The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 674 - December 23, 2006

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Clues Answers
A football team has ground taken to pieces ASUNDER
Accepted thinking that's prompt does maybe interfere IDEERECUE
Acts to make ready ten-man chess problem ENCASHMENTS
Almost nothing dull in Swiss resort ZERMATT
Are knots in fastened belt and gloves removed? BAREKNUCKLED
Australian native girl's top and drawers way too short GRASSTREE
Bigger businessman may be able to keep battering away? (4,5,4,2,3) HAVEOTHERFISHTOFRY
Biscuit gives energy before kip GINGERSNAP
Blind country group do songs about drugs UNSEEING
Boss heartlessly interrupting girl's assignment subject DEDICATEE
Bow and garland tossed back in yard YIELD
Boy has game with short racket RUFUS
Boy one follows teasing yelled out loud ARCHIBALD
Bull chasing ducks, landlord chucking post DEARJOHNLETTER
Busy cook has worked as Bunter scoffs! YAHBOOSUCKS
Crack has ruined girl AISHA
Craftsman needing a few pounds taking lodger STONEMASON
Date with press in sporting venue SQUASHCOURT
Dickensian litigant's shock new chance in hearing JARNDYCE
Drink a round, chosen to replace unknown in junior minister's office CURACAO
Edge of cloth flag not good for earwigs LISTENSIN
Eleven coated in gum - good for treating bodywork maybe RESPRAYING
End of Christmas linked to classic big downers SOAKS
Essential to anybody's Seychelles journey ODYSSEY
Fixer organised teachers on fly WINGNUT
Fruit's other end of bare branch LIMB
German city promotes name in Harlow JENA
I look at the Sun - awful ersatz rag! STARGAZER
Increasing weight bringing down plane? WAXING
Karl's agreed to marry - did converse JAWED
Clues Answers
Kindly husband has difficult time all round THOUGHTFULLY
Lift lagging beneath bottom of pipe ELATE
Making fast time on return from space MOORAGE
Month judge set aside to evaluate missing case work ULYSSES
My endless enjoyment in holiday island CORFU
Ointment brought about a grand recovery SALVAGE
One leaving fat and salt on fish JACKSPRAT
One lone hunter's thrown head back suddenly TURNONONESHEEL
Ought to have you all finally booted outside! SHOULD
Paper folded when English parts disallowed NOTELET
Plays as expected fail to develop into opera PARSIFAL
Playwright misses meeting with mayor, perhaps GALSWORTHY
Please, voting 'Yes' PRAY
Pressure to have outside broadcast done again REPLAYED
Produce more old Russian currency, having run out REDOUBLE
Pusher in woolly top heard signal to start QUEUEJUMPER
Really fancy part of India - package possible GOABUNDLEON
Sadly, unable to say where thirty five happens? BEAUTYSALON
Single-issue halves of unions partly ousted UNIPAROUS
Some paper reportedly stops running places for singing vicars CHOIRSTALLS
State promotes man getting win QUEENSLAND
Swimmer taking helm without hesitation RUDD
Taken regularly, it stops new insomniacs shaking the same ISOSEISMIC
To land hard breaking leg painful ONSHORE
Tortured soul who tours North London suburb HOUNSLOW
Trader's admission leads to fine IDEAL
TV programme giving flight destinations UPSTAIRSDOWNSTAIRS
Verse executed about rising in a state TANZANIA
Where turf dams work? STUDFARM
Writer's block, possibly during marathon year performing DAMONRUNYON