The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 496 - December 6, 2003

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A female setter perhaps found unforthcoming by way of rhyme OLDMOTHERHUBBARD
A northern city, no land apart ASUNDER
Agents presenting Eastern stars, including young girl EMISSARIES
As unruly type gives a bridge one bit of gelignite king is bumped off ANARCHISTIC
Audibly welcome a lady GRETA
Be known to chemists BERYLLIUM
Belief in fluoride is misplaced DEISM
Black northern town, black at its very heart SABLE
Brains can help a bloke ultimately when troubled ENCEPHALA
Carves designs playwright wants putting into backcloths SCRIMSHAWS
Check flower offered to one holy person, e.g. a Hindu REINCARNATIONIST
Club before diamonds, going for Philip's rule MACEDON
Conveniently arrested, are tried falsely and sent out of country REPATRIATED
Country artist limited in intelligence IRAQ
Craftsman rated second to Oliver as a poet, you'd surmise? SILVERSMITH
Curiosity - one's mathematical quality? ODDITY
Described boy hugging pretty girl LABELLED
Desert traveller arrived with unpleasant look CAMELEER
Detailed plot one takes to in lively fashion CONSPIRITO
Disgust when two articles get sent back, being without benefit NAUSEA
Emotional period with gospels in back streets SENTIMENTAL
Feel for me turning up with bloke and his wife finally appearing! EMPATHISE
Fifty on barge moved to Argentinian vessel BELGRANO
Food that could be pork, beef, etc. but not starter EATS
Gasps audible, to some extent SIZE
Get lift accompanied by dog, say, on a road, but suffer when there's backfiring? (2,5,4,4,3,6) BEHOISTWITHONESOWNPETARD
Getting on a gee-gee, say, outside English home AGEING
Girl with long hair captivating team MAXINE
Gleaming home attached to university in awful slum LUMINOUS
Go across platform that spans river STRADDLE
Going to country river, one in Russia, I celebrate RURALISING
Group of workers on board ship are cheats SCREWS
Hardening in time INDURATION
I am leading the way on the street, being bold IMMODEST
I don't see my property making money ABSENTEELANDLORD
I preach movingly to various characters in gaol in the Philippines maybe ARCHIPELAGO
In the midst of battle there's little bit of birdsong TWEET
Insect ultimately happy under leguminous plant offering security GUARANTY
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Item of clothing very good for gangster SCARFACE
Ken struggling in shifting sands, cold and damp DANKNESS
Kitchen ingredient one maiden put in food - not bad PIMIENTO
Like a poem on a fairy at irregular intervals APERIODIC
Like clinic that's been given a new life NEONATAL
Like sounds heard in the belfry presumably? ULTRASONIC
Look after crook carrying drug one day BEFRIEND
Lost something in the smoking room? It's not hard ASTRAY
Magical power protecting a crop in religious tradition MAHAYANA
Material that flows across a border TWEED
Medical technique using electronic scanner - man with ague transformed NUCLEARMAGNETICRESONANCE
Not properly looking after various immigrants in Deal MALADMINISTERING
Numb reactions after accident NARCOTISE
Nymph nothing to look at OREAD
One fighting male and one female needing to move rapidly about SKIRMISHER
One who reprimands agent with shout when revolutionary's imprisoned REPROACHER
Openings in reorganised consulate with ten being sacked OSCULA
People lacking purpose in fishing boats DRIFTERS
Philosopher to endure endlessly, hiding love? STOIC
Predatory insect has sex appeal? It's beside the point MANTISSA
Put to a special purpose, they cheat corruptly, holding work up HYPOTHECATE
Queue of hungry people who may expect to get damper? BREADLINE
Relating to us, and relating to US! MIDATLANTIC
Rock's outside broadcast provided by two fellows OBSIDIAN
Sailor given heartless order to stand down ABDICATE
Skill to lure in female of such lovable quality? ADORABILITY
Study a rounded lump going round star DENEBOLA
Superior organisation enables matches to take place (9,3,4,2,6) MARRIAGESAREMADEINHEAVEN
Take advantage of present to get on PUTUPON
Those who evoke a response, making English lawyers so put out ELICITORS
Tree in foyer - bay? YERBA
Unite, finding a form of solace in church COALESCE
We American guys can miss out u in this! WEBSTERS
Where drivers on M 6 rest after another motorway accident MISHAP
Who does able act for kitchen when given order? (5,4,3,6-6) CHIEFCOOKANDBOTTLEWASHER
With whom the medium is the massage! OSTEOPATH
Woman's half-truth VERA
Writer who takes a day at a time? DIARIST