The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 426 - September 28, 2002

Tired of your current crossword puzzle? Try solving our daily crossword puzzles. GO TO DAILY PUZZLES!
Clues Answers
A holiday - O for a job! AVOCATION
A hugely unpleasant expansion in jumbos? ELEPHANTIASIS
A shocking experience for one facing up to bad habit? AVERSIONTHERAPY
After start of play one on the field, having transgressed, is singled out PREFERRED
Badly behaved like folk aboard Polaris - talk about a racket! INSUBORDINATE
Beastly type getting rid of the workers? INSECTIVORE
Books and articles in university are important READINGMATTER
Chew something gummy, then brew tea MASTICATE
Clever person with a bit of fire? SPARK
Climbs up round eastern feature of church and rings changes REORGANISES
Compound in a quarry AMINE
Cried and refused to hear NEIGHED
Difficulties with what to say finally in forecasts PREDICAMENTS
Doing a rewrite, not keeping characters from original script TRANSLITERATING
Dope in army section? INTELLIGENCE
Egyptian sun is starting to set around mid-evening in the wet RAININESS
Emphatically not use an upright type ITALICISE
Execution of test - school period's replaced in the morning EXTERMINATION
Extremely remote French department - revolutionary choice RECHERCHE
Feeling thankful for what assets can do in a boom APPRECIATING
Getting promising performers moving on a stage to final number SHORTLISTING
Girl in disguise uses a new name SUSANNE
Giving orders, talking for the record DICTATING
Glower, showing hesitation about medal EMBER
Hold captive, preparing halter to catch head in noose ENTHRAL
How far one has got in undermining a fool SAPHEAD
I left poor girl with nothing to eat in decaying inner city - that's explosive NITROGLYCERIN
In pubs left nerds drunk, in obtuse state PURBLINDNESS
In three diamonds, I played first card and cheated DIDDLED
Incoherent reader - she practised REHEARSED
Left part of pencil sketch PORTRAY
Like good weather synopsis coming over the radio SUMMERY
Man's encouragement to any who will listen PHILLIP
Medical expert is good person to predict one's future? GASTROLOGIST
Member of the establishment who will always be PC PRIVYCOUNCILLOR
Military area in danger - road up after explosion PARADEGROUND
Clues Answers
Moral uprightness shown by military officer in invasion INCORRUPTION
Mutual involvement to say a sad farewell to cousin maybe? INTERRELATION
Nasty virus knocked back Russian - several of these still around? SURVIVALS
Noise from Scots group heading for Glasgow CLANG
Not half stupid - and I celebrate vulgar eating GORMANDISING
Not quite proper boys - might they end up in these? PRISONS
Obligation incurred with credit? It's unenforceable DEBTOFHONOUR
Old spinners pitch short - let's start to slog wildly THROSTLES
One producing alcohol to make girl quieter DISTILLER
One visitor half-hidden under periodical is mysterious MAGICAL
One who may not succeed if a new boy comes along HEIRPRESUMPTIVE
Paints sentimental picture in post-classical style? ROMANTICISES
Pile of bricks left in lodging CLAMP
Place of War and Peace, we hear, is captured in illustration FRONTISPIECE
Prayer in which there's asking, or insistence possibly INTERCESSION
Prone to get involved with red tape to be more important PREPONDERATE
Put in writing, one attempt to cover things philosophically in prison PENITENTIARY
Puts out dreadful school terror finally to hold class CHLOROFORMS
Requires to be paid again - I'm taken in by lies REIMPOSES
Revealing accident by word of mouth? FREUDIANSLIP
Sample old wine, say - dry, ultimately defective in sugar TRISACCHARIDE
Seafood, say, taken by chap - another having beef MUSCLEMAN
Seaside air, maybe, a region of oxygen? OZONE
Seriously, getting married can be such a performance SOLEMNISATION
Showing result of drinking like a fish? LEGLESS
Some hear more peaceful fate KARMA
Swallow one! MARTINI
There are sound reasons why one's clipped round the ear HEADPHONE
Trick delivery's first - see turning ball CONDYLE
Two containers used by a bar in Spain CANTINA
Two learners are endlessly restricted by one ineffective chap without 64 DULLARD
What might manifest a soft nature behind the external bark SAPWOOD
What's seen that's astronomically unusual? Bring out any telescopes COLLIMATORS
Wild party for one to enter with city girl from Wales DIONYSIAN
Wintry spells in which viral infection breaks? COLDSNAPS
You've just read the answer THREE