The Times - Concise - Times2 Jumbo 282 - June 14, 2008

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-- Christie, English novelist AGATHA
A relation by marriage STEPMOTHER
Atom smasher PARTICLEACCELERATOR
Ball game LACROSSE
Basis for making cheese CURDS
Be keenly watchful KEEPONESEYESSKINNED
Cholesterol-reducing drug STATIN
Cook beaten eggs SCRAMBLE
Dangerous game of chance RUSSIANROULETTE
Eastern ORIENTAL
Eg, charades WORDGAME
Ends TERMINATES
Essay for a degree or diploma DISSERTATION
Excite through suggestive means TITILLATE
Fluid in plant stems SAP
Footwear SOCKS
Frequently OFTEN
Great enjoyment RELISH
Greek letter THETA
Halt for servicing/refuelling PITSTOP
Irregular in pattern ERRATIC
Isle off the north of Kent SHEPPEY
Israeli intelligence organisation MOSSAD
Julie Andrews role MARYPOPPINS
Light motorcycle SCOOTER
Maize pancake TORTILLA
Major European river RHINE
Mother and father PARENTS
Native hedgerow shrub SPINDLETREE
Native of Islamabad PAKISTANI
Novel by Roald Dahl; girl's name MATILDA
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Of the region around the North Pole ARCTIC
One with no illusions REALIST
Own up CONFESS
Pearl-producing bivalve OYSTER
Place for metal refuse SCRAPYARD
Place where light meals may be had SNACKBAR
Places where horses are kept STABLES
Prosperous achievement SUCCESS
Public transport BUS
Rotorcraft HELICOPTER
Royal Navy rank MIDSHIPMAN
Severe suffering TORMENT
Severity; lack of comforts AUSTERITY
Shakespeare play TITUSANDRONICUS
Sign of the zodiac ARIES
Small room CLOSET
Someone who makes something CREATOR
Songbird of wetlands REEDWARBLER
South-western US state ARIZONA
Statement expressing a judgement or opinion PROPOSITION
Stealing PINCHING
Stick out; proposed undertaking PROJECT
Stop sleeping AWAKEN
Supplier of alcoholic drinks WINEMERCHANT
Ten cubed THOUSAND
The expelling of a foreigner from a country DEPORTATION
Type of finch CROSSBILL
Unambiguously explicit CATEGORICAL
Underground plant stem RHIZOME
West African country LIBERIA
Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey LAKEPOETS