The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 557 - December 25, 2004

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... and something apparently quite different where one must keep going CLEARWAY
A key question is not commonly used to inform ACQUAINT
A mother and daughter having some temper NATURED
Accusal of almost everyone with diplomatic mission ALLEGATION
Article about exactly what's needed for donation to church TITHE
Artist returned to alter line - Raphael, perhaps ARCHANGEL
Artist used bits of pencil, it's said STUBBS
Bent retainer sees upper class eat fast UBOLT
Birds get right up over flower LARKSPUR
Cheap items mostly free in black taxi drivers' association BRICABRAC
Cheerful young boy heard speaking SUNNY
Children's TV show making mum wriggle and doze off WORZELGUMMIDGE
Cocktail that's sparing with sloe gin, unfortunately SINGAPORESLING
Coming down the line from Lancaster out of control ANCESTRAL
Cut short a game ABRIDGE
Cutter making right Atlantic islands without directions RAZOR
Decrepit canon unfortunately susceptible to injury ACCIDENTPRONE
Design a clever grid - it is certainly not blank LIVECARTRIDGE
Excuse one's used in French town ALIBI
Father deity needs a temple PAGODA
Fighter has something given to Cerberus and his offspring? SOPWITHPUP
Floodle wibbly nombo blin? NONSENSE
Foreign king turning up after some camel chase? MELCHIOR
God attracted by sex appeal? SATYR
Goddess encountered amid Actaeon's quarry? DEMETER
Is holding party by lake, which swimmers may use LIDOS
Joint right on top of kiln ROAST
Keep in a wet place quantity of herrings that's no good CRANNOG
Key lines removed from book of words for speech DICTION
Like some lager in cool can drunk around house by the litre NONALCOHOLIC
Clues Answers
Mother and daughter head for insanity MADNESS
Musical's top song? MARIA
Not quite the finest Greek city THEBES
Noticed holding current or initial investment SEEDCORN
Old way of making fence soundly - let it stand without engineers WATLINGSTREET
One might like to roam across high Wensleydale CHEESEMITE
Part of Mary Rose actor feels is badly written FORECASTLE
Perfect example of a Post Office proposition about circular letter APOTHEOSIS
Philosopher setting out Zen ethics? NIETZSCHE
Plant thirteen lilacs in an arrangement CARLINETHISTLE
Postponing without hesitation the weeding out of management levels DELAYERING
Processing coal, be marketing less sulphur in green initiative ECOLABELLING
Raise two-thirds of a team? Slightly more, we hear ELEVATE
Replica yacht reconstructed as a characteristic example ARCHETYPICAL
Revolutionary artist in dull paint MARAT
Seller of alcohol in litres I caught in illegal act OFFLICENCE
Son wants fruit loaf to come first SPEARHEAD
Star-studded band showing class, some say, in Sinatra number... MILKYWAY
State leaders of land in the high unexplored Andes need international aid LITHUANIA
Street fighter, as King Kong became, reportedly URBANGUERRILLA
Style of cooking should be seen in menu ere one ordered MEUNIERE
Supporting framework of cast lead with chromium above CRADLE
The case is altered, so what's different? TYPOGRAPHY
The core of GKC is in Father Brown, I showed foreigner PAKISTANI
They help bird-spotter deal with extremely graceful creatures FIELDGLASSES
Throw missiles against a Roman's shield PELTA
Traveller showing little resistance is taken in by dubious ticket seller TOURIST
Try soldier I've upset a little time since GIVEITAGO
What's at the heart of feud growing between Ireland and Poland? EUROPEANUNION
Where to see one Roman count losing heart? ITALY