The Times - Concise - Times2 Jumbo 540 - February 2, 2013

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Clues Answers
Almost NEARLY
Apparently true OSTENSIBLE
Apportion ALLOT
Balearic island IBIZA
Bitter verbal attack DIATRIBE
Bodily frame SKELETON
Computer connecting device MODEM
Controversial issue HOTPOTATO
Courteous, honourable GENTLEMANLY
Cutter; slimmer and fitter TRIMMER
December thirty-first NEWYEARSEVE
Decorative ORNAMENTAL
Explain the meaning of INTERPRET
Fish-eating mammal OTTER
From a time before man evolved PREHUMAN
Gaol inmate PRISONER
Get back RECOVER
Goose liver paste PATEDEFOIEGRAS
Highland musician PIPER
Highly profitable LUCRATIVE
Item of seasonal bakery HOTCROSSBUN
Jane Austen novel PERSUASION
King of Scotland ROBERTTHEBRUCE
Lasting for a limited period TEMPORARY
Light metallic element LITHIUM
Like frogs and toads TAILLESS
Like something that may be overcome SURMOUNTABLE
Loving AMOROUS
Make (beer) BREW
Make fun of TEASE
Clues Answers
Missile or fighter aircraft INTERCEPTOR
Mountainside fall AVALANCHE
Muslim religion ISLAM
Not affected in style UNMANNERED
One handling money CASHIER
Out of place INCONGRUOUS
Outburst of anger TANTRUM
Persistently avoid SHUN
Plant infusion HERBALTEA
Poppy-based drug OPIUM
Pragmatist HUMANIST
Process of becoming one UNIFICATION
Requirement NEED
Rex Harrison film role DRDOLITTLE
Road-surfacing material ASPHALT
Rower OARSMAN
Say again REITERATE
Something unsettlingly surprising SHOCKER
South African region SWAZILAND
Stone coffin SARCOPHAGUS
Structured repository of information RELATIONALDATABASE
Substance brought back by Apollo missions MOONROCK
Tell a priest one's sins CONFESS
The pieces played by an artiste REPERTOIRE
The study of heredity GENETICS
Too much dumbing down OVERSIMPLIFICATION
Turn into BECOME
United Nations speciality PEACEKEEPING
Wading bird IBIS
With all sides equal EQUILATERAL