The Times - Concise - Times2 Jumbo 196 - December 30, 2006

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Clues Answers
(In a car) a slippage starting with the rear wheels TAILSKID
A run of success PURPLEPATCH
Abandoned; renounced FORSAKEN
Adjustment of a currency relative to others REVALUATION
Appropriate to female decorum LADYLIKE
Aura given off by person/place VIBE
Birth NATIVITY
Book page size OCTAVO
Cassette player feature AUTOREVERSE
Curves traced out by points on rim of circle rolling round another EPICYCLOIDS
Cut short; cartridge holder CLIP
Cut, notch NICK
Dormitory items BEDS
Eisenhower's first name DWIGHT
Erode WEARAWAY
Excessively eager OVEREXCITED
Furnace feeder STOKER
Garden pest GREENFLY
Give up (power to another) CEDE
Glory on high (Latin) GLORIAINEXCELSIS
Harmless untruths WHITELIES
Highest mountain in Africa KILIMANJARO
Highwayman's instruction HANDSUP
In fundamental manner ELEMENTALLY
Jane -, wife of Henry VIII SEYMOUR
Large S. American rodent CAPYBARA
Let it stand (on a proof) STET
Like a grandfather clock PENDULAR
Make less solid; a ferry (anag.) RAREFY
Measuring of eyesight OPTOMETRY
Clues Answers
Most calm STILLEST
Naples in Italian NAPOLI
Nicotinic acid NIACIN
Old term for Caribbean region SPANISHMAIN
One operating something USER
Overprotective and interfering NANNYISH
Pertaining to lengthening EXTENSIONAL
Pest living on hazelnuts NUTWEEVIL
Put in wrong location MISPLACE
Quite probably INALLPROBABILITY
Rich bready cake LARDYCAKE
Sampling of voters after voting EXITPOLL
Selfishness SOLIPSISM
Short-long metrical foot IAMB
Something given out EMANATION
Soon; now PRESENTLY
Spreads out SPLAYS
Stimulating plant hormone GIBBERELLIN
Stray feline ALLEYCAT
Supported railings BALUSTRADES
The Grand - and Petit - are buildings at Versailles TRIANON
Time of Christian festival EASTERDAY
Try to remember CASTONESMINDBACK
Turn key too much (on, eg, clock) OVERWIND
Units of electrical current AMPERES
Vagrant VAGABOND
Walking stick weapons SWORDSTICKS
Where Nelson and Wellington are buried STPAULSCATHEDRAL
Writer on various subjects ESSAYIST
Young cow HEIFER