The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 568 - February 26, 2005

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After examination, make known about animal enclosures VIVARIA
Appears with formal headgear — a very popular act! SHOWSTOPPER
Back trouble possessed Wooster's aunt DAHLIA
Battle for inner room BEN
Bird of prey disfigures runner crossing top of hill MARSHHARRIER
Calm, a colt's first in race PLACATE
City house with greater security for navigation device ECHOSOUNDER
Climbing peak, pull up for inferior liquor ROTGUT
Compressed into small area, I drove in, stopping short for amber SUCCINIC
Confused situation getting Morse befuddled with malt MAELSTROM
Confused type providing baked food PIE
Current analyst's admission of paternity in Franglais? AMPERE
Dish drunkard initially took in port RISOTTO
Explore specific proposals, though only perfunctorily GOTHROUGHTHEMOTIONS
Get bigger than gang leader in striking argument OUTGROW
Green-eyed woman in English Intelligence ENVIOUS
Happy companion to poet always given encouragement out East CHEERFUL
Hear about ancient literary genre Aristotle analysed TRAGEDY
It's used to cultivate press employees and what they burn at midnight? SUBSOIL
Leading force in novel publicity about fruit SPEARHEAD
Like Humpty Dumpty, so applaud enthusiastically? OVATE
Like something in the kitchen, only chop I cooked after ten XYLOPHONIC
Limitless period to break in gun that's new UNENDING
Lively little boy following Ariel, perhaps SPIRITED
Managed, raising deer, to cause persistent annoyance RANKLE
Mountain-dweller's key accomplice in the Province NEPALI
No thanks for Dutch agent taking in an Indian princess MAHARANI
Nonconformist like Smetana? BOHEMIAN
Note on sin only involving East African republic SIERRALEONE
Note sounded by singer, one showing off plenty of scales SEABASS
Official representatives admit pistols were distributed DIPLOMATISTS
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Old man's material for drawing, mostly of a religious festival PASCHAL
One delivers a moral lecture involving sin and remorse SERMONISER
Outdoor broadcast introduced by old writer OPENAIR
Passage addressed to character in Charley's Aunt ? APOSTROPHE
Place for group member's subsidiary diagram INSET
Point in fall when some may get the wind up? AUTUMNALEQUINOX
Police attending punch-up in the Steptoes' place SCRAPYARD
Possibly principal differences in temporary substitutes STOPGAPS
Prompt police officer briefly to anger INSPIRE
Revisit tune revised for ceremony INVESTITURE
Rising American writer feeding fat cat LEOPARD
Rope-maker's girl given backing around island SISAL
Ruler? Just something wooden for Shakespeare's Chorus, we hear PHARAOH
Satin shirts Kern sported, safe in the wash SHRINKRESISTANT
Sausage originally appearing in ragout SALAMI
Soldier given the works before second training exercise MANOEUVRES
Soldiers must dress properly for this evening out ALIGNMENT
Sound Austrian architect released from confinement LOOSE
Speculate about bad failure in exam with sorrow, say? An American might BETONESBOTTOMDOLLAR
Stubbornness acceptable in girl after broadcast OBSTINACY
Take advantage of former partner beginning to idle in bed EXPLOIT
There's yet space here for the housekeeper's stores STILLROOM
Tongue? Shakespeare's was small, according to Jonson LATIN
Universal company thus keeping minutes COSMIC
Vacuous person's support in holding up Tweedledum's toy RATTLEBRAIN
Weapon husband found beside African lake HALBERT
When quiet, shelter inside, dead to the world ASLEEP
Wine? Not I - free of contamination, they say, old cock! CHANTICLEER
Wooden hut seen in spring MAHOGANY
Worry about class distinction ECLAT
Yarn from least satisfactory journalist WORSTED