The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 449 - February 15, 2003

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Air a myth: hard exercise causes heart problem LANGUISHED
Angry buccaneer cutting off head SPLOSH
Awfully calumnious, nothing less, not appreciating many of these answers? UNMUSICAL
Be sadly confused with so-called lines of poetry DODECASYLLABLES
Blade angle which travels through water rather flatly OARFISH
Blocking in one's ideas on paper? PARAGRAPHING
Bug-hunter's catches of insect of dullest type regularly discarded NETFULS
Bullying to obtain money with revolver GETTINGAT
Clubs perhaps go on line for sportswear TRACKSUIT
Colleague's work goes in two directions THORN
Composer bet about closure of production WAGNER
Convinced one's met ARHYTHMIA
Copyist with scruple about torn note SCRIVENER
Decommission some weapons - a Sino-Rumanian proposition that's a severe test PONSASINORUM
Deep shadow across one region of Italy UMBRIA
Defensive line Germans took with opera SIEGFRIED
Destructive weapons this country oddly needs to move around? NUKES
Doctrine to trouble one Muslim sectarian NONUSER
Drunken old Dock Green copper's way of speaking DICTION
Each hoped this drill parents do could be wrong? (5,3,3,3,5,3,5) SPARETHERODANDSPOILTHECHILD
Entire modern Venusberg rising wrecked German opera (3,13,3,8) DIEMEISTERSINGERVONNURNBERG
European Union's fraudulent? Music to one's ears EUPHONY
Exhilarate one in class by burning English book INEBRIATE
Father takes in son, almost fifty seven, strangely, for opera DASRHEINGOLD
Former wife sat for artists in the nude EXPOSED
Heavy metal's really big - I shattered quiet OSMIUM
Honest, sailor in the drink's not right ABOVEBOARD
I am, for ancient Roman, giving a good wrapping SAGUM
In central contracts, consult exemption copy of legal document TRANSUMPT
In opera featuring flower-maidens, short role one's picked up - a flower PARSIFAL
In playing piece you got backing that was harmonising KEYING
Injecting oneself? Naturally, it may be self-destructive AUTOIMMUNISATION
Irish lough's sea eagles ERNES
Judges what encourages cheers at cricket ground? LORDSHIPS
Keeping up with European question exhausted Germany's leader EQUALLING
Liar as afterthought directly reversed old report of computer record PSEUDOLOGUE
Maltreated violent person given accommodation ROUGHHOUSED
Manipulating thus is a form of Japanese therapy SHIATSU
Clues Answers
No employer has new responsibility to Queen THERIACAL
No more opera company - what horror! ENOUGH
Not dealt with, like some non-deliverable mail? UNADDRESSED
Old letter making sharp point IRATE
One seen hanging around pub DUTCHMAN
One who may overlook practices in the building trade? SURVEYOR
Opera I understand Solti conducted TRISTANUNDISOLDE
Ordain tooth must be shifted by this? ORTHODONTIA
Picture specially-chosen, almost sumptuous type of cell INNSIGN
Put back striker for chance to reverse earlier defeat SWITCHBOARDS
Question held right on - is love indifferent to orientation? ISOTROPIC
Rejected concerns about new African Muslim sect SENUSSI
Saint to proclaim divine SCRY
Scold holding old Western whip COWHIDE
Sea-horses - aquatic beast affected one HIPPOCAMPI
See female show sign of enjoying opera LOHENGRIN
Sees decrepit Green Goddess brought in - top's new, at any rate NEVERTHELESS
Severely reprimands essayist wasting asset LAMBASTES
Shifting winds, first sign of brisk breeze rising in valleys VARIABLES
Singular old judge won't start without end in view SIDEON
Slop fluid in quiet surroundings, making this? ISMAILI
Solemn petition as there's nothing good in daily allowance ROGATION
Someone who's a mystic Indian, primarily SWAMI
Sources for illuminated manuscripts? READINGLAMPS
Spook haunts near Opera TANNHAUSER
Such recreant abandoned hard orthodox religion EASTERNCHURCH
Teach penal reform as a hallowed area ANTECHAPEL
The atmosphere over California is bitingly therapeutic SATISFIED
Things like early Edison recordings set out drily on disc? CYLINDROIDS
Thirty nine dn KLM pilot is legendary figure for British FLYING
This girl's not hitched the length of Italy? SIGNORINA
Type of pasta makes us unwell, if up and about FUSILLI
Was first to encompass mental suffering and grew feeble RETURNMATCH
What might make German god mutter? GOTTERDAMMERUNG
Where there'll be many calls to change lots of directors PHOTOELECTRIC
Work's come to an end on footpath to river DIEWALKURE
Wretched sinner she cherishes ENSHRINES