The Times - Concise - Times Concise Jumbo No 656

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Clues Answers
(Of an account) not necessarily true or reliable ANECDOTAL
Ability to move quickly and easily AGILITY
Action of restoring to life RESURRECTION
Annoyance AGGRAVATION
Betting odds EVENS
Capital of Canada OTTAWA
Chart musician pop star
Claw TALON
Competitor gaining an award prize-winner
Cut and remove debris from (a lawn) SCARIFY
Distant quality REMOTENESS
Enduringly fresh EVERGREEN
Fate LOT
Feasible; realistic PRACTICAL
Firmness of purpose DETERMINATION
Four-faced solid TETRAHEDRON
Great strength MIGHT
Green vegetable SPINACH
Heavily defeat TROUNCE
Important assignment MISSION
Improve the value of ENHANCE
Inaccuracy IMPRECISION
Inducement to dishonesty BRIBERY
Introductory, simple ELEMENTARY
Irish saint BRENDAN
Joiner of metals WELDER
Leather; country MOROCCO
Long narrow hilltop RIDGE
Long-sleeved pullover SWEATER
Loving characteristic AMOROUSNESS
Main meal of the day DINNER
Clues Answers
Make clear; explain ELUCIDATE
Matter that can’t be agreed upon difference of opinion
Medium dry sherry AMONTILLADO
Most severe WORST
Not appropriate INAPT
Not exceeded UNSURPASSED
Not genuine, unnatural SYNTHETIC
Not made; off-white NATURAL
Not stylish or refined INELEGANT
One who gets the blame SCAPEGOAT
Presenting difficulties PROBLEMATICAL
Raincoat MACINTOSH
Reckless, audacious devil-may-care
Reformation theologian CALVIN
Register (as a competitor) ENTER
Regret for wrongdoing PENITENCE
Related, connected COGNATE
Retain for future use RESERVE
Road surfacing material MACADAM
See what one can get away with try it on
Slander CALUMNY
Soldier; fish; bird GRENADIER
Sound of shooting GUNFIRE
Spanish punch SANGRIA
Stirred up (disorder) FERMENTED
Suffer through one’s own actions get ones fingers burnt
Tear; gravestone letters RIP
Underneath BELOW
Vie COMPETE
WW2 aircraft; city LANCASTER
Youth ADOLESCENCE