The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 732 - December 22, 2007

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Acknowledge value of disorderly congeries RECOGNISE
Amateur in good shape, not gaining surplus pounds NONPROFIT
Architect one might confuse with total stranger ADAM
Arranged net with cord tightly drawn STRINGENT
Arrive as the Cup Final's beginning, possibly FETCHUP
As a rule, can one do it? Absolutely! AUTARCHY
As it happens, turned to sin EVIL
Being reluctant to part with short underwear - no good LINGERING
Bias isn't commonly what woman may have to face WARPAINT
Build up interest in a working group, say ACCRUE
Character flaw seen in party politics TYPO
Compromise as result of successful session with board? HAPPYMEDIUM
Contacting a head in phone call REACHING
Defoe's character following one of Chesterton's, so-called FRIDAY
Discovered unsafe condition of electrical apparatus UNEARTHED
Eccentric fun had in Ireland with corporation CRACKPOT
Either end of Teutonic necklace TORC
English river with some fish, hard place to learn SCHOOLHOUSE
Especial art represented in religious paintings ALTARPIECES
Evil woman with no time to make fresh start SINEDIE
Failure in business with America of colonist produces great wonder COLOSSUSOFRHODES
Father right nasty about son? Hard cheese! PARMESAN
Fielding character, mysterious one in movie THIRDMAN
Flower of British nobility made famous by baroness SCARLETPIMPERNEL
French gambling, suffered in defeat by English ROULETTE
French king in church near city in Provence CHARLES
Full state of composer, extremely tipsy SATIETY
Having misplaced a car key, searching in other vehicles HACKNEYCARRIAGES
Hostile accountant near edge about promises to pay back ACRIMONIOUS
I'll follow where VW may often go, say? AFTERYOU
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If a military misbehaves, that produces contempt FAMILIARITY
In other words, dreadfully hard, per se REPHRASED
In Scotland, poet's endless running water BURN
Interpret assignment as getting back in READMISSION
Like a potentate with lots of horses POWERFUL
Lots of people endlessly following score in test - good shot! MARKSMAN
Mass-murderer imprisoned in borstal institution STALIN
Messenger, over time, becomes royal companion COURTIER
Moving protest is absorbing one's noble wife, perhaps MARCHIONESS
Novel outcome of keen policeman breaking corrupt fiddle DAVIDCOPPERFIELD
One defeating rivals in every race WORLDBEATER
Part of Europe in which to see nightjar settle? POLAND
Political group you see talking, within reason, endlessly CAUCUS
PR revolution SPIN
Preserve deal, say, in order to score point CREOSOTE
Rob after display of firearm AIRRIFLE
Roman soldiers on river Tiber, originally, getting salmon COHORT
Rowed boat long ago in club, I remember BIREME
Son with intelligence to take it more easy SLOWDOWN
Strolled in a way that's most amusing DROLLEST
Temperature within oil a chap adjusted for sausage CHIPOLATA
Test ground, please, before monarch appears, as part of the service LORDSPRAYER
Title held by fighter from across the Channel NOMDEGUERRE
Trendy? That's for girlfriend to decide UPTODATE
Ultimate limit on English soldier's dog SKYETERRIER
Unpleasant place to cross STYX
Vehicle with back-seat driver? That fine, roughly speaking HANSOM
Weak do not get involved in this kind of fighting TAEKWONDO
Work for actors but not others? PLAY
Writer who abridged Gibbon's work EVELYNWAUGH