The Times - Cryptic - Bank Holiday Jumbo 481 - August 25, 2003

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A doctor in Andean country having died recently in walk PERAMBULATE
A piece of tantalum in abrasive corundum ALUMINA
Again specify value of scarlet and (in France) white fur REDETERMINE
Atoll offering scanty cover BIKINI
British Rail has one French line engineer BRUNEL
Ceri, Eliza and Sion initially receive literal treatment in version for TV SERIALIZATION
Classify as very much to right ASSORT
Collection for each politician after resistance by English REPERTORY
Concerning state citizen country beheaded for stubborn opposition RECALCITRANCE
Dark time when king leaves such as Lancelot NIGHT
Flexible machinery I introduced PLIANT
Food stores needing steps - first daughter must be right LARDERS
Fresh-sounding expression a little defective for gender NEUTER
Get back to normal after disruption of one battle, I hear REHABILITATE
Girl (nurse, say) going the rounds so as to allay fears REASSURINGLY
Girl after mother's facial cosmetic MASCARA
Gretel bowled over and seized by singer at a fairly brisk rate ALLEGRETTO
Group of stars gathered round at speech ORATION
Gutted Arsenal enthusiast missing one yearbook ALMANAC
Harmless onion soup son's drunk NONPOISONOUS
Have intent to mix with pure oil TURPENTINE
He's good in situ but intermittently a conceited person EGOIST
Head on beer reveals sharp pungent quality BITTERNESS
In middle of spencer, clean pocket ENCLAVE
Injure with sword in rehearsal RUNTHROUGH
Intense disgust much the same if the traveller were a clergyman REPULSION
Job's not opened by priest; Jude may be OBSCURE
Land either side of river is satisfactory for some of us ALRIGHT
Lengthened hair a bit on head, we hear, creating repulsive quality GRUESOMENESS
Like George, lacking personal control AUTOMATIC
Medical graduate is, with time, a specialist in the US INTERNIST
Might she be a fool about gamble with diamonds? ADVENTURESS
Minister's office enquires intrusively, though with hypothetical power PRIESTHOOD
Mother has left fat on duck MALLARD
Not just entertainment - but it's no following at first UNFAIR
One allowed to trade shells, killing horse by Jerusalem river CONCESSIONAIRE
One being forever on the outside, having lost vote ETERNAL
One copying People's Liberation Army soldier, slicing noble off at waist? PLAGIARIST
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One providing food where perhaps three queens gather CATERER
One scold is very angry IRATE
One trying to solve problems upsets owl, perhaps TROUBLESHOOTER
One wants some specific hue for shawl FICHU
One who may do fine with line but worse with verse? RHYMESTER
One who's worked hard to get a good hand? CALLIGRAPHER
Others shortly needing mere answer RESPOND
Part of mass includes short section to play with increasing volume CRESCENDO
Peruses Polly's letters arranged in aimless manner PURPOSELESSLY
Plan, say, to return to Scottish island ARRANGE
Playing three NT, do men act to put down king or queen? DETHRONEMENT
Polls ultimately favourable without leader engendering distrust SUSPICIOUS
Possible use of second sight, question faced by theology students? REEXAMINATION
Reforming vicar's installing English organs inside VISCERA
Reported way to permit underground development ROOTLET
Showing wings either side of seabird go back and forth ALTERNATE
Sinister behaviour with which one pays a barbed compliment? LEFTHANDEDNESS
So many trombones, but two short for old recording SEVENTYSIX
So one couldn't stand being lit up? LEGLESS
Sort of program to bury undead? INTERACTIVE
Source of TV programme that makes waves TRANSMITTER
Surreptitiously admitting rat to last of buildings, we hear INFILTRATOR
Sweetheart accepting a year's break between journeys LAYOVER
The Yard, on edge in disturbance, take out gas DEHYDROGENATE
This adds power: it fires nine bombs INTENSIFIER
Triumphant exclamation as you crushed resistance THERE
Unbearably monotonous, as lots of walking may be, one hears SOULDESTROYING
Unconscious anger making for strong reaction OUTRAGE
Unruly Etonian rioter being put on different course REORIENTATION
Upper-class Poles drink and eat skins of sausages - a sign of being drunk? UNSTEADINESS
Vehicle - do tours with it of major arteries CAROTID
Virtuoso performance unknown in a dance, strangely CADENZA
Wanting mercy to be generous UNSPARING
Way involving special diet with short staff - I put in automation technology MACROBIOTICS
Way of standing a man that's extremely blotto AKIMBO
What develops grain on time? GERMINATION
What keeps the claret flowing? ANTICOAGULANT
What might put surveyor on the spot? TRIANGULATION