The Times - Concise - Times2 Jumbo 178 - September 2, 2006

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A foolish pursuit WILDGOOSECHASE
Ability to see EYESIGHT
Annoying IRKSOME
Badly brought up ILLBRED
Between ourselves (French) ENTRENOUS
Book of calculation aids READYRECKONER
British World War One field marshal HAIG
Celebratory FESTIVE
Clever, skilful ADROIT
County town of Shropshire SHREWSBURY
Dear; bird; fabric DUCK
Domenico -, seventeenth to eighteenth century Italian composer SCARLATTI
Eg, Iona ISLE
Equal treatment FAIRPLAY
Exhausted by overwork RUNOFFONESFEET
Fail to hit (something) MISS
Fall asleep NODOFF
Fifteenth century dynastic conflict WARSOFTHEROSES
Fish eggs ROE
Fruit CHERRY
Gambling establishment CASINO
Give a false account of (something) MISREPRESENT
Guard on watch SENTINEL
High singing voice FALSETTO
Holiday message carrier POSTCARD
Industrial and commercial area TRADINGESTATE
Irrelevant BESIDETHEPOINT
Jelly-like organism SLIMEMOULD
Like hair on a balding head THINNING
Malay archipelago EASTINDIES
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Mammal related to stoat WEASEL
One watching flock SHEPHERD
Overly self-important ARROGANT
Peaceful quality QUIETNESS
People making fleeting acquaintance (5,4,4,2,3,5) SHIPSTHATPASSINTHENIGHT
Plump and round ROLYPOLY
Primitive wind instrument PANPIPES
Prolonged PERSISTENT
Proper, appropriate DUE
Puts down; songs LAYS
Rate afresh REASSESS
Rough assessment GUESSTIMATE
Rouses (from sleep) AWAKENS
Rubbish NONSENSE
Scots valley GLEN
Seen OBSERVED
Seven days WEEK
Small interval between notes SEMITONE
Sofa; Derbyshire town CHESTERFIELD
Something following a related event SEQUEL
Stretchy ELASTIC
Such as retired professors who retain title EMERITI
Supplier of ships' equipment CHANDLER
Sylvester - (Rambo) STALLONE
Taken as a whole OVERALL
The situation is reversed (3,4,2,2,3,5,4) THEBOOTISONTHEOTHERFOOT
Underground part of, eg, cyclamen CORM
Vegetable plant SPINACH
Vertical jump in ballet ENTRECHAT
Without tang or savour FLAVOURLESS