The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 590 - July 9, 2005

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Clues Answers
'Diplomacy', I state, 'is skilful' TACTICAL
... as part of orchestra drink deep DOUBLEBASS
... fabric of some weight man shortly put on CRETONNE
A conductor has to be aware of the essential facts... KNOWTHESCORE
Archdeacon enters cathedral city calmly EVENLY
As pair, myself and you, please PRITHEE
Author who fed the flames? STOKER
Available at last, but out of the running NOWHERE
Back to the wild - it's become a habit SECONDNATURE
Badly fouls up last pair of trousers, golfer's wear PLUSFOURS
Bay where nymph can be seen DAPHNE
Being wicked and wild, it turned up without a name TURPITUDE
Biographer has to dry up about reformer when lady's left PLUTARCH
Boat halfway between two cities put down American pedestrian LABORIOUS
Book sets out to demonstrate massages are non-U PROVERBS
Broken net hasn't managed to ensnare Grahame KENNETH
Burdens judge with buckets REFRAINS
Catherine wheel finally spun out of the wood INTHECLEAR
Concerning site of disturbance, a story to captivate, though lacking heart EPICENTRAL
Conrad making joke about record JOSEPH
Cup permitted near mouth GOBLET
Date in church calendar Sweden, say, had relocated ASHWEDNESDAY
Drier caparisons CLOTHESHORSE
Eighteen railways express regret thus ALAS
Erk with rum brief ACQUAINT
Game bird brought back on one of Columbus's boats without a tail NINEPINS
Hugo's heroine dresses son in green, a ... ESMERALDA
If your shoe is too big, you pipe down (3,1,4,2,2) PUTASOCKINIT
In whist, you will have to behave unexpectedly generously TURNUPTRUMPS
Inflammation hard to spot in ordinary chap? Yes PHLEBITIS
Clues Answers
Jackass - I had one to back IDIOT
Kind of film not admitting any middle ground BLACKANDWHITE
Lookout means what to crew at sea? WATCHTOWER
Metalwork folder in which one unit of work's written up FILIGREE
Miss Locket holds up an idiotic act LUNACY
More inquisitive about one child being rejected NOSIER
Name, be it Hazel, Dicky or Dotty ELIZABETH
Note, western's got a new lead ACCIDENTAL
Off-putting smell about home - chooses to get up POSTPONING
Officer appearing in the flesh CORPORAL
Oriental leader dropped behind ASTERN
Pride damaged by dire prospects ESPRITDECORPS
Primitive supernatural entity ELEMENTAL
Put one's all into it, and managed to fashion opening, gaining corner GOTHEWHOLEHOG
Record two notes, quite distinct DISCRETE
Resin some manchineel emits ELEMI
River going right round map - Camel, perhaps AIRPLANE
Ship's senior officer BRIG
Shut up, declines to be set free SILENCED
Smile fatuously, not at first having one pound to put at hazard IMPERIL
Some fish are left compressed by others - they revive SMELLINGSALTS
Some quarter hectare, almost, to possess, having old money HALFACROWN
Support holding exercise in tent TEPEE
The upset state of other people THEIR
This will end all the hopes, end all the confusion about king DEATHKNELL
Title for Indian graduate attending British university BABU
Turned up and put down SNUB
Two places to go for golf and an extra large snack CLUBSANDWICH
Two ways to fiddle show subservience BOWANDSCRAPE
What's wrong? It's hunger, that's a cert SURETHING