The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 639 - May 6, 2006

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Clues Answers
'Ruff!' - what dog comes up with? RUCHE
Academic: 'Oxygen within metamorphic rock is deviant' MASOCHIST
Anticipate having to talk at length? Spit it out! EXPECTORATE
Are British, say, uplifted to see Daisy? GERBERA
Bat making a din RACKET
Begin to point out Ursa Major? (3,4,4,2,3,6) PUTONESHANDTOTHEPLOUGH
Big dog, very big, recruited by army TOSA
Biscuit - it may be specially for Christmas CRACKER
Capital dispensing with old religious ceremony SACRAMENT
Chap I take off into town, up state BODYPOLITIC
Cruel disorder ULCER
Drink in contented sound - it's brought about by prize STIRRUPCUP
Drug stored in drum or phial MORPHIA
EU policy under control, unassumingly CAPINHAND
Expert organised no excursions - cross to miss out CONNOISSEUR
Flower, the colour of eighteen across, found on Moor, perhaps AFRICANVIOLET
Food and drink TOAST
For sweets, sell- and use-by differ considerably BULLSEYES
Gilbert's crooked - see him involved in game of sleight-of-hand THIMBLERIG
Girl given one pound as benefit AVAIL
Government leader has opportunity to turn back CHANCELLOR
I enter exams, getting marks for teaching the deaf to speak ORALISM
I would back a poet to become a pharmacist DISPENSER
In army camp, tree is stolen ALDERSHOT
Indecisive article in journal is made more definite DITHERY
Ineffectual people ignore signal, turning up after curtain's first raised EUNUCHS
It's likely Pa bullies abominably PLAUSIBLE
Let's go the whole hog, with tariffs for loo once, and lottery (2,3,1,5,2,3,1,5) INFORAPENNYINFORAPOUND
Like fairies, some are there always ETHEREAL
Made sense of sweet Scandinavian poems, reading from right to left ADDEDUP
Clues Answers
Nepalese woman finds accommodation in health resort SHERPA
Out of practice, privileged convict loses his head RUSTY
Outdoor opera in disorder OPENAIR
Part of Australia unfamiliar to a buck OUTBACK
Passenger on ark rejected drinking first of totally unsuitable alcohol METHS
Primordially, how board game starts FROMTHEWORDGO
Provide support for looper, perhaps CATERPILLAR
Quarrelsome fellow, but he can be entertaining FIREEATER
Raise Cain, but show sorrow, sad at his crime CRYBLUEMURDER
Record of progress made by two animals following a third around TACHOGRAM
Rejected roster, famous as a cause for explosion DETONATOR
Right behind vessel RAFT
Rodent brings up rescue vessel in case of necessity MUSKRAT
Ruminant offered line of plants, say, pulls up grass ROEDEER
Rung, and addressed SPOKE
Saw the end of ignorance, having worked for MI six ESPIED
See a female Head LOAF
Seeing what's going to happen, pitch rope wildly PROPHETIC
Set and produce hair style CROP
Shorts turn up in southern county HOTPANTS
Spiteful missive - ouch! Tear it up! MISCHIEVOUS
Stuffs feathers on a hat that's falling to pieces RAMSHACKLE
Tempt novice away from a very quiet river ENTICE
Time to request Church Army's special unit TASKFORCE
Tricky, but it could be made compatible, with right input PROBLEMATIC
Two points, given complete cover, were widely known RESOUNDED
Unit of light, yet almost black STILB
Unknown stranger, noticing nothing INCOGNITO
Where some golfers play all day long ROUNDTHECLOCK
Whichever way you look at it, you'll have to decorate again REPAPER