The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 485 - September 20, 2003

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"You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours," as the saying goes (3,4,4,8,7) ONEGOODTURNDESERVESANOTHER
At hour of prayer, one's in church in North, for instance PRIMEMINISTER
Be dying to embrace one girl ENID
Bit of an argy-bargy SCRAP
Chinese dish - here perhaps swallow in this way, completely? BIRDSNESTSOUP
Coach concealed nothing in Japanese code BUSHIDO
Coin Asia circulates PAISA
Composer's painting, plain one FRESCOBALDI
Considerable heat a feature in Congress's resolution SCORCHINGNESS
Considered cover drive part of America's game plan STRATEGICDEFENCEINITIATIVE
Considered, but left out FELT
Customers tell niece off CLIENTELE
Damsel in distress, with capital lawyer from US ANDROMEDA
Dancing, I go round the wrong way, held by man BOOGIEING
David, a policeman, leading all the other runners COPPERFIELD
Did voices get distorted in this recording? VIDEODISC
Everything I have picked up and consumed is dull ALLEVIATE
Experts are familiar with these lines ROPES
Explorer upset settler's look-out, a shop-keeper TOBACCONIST
Expression of contempt - under very rigorous interrogation, harassed interviewee mouths compound word BAHUVRIHI
Feeding while playing golf INPUTTING
Fish served in the Vatican POPE
Fish, oracles being ambiguous ESCOLAR
Flyers arrested by peace-makers COLLAREDDOVES
Graceful little creature travelled, we hear, all the time ROEDEER
Grant of land originally for intensive ecological farming FIEF
Have a look at batsman - it could be a revelation EYEOPENER
Having downed a drink, rambling angler is speaking at length ENLARGING
Heat wave? It lasts a long time AMONTHOFSUNDAYS
Instrument a dreadful bother? Nothing to it THEORBO
Joined with nation's revolutionary movement ANDANTINO
Journalists Canton's chief journalist browbeat PRESSURISED
Kate has gone off the rails in New Zealand TAKAHES
Man has to ring to arrange instruction to bank STANDINGORDER
Master's transport given a black application MASCARA
Metal buyers originally run out of French capital - they're extremely fair PLATINUMBLONDES
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Milk stout: bottle opener brought in, which could be put to good use EXPLOITABLE
Milky drink concocted by the wife, of course (but not ours) WHITECOFFEE
Normal style of architecture PERPENDICULAR
Novel item market-trader carries EMMA
One's old towards the end, and cut off ISOLATE
Opening batting, predict getting a fifty INAUGURAL
Outstanding parliamentarian's opening outstanding but one-sided argument SPECIALPLEADING
Pessimistic club are strongly advised to come round DISCOURAGED
Pip is under the weather SEEDY
Playing card, hoots? CURSEOFSCOTLAND
Point making some take a stand EAST
Ps and Qs: professional asks questions about the connection PROPRIETIES
Public relations publicise, that's plain PRAIRIE
Quirky dictionary is involved in rewriting chapter IDIOSYNCRATIC
Remove quotation, but not one giving pleasure DELECTATION
Ring to cancel film ANNULET
Royal motto, the latter part of which I discovered in the course of study ICHDIEN
Shawl over one hundred puls AFGHANI
She suffered at the hands of Tereus, from oil lamp he smashed PHILOMELA
Slough building SHED
Some swap ricotta for fruit APRICOT
Subcontinent includes your part of Asia INDONESIA
Sweet native American covers miles with heartless Chinese actor CREMEBRULEE
Swift, perhaps, and transient BIRDOFPASSAGE
The children will hear junior baseball players halve oranges for distribution (6,8,4,4,4) LITTLEPITCHERSHAVELONGEARS
The whole orchestra saw one - one's back RIPIENO
Time to lay down the law heartlessly, and carry out a purge ERADICATE
University attended by fools and kids OUTWITS
Venus, for instance, is full of a toxic substance - lead EVENINGSTAR
Vessel is large enough for only a few of the original selection SUBSAMPLE
When eating a fortune cookie, one may have to preempt another's view (4,3,5,3,2,4,5) TAKETHEWORDSOUTOFONESMOUTH
Where you could see young shark attached to line NURSERY
Women's farewell gesture WAVE
Workers' help taken up in hotels INDIANS
You said Listener puzzle is productive UNSTERILE
Yucca - was it used to make aprons? ADAMSNEEDLE