The Times - Concise - Times2 Concise 5911 - October 18, 2012

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(Has) started BEGUN
Bank of England lending index BASERATE
Bell-ringing method PLAINBOB
Biblical country MOAB
Cause of obsessive fear BUGBEAR
Coming after time BELATED
Cooked like a cake BAKED
Count —, jazz pianist BASIE
Cured herring BLOATER
Drink BEVERAGE
Girl's name BELLA
Horse with patches of white and another colour SKEWBALD
Lauren —, US actress BACALL
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Like two-part lenses BIFOCAL
Likely to rot quickly PERISHABLE
Lottery for tickets BALLOT
One not present ABSENTEE
Pale turquoise NILEBLUE
Pill TABLET
Power of three CUBE
River at Preston RIBBLE
Scarab, for instance DUNGBEETLE
Surround, enclose EMBOWER
Very nearly ALLBUT
Whale fat BLUBBER
— Beardsley, illustrator AUBREY