The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 552 - November 20, 2004

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Clues Answers
A little girl about to become a princess IDA
A moral defect a king could get into? AVARICE
A new cinema lacking in vitality ANAEMIC
A wine container? One will be up for it STIRRUPCUP
A worker keeping governor in suspense ABEYANT
Absurdity to a great extent associated with the Anglicans FARCE
Artist leads malicious gossip and disappears, the knave RASCAL
Assessment stopping short: nothing sound AUDIO
At its peak, flood left couples stranded MOUNTARARAT
Beach is place divided by river STRAND
Bill - man given a dodgy egg, right? ACCURATE
Book gone over by English experts SHE
Cacophony makes one oddly afraid after tea at four CHARIVARI
Coffee? Reverse order to get tea MOCHA
Considers what to put before signature? REGARDS
Crazy to hide English ancestry from way back SINCETHEYEARDOT
Criminal's skill - boy is taken in ARSONIST
Dead performance, role being restricted DEPARTED
Domestic items in apartment somewhere in Herts FLATWARE
Drug supremo in Rome at one time VALERIAN
Fifty, say, coming with good cut, as one played at cricket LEGGLANCE
Garment for a priest? Sensible clothing not permitted! SOUTANE
Get too excited but possibly recover a short time after OVERREACT
Getting slower, bent old man learnt to avoid motorway RALLENTANDO
Gibberish you get from the wife after a large drink DOUBLEDUTCH
Goddess changing direction at far end of city ATHENE
Going oddly down one side of the street maybe? HOUSETOHOUSE
Have a ball round the old city, in confinement no longer? DURANCE
Huge geographical tale translated (not English originally) THEGULAGARCHIPELAGO
Is tax haven landlocked? We depend on each other (2,3,2,2,6) NOMANISANISLAND
It comes in handy to put a coat on before going out NAILVARNISH
Clues Answers
It's difficult to find answer in political account HANSARD
Language that a million absorbed? Many more TAMIL
Left to price course WENTWORTH
Listed drug he was first to take HEELED
Low grades in exam? Wait - here's merit! DESERVE
Man Jane married in Medway town ROCHESTER
One may have a member initially unreplaced, then get peg AMPUTEE
Percy, animated when given encouragement HOTSPUR
Quarrel upset male actors - a bit of dirt that's been dug up WORMCAST
Queen upset, not wanting a republic NIGER
Relation, a member of the Communist Party, not given official approval? UNCLEARED
Run risk of being reported to RSPCA in respect of dog? WHIPPET
Scoundrel pegged out - had a job getting back to the clubhouse CADDIED
Silly lad wants a lover extremely, regardless of faults! WARTSANDALL
Sort of dance, fun for nine men? MORRIS
The man, so uplifted, is carrying a trophy overhead: crowning moment APOTHEOSIS
This bankrupts Rachel, struggling suffragette CHRISTABELPANKHURST
Time to bring in bishop with a new plan ARRANGE
Took out a promising Scrabble tile but made no progress? DREWABLANK
Trussed up with a sort of shirt, he's chucked out DEPORTEE
Unhealthy-looking scoundrel leading state first to obey America CADAVEROUS
VIP in British dependency upset over rebuke BIGWIG
We've been left behind - what can offer us a ride? RESIDUA
What a hungry pelican must do to meet requirements? FILLTHEBILL
What could be acidic and silent, killing the pests INSECTICIDAL
What has wood that's grey, soft not hard ASPEN
What monarchist wants to do for a fee RETAINER
With clerk's introduction, university work turned round quickly UPTEMPO
Woman in this place rested with foot right up THERESA
You may come to a place that's dirty and frothy YEASTY
Young lovers angry young man found aboard ship SWAINS