The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 613 - December 10, 2005

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Clues Answers
'Hot borscht' turned out to comprise cold soup SCOTCHBROTH
Able to pick up ideas disseminated by cheap title TELEPATHIC
Ancient person of Eurasia endlessly cutting a swathe round its eastern edge? SCYTHIAN
Audibly expressed yearning wish in a sly way? SIDELONG
Because it's truly poetic, I am enthralled with a lot of volume FORTISSIMO
Bent copper ultimately starts in shame PROPENSITY
Bit of fun (within restraint) marks holiday HALFTERM
Black font as source for religious service? CHURCHTEXT
Cape-Horn clash? BULLFIGHT
Case involving fine points settled in perpetuity? ETUI
City fine somehow reduced OKINAWA
Collapse gets a Communist back in bother FALDERAL
Colourless article banned by gallery's colourful board? PALETTE
Comforts provided by being mother? TEAANDSYMPATHY
Cynic briefly gets involved in woeful blues, affected by emotions SUSCEPTIBLE
Dealer in produce and game, among the odd fir tree FRUITERER
Dominant Poles separately ousted from Express ONTOP
Down the hatch, extracting sulphur from grass roots? BOTTOMUP
Emotionally sensitive, stressed, hearts sinking a couple of notches EMPATHIC
European school doubled distribution of Zola to cover current blossoming growth? ESCHSCHOLZIA
Excavator taking spades to mean digs SHOVEL
Feature of an effective bill, rarely a hen's TEETH
Financial regulator, a comprehensive searcher COMPTROLLER
Fishy characters in Chicago, IL, hotly beset? ICHTHYOLOGICAL
Focuses attention on insults about paunch SPOTLIGHTS
Graceful dance principle's not hard BALLETIC
Group of painters spreading a coat from early days ROYALACADEMYOFARTS
Hairy man regularly used modern form of salve? HIYA
Healthy condition? Not so healthy when swallowing a soothing drug PAINKILLER
I've no funny last words ENVOI
Clues Answers
Impromptu piccolo selection echoed in the back of one's head OCCIPUT
Just the one number, comparatively low, about zero NONEOTHER
Lively and full of self-importance? That's about right ALLEGRO
Local six-footer run into on length of dash? EMMET
Look for gold card, answer that fixes all complaints PANACEA
Moody poet is bursting with charm ATMOSPHERIC
Nothing controlled heartfelt unease wiping out the last apes ORANGUTANGS
One communicates abruptly in note before college head entertains judge INTERJECTOR
Paper birds with head (characteristically) buried, signifying good fortune RAGSTORICHES
Pompous person (British) in Post Office endorses banking records PASSBOOKS
Ready for instruction as two forms of a drink ran short TEACHABLE
Recording whose content is revealed as light plays LASERDISC
Reflected signal's limits with distortions showing untidy spreads SPRAWLS
Sail wide, toward the rudder WAFT
Short-lived attempt to keep one banned from shops TEMPORARY
Shouted disapproval envelops first of geishas that is dancing BOOGIEING
Since piece of vegetation is defaced, it's crooked ASLANT
Slow-moving spot shows this globe doesn't turn in its orbit LAZYEYE
Soldier falling in the line of duty PARATROOPER
Something a DJ uses to captivate us MUSIC
Son was keener, perhaps, and passed proudly SWEPT
Staff chauffeur follows the car careering up street — it forces one-way turns RATCHETSCREWDRIVER
They might convert extremes of sound as current TRANSDUCERS
US news publisher, one moaning about leaders from international time zones PULITZER
What engravers use: pen, with illumination almost completed STYLI
What makes an American laugh about antisocial instincts is the weed stored here? HUMIDOR
What starts tempting him is eventually filched THIEF
Where a duck may be broken in the form of an egg OVAL
Where difference between bear and bore is amplified? INTENSE
Works up core groups for Henry, Iago and Caesar ENRAGES