The Times - Cryptic - Bank Holiday Jumbo 440 - December 26, 2002

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Ann here plainly suffering, lacking right amino acid PHENYLALANINE
Answer to Prayer Book enquiry over a girl NORMA
Approximately everyone at home - good for visiting CALLING
Arm used by one pressing cheese LIMBURGER
Attempt to rebut charge from board - one entrusted to reticent person COUNTERCLAIM
Bird often in water, say, needing to soak EGRET
British facing danger - quick! BRISK
Buzz off - son has to study intensively SCRAM
Change room with infants' art being flung around TRANSFORMATION
Chemical used in the solar cell possibly ROCHELLESALT
Coming out, one abandoned American writer EMERSON
Competed, in extremes of tiredness - race is crossing frontiers TRANSNATIONAL
Composer finds band that's warming to the sound TIPPETT
Defiant ass foolishly imagined better circumstances FANTASISED
Divisions in the kingdom one organising papers heard of PHYLA
Drug one's used after operation with little hesitation OPIUM
Feels gangster mad in freely increasing personal power SELFAGGRANDISEMENT
Fish with colourful markings and black eyes SHINERS
Fruitful interaction requiring couple initially for it, solitariness being out CROSSFERTILISATION
Fuel is undervalued, much of it being wasted DERV
Funeral ode - heroic means of communicating when leading male's gone EPICEDIUM
Get cannier, when moving staging again REENACTING
Going wrong, in a way, needing some light ASTRAY
Hard on doctor to operate on primitive backbone NOTOCHORD
Having got to the end, retaining nothing, leaving comprehensive THOROUGHGOING
Hit: how one might vote for it? RAISEONESHANDTO
Hotel's first to make unjustified claim for spa town HARROGATE
In this, the New Age used to get ticked off in Paris FRENCHREVOLUTIONARYCALENDAR
Insect has limited lifetime, I note TERMITE
Ireland brought in second breed of sheep MERINO
Irresponsible person born to meet right corker of a girl, we gathered NEERDOWELL
Knocker of Parliamentary procedure (9,5,2,3,5,3) GENTLEMANUSHEROFTHEBLACKROD
Labour and Conservative try mixing in charitable combination ROTARYCLUB
Leaders of some universities believe foolish undergraduates shouldn't criticise academic dress SUBFUSC
Making counteraccusations in respect of endlessly law-breaking politician RECRIMINATORY
Man about to fall having to get out of carriage DETRAIN
Man in a tub creating support for the wicked? CANDLESTICKMAKER
Man's cold anger rising ERIC
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Miscellaneous collection of biblical characters JOBLOT
Month needed on musical work - something from La Mer? OCTOPUS
Notice husband, outwardly timid person, in state of confusion MADHOUSE
Notice one's given to political grouping is so long ADIEU
Occasionally taking to new Cicero translation ONCEORTWICE
Officer stuck in chimney - one won't be in position for ever! LOCUM
Old leaving noisy, inferior town LUDLOW
One abroad getting English Times opportunely? EXPAT
Participation of silly men on live TV INVOLVEMENT
Poem I put down having got confused in the middle ILIAD
Produce dope with little hesitation at start of evening GENERATE
Pub has no end of Canary wine, and French BARSAC
Pure little fellow is a star WHITEDWARF
Put down motion again about contest, so it can be repeatedly gone over RETRACEABLE
Rabble-rousers get charges - arresting half of them with eager excitement DEMAGOGUES
Radioactive material initially replaced in hard case CRANIUM
Remark about the Left's behaviour COMPORTMENT
Rodent-catcher gets a foothold RATTRAP
Run a special edition of the paper EXTRA
Senior cleric taking care of a junior one DEACON
Showing apprehension and feeling ill, put to the question QUAILING
Soldier primarily assigned to gate? SENTRY
Soldier's forbearance about near disaster MERCENARY
Some wise women about to get kitchen equipment COVEN
Sort of gypsum that's upset lake plant ALABASTER
Studio expense is sorted out with speedy efficiency EXPEDITIOUSNESS
Submarine blockade off Queensland? GREATBARRIERREEF
Supereminent, like a number of mathematicians? TRANSCENDENTAL
They idly forgot they'd been taking in fruit LOTUSEATERS
Tiny animal in rubbish put on fire unfortunately ROTIFER
Told off, having rendered help foolishly, robbed of a pound REPREHENDED
Trainee's spell aboard vessel, protecting marine species INTERNSHIP
Two novelists sailed to the Pacific Islands HEYERDAHL
Unknown pub I found ace - it's blooming lovely ZINNIA
Utterly thrash down-and-out DEADBEAT
With such speed, trained to be non-racist TRANSONIC
Wooden frame left on street in box TRESTLE
Words of greeting oddly all but included in post SALUTATION