The Times - Concise - Times Concise Jumbo No 1354

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Advance fee; servant RETAINER
Biting fly MIDGE
Bleeding from the nose EPISTAXIS
Calm TRANQUIL
Christmas song CAROL
Circus controller RINGMASTER
Covered with frozen dew FROSTED
Craftsmen's or merchants' association GUILD
Creamy dressing MAYONNAISE
Decrease in loudness DIMINUENDO
Deep absorption; baptism IMMERSION
Detest ABHOR
Document or record collection ARCHIVE
Excessive reckoning of value OVERESTIMATION
Excessive stress OVEREMPHASIS
Expression of disapproval REPRIMAND
Facility, easiness SIMPLICITY
Failing to produce the intended result ABORTIVE
Flattened by pressure COMPRESSED
Form of pasta SPAGHETTI
Fraudulent scheme SWINDLE
Give comfort or support to CHEER
Glasses SPECS
Green-fleshed fruit AVOCADO
Historical French province ANJOU
Holder of an office or post INCUMBENT
Let-down DISAPPOINTMENT
Loose overcoat ULSTER
Loud piercing cry SCREAM
Make clearly known DECLARE
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Modern name for Burma MYANMAR
Most basic level grass roots
Move; dress SHIFT
Ordinary run-of-the-mill
Placing of things close together JUXTAPOSITION
Process of sharing out Apportionment
Projectile's path TRAJECTORY
Publicly condemn DENOUNCE
Radical reorganisation shake-up
Response to stimulus REACTION
Revelation of one's feelings through art, dance, etc self-expression
Sedimentary rock SANDSTONE
Shorten ABRIDGE
Showing sympathetic feelings COMPASSIONATE
Spice CUMIN
Spiritualist meeting SEANCE
Spotted beetle LADYBIRD
State of being unwell or unfit INDISPOSITION
Sudden forward movement LUNGE
Surrounding area ENVIRONS
Tear or deeply cut LACERATE
Truce ARMISTICE
Unit of distance in space PARSEC
Unrealistically high view of one's prospects OVEROPTIMISM
Unyielding resolution a stiff upper lip
Upper room ATTIC
Very informal language SLANG
Very popular book BESTSELLER
Way of living modus vivendi
Wildlife-rich region of Africa SERENGETI