The Times - Concise - Times2 Jumbo 480 - January 7, 2012

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Clues Answers
(Of fruit) matured RIPENED
(Of time) be short PRESS
Amendment, improvement REFORMATION
Animal Hercules overcame NEMEANLION
Approve automatically RUBBERSTAMP
Bertrand —, mathematician and philosopher RUSSELL
Bingo-like game LOTTO
Bird's sound CHIRRUP
Bit by bit PIECEMEAL
Catch-up programme OMNIBUSEDITION
Collie-like creature SHETLANDSHEEPDOG
Daydreams CASTLESINSPAIN
Disagreeing with CONTRADICTING
Discourage DETER
Enemy agent FIFTHCOLUMNIST
Fine cut of meat TENDERLOIN
Floor covering LINO
Form of pasta SPAGHETTI
French satirist RABELAIS
Go back RETREAT
Health resort SPATOWN
Increase AUGMENT
Italian dictator MUSSOLINI
Kiwis, Enzedders NEWZEALANDERS
Lacking comforts; strict AUSTERE
Large primate GORILLA
Lit (literary) ILLUMED
Nut filling PRALINE
Obsequious person LICKSPITTLE
One asked to attend INVITEE
Ornamental stone MARBLE
Clues Answers
Passage CORRIDOR
Picnic basket HAMPER
Pleasant-sounding MUSICAL
Police dog trainer HANDLER
Possessed OWNED
Powerful alkali POTASH
Puccini's jumper TOSCA
Relating to good food GASTRONOMIC
Roof-edge wall PARAPET
Science of soil and crops AGRONOMY
Scottish lake LOCH
South African succulent LIVINGSTONEDAISY
Southern county SUSSEX
State of bankruptcy CAREYSTREET
State of near insensibility STUPOR
Stitched fold PLEAT
Stop! HOLDHARD
Strait of Dover PASDECALAIS
Street callbox TELEPHONEKIOSK
Stringed instrument CELLO
Such as chlorine POISONGAS
Superior group ELITE
Team game NETBALL
Testify BEARWITNESS
Thief (slang) TEALEAF
Uncharacteristic ATYPICAL
Waiting to be done ONONESPLATE
White heron EGRET
Wild horse BRONCO
Written work on a particular subject TREATISE
Yearn to possess (another's property) COVET