The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 684 - February 17, 2007

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Ancestor received after pressure, manipulated into entering PROGENITOR
Arrange cameo or equip for stage work OPERACOMIQUE
Assumed name - one no longer used unfortunately ALAS
Bad-tempered duke is clever, supporting match DISAGREEABLE
Benevolent sort KIND
Body of fighter pounding prisoner in match FUSELAGE
Bombs are important in plane VISCOUNT
Briefly fail to rein in an Arab OMANI
Brought out, faces court action ISSUED
Catholic charged when inspector finally has gone round clubs ECLECTIC
Chiseller finally hired to replace front of radio DECEIVER
Confidently hope to be in the club? EXPECT
Council provoking drama in Australian city? Not half! SYNOD
Dance old tribe held in cool pass? FANDANGO
Edge displayed by quicker businessmen KERB
Energetic measure following learner's involvement in bad touchdown HIGHLANDFLING
Feature bar containing directions for percussion instrument CHINESEBLOCK
Firm evidence musicians like their rooms so SOUNDPROOF
Footwear Dickensian club member chooses to entertain queen WINKLEPICKERS
Force dispatching an old monster DRAGON
Gaiety encountered when sailors enter carrying old poem MERRIMENT
General patter about security device - it's in the kitchen GLOCKENSPIEL
Given office at home, stopped driving INSTALLED
Giving way fast during corrupt reign RELENTING
Going round snack bar, join building worker SCAFFOLDER
Good study for Hubble, the art of eating well GASTRONOMY
Greek hero longs to tour Midwest state ACHILLES
Hardy girl taking in bearings can display irascibility TESTINESS
Husband in bank so taken with Greek character's compositions CHAMBERMUSIC
Instruction doctor gives before replacing con in draft PRESCRIPTION
Clues Answers
Ironic, serving meat surrounded by sauce? TONGUEINCHEEK
It may be run in place of Chaucer's wife BATH
Like Ben's study - otherwise nothing's rational OROLOGICAL
Make too few runs, showing stress? UNDERSCORE
Most rules improperly conceal a policy switch SOMERSAULT
My fuel is designed to convert into paint EMULSIFY
Novel Beckett initially set in a French port ANTIBES
Oddly their conclusion is about meddling INTERFERENCE
One eats fish more highly favoured in East London OTTER
One secures food and a little tobacco, perhaps GRUBSCREW
Open out French article - and something Swiss, perhaps? UNROLL
Physically active, one leaves Leinster town before call-up ATHLETIC
Poles dipping into new books work ceaselessly NONSTOP
Poor soul in Spanish port trains with gusto VIGOROUSLY
Practising this, some Japanese paper's folded! ORIGAMI
Quiet politician touring state, a tiny chap SHRIMP
Record whether a girl identifies river-bed creatures EPIFAUNA
Regularly burnt grub, lean bit of lamb UNGULA
Relish a few months in Gateshead SEASONING
Scottish general gloomy about not giving up love MONTROSE
Show due subservience, talking of ownerless fish? KNOWONESPLACE
Sixty-minute manoeuvres on lough and river HOURLONG
Soldiers left in charge of memento RELIC
Throw it over a painter of Victorian scenes TISSOT
Throws heather inside cowherds' shelters SHIELINGS
Tip of oriole's wings - Macbeth bought golden ones OPINIONS
Tool impostor used to secure shelf SLEDGEHAMMER
Troublemaker changes head of Russian government GREMLIN
Where engineers originally had meals beside track? EATERY
Zealously see about composer's introduction to theatre EARNESTLY