorbing Unusual’s head.
Produce Times comic from 1930s (6)
Steal fruit, expending energy for nothing (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
Replace the E in PEACH with O for nothing.
P for Pythagoras? (3)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
So not Pi but the Greek letter that looks like a P.
Type letters or click words in the clue