The Times - Concise - Times2 Jumbo 87 - February 19, 2005

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Annual founders' commemoration (at Oxford) ENCAENIA
Basis of cement LIMESTONE
Belonging to them THEIR
Brief extract SNIPPET
Collectibles evoking people, places MEMORABILIA
Discontinued; shunning social contact WITHDRAWN
Dissolvable SOLUBLE
Domestic carrier TEATRAY
Easy, secure (colloq.) CUSHY
Elgar or Lear, for instance EDWARD
Exclamation of surprise (mainly US) GEEWHIZ
Extravagantly spending person SPENDTHRIFT
Fibre for caulking ships OAKUM
Fish of carp family TENCH
I don't know (colloq.) SEARCHME
Identical, unchanged SAME
Imaginative penetration INSIGHT
In an aimlessly wandering manner MEANDERINGLY
Insulator, derelict IC (anag.) DIELECTRIC
Jumped, sprang LEAPT
Kitchen liquidiser BLENDER
Knight's standard (hist.) ORIFLAMME
Lady's bedroom BOUDOIR
Light shell (WW1 slang), firework WHIZZBANG
Lord Chancellor's seat WOOLSACK
New York theatre area BROADWAY
Nil,nil in football NOSCOREDRAW
Offending soldier's dismissal (US spelling) DISHONORABLEDISCHARGE
One taking a break HOLIDAYMAKER
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Ornamental garden beds PARTERRE
Past its ETA OVERDUE
Period when first primates appeared, ie, Cologne (anag.) OLIGOCENE
Person for whom a product is destined ENDUSER
Plane power plant TURBOJET
Plant (named for effect on farm soil preparation) RESTHARROW
Polyester fibre TERYLENE
Provide (place) with troops for defence GARRISON
Pub closing call TIME
Rather SOMEWHAT
Repentant SORRY
Reprimand firmly ADMONISH
Shop payment taker CASHIER
Sir Edward -, Pre-Raphaelite painter BURNEJONES
Small warship CORVETTE
Something with which one is extremely pleased PRIDEANDJOY
South Wales town PORTTALBOT
Spanish capital MADRID
State officially; disc RECORD
Stroke lovingly CARESS
Summer, snake ADDER
Swan Lake composer TCHAIKOVSKY
The bends DECOMPRESSIONSICKNESS
Toxic alcohol METHANOL
Urged, flock on the move DROVE
US state NEWHAMPSHIRE
Use of magic arts ENCHANTMENT
Without interruption CONTINUOUSLY
Work to clear scrub, ambush (US, Aus) BUSHWHACK