The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 596 - August 20, 2005

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....vocalise without very much increasing in volume SWELLING
A diamond that shouldn't break any records STYLUS
Adored furry creature turning up in part of garden BELOVED
Artist's just right for one picturesque cave GROTTO
Be charitable about wife's shrub DOGWOOD
Bill that made sweeping changes to English land tenure WILLIAMTHECONQUEROR
British invested in a Balkan gymnast ACROBAT
Brownie giving clothing to old charitable type that's lost a daughter ROBINGOODFELLOW
Caught with heroin by mistake: going into prison is the bitter fruit CHOKECHERRY
Classic verse in middle of Latin era VINTAGE
Cold descending on Italian island to upset fruit APRICOT
Cold still after the end of June EMOTIONLESS
Curious idyll fashioned in an absurd manner RIDICULOUSLY
Debacle is current, even though contained by the Foreign Office FIASCO
Deer turned to run, going on regardless UNDETERRED
Devilish antics around middle of pentangle could be this SATANIC
DNA structure paired men found before nineteen fifty nine? DOUBLEHELIX
Eels can wriggle clear of muck CLEANSE
Experienced examiner managed to follow English VETERAN
Experiment of proportional representation decree by leader of Iraqi state PRACTICAL
False statement about soldiers being open to new ideas LIBERAL
Functional fur worn by queen - bad habit SERVICEABLE
Get browned off with most of banal stuff in school SCORCH
Get the point? Absolutely not - but be spot on, anyway (3,3,4,2,3,4) HITTHENAILONTHEHEAD
Having a kitchen, they whip things THIEVES
Here one finds standing stones have limitless energy set in earth AVEBURY
Hit of the recent past YESTERDAY
HM's in a grand building here SANDRINGHAM
Holding back note in relatively modern setting .... RETICENT
It has to secure gallons - water's inside LOCKGATE
Junta heartily showing remorse for lying UNTRUTHFUL
Clues Answers
Loving gesture, giving away a plant CRESS
Lure duke out of this country by pretending modesty DECOY
Making puns shows promise to Hamlet, say WORDPLAY
Money regularly used in Algeria LEI
Move away from endless noise on the roadside DIVERGE
Namely, I'm the thing - sabre is regularly taken for me SCIMITAR
Note time put into needlework CROTCHET
Oh, for a pewter cast with resistance to the elements WEATHERPROOF
One backing theatre production in Islington ANGEL
One who did a turn in panto DICKWHITTINGTON
Paving stones put down across the pond? SIDEWALK
Pigment, initially one found in the ocean SEPIA
Public outcry bringing duchy near to ruin HUEANDCRY
Put another way, this may be made to appear rash PARAPHRASE
Reportedly plunder resistance unit providing cover for electronic equipment RADOME
Run away with debts of money to Bulgarian worker LEVANT
Second key Arab city to dispute crude figure SCARECROW
Seventeenth century style of setting diamonds in worked stone SEICENTO
Silver with circular piece on the bottom AGROUND
Singular former classical king - either way! XERXES
Supporting the state of early Christian writings when saint's become old PATRIOTIC
Theatre extremely dull, encompassing universal monotony TEDIUM
Van Gogh opening includes initial presentation of Irises and Night Cafe VINCENT
Wallowers in the mud of Flanders? HIPPOPOTAMI
Went wrong - queen appearing embarrassed ERRED
What leads in the alphabet upsilon TAU
What one might catch from Castelnau to Bushey AUTOBUS
Where one may find pound has something between Labrador and Newfoundland? BATTERSEA
Wild wives' third progressive party WHISTDRIVE
With start of drought, river is a mere trickle DRIBBLE
Woman crossing Irish county SHIRE