The Times - Concise - Bank Holiday T2 Jumbo 311 - December 26, 2008

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(Edible) long-snouted swimmer SWORDFISH
A sugar in milk LACTOSE
Admit guilt OWNUP
Ancient Italian state ETRURIA
Archbishop and liturgist CRANMER
Art of training horses MANEGE
Badly thought out ILLCONSIDERED
Blockage OBSTRUCTION
Boastful coward in drama SCARAMOUCH
Bone in forearm ULNA
Brave and determined person LIONHEART
Concord AGREEMENT
Crucifix ROOD
Customer CLIENT
Day in Roman month IDES
Die before PREDECEASE
Female follower of Jesus MARYMAGDALENE
Final section of racecourse HOMESTRETCH
Giving off a smell ODORIFEROUS
Gradual increase in loudness CRESCENDO
Hypothesises GUESSES
Improving in health ONTHEMEND
Increasing rapidly ESCALATING
Islanders in the 1 ac TAHITIANS
Location of leaning tower PISA
Long (military) walk ROUTEMARCH
Long-legged wading bird S?I?T
Lunar plains; girl's name MARIA
Member of a monotheistic Asian sect PARSI
Member of ancient Jewish sect ESSENE
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Milfoil YARROW
Non-combative PACIFIC
Non-scientific subjects LIBERALARTS
North American name for a tram STREETCAR
Novel by Thomas Hardy (3,4,3,7,5) FARFROMTHEMADDINGCROWD
One giving way to pressure YIELDER
One-time offshore broadcasting station RADIOCAROLINE
Opera by Verdi NABUCCO
Organised attempt at defamation SMEARCAMPAIGN
Partiality PENCHANT
Parts of periodical publication VOLUMES
Perverted pain-inflicters SADISTS
Poison; malice VENOM
Proverb urging silence in a tricky situation LEASTSAIDSOONESTMENDED
Revelations (of scandals, etc) EXPOSURES
Russian royal; Sinatra (anag.) TSARINA
Scatterbrain AIRHEAD
Slender candle TAPER
Something essential NECESSITY
South-bank area of Dublin TEMPLEBAR
Spanish wine RIOJA
State of perfection (Latin) NEPLUSULTRA
Study of the nervous system NEUROLOGY
Tail end of cooked fowl PARSONSNOSE
The 23: an — for Richard I EPITHET
Type of cereal BUCKWHEAT
Villain in David Copperfield URIAHHEEP
West Indies republic HAITI
Within the Church of England's communion ANGLICAN
Without musical accompaniment ACAPPELLA