The Times - Concise - Bank Holiday T2 Jumbo 253 - December 26, 2007

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Amorous relationship ROMANCE
Area of Birmingham ASTON
Aromatic plant ANGELICA
Automatic approval RUBBERSTAMP
Available for purchase ONSALE
Bowl; golf club WOOD
British peer; business mogul BARON
Chair of monarch THRONE
Clear-cut DISTINCT
Cloak with slit for the head PONCHO
Cylindrical firework ROMANCANDLE
Device set to explode later TIMEBOMB
Earnest request PLEA
East-coast sea fog HAAR
Eg, Santa's Rudolph REINDEER
Eg, sports event at Kempton Park RACEMEETING
Emergency exit on hill ESCAPEROAD
Estate in Spanish-speaking location HACIENDA
Evaluation ASSESSMENT
Extinct Germanic language OLDNORSE
From the second largest continent AFRICAN
Full of tangles; extremely intricate KNOTTY
Gambling resort in Monaco MONTECARLO
Hard physical work ELBOWGREASE
High-ranking Muslim woman BEGUM
Horned mammal RHINO
If absolutely necessary ATAPINCH
Immoderate political action EXTREMISM
Japanese from of wrestling SUMO
Lower middle class (person) PETITBOURGEOIS
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Multicoloured cocktail TEQUILASUNRISE
Native of Newcastle-upon-Tyne GEORDIE
Nine consecutive days of prayer or worship NOVENA
Not harmful to the environment ECOFRIENDLY
Novelist, one of three sisters EMILYBRONTE
Party game involving search HUNTTHETHIMBLE
Period of office TENURE
Person collecting discarded material SCAVENGER
Person devoted to eating and drinking GOURMAND
Philosophical theory of the Vienna Circle LOGICALPOSITIVISM
Pit viper; sham brutes (anag.) BUSHMASTER
Play by Henrik Ibsen HEDDAGABLER
Play written by John Webster THEDUCHESSOFMALFI
Prince —, Queen Victoria's consort ALBERT
Road leading to house DRIVE
Seasonal container for presents CHRISTMASSTOCKING
Set of beliefs CREED
Show-offs EXHIBITIONISTS
Sluggish INERT
So to speak ASITWERE
Speech by Abraham Lincoln GETTYSBURGADDRESS
Standing stone MENHIR
The Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey AEGEANSEA
Tube at end of shoelace AGLET
Type of parrot PARAKEET
Type without projection on letters SANSERIF
Unit of computer memory; gate by me (anag.) MEGABYTE
Whatsit THINGUMMY
Without giving a name ANONYMOUSLY
— Childers, author ERSKINE