The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 357 - August 4, 2001

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43 in rows SCRAPS
A lot could get poorly with it: extremely infectious illness TONSILLITIS
A number of hitches (relatively speaking) in the making of this film? (5,6,3,5,8) SEVENBRIDESFORSEVENBROTHERS
A pig of a hot day ROASTER
A support actor's name ABRAHAM
Are cures the result of exploiting this surgical instrument? ECRASEUR
Bank employee, a former wife swapper? EXCHANGER
Battleground STAMFORDBRIDGE
Better to patronise these publishers? BOOKMAKERS
Bit of a bloomer made by oarsman swallowing a fly, perhaps RAYFLOWER
Caught in mêlée after turning up for an evening on the town? PUBCRAWL
Chattering endlessly without making a complete ass of one's audience? (7,3,4,3,3,1,6) TALKINGTHEHINDLEGOFFADONKEY
Communist plan for the future is originating during sleep REVISIONIST
Conservationist that is gullible to start with GREENIE
Convey navy in ship BRING
Creature, male, seen round shaded areas near a lake HARBOURSEAL
Explain how to put things in order CLEARUP
Express: hardly a down-to-earth newspaper? FLYINGSCOTSMAN
Fellow swaggering given zero responsibility at first BUCKO
Female spies holding back lousy creatures CECILIA
Film-maker's equipment exhibited in revamped movie arcade STRIKER
Flat acceptable to an Italian PADUAN
Foreign fellow, a bishop captured by freedom fighters PABLO
French chemist runs off page lay-out prior to publication PASTEUP
Gets nothing, with British Telecom profits cut at first OBTAINS
Girl left ruffian to pay SHELLOUT
Guest, home before six, should get a meal, say INVITEE
Heard original song, a notable feature of Hair NUDITY
Hold back unspecified number in lively action CONTAIN
Hums sounds made by horns HONKS
I'm getting into rough, thin German wine RUDESHEIMER
Idiosyncrasy Catholic held to be too violent? FORCIBLE
Irritating and malicious, though not at first ITCHY
Keen-sighted dog, not one you had tailed SHARPEYED
Little boy blue set sail PUTTOSEA
Lots of well-informed prisoners in a state WISCONSIN
Make waves? They will do just that ROCKTHEBOAT
Manager offers straightforward alternative DIRECTOR
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Modern dance music, loud at all times? It could make you quite ill JUNGLEFEVER
Newly-wed's dress? GROOM
Northerners making home in skerry? YORKSHIREMEN
Office for every boy and girl, reportedly PERSONNEL
One may be showing improvement in developing novel accents CONVALESCENT
One sounds in a panic ALARMBELL
One who's out to score goals VIDEOCAMERA
Only where Hyde Park hecklers are expected to gather any time now? JUSTAROUNDTHECORNER
Pardon soldiers on a bombing raid, perhaps REMISSION
Person of great patience has merit, and that's official JOBSWORTH
Plot starting to subvert Conservative party policy? STORYLINE
Pluck flower, so to speak, getting in a pickle PICCALILLI
Poet, a leader of fashion at heart ODIST
Port, brother, is a kind of poison BRISBANE
Powerful weapon destroyed frog on bus BOFORSGUN
Priest notes second class type of accommodation PREFAB
Prophet carries first of dishes for meal of religious significance SEDER
Retired academics get on my nerves, making comeback at institute EMERITI
Scheme beginning to use valley for discharge of waste PLANURIA
Secret society's so obsessive about it MASONIC
Security offered by Alaskan port ANCHORAGE
Some horse races here ESHER
Someone making scornful remarks about organ rolls REVILER
Standard rank, in the main? FLAGLIEUTENANT
Starts teetotal? Associate comes in and follows the trendy crowd JUMPSONTHEBANDWAGON
Steel rod fixed under building at first gave support BOLSTERED
Stop to eat a spicy sort of meat SATAY
Such as the instructions King Alfred used when making cakes? RECIPEFORDISASTER
Take the plunge here to appreciate swallowing French wine with food DIVINGBOARD
Talks a lot about North Americans YANKS
Toy plane's broken - repair to damaged structure needed NEOPLASTY
Trains and planes merge, possibly - here? PASSENGERTERMINAL
Type of law, of unknown origin, I found in carbon copy CANONIC
Unco-operative, but powerless to have the last word? UNAMENABLE
Uncultivated area? Rubbish WASTE
US foreign policy, once monitored, is revised without resistance MONROEDOCTRINE
Wet sea-dip, splashing about in a few feet of water? WAISTDEEP
With tenderness, waters oriental flower HEARTSEASE