The Times - Concise - Times2 Jumbo 317 - January 24, 2009

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Based on no reliable evidence ILLFOUNDED
Beaten on quality OUTCLASSED
Become extinct DIEOUT
Beyond one's legal authority (Latin) ULTRAVIRES
Break into smaller sections SUBDIVIDE
Captain hunting Moby Dick AHAB
Caused trouble to INCONVENIENCED
Christmas decoration TINSEL
Complain GRUMBLE
Concerning ABOUT
Convenient, practical EXPEDIENT
Edible pea pods MANGETOUT
Enigma Variations composer ELGAR
Excessive intemperance DEBAUCHERY
Extinct elephant-like mammal MASTODON
Female one entrusts with secrets CONFIDANTE
Giving up (something desirable) FORGOING
Go back over (one's steps) RETRACE
Going before (in time/order) ANTECEDENT
Greek goddess of love APHRODITE
Greets WELCOMES
Group of squadrons; par of car WING
House plant ASPIDISTRA
House plant TRADESCANTIA
Imposing, magnificent NOBLE
Instinctive INTUITIVE
Kingsley Amis novel of university life LUCKYJIM
Large animals of a region MEGAFAUNA
Large box for commercial transportation CONTAINER
Large water snake ANACONDA
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Loose garments; finishes filming WRAPS
Mechanical man ROBOT
Native of Kingston JAMAICAN
Norwegian capital OSLO
Number of holes for a golf course EIGHTEEN
One of the Ring operas DIEWALKURE
Operating at a small distance CLOSEIN
Physically unfit OUTOFCONDITION
Pierced by, eg, a bull's horn GORED
Prickly; problematic THORNY
Private conversation between two people TETEATETE
Promptly (US) INSHORTORDER
Rising sharply STEEP
Rotary firework CATHERINEWHEEL
Scene of WW2 landing in 1915 GALLIPOLI
Shell-less marine mollusc SEASLUG
Show mild surprise/disapproval RAISEANEYEBROW
Southern polar region ANTARCTICA
Spirit, resilience METTLE
Sulphur; butterfly BRIMSTONE
Swollen with fluid ENGORGED
Thousand-year periods MILLENNIA
Toy weapon PEASHOOTER
Tree related to the rowan WHITEBEAM
Uncertainty principle physicist HEISENBERG
Upper chamber of Parliament HOUSEOFLORDS
Vegetables for planting SEEDPOTATOES
Very dry, having little rain ARID
Where Davy Crockett died ALAMO
Winter sport ICESKATING