The Times - Cryptic - Bank Holiday Jumbo 692 - April 9, 2007

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A fourth-rate poem, getting such criticism? ADVERSE
All misleadingly presented as having nowhere to go? DRESSEDUP
American flower border RIOGRANDE
Amorous couple, losing head, laugh and go too far OVERSHOOT
Army fed with pork-pie that's superlatively untouchable HOLIEST
Boy given accommodation in college PETERHOUSE
Commonly, they eliminate food EATS
Compelled to work in the newspaper industry? PRESSGANGED
Curse of Macbeth, for one, finally covered by press SCOURGE
Detention centre a stone's throw away? GLASSHOUSE
Eccentric poet wants to rent over a thousand square miles CAMBRIDGESHIRE
Edible part of lamb or bear SHOULDER
Escape through a gap AVOID
Excuse me each term having regular absences AHEM
Find grassland touched by force of sea LEARN
Following sound of bell across bar TRAILING
Giant pig holding curly bit up GOLIATH
Got dinners cooked here, hard work GRINDSTONE
Gratitude expressed to nursing home's generous visitor SANTA
Hardy was forbidding, loveless, and clever DURABLE
Hear hunted animal's panting, rounding front of dog - so tiny a distance HAIRSBREADTH
Horseman said to give name to sporting contest RYDER
I may hold cap out, wanting something for the rest of the workers HOLIDAYCAMP
Improvement perhaps made on sight REVISION
In elite set, troubled by very low speech CHESTVOICE
In January, one celebrated field marshal bridging stream ROBERTBURNS
Interpretation of one piece of music covered by pronounced backing DIAGNOSIS
Issue about parking rate SPEED
Least devious, after the others SINCEREST
Make sure everyone knows it's not a hired instrument BLOWONESOWNTRUMPET
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Manage in neat movement to hoist up fish, not the only one docked CODEFENDANT
Member of interrogating pair, with unknown computer file SOFTCOPY
Not look after oneself, so move in with children? GOTOSEED
Not showing much interest in being agreeable? NODDING
Ostracise failed Greek rhetorician ISOCRATES
Perishing in here? Yes and, hopefully, no COLDSTORAGE
Persevere with love? Go all out STICKATNOTHING
Queen Jane was covered in pearls: ambassador impressed BEHEADED
Quick to get cold NIPPY
Release group without charge SETFREE
Russian is hero for Scott, no weed IVAN
Satellite picture's first seen by the homeless PHOBOS
Senior prefect hid lager to get drunk HEADGIRL
So far to fall, after a fashion OFASORT
Son, say, engineers return and appears EMERGES
Speaking of sin was impertinent PRIED
Strip and suffer from sunburn, unwell PEELOFF
Strong liquor poured right inside Scotsman MARC
Studies introducing explosives miles away in prepared position READINESS
Surgical device made by modern light industry LASER
Tea, teacher? No - wine CHARDONNAY
Teasing performance with empty box? Funny STRIPCARTOON
The finest piece of music in the book? SONGOFSONGS
The remedy, if one's pretty tired? BEAUTYSLEEP
Tom cut a flower CATNIP
Use saw, keeping very close to worker ADVANTAGE
Why one may go to butcher's that's to close FORTHECHOP
Without modesty, Conservative just holding deceit wrong CONCEITEDLY
Woven sari lass introduced, a dramatic creation TROILUSANDCRESSIDA
Writer about to admit it's a beautiful colour for a boat PEAGREEN