The Times - Concise - Times Concise Jumbo No 1597

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Clues Answers
— Warwick, singer DIONNE
(Of a region) having too few people underpopulated
A breaking off or ceasing DISCONTINUATION
Aircraft stewardess HOSTESS
Alessandro —, Italian novelist MANZONI
An often-repeated event the same old story
Beyond criticism IRREPROACHABLE
Catastrophic event APOCALYPSE
Comedy duo laurel and hardy
Comic book hero SUPERMAN
Confined by bars CAGED
Confuse, bewilder BEMUSE
Cooked cut of meat rib roast
Criminal group GANG
Cross-bred dog LURCHER
Deprived (of), lacking BEREFT
Egyptian looped cross ANKH
First prize gold medal
Floating seaweed SARGASSO
Friend of Winnie-the-Pooh EEYORE
Garden plant LOBELIA
Gulliver's land of giants BROBDINGNAG
Illegal copying of music BOOTLEGGING
Inclination, tendency DISPOSITION
Instrumental composition SONATINA
Italian innkeeper PADRONE
Items added to the end of a text ADDENDA
Land short of (the runway) UNDERSHOOT
Lengthily applauded item SHOWSTOPPER
Letter or figure printed below the line SUBSCRIPT
Clues Answers
Lineage. ancestry PEDIGREE
Medieval fighter in the Holy Land CRUSADER
Member of the dolphin family GRAMPUS
Microwave generator MASER
Molecular ring closed chain
Mythical eagle-lion GRIFFIN
Not the same DIFFERENT
Notice, perceive OBSERVE
Obsessed with power MEGALOMANIACAL
One next in rank to the leader second-in-command
Patron BENEFACTOR
Presenting few difficulties EASY
Receiver of an award PRIZEWINNER
Regarding humans as of supreme importance ANTHROPOCENTRIC
Resistant to infection IMMUNE
Safe for use in baking or roasting OVENPROOF
Semiprecious stone AGATE
Severe suffering ANGUISH
Showing great attention to detail PUNCTILIOUS
Simple boat DUGOUT
Speed; organised journey EXPEDITION
Systematic collection of statements or propositions SYNTAGMA
Total add up
Tough; strongly alcoholic HARD
Type of aerial DIPOLE
Want, great poverty DEPRIVATION
Win back RECLAIM
With small lumps NODULAR
Without reason MINDLESS
Wryly amusing IRONIC