The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 730 - December 8, 2007

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A callbox is ace for sending out wires COAXIALCABLES
A long time being kept by fat old Italian LEONARDO
Acknowledging failure to achieve one hundred after a game APOLOGETIC
Altogether unwell ingesting sodium INALL
Anaesthetised and operated on to produce relief UNDERCUT
At university and involved in robbery, honest UPSTANDING
Awful man in opera, one with a tendency to yap POMERANIAN
Be obstinate, i.e. holding sense unreasonably DIGINONESHEELS
Being late, copper gets back into police box TARDINESS
Big sack, flying? Small one SICKBAG
Bloom's part starting perilous expedition to act Legolas PETAL
Cha-cha serving as song? TEAFORTWO
Drink the French offered in exciting soirée? ROSIELEE
Drug dealer who doesn't hang around SPEEDMERCHANT
Energy cuts lead to extensive period of darkness ECLIPSE
Essential English gets the French mad ELEMENTAL
Fish - Eastern sailor gets a second on board SEABASS
Found out abolishing pound is merited EARNED
Fried potatoes are regularly exported from Chiapas CHIPS
Gannet's surprising noise in reserve BOOBY
Get my bearings in competition, or I come in about last in race ORIENTEER
Gets the better of sorceress - it's a big turn-off MASTERSWITCH
God's stumped by a sectarian worshipper RASTA
Grave error about old right to have a say VOICE
Green heads of new elderflowers in unusual recipe index INEXPERIENCED
I see key lies in worn-out fossil TRILOBITE
In the past constrained monk to keep one vow of his OBEDIENCE
It's characteristic of high-carb food dressings to get shaken but not run STODGINESS
Ladies always willing to welcome patrons with a beam USHERETTES
Like a climber foremost among long-play gramophone records VINYL
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Lily's a girl I will back, son AMARYLLIS
Loose garment that's a close match? NIGHTIE
Official taking month with soldiers MAYOR
One criminal put inside pound - good as a serious custodial sentence LIFELONG
One working to bring down carbon emissions CHIMNEYSWEEPER
Port of antipodes, say ODESSA
Ray, perhaps is to do an extra job MOONLIGHT
Record of changes in gold bar, not quite the same again inside AUDITTRAIL
Regularly serving maize to each old Mexican AZTEC
Relative's fastidious when swallowing drug NIECE
Ring round mistakes in ledger ENGIRDLE
Rousseau perhaps rewriting treatise repeatedly rejecting English ARTIST
Saint embraced without resistance showed indifference SHRUGGED
Set is divine here in study of several kingdoms EGYPTOLOGY
Sex-obsessed girl wants nothing French on top of that PRURIENT
Ship engineers needed on short voyage TRIREME
South West's answer to East Anglia's capital city SWANSEA
Special deliveries of newspaper column? EXPRESSLETTERS
Stop returning top sports gear that's fashionable PACKITIN
Swimming threat to take head off roach? TARKATHEOTTER
Think before taking worker with dominating influence PREPONDERANT
Tom's mate's potential winnings KITTY
Travelling salesman has cut round to get ready for something new PREPARE
Two chores reduced by a contemptuous remark TSKTSK
Wear this, water thus rising further across end of garden? WELLINGTONBOOT
What might hold up sleeve of a jolly rock group? ARMBAND
Where one might take off for a summer holiday? NUDISTCOLONY
Where to put chalk at the right moment ONCUE
Writer chap with time to take in a university degree MAUPASSANT
Writing off value a month before it is invested in share AMORTISATION