The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 419 - August 17, 2002

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A passage in Mexico's lost city OSLO
Accursed businessman getting over resistance, having the power EXECRABLE
Admits possession of topless dresses OWNS
Agamemnon's daughter chosen by god ELECTRA
Applied oil, not medicinal preparation LOTION
As bored pupils do, exchanging words - one having designs on another? OVERGLAZE
Assist in diabetic centre ABET
Be ill over a short period first showing loss of willpower ABOULIA
Building seen over in scale model DOME
Crusade leader is safe transporting me thither PETERTHEHERMIT
Customers in confusion get the wrong idea MISCONSTRUE
Dealing with heavenly bodies, such as Cleopatra PTOLEMAIC
Dickensian clerk misses it in case of study done carelessly SCRATCHY
Dish of stone made roughly to take litre STRUDEL
Dramatic, short Beethoven symphony - under an hour HEROIC
Ensure crit? One might do it SCRUTINEER
Excellent average rising after a complaint of weakness ANAEMIA
Extract from aromatic flowers that might give Henry trip PYRETHRIN
Feed greedily getting energy out of fatty food CRAM
Female, fair or ugly FRIGHTFUL
For instance, finest old silicate initially is to produce such disease? ASBESTOSIS
Form of insect - flea-ridden dog holds two million CUTWORM
German city with 500 heraldic designs - a bit over the top? DARMSTADT
Golden and semi-circular - how earrings might be described? AURICULAR
Grilled food that's served to English without wine TOASTIE
How Nero would speak with a character of his own INPROPRIAPERSONA
Just like Pope - endless lines run with empty, turgid language INERRANT
Lean creature, city cat in favour of climbing on top of houses ECTOMORPH
Left in Santiago, suffering severe homesickness NOSTALGIA
Like clones, nevertheless ALLTHESAME
Male midwife accompanied expression of pain with upsurge of pity ACCOUCHEUR
Mean person affording low-quality fish CHEAPSKATE
Medical attention needed as mate tumbled in river TREATMENT
Method of painting that's crazy and unreliable TEMPERAMENTAL
Ne'er sniff chap? This dog may do it AFFENPINSCHER
News agency that may be confused with public address, initially? PRESSASSOCIATION
Newspaper writer getting right into one in adultery case CORRESPONDENT
No resistance for traditional rebuilding and enlargement of organ DILATATION
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One area of wet land turning to desert GOBI
One crossing German prince ELECTOR
One of these gives beam a radius and strengthens ARCLAMPS
One who shines in polonaise, maybe, with queen? FRENCHPOLISHER
One who thought of the menus written in French DESCARTES
Perfume which translates 'touch' in Indian language PATCHOULI
Perhaps gorge's rising over it, the horrid stringy food SPAGHETTI
Perhaps Victorian disruption of Saturnalia AUSTRALIAN
Piece of ground suitable to antelope FORELAND
Pigment English used in abstract art once CAROTENE
Plant's Stairway to Heaven JACOBSLADDER
Poor mission maintains French socialist's theory SAINTSIMONIANISM
Possible selection of literature prize for writing in French state POTPOURRI
Press briefly put in authentic English that the eye can interpret READABLE
Real simple character missing shilling from pouch SIMONPURE
Saying mixed with metaphor in philosophic doctrine? PYTHAGOREANISM
Seed covering from tamarillo ARIL
Ship that was sunk in area close to Spain LUSITANIA
Shy at first, sweet girl's entering - a long-legged creature ARABIANCAMEL
Soldier having to ransack island RIFLEMAN
Soldiers take time after fighting to build fortification BATTLEMENT
Spoil additional opal when skimping work in stone MARMOREAL
Stage degree function to eliminate apartheid DESEGREGATE
Supernatural being like Mercury? ELEMENTAL
Thick ice in the Italian alps TUTTIFRUTTI
Timid Finnish knight totally lives in the saddle, mounted PUSILLANIMOUS
Type of compound recalling atom built around oxygen ORGANOMETALLIC
Type of fish and bread, US-style, for each person PERCAPITA
Typical communist leader in the uprising ECHT
What a pity branch has been put in river DEARME
What ends up consecrated in high masses with celebrant? BLESSEDSACRAMENT
What goes up and down features? ASCENDER
What may eliminate a potential consequence of match-making? EXTINGUISHER
What provokes clot of company worker to hold a projection back COAGULANT
What Queen may carry old lute? THEORBO
What's come down in the trees? INHERITANCE
Where marsh devotee will be completely out of place? MOHAVEDESERT
Witness backward jerks getting involved in a lot of drugs DEPOSE