The Times - Concise - Bank Holiday T2 Jumbo 293 - August 25, 2008

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Add extra details to (story) EMBELLISH
After-school punishment DETENTION
Animal attendant at, eg, Whipsnade ZOOKEEPER
Ardent admirer FAN
Auguste -, French sculptor RODIN
Australian flightless bird EMU
Author of King Solomon's Mines RIDERHAGGARD
Bing Crosby/Grace Kelly musical HIGHSOCIETY
Bushy-tailed rodent SQUIRREL
Chat (colloquial) CONFAB
Chicken innards GIBLETS
Country, formerly Rhodesia ZIMBABWE
Covering a wide area EXTENSIVE
De Sade's noble rank MARQUIS
Declaring punishment for offender SENTENCING
Delicate ornamental metalwork FILIGREE
Dessert of thin pastry filled with fruit STRUDEL
Device which improves car's roadholding at speed SPOILER
Easily broken FRAGILE
Emblem of spiritual significance TOTEM
Eponymous heroine in Richardson novel PAMELA
First day of month, in Rome CALENDS
Flying AIRBORNE
Gain PROFIT
Hindu temple PAGODA
Homes for parentless children ORPHANAGES
Innkeeper PUBLICAN
Keen to pursue lawsuits LITIGIOUS
Kind GOODNATURED
Less expensive CHEAPER
Lightweight cotton cloth MUSLIN
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Oat-based breakfast cereal MUESLI
One abstaining from alcohol TEETOTALLER
Over there YONDER
Part such as Hamlet TITLEROLE
Regular source of amusement or ridicule STANDINGJOKE
Relating to later sixteenth century period in England ELIZABETHAN
Relating to Muslim religion ISLAMIC
Relating to religious studies THEOLOGICAL
Rhythmical throb of arteries PULSE
River on border between England and Scotland TWEED
Sending by post MAILING
Shakespeare tragedy OTHELLO
Sheeplike OVINE
Something deserving censure DEMERIT
South-west counties of Hardy's novels WESSEX
Speak bluntly SHOOTFROMTHEHIP
Spouts nonsense TALKSTHROUGHONESHAT
Strip of wood for hanging works of art PICTURERAIL
Study of insects ENTOMOLOGY
Surname of Stone Age cartoon family FLINTSTONE
Swaggerer STRUTTER
Telephone inventor ALEXANDERGRAHAMBELL
Theme SUBJECT
Titles conferred by the Queen each June BIRTHDAYHONOURS
Turn aside DEFLECT
Up a - -, in a predicament GUMTREE
Wedding anniversary designated 'diamond' SIXTIETH
Western part of Hispaniola HAITI
Whiner BLEATER
With press and public excluded INCAMERA
Witty saying EPIGRAM