The Times - Concise - Times Concise Jumbo No 1248

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Clues Answers
Accounts checker AUDITOR
Acquiescent COMPLIANT
American wild horse MUSTANG
Appearing forced CONSTRAINED
As an alternative INSTEAD
Bishop’s headdress MITRE
Bitter, resentful JAUNDICED
Bold or daring feat EXPLOIT
Brain hormone ENDORPHIN
Cheap ornament TRINKET
Cheerful light-spirited
Citrus fruits LIMES
Classified as the same undifferentiated
Creator of Maigret SIMENON
Dairy product YOGURT
Dark planes on the moon; girl’s name MARIA
Deceive, betray double-cross
Defender of something controversial APOLOGIST
Disorientated through drug use spaced out
Done only as a symbolic gesture TOKEN
Feature deserving censure DEMERIT
Fertile desert spot OASIS
Fireplace surround MANTELPIECE
Flooring of wooden blocks PARQUET
Former coin in some Middle Eastern countries PIASTRE
Fruit APPLE
G&S operetta The Pirates of Penzance
Going around raiding MARAUDING
Gracefully stylish ELEGANT
Hand over the money pay up
Hone (a blade) SHARPEN
Clues Answers
John Philip —, march composer SOUSA
Keyboard instrument HARMONIUM
Larva of a frog or toad TADPOLE
Low-ranking servant SKIVVY
Make more agreeable or acceptable SWEETEN
Medicinal drugs (archaic) PHYSIC
Mischievous sprite GREMLIN
Not able to be understood INCOMPREHENSIBLE
Not expected UNANTICIPATED
Overseas reporter foreign correspondent
Point or degree in a scale NOTCH
Polite form of address for a woman MADAM
Possible fate of the universe heat death
Pulsate THROB
Rejection; turning-down REFUSAL
Relating to religious belief SPIRITUAL
Romantic adorer ADMIRER
Rude and aggressive youth YOBBO
Sight of unusual beauty VISION
Small booklet PAMPHLET
Small fastener press stud
Something trifling and negligible BAGATELLE
Spinning toy GYROSCOPE
The insulting of a sovereign lese-majesty
Town in Hampshire ANDOVER
Unprotected from the weather EXPOSED
Utterly wicked HEINOUS
Virgin Mary MADONNA
Wide item of neckwear kipper tie
With no foundation in fact BASELESS
Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey lake poets