The Times - Concise - Times Concise Jumbo No 1290

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(Musical) work OPUS
Alcoholism DIPSOMANIA
Alleviate (pain) RELIEVE
Anatolia asia minor
Audacious DARING
Birds; term of endearment DUCKS
Book by Samuel Butler EREWHON
Brief inspection look-see
Capital of Greece ATHENS
Causing harm to oneself self-destructive
Cheap INEXPENSIVE
Close NEARBY
Come together as one mass COALESCE
Conforming with tradition ORTHODOX
Custom or phrase from the US AMERICANISM
Develop, be promising shape up
Done on purpose INTENTIONAL
Drum for polishing, eg, gemstones tumbling barrel
Early form of bus CHARABANC
English county NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
Evidence of being elsewhere ALIBI
Exactly right spot-on
Feeling of sickness NAUSEA
Freshly developed and unfamiliar NEWFANGLED
Get rid of see off
Improving by controlled breeding EUGENIC
Incompatible IRRECONCILABLE
Initiation instigation
Intrinsic nature ESSENCE
Item of armour CUIRASS
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John —, British architect NASH
Lacking distinctive characteristics NONDESCRIPT
Location with good living a place in the sun
Measuring strip tape measure
Monarch KING
Noise of a pig OINK
Occurring at the same time CONTEMPORANEOUS
Officially approved ENDORSED
Orderliness of behaviour METHOD
Performing large numbers of calculations number-crunching
Playful troublemaking MISCHIEF
Poem by Shakespeare venus and adonis
Powdered spice PAPRIKA
Relating to what is normal or standard MAINSTREAM
Rugby formation SCRUM
Sad, despondent low-spirited
Saw SPOTTED
Sensational stage work MELODRAMA
Shame at one's failure CHAGRIN
Small fleet of ships FLOTILLA
Stay REMAIN
Talkative LOQUACIOUS
The letter H AITCH
Transport needing good balance UNICYCLE
Unending time ETERNITY
Unreactive PASSIVE
Using few words, terse LACONIC
Vacuity EMPTINESS
Weapon comprising numerous projectiles cluster bomb
Witty and rapid conversation REPARTEE