The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 564 - January 29, 2005

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Clues Answers
'Nu' or 'Nur'? They're related HALFSISTERS
About now, extremely effective - he's argued before REPRESENTEE
Ancient city's goddess held in reflective way THEBES
Arab offered God's energy under tree, climbing GIFTHORSE
Bird in pursuit of eagles carrying many a short distance GOLDFINCH
Bloke into sensuality losing head in Wagnerian movement ROMANTICISM
Check to secure key by more experienced person under contract LEASEHOLDER
Choose to dispense with tool PICKAXE
Church body touring island, green NAIVE
Complex network to negotiate by fork? SPAGHETTIJUNCTION
Composed no overture for radio IRELESS
Concerned with this man, judge detains ring HEREOF
Dangerous sort of ground? Not true TREACHEROUS
Dining partner claims diet oddly increasing girth WIDENING
Drop back, entering appointment alone DESOLATE
Eclectic believer CATHOLIC
Essay, a story one saves GOALIE
Fellow navigator finds fish where it shouldn't be? CODRIVER
Flier taking drug, less upright character HERON
From birth, to carry on strong is unlikely to kill you NONFATAL
From country, shortly entering capital to back leader EMPEROR
Good bananas, gooey GLOOPY
Gun mine? That's evident given 'hands up'! ARMPIT
Harden in water in Yorkshire INURE
I don't believe first letter's the first! ATHEIST
I'm set up wearing more white, requiring more in the pink PALMIER
Important to engage soldiers enforcing law MAGISTERIAL
In providing accommodation for son, firstly look hateful LOATHSOME
Island the vehicle of psychopathic ruler? MADAGASCAR
Let on about affair's taste SMATTERING
Clues Answers
Lifted shawl STOLE
Little noise when spirited twins withdrawn MURMUR
Local quarter taken in by legitimate promoter PUBLICIST
Mature woman left in case rejected DEVELOP
Metalworker needing coins? Millions in this, amazingly SILVERSMITH
Modern exercise attributed to Biblical procurator? PILATES
Mouth area finds bit of strudel tasty DELTA
No meat cut into bendy shapes is up to date NOUVEAU
Old jumbo in Greece, the limit! OMEGA
One supposedly would forget working to rule to maintain position LOTUSEATER
One suspending end of rod on another rod DANGLER
One's inclined to find Tunisian embroidery in fashion MOUNTAINSIDE
Pity route like that goes uphill PATHOS
Politician's one-star organisation SENATOR
Prone celeb sits up for modelling SUSCEPTIBLE
Sailor holding power to step back - restriction of authority RATECAPPING
Tavern vision I suspect to be believed? INVINOVERITAS
The weekend never arrives when lonely FRIENDLESS
Those being educated who should keep quiet? CHATTERINGCLASSES
Time to support business over union leader in anger - people cheer ENCOURAGEMENT
Together - apart if it's reversed? UNITED
Try dicky out, and crimson kind GOODNATURED
Twerp's geisha cast aside STAGEWHISPER
Unfortunately fail to impress love with flowers? FLUVIAL
Unlikely feature of Cos lettuce ICEBERG
Unpopular leader backing popular lines, mind-boggling concept UNIVERSE
Use handle by mistake - let go UNLEASHED
Variety of iris can, with sulphur, produce flowers NARCISSI
Wind up - rub the answers out? DISSOLVE
Writer - given sample, he's inferior? POETASTER