The Times - Concise - Times Concise Jumbo No 1301

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Act treacherously towards BETRAY
Atone for (guilt or wrongdoing) EXPIATE
Boat removing mud DREDGER
Brilliant display ECLAT
Capital of Canada OTTAWA
Card game like rummy CANASTA
Change markedly TRANSFORM
Comic entertainer CLOWN
Condemns to certain failure DOOMS
Crest or tuft of hair TOPKNOT
Cut into small pieces SHRED
Devices using transistors, microchips, etc ELECTRONICS
Drunkenness INEBRIATION
Egyptian port ALEXANDRIA
Eight-armed creature OCTOPUS
End FINALE
Famous female singer DIVA
First in importance PREMIER
Fodder plant ALFALFA
For the greater part; usually MOSTLY
Grape variety MUSCATEL
Group of eight players OCTET
Had an effect (on) IMPINGED
Henry David —, US essayist and poet THOREAU
Heroic operatic voice HELDENTENOR
Hole from which stones have been extracted gravel pit
I agree to what you propose you're on
Impromptu off the cuff
July 15th, believed to fix the weather for the next few weeks st swithin's day
Large sea OCEAN
Limit on a local authority's fund-raising power rate cap
Clues Answers
Lustrous, glossy SHINY
Major chest operation open heart surgery
Make less hard SOFTEN
Meal to be carried packed lunch
Mesmerising HYPNOTIC
Method of critical analysis of literary texts DECONSTRUCTION
Nearly undetectable warplane stealth fighter
Not working INOPERATIVE
Nought; of no value NOTHING
Particularly effective; stylish NIFTY
Prediction PROPHECY
Protecting SHIELDING
Raise repeated false alarms cry wolf
Ralph Waldo —, US essayist EMERSON
Red flower POPPY
Relating to the voice box LARYNGEAL
Religious house for females NUNNERY
Repeat performance ENCORE
Roadside picture taker speed camera
Set meal in an Indian restaurant THALI
Set of criteria against which to judge frame of reference
Sketchy plan OUTLINE
Staged entertainment MUSICAL
Stately home near Tonbridge penshurst place
Synthetic resin polycarbonate
Tennis bats RACQUETS
To the utmost for all it's worth
Total knowledge OMNISCIENCE
Unable to do things for oneself HELPLESS
Vegetable LEEK
With retrospective action ex post facto