The Times - Concise - Times Concise Jumbo No 1245

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(Of medicine) treating the whole person HOLISTIC
Abandon a person in difficulty leave someone in the lurch
Abruptly changing course SWERVING
As relating to the arts and intellectual achievements CULTURALLY
Ballet costume TUTU
Boldness (of colour) VIBRANCY
Breed of dog red setter
Bring (a force) to bear EXERT
Casualty carrier STRETCHER
Chatted idly GOSSIPED
Circle, ellipse, parabola or hyperbola CONIC
Competent at arithmetic NUMERATE
Consecrated HALLOWED
Constantly encountered OMNIPRESENT
Cover with a hard layer ENCRUST
Covered in dirt MUCKY
Culinary herb THYME
Culmination, climax APOGEE
Defamatory LIBELLOUS
Dim night-time illumination STARLIGHT
Extremely unpleasant OBNOXIOUS
Fancy calligraphic twist CURLICUE
Foolish or gullible person SIMPLETON
Former British Army regiment light infantry
Fuel carrying ship oil tanker
Give too much publicity to OVEREXPOSE
Give up RELINQUISH
Grotesque waterspout GARGOYLE
Headland; garment CAPE
Hydrophobia RABIES
Clues Answers
Jewelled headband TIARA
London football team CHELSEA
Mark determining musical pitch of notes CLEF
Meat from a cow’s chest BRISKET
Moving staircase ESCALATOR
Opening of a medieval manuscript INCIPIT
Opportune PROVIDENTIAL
Pasta strip; silly person NOODLE
Perfect IDEAL
Physalis; source of light chinese lantern
Picture of its artist self-portrait
Poem of nineteen lines VILLANELLE
Popular music style rock and roll
Positive, dogmatic ASSERTIVE
Process by which an area rises in standard and value gentrification
Prospect of future good EXPECTATION
Red Italian wine CHIANTI
Reddish brown RUSSET
Rental arrangement TENANCY
Resumption of harmonious relations RAPPROCHEMENT
Rudimentary, not fully formed INCHOATE
Seed containing caffeine used to flavour drinks cola nut
Something added for flavour SEASONING
Speaking or writing easily (in a language) FLUENT
Special right of MPs parliamentary privilege
Suggesting (something bad) indirectly and unpleasantly INSINUATING
Support (someone through a bad patch) tide over
System of bidding at bridge ACOL
The — Stone is a famous British Museum exhibit ROSETTA
Worker in wood JOINER