The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 744 - March 1, 2008

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'Iron maiden', it's felt, intended to go over chap's head FEDORA
Achieve fashionable status as medicinal plant BETONY
Acted to achieve dominant position in play UPSTAGED
After the match, having drunk up pints a lot POSTNUPTIAL
As seen in jab, reach of pro miserably failing to meet expectations? BREACHOFPROMISE
Assembly supporting nonsense in provision for retired workers BUNKHOUSE
Assess service with it in extremely friendly brotherhood FRATERNITY
Be prolific in area before spring ABOUND
By record margin, elected a Conservative, showing bias DISCRIMINATORY
Calm distraught constituents in seat, two or three times SETATEASE
Commotion, with the French invading Spanish city TOLEDO
Confused a couple of learners, in the main ALLATSEA
Counterparts work both ways to place book OPPOSITENUMBERS
Fascinated by certain topics to some extent INTO
Feeling sorry about damage? Good! RUING
Fiddle player, without piano, put on again REAPPLY
Flaps like wings, to a degree ALARMS
Flower used in decoration by girl getting expert tuition MASTERCLASS
Follower of fashion kind of pants HIPSTER
Fraud starts in financial agency, ends in Stock Exchange FAKE
Get in touch with place in northern France for visual aid CONTACTLENS
Harmony in pop music associated with Liverpool, say RAPPORT
Head making a bloomer, say LOAF
Headgear for follower of game DEERSTALKER
I acquire skills being brought up on street, in general STRATEGIST
I work in gallery to arouse interest TITILLATE
If you're having difficulty buying something, you need to get over it! CREDIBILITYGAP
It's bound to be upheld by those in service HYMNBOOK
It's found in the ocean, and briefly in barnacles SODIUMCHLORIDE
Just one page included by old poet IMPARTIAL
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Liberal, violently attacked outside, recovered SALVAGED
Lower classes rest on river bank DEPOSIT
Mostly ate sushi cooked - the Japanese treatment SHIATSU
New soldier's pale colour in endless ceremony RECRUIT
Nullified case? Doesn't sound like it INVALID
Objection rebuffed by city where one gets into hot water BATHTUB
Old-fashioned disk, LP of piano medley, finally remixed FLOPPY
Old-fashioned kind of person got up in conservative clothes TOGGERY
One dealing with 7 on piano and unknown ancient instrument PSALTERY
One in a measure of power, and one getting the bird KIWI
Petty nature Pooh acknowledged in himself? SMALLMINDEDNESS
Pub with one kind of wine, say, or another BARSAC
Real effectiveness of cogs in the machine, perhaps TEETH
Repaginates, having changed make-up GREASEPAINT
Rough judgment amuses? Get it changed GUESSTIMATE
Scientific apparatus - one that rarely works, we hear LASER
Section I have kept in work continuously, in disciplinary fashion PUNITIVELY
Serious in turning learned person into idol GRAVENIMAGE
Smack given by head - one expects a certain number here BUSSTOP
Somehow repaid guarantor providing security for old ruler PRAETORIANGUARD
Source of report that gets competitors up and running STARTINGPISTOL
Steal door and get caught, perhaps TAKEAWICKET
Takes part in demonstration - it's included in offence SITSIN
Thinking bishop's a fool, putting little energy into see BERKELEY
Tribute to one such as Paul, George, or John TOAST
Unusual location for the rest of the constabulary OFFBEAT
Visited old ground again, back on team? RECAPPED
Where knights share rank with inhabitants of palaces and castles CHESSBOARD
Wreck of the French city of Paris DESTROY
Yearly cost of flat of old man and woman PARENTAL