The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 454 - March 22, 2003

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Clues Answers
A couple of points about girl's pallor WANNESS
A most peculiar opening STOMA
A sign put up in verse describing wind gauge ANEMOMETRIC
Active, giving off a strong smell HUMMING
After working, 17 should set things right REDRESS
Animal fur I put on COATI
As envoy recommend Bill, who has a good reputation ACCREDIT
As waiter, I brought in portion before queen LOITERER
Attack beginning ONSET
Bankrupt, does one need help from PDSA? LAMEDUCK
Bars striped material for hunting PIGSTICKING
Book after end of November to enter Italian cathedral DUODECIMO
Brought back old, eccentric legislator DRACO
Character that's animated but insignificant MICKEYMOUSE
Check on more confident hedger REINSURER
Comes back to harvest fruit REAPPEARS
Counsel from Horatio next to be rendered EXHORTATION
Country given bill for overthrowing legal precedents CASELAW
Curdling agent must be returned, note TENNER
David's father taking strap to mite's rear end JESSE
Disbelief in it crudely formulated INCREDULITY
Doctrine affecting him most THOMISM
Don't get up around one, right? LIEIN
Drink that could have knocked out a cotton-picking worker PLANTERSPUNCH
European sort of roll SWISS
Expressing relief about opening of terrific view SIGHTING
Fellers adopting alien attire LUMBERJACKETS
Gives encouragement to team SPURS
Glass paper MIRROR
Greens' ideal arrangement was not specific GENERALISED
Has Colin changed name? NICHOLAS
Home to old lady with items of sewing equipment - town in Somerset THREADNEEDLESTREET
Illegally bears a weapon SABRE
In a polluted place, hard to see jellyfish ACALEPH
In field, crowd returns with Himalayan creature LESSERPANDA
In that place you'll find article on control THEREIN
In the past, former King Edward worked too hard OVEREXERTED
Iron, for instance, good for shell and its contents GOOSEEGG
Clues Answers
Karate translated by editor with nothing gained EMPTYHANDED
Knowing about what's reasonable or metaphysical ONTOLOGICAL
Legendary king's name brought up in case - that's not at all interesting DULLEST
Letter from an innocent person to American lawyer LAMBDA
Librettist formerly associated with Ellice GILBERT
Machinery sold by garden centre PLANT
Mendicants have been disenfranchised - they should be grateful for what they get BEGGARSCANNOTBECHOOSERS
Multiple versions of The Pilgrim's Progress? THECANTERBURYTALES
Murderer and prophet follow up pickpocket and drunkard DIPSOMANIAC
No Christian home offered to one supposedly devil-inspired virtuoso PAGANINI
Organised trips: we voice our concerns they could land us in court CROWNPROSECUTIONSERVICE
Parking place first to be out of commission LIEUP
President's wife I rebuffed, not touching three letters: that's out of order INOPERATIVE
Protection for construction workers in Derby, perhaps HARDHAT
Quoted saw in speech CITED
Record books always around ENTER
Ruritania's rewritten angry old patriotic song (4,2,4,3,5) LANDOFHOPEANDGLORY
Scholar cut the rest BALANCE
School principal installed a communication aid HEADSET
See car in road start roughly - I'll manage ADMINISTRATOR
See rich now getting comeuppance NORWICH
Separated people need time to find accommodation APARTMENT
Short A in drape? Yes and no CURTAIN
Singular person going on tour, exotic entertainer STRIPPER
Solitary engineer unravelled clues RECLUSE
Still around, navigational aid that hasn't succeeded EXTANT
The situation is altered, with torture applied for the second time (3,4,2,2,3,5,4) THEBOOTISONTHEOTHERFOOT
They sit on bench with book on lap CIRCUITJUDGES
To be completely candid, about to follow on - a failing, surely (2,1,6,2,7) ONAHIDINGTONOTHING
Tossing and turning in a patch of rough water AWAKE
Tried an alternative exchange for second-hand article TRADEIN
Try to calm things down - copy the Torrey Canyon (4,3,2,8,6) POUROILONTROUBLEDWATERS
Understood it after Tom retired TACIT
Very large awards given to English OBESE
Wages undergo change GUERDON
We are told Roman see used to cover part of shire HUNDRED
With Eire's supporters embracing her, she's going to succeed HEIRESS
Withdraw Egyptologist - about time! RETRACT