The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 1037 - May 25, 2013

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"Best performance" actor seen in DJ RECORDPLAYER
A British politician once knocked back old port BILBAO
A high class piece about endlessly brilliant classical writer AUGUSTAN
Battle and strike about where rubbish is deposited LITTERBASKET
Bewildering affair in which Othello, say, loses head FLOORING
Church service in nick spiritually pure we hear from Spooner WATCHNIGHT
Country where return of religion can't have succeeded MALI
Crime committed by macho clique MALEFACTION
Dealing with me, surprisingly, without hesitation or trickery LEGERDEMAIN
Difficulty daughter overlooked securing riding equipment HARNESS
Fake drug found by flipping pupil once behind station PLACEBO
Fine to abandon wind instrument for plucked one LUTE
Force soldiers to stop working — it's crucial to the outcome MAKEORBREAK
Friend from US wearing a short dress in the capital ABUDHABI
German banker's drinking bout SPREE
Go back for a very short time SPLITSECOND
Good memory linked with spring plant GROMWELL
Help given by newspaper? DAILY
I look over trendy area outside Portuguese capital INSPECTOR
I try Mahler composition in spell at university HILARYTERM
In school possibly English person photographed SUBJECT
In sink starts to clean rancid object — cheap cut of mutton SCRAGEND
In the best spot, however humble? (6,2,5,4,4) THERESNOPLACELIKEHOME
It's repeatedly said to comfort one in that position THERE
Keen to downsize in casualty initially? ACUTE
Lady right to describe writer as a killjoy DAMPENER
Letter written in English way found in bundle EPISTLE
Like a TV dinner ad, one very badly made? OVENREADY
Make attractive design? No good for clothes ENDEAR
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Make crack about always worshipping REVERENT
Minor abuse in factories ad hoc bill destroyed, overcoming united resistance CHILDLABOUR
Nearly finished thought solver, brain befuddled with ale (3,4,3,3,8) ALLOVERBARTHESHOUTING
Necessarily reject theatre in favour of church PERFORCE
Old Greek physician's almost fine after storm GALENIC
Old queen following convention FORMER
Old theologian takes group swimming on island SCHOOLMAN
One found in toilet bag cocaine and heroin before confrontation TOOTHBRUSH
Over-anxious doctors in court making case for ecstasy NEUROTIC
Passing interest shown in profitable business GOINGCONCERN
Piece of jewellery with brass spike NECKLACE
Play's dream involving character doffing cap TOLERANCE
Posh boy and girl LADIDA
Profundity one gets from loss after change of heart DEPTH
Religious leader giving a positive response about a charge AYATOLLAH
Revise tremendously? Not that much EMEND
Rock fan bopping (beginning to lurch and scream wildly) SLAMDANCER
Sending back spare speech Conservative rejected EXTRADITION
Start, after getting shot of one drink, to talk at length ORATE
Suffer and end up in scene of uproar BEARPIT
Sweetheart welcoming a good man's virtue HONESTY
The very last time doctor turned up OMEGA
Thinks deeply about eg Taoist conversion COGITATES
Tissues, not new, found in street most suspect SHAKIEST
Total may be on a couple of lines OVERALL
Unpleasant person with dog in queue once PIGTAIL
Unrivalled earnings after abridging story INCOMPARABLE
View, say, close to waves and headland SEASCAPE
What mad chap sees then does for Exmoor fauna, say REDDEER