The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1599

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A staff with stone inlaid for Bartholomew? APOSTLE
At first those recruits helped and worked hard TRAVAILED
Caution cleaner in vessel carrying ecstasy CHARINESS
Charming women's group granted cracking location in London covent garden
Choice cut doorman criminally takes outside hostelry porterhouse steak
Climate measure: one representing sun in autumn? RAINFALL
Close to piano bar in whisky town OBAN
Communist power avoided by extremely smart mountaineer STALINIST
Country girl in state GEORGIA
Criminal bands imprisoning English banker GANGES
Cutting down on waste, mince is no-go for cooking economising
Deliver large carpet around one LIBERATE
Duke leaves MP to state main points again RECAP
Enigma resolved with elder's magical skill LEGERDEMAIN
First nine letters here sent north and one abroad? IOTA
Force over channel is gathering FRILL
Ford's meeting with British colonialist said to be turning point CROSSROADS
Get out fast packing cold ready-cooked chicken? scaredy-cat
Glue's thought to secure one that protects pugilist GUMSHIELD
Great country ready at last stages event highland games
Heavenly Satie composition? Little room to accommodate it CELESTIAL
Henry with a dark film genre shortly generates capital HANOI
Heroic drunkard not so wild about love and blunt refusal? tam o shanter
In a practical sense, team hardly careless ANXIOUS
In company with relatives leaving a prosperous region home counties
In Row D? end-to-end
In sober company Thomas Stearns Eliot initially confused at sea
Into which one may disappear — on high Himalayan slopes? thin air
Introduction to Aida expanded in accompaniment ALONG
Joining programme in French, large team coming into decline ENROLMENT
Clues Answers
Just one Roman poet absorbing pressure IMPARTIAL
Kiln tested in pair's absence OVEN
Laziness in monarch Spanish aunt supports INERTIA
Like this young woman from East African port LAGOS
Make fuss when avoiding a Greek island CRETE
Matriarch perhaps on river, well-respected person GRANDEE
Mayhem: United supporters up for it? SNAFU
Not demanding numbers for an audience? easy listening
People's knight fighting to oust Camelot's leader NATION
Portuguese saint swallowing fifty-five shots SALVO
Professional negligence news boss managed badly misconducted
Red from Italy greeting worker in Channel Islands CHIANTI
Right to hold authentic beer mug in small 4 LIECHTENSTEIN
Saddle high and yet slipping for potential killer deadly nightshade
Send some French dressing DESPATCH
Similar drinks put together with classy French wine CHATEAU
Sincerely believed explosive material about creative works HEARTFELT
Soak leaving biscuits for Cremonese craftsman AMATI
Song George Harrison wrote, part obsession SOMETHING
Taking cautious approach, apply constant force to bull neutered in Crosby? boxing clever
Traditional hymn not Garbo's likely choice? Abide With Me
Up close and personal truth about drug of winner Face To Face
Vampire maybe seizing type of blood vessel BOAT
Varnish from sweetheart: old sweetheart in retirement ENAMEL
Voters' group not yet in, real cool, relaxed, on making entry electoral college
Way old New York dealer briefly becomes hard up stony-broke
Woolly bear changing to me: right! tiger moth
Writer crowned after graduate, with two Cs, getting a degree BACCALAUREATE
Writer, barbarian coming in to duel crazily with Harry Arthur Conan Doyle
Zoom lens? WEBCAM