The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 749 - March 29, 2008

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Clues Answers
A change, the fifth one benefiting Uncle Sam's defendants? AMENDMENT
A northern fellow breaking into musical direction ANDANTINO
A university man accepting award for independence AUTONOMY
Advice from union leader attending army social GUIDANCE
Applied externally it's currently newsworthy TOPICAL
Bass, possibly, abandoning river for burn SINGE
Bully oddly supports popular food shop permanently INDELIBLY
Burden English priest carried in wet weather REFRAIN
Children returning to fish in royal area DEESIDE
Church member briefly consuming last of cake decoration ANGELICA
Claim to be exploited? Queen Victoria was not! AMUSED
Colourful insect bites sailor, having slowing effect RETARDANT
Create an impact giving trilbies as gifts, say? MAKEONESPRESENCEFELT
Crotchety Irish girl going to ballet regularly IRRITABLE
Crusade Scot mounted, removing fashion from Devon resort CAMPAIGN
Discriminating granny's first trouser material NANKEEN
Dishonourable, roughly elbowing wife out IGNOBLE
Draw the obvious conclusion - compose a quartet (3,3,3,3,8) PUTTWOANDTWOTOGETHER
Favouring high society, priest lives in dry environment ELITIST
Forebear's prophecy originally concerning device on screen PRECURSOR
Gabler loses head, seeing Old Norse poems EDDA
Give administrators a hand producing timber CLAPBOARD
Head reportedly understood heartless boy's underhandedness SKULDUGGERY
Head right away for sheet of rock NAPPE
In relief, carve top of bust in European plant EMBOSS
In which an old coach may keep gold safely? STORAGE
Inadequate son, one disregarding Polonius's advice SLENDER
International comic, sound as a bell, though not conscious UNWITTING
Islands a girl talked of, scattered in sea POLYNESIA
It's a lory unexpectedly without company SOLITARY
It's off the wall and not precisely circular ECCENTRIC
Clues Answers
Join fifth military detachment UNITE
Keys held by man inheriting part of stock HEIFER
Left-wing batterer about to be beheaded MARXIST
Legendary ship moving slowly? Not at first ARGO
Lie next to girl in following commercial ADJOIN
Like the thread punters at the Oaks study, do we hear? FILIFORM
Living expenses not falling prey to repossession? HOUSEKEEPING
Man Ray's art movement twice affirmed in the Hermitage? DADA
Neat drum roll mostly designed to be avant-garde ULTRAMODERN
No longer living in Pyrenean centre - somewhere flatter? PLATEAU
Old forty-nine embracing a mountain nymph OREAD
One banned each composition embodying new organ variation PERSONANONGRATA
One may reach part of Ottawa via Toronto AVIATOR
Ordered to include part of canal in siege BLOCKADE
Organising Prom, notate this slide PORTAMENTO
Plants I'd removed from the Tallahassee area FLORA
Reportedly friendly greeting to Cockney painter? WATTEAU
Runaway bound to be embraced by leading lady ELOPER
Some initially get away carrying a painting SEASCAPE
Spoon with this champion, perhaps APOSTLE
Sportsperson, one writing first of two articles about obstruction PENTATHLETE
State of one new Detective Inspector? A lot of gossip INDIANA
Surgeon in a hospital department inclined to be forgetful ABSENTMINDED
Surpass in strategy away on common OUTGENERAL
Team assembled by the Spanish, believe it or not ELEVEN
Test on extremely elegant work by Tallis, for example MOTET
This figure left for cape in time of reduced light ELLIPSE
Trendy college site by river - some brain here HIPPOCAMPUS
Upstart's standard meeting-place out East PARVENU
Vehicle sales place women let out in part of Wales CARMARTHENSHIRE
Where the preacher stood in Chesham Bois AMBO