The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 624 - February 4, 2006

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Clues Answers
A barred enclosure straddling centre of crew's area ACREAGE
A little Australian at first on floor? One's usually up a tree KOALA
American game making man or woman audibly angry CRISSCROSS
Ancient town street in old Midwest state OSTIA
Cliché-ridden style of man covering badly-run sale JOURNALESE
Concerned with current choice, one's about poised between two sides ELECTRICAL
Cosmetic detective found on ship EYELINER
Diet here, one suitable for birds? WORMS
Eg, Waverley's position in society? STATION
Encourage trendy quote INCITE
Equal in another place? PEER
Figure once in fashion, sporting identification label HEPTAGON
First among sisters making fuss over brill served around port MOTHERSUPERIOR
Fish-eater thus going over quarry OSPREY
Girl swallowing nonsense connected with Jolson's engagement BETROTHAL
Group of atoms a British biochemist identified? CHAIN
Hard worker involved in weekend delivery? SATURDAYSCHILD
Having the same tension, one thus needs bracer ISOTONIC
He was the devil of a writer! DICKENS
He's involved with women at an unspecified time SOMEWHEN
I investigate military quarters given to one who shoots RESEARCHER
Idle socialite, ages out of university, finding way to embrace flower-girl LOUNGELIZARD
In identical make-up, husband and daughter appear embarrassed SHAMEFACED
Initially Eliot's poetry managed to go in 6 ac TRANSVERSE
It may be made from meal raised outside area BREAD
Literary tailor's haphazard travels in Gloucester, initially STARVELING
Logical to skirt City area, not using boundaries for diversion RECREATIONAL
Man's supporting club, requiring no personal manoeuvring DRIVERLESS
Nobleman's widow's bet mostly payable during party game DOWAGERDUCHESS
Notice wet earth thrown up round study - it wasn't there originally ADDENDUM
Clues Answers
Oddly enough, it's the tum in ultimatum ULTIMA
Offer includes pay increase - it's for improving the joint TENDERISER
On board, need casual wear SLACKS
On the way, assess suitability of estate TESTDRIVE
Outer garment from Berkshire town - angora, do we hear? REDINGOTE
Outward appearance of water sport champion SURFACE
Pasta sick priest rejected, finding rodents in it VERMICELLI
Playwright accommodates paying guest going about in Kentish Town ORPINGTON
Poor client promises to pay, disregarding accepted rules LICENTIOUS
Popular pope, though lacking mercy INCLEMENT
Regularly preach message, though liable to sin PECCABLE
Revive a worn-out topic, like one coping with dishonesty? FLOGADEADHORSE
Riverside, after town is developed across river WATERFRONT
Russian leader backing some henchman in election LENIN
Satisfied about skill in a drillmaster MARTINET
Seabird in German river, one from wild country? WESTERNER
Set down in forbidden territory ENTER
She's represented, by you and me, as the evening star HESPERUS
She, for example, is new and strange NOVEL
Suckers taken by short film, tedious from the start to wit VIDELICET
Taken off immediately, like the RAF officer's eggs? SCRAMBLED
Terrible thing, defeat - it's the start of the dark time NIGHTFALL
Tries to get into Lear, breaking up practice session REHEARSAL
Unattractive church short of a couple of members CHARMLESS
Unintelligible product of Perelman? I bet! IMPENETRABLE
Very hard bloke is in revolution - 39's BOLSHEVIK
Volcanic territory's flowering plant is eaten by antelope EASTERISLAND
What builders do, say, when mine lacks this passage? ADIT
Where one goes for American theatre award? TONY
Young animal's sleeping-place across lake COLT