The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 435 - November 30, 2002

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A French duke's unthinking name-dropping is not characteristic UNDISTINCTIVE
A hop covering sixteen feet? EIGHTSOMEREEL
After eating heather by the road, mine is a painful condition PERICARDITIS
Am I nothing without good friend? AMIGO
Attendant dismissing hard drug taker USER
Back in office? Danced around etc. getting drunk REELECTED
Bet Calais would be out of place here! BALTICSEA
Betrayal? It's Moriarty endlessly at work TRAITORISM
Bill's domineering wife? BATTLEAXE
Brown cases contained some of my writings GILBERTKEITHCHESTERTON
Calms anthropoids with injection of pellets APPEASES
Celebration after knocking out foremost bridge-player EAST
Chap upset over date's lack of interest? DISENGAGEMENT
Collier, say, envisages ills being treated SAILINGVESSEL
Computer browsers? Good work of the girl GOPHERS
Cricketer securing runs is an annoying young fellow BRAT
Deal thus with pornographic writer? BLUEPENCIL
Delight with a couple of characters in English song ENCHANT
Deserted, as it happens, in the middle of soundings UNLIVEDIN
Dined initially in curious restaurant's lower levels UNDERSTRATA
Disciplined type finding point in market MARTINET
Do things differently, beginning to boogie in Highland dance? REBEL
Dreadful cut in play is not usual UNTYPICAL
Energy and gold will secure slim girl ELEANOR
English salad plant needing to be cut in time? Slow down DECELERATE
Essential transcription of R and N in italics INTRINSICAL
Expression of disgust about most of the river as place for a dip BATHHOUSE
French complaints? Basically there's none of these! FRILLS
Frustrating observations made by unwelcome foreigners COUNTERESPIONAGE
Fugue recomposed circa end of Modernist era RICERCATA
Go one better than an alfresco party? OUTDO
Green fodder or herb I long to tuck into SILAGE
Greeting's sound reaching the ears HAIL
He runs the commercial side of the paper CITYEDITOR
Historic currency - a good deal of speculation involving run FRANC
Hospital kept a bit austere SPARTAN
Hot current? That's about right TROPICAL
Clues Answers
How Britons got engaged to a foreign couple in Edwardian times TRIPLEENTENTE
Language used in fringes of swinging party SHINDIG
Leave somewhat reduced QUIT
Man of letters to subsidise job given to teacher SUBPOSTMASTER
More attractive, perched up on row of seats TASTIER
Movingly learn to go to church in ecumenical spirit? TOLERANCE
Nice choir arrangement by British composer BOCCHERINI
Once again sets up offspring for cheap share offer RIGHTSISSUE
One assesses a crate's quality by giving it a spin TESTPILOT
One sat, not lay STIPENDIARYMAGISTRATE
One subsequently blocks peer keeping the sides the same EQUILATERAL
Part of bomb in rubbish seen piled up round middle of beach DETONATOR
Part of government starts to obstruct forceful salesman entering homes HOUSEOFREPRESENTATIVES
Piercing coldness no great way off SPITTINGDISTANCE
Prod, say, and demand payment when turning up NUDGE
Quality book depicting protected area NATURERESERVE
Quiet song - a duet? PAIR
Raised artwork almost entirely ripped? Situation's very old ALTORELIEVO
Reflections off hard surfaces affected choirs etc. RICOCHETS
Safe to eat? Only 75% convincing EDIBLE
Simultaneously on the other hand ATTHESAMETIME
Stage appearance had briefly captivated ENTRANCED
Subject: best reserve to miss end of game TOPIC
Subsequent amusement banishing expression of disgust LATER
Takes the lead and appoints a teacher GETSAHEAD
Thick fluid coating one restaurant fitting DUMBWAITER
Tossing Red Sea now disgorging new varieties of kelp OARWEEDS
Travelling by rail one's disembarked to rest en route INTRANSIT
Trick name given to Wild West city DODGE
Unimportant member turned up in fur? That can be understood COGNISABLE
US song censor in Hollywood? THESTARSPANGLEDBANNER
Various old castles found around old holiday area COSTADELSOL
Warden thrown with jolt across horse in year's travel round Germany WANDERJAHR
Wealthy woman's account is receiving no raise, unexpectedly BILLIONAIRESS
With a will, touring one grand new industrial park TRADINGESTATE
You could make this town seem flaccid with closing of mill MACCLESFIELD
Zealot not cold in heart ESSENE