The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 789 - December 13, 2008

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Clues Answers
A bank let PIN change — it protects consumer TABLENAPKIN
A cultivated one goes far for "Enlightenment" AGEOFREASON
After sea mist's finally cleared see without restriction FREELY
Around shelter, burning books in African language HOTTENTOT
Be positive her hotpot's cooked with beef HOPEFORTHEBEST
Bowl made of baked clay, husband dropped in dismay DISHEARTEN
Bushy-tailed creature seen to fill desert PACKRAT
Cause anger seizing fine weapon RIFLE
Classic set long ago in a French square UNDERSTATED
Conciliatory book written about involving both left and right EMOLLIENT
Cook sees area in Cuba producing steak dressing BEARNAISESAUCE
Corresponding or completely different? OPPOSITE
Country's rivers (one short, one long) RURAL
Degenerate left behind outside BACKSLIDE
Demonstrated it can provide material SATIN
Do dumb boys somehow become intimate? BOSOMBUDDY
Doctors clear about capital way to limit airborne disease MOSQUITONET
English King, tragically, accepts no Queen ELEANOR
Fancy cracknel, oddly enough CAKE
Fellow following river, one linked with a country CAMBODIA
Finished film scene possibly put behind one OVERTAKE
Flog firm in a rush SCOURGE
How, mistakenly, tank crew go north? ONTHEWRONGTRACK
Imaginatively original home parent built PROMETHEAN
Inability to concentrate making one jumpy? GRASSHOPPERMIND
Insulate incorrectly lacking a tool UTENSIL
It's not possible to say one's powerless to protect state UNUTTERABLE
Leave briefly, entrusting record to porter STEPOUT
Legendary goodness associated with short fat gangster MYTHICAL
Linked by extremely short crosspiece STRUNG
Clues Answers
Make especially clear in giving support to campaign DRIVEHOME
Mark on arm or leg REMEMBER
Nervous individual before magistrate with nothing to lose ONEDGE
New age male rejected mother earth NATURE
Newspaper item bound to appear in most of thick supplement ADDENDUM
Nice pun? Bluer one tended to be nasty DOUBLEENTENDRE
Novel about old Oxford, say SHOE
Old man admitting fifth-rate dodge is a non-starter DEADDUCK
Panic, losing head and slip ERROR
Putting coat on, not having right bill? One may see this in perspective VANISHINGPOINT
Quits when short of money, laid up, somewhat penniless? DEPARTS
Recently was manager at Palace LATERAN
Record position of losing tennis player SETDOWN
Remove imperfection from bomb? DEVICE
Revolutionary way to get fit? CIRCUITTRAINING
Roderick Random showing up informer NARK
Ruler in eastern half of Indian city TSAR
Showing concern for first signs of unwanted dirt? HOUSEPROUD
Sign of illegitimacy or wrongdoing is apparent during exchange BARSINISTER
State with traditions and knowledge to spare GALORE
Take time over rearrangement of letters showing one a short puzzle TANGRAM
Taken for granted American is a historian TACITUS
Thing gangster recalled about lawyer DOODAH
Two coins secure extremely rare table decoration CENTREPIECE
Unpleasant woman working after knocking back drink GORGON
Victory in competition making him perspire surprisingly PREMIERSHIP
Way animal moves around passage quicker STRETTO
What was said to the successful guide? I haven't the foggiest YOUVEGOTMETHERE
Wrong term for South African stopping place OUTSPAN
Zip more quickly round points FASTENER