The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 612 - December 3, 2005

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Clues Answers
Artist put forward may be given value RATABLE
As whisky may be ordered? NEAT
Ask, as not unlawful? SOLICIT
Author not quite admitting seedy is hot stuff! CHILLISAUCE
Being not exactly human and Christian, rejected ANDROID
Biscuit is good - after opening, touches pile GINGERSNAP
Bit of skirt revealing hair underneath FURBELOW
Book detective's written with artificial cover MOBYDICK
Counter blow? BUFFET
Determined to find decanter, is a drunk ASCERTAINED
Executors who aim to provide work for undertakers FIRINGSQUAD
First outfit still to come in, still to come in! LAYETTE
Fix on bringing round book to attempt degree-level study TRIGONOMETRY
Flier's low stretch BLUEBIRD
Further to arouse playboy, each wife entered before onset of night REAWAKEN
Great Victorian state supremo's beginning to break up part of joint TENNYSON
Happy, perhaps, to see daughter overcome offensive female DWARF
House women converted round end of street where they live? HOMETOWN
In advance, design vessel to contain endless counterattack PREPLAN
In order to get a rise, employer flies here TROUSERS
Look to eat volume, but don't STARVE
Looking angry, pelt with fruit REDPEPPER
Make Catholic nation into rebel ROMANISE
Masses showing total and utter bottle RANKANDFILE
Musketeer's pitiable state, having blown head off ATHOS
Not hard to jeer having added on French mark FRECKLE
Nothing original in delay, so do so! STONEWALL
Object about party ousting leader for conduct DEMEANOUR
Officer's gone off on the scent, we hear: this one? EAUDECOLOGNE
Clues Answers
One cuts short cake, one of a long line SCION
One who scoffs starters in cafe, yet never ice cream CYNIC
Our silly cryptic is dreamed up ILLUSORY
Place to be located at university LIEU
Poisonous thing to catch circling river in Jerusalem SCORPION
Politicians are to get sharper to overcome New Labour HONOURABLE
Pull bird and companion WRENCH
Reckon in the drink to find fish HADDOCK
Recognised setter as sweet SPOTTEDDOG
Relative idiot at school loses head around start of lesson UNCLE
Rotten moment for the best part HIGHPOINT
Scotsmen's attire enrages girl when windy GLENGARRIES
Services new governess disrupted? That's not right EVENSONGS
Side where the brain, having no blood, malfunctions BRIGHTONANDHOVEALBION
Some bishops are remarkably impartial PRIMATIAL
Spoil comedy - do three lines badly MOLLYCODDLE
Stable tier? STRING
Terms in cricket go on too long OVERRUN
Terribly unwell with a germ, having eaten unknown beet MANGELWURZEL
Two women claiming record are right, one exposing Lincoln? SHEEPSHEARER
Understanding pair of hospital departments impossible, ultimately ENTENTE
US city where a trollop pulled up TULSA
Well, ego reported? Certainly not MYEYE
What's clear, time the rent's collected ETHER
Where character may be absent, misplaced too perhaps? APOSTROPHE
Where females rule the roost, male expendable, husband included HENHOUSE
Why being a peeping Tom's risky? CURIOSITYKILLEDTHECAT
Work on land, and work on roof without delay TILLAGE
Yours truly, a king, about certain to become ruler MEASURER