The Times - Concise - Times2 Jumbo 474 - December 3, 2011

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Ancient water clock CLEPSYDRA
Appeased PLACATED
Army rank BRIGADIER
Attention given to too narrow a subject OVERSPECIALISATION
Balearic island IBIZA
Becoming active again RENASCENT
Cinquefoil genus POTENTILLA
Continually preoccupied OBSESSIVE
Corrosive liquid ACID
Crosswise TRANSVERSE
Domestic fireplace INGLE
Dutch 17th-century philosopher SPINOZA
Egyptian Mediterranean port ALEXANDRIA
Everlasting ETERNAL
Express strong disapproval EXPOSTULATE
Fishing boat TRAWLER
Foot joint ANKLE
Free from reverberation ANECHOIC
Gracefully thin SLENDER
Great contentment HAPPINESS
Grid cable support PYLON
Hair remover EPILATOR
Heel; knife STILETTO
Hole collecting water for pump SUMP
Hunter's active months OPENSEASON
Ice cream variety TUTTIFRUTTI
Keep well away from AVOIDLIKETHEPLAGUE
Lacking consideration THOUGHTLESS
Met map pressure line ISOBAR
Metal-melting vessels CRUCIBLES
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Metallic element MAGNESIUM
Motif of intertwined initials MONOGRAM
Noisy quarrelling; big eager air (anag.) ARGIEBARGIE
Passing reference MENTION
Political interpretation; rotate SPIN
Process of breaking up DISINTEGRATION
Quick-tempered FIERY
Racecourse near London EPSOM
Release a knitted loop DROPASTITCH
Release from guilt ABSOLUTION
Roof of the mouth PALATE
Scenic Cumbrian area LAKEDISTRICT
Sheepskin garments AFGHANCOATS
Shorten TRUNCATE
Strong lager ICEBEER
Stylish, elegant CHIC
Such as football, snap, etc GAMES
Supposed but not necessarily real HYPOTHETICAL
Theatre operator SURGEON
Thinking logically RATIONAL
Through which to book a show TICKETAGENT
Top of a fortified wall BATTLEMENT
Town in Hampshire ANDOVER
Travel across TRAVERSE
Tread on and crush TRAMPLE
US politician CONGRESSMAN
Very deep chasm ABYSS
Wearing away ERODING
Wordsworth's flowers DAFFODILS
Writer of their own life story AUTOBIOGRAPHER