The Times - Concise - Times2 Jumbo 161 - May 20, 2006

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- Highsmith, crime writer PATRICIA
Accompanied ESCORTED
Ambitious self-seeker ARRIVISTE
Apparition GHOST
Argument-settling fact CLINCHER
Bird of sandpiper family WOODCOCK
Birmingham motorway interchange SPAGHETTIJUNCTION
Cheap travel agency BUCKETSHOP
Cheerfulness SUNSHINE
Chemically inactive INERT
Chemistry lab tube PIPETTE
Cleverly influenced MANIPULATED
Coburn/Bronson/McQueen film THEGREATESCAPE
Collection of similar items COMPENDIUM
Colourless part of blood PLASMA
Control; printed line RULE
Cover for deck opening COMPANIONHATCH
Digital TV system NICAM
Doctor Who genre SCIFI
Dramatically beautiful STRIKING
Error MISTAKE
French impressionist painter RENOIR
George -, nineteenth century French novelist SAND
Give the right to vote to ENFRANCHISE
Hang around LOITER
Have a drink WETONESWHISTLE
Ireland EMERALDISLE
Japanese-style mattress FUTON
John -, actor (The Elephant Man); harm HURT
Lacking initiative GORMLESS
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Large metal gong TAMTAM
Large venomous lizard GILAMONSTER
Let; rent LEASE
London theatre COLISEUM
Loudly expressing opinions TUBTHUMPING
Make the best of one's chances PLAYONESCARDSWELL
Motorist's permit DRIVINGLICENCE
N African supposedly descended from a son of Noah HAMITE
Name given to Manchester massacre PETERLOO
Oil used in varnishes TURPENTINE
One coming before PRECURSOR
Open to chance (2,3,3,2,3,4) INTHELAPOFTHEGODS
Pigeon house LOFT
Powered craft MOTORLAUNCH
Promiscuous LICENTIOUS
Quick; tidy; sting SMART
Releases with a key UNLOCKS
Robert Louis - STEVENSON
Saltpetre NITRE
Shipping line CUNARD
Showy plant VERBENA
Situation destined to fail RECIPEFORDISASTER
Spongy confectionery MARSHMALLOW
State of rest REPOSE
They make possible ENABLERS
To upset this is to throw plans into confusion APPLECART
W London district HAMMERSMITH
Where one may find something nasty WOODSHED
White grape variety SEMILLON
Workers' associations UNIONS