The Times - Concise - Times2 Jumbo 531 - December 15, 2012

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(Of weather) unusual for the time of year UNSEASONABLE
A group of notes sung to one syllable MELISMA
Act of gaoling IMPRISONMENT
An excess of responsibilities (3,4,5,2,3,4) TOOMANYIRONSINTHEFIRE
Avoided coming to the point PREVARICATED
Become less miserable CHEERUP
Cause of great suffering TRIBULATION
Celestial obscuration ECLIPSE
Climber's peg PITON
Creator of new devices INVENTOR
Critical, serious ACUTE
Desiccated DRIED
Desirable as a spouse ELIGIBLE
Drug OPIATE
Easily able to speak and write FLUENT
Echo loudly REVERBERATE
Excessively concerned with minor details PEDANTIC
First light DAWN
Future person in one's family line DESCENDANT
Group of soldiers PLATOON
Growth from foot TOENAIL
Gymnastic entertainer ACROBAT
In sequence CONSECUTIVE
Joining device COUPLING
Kitchen device BLENDER
Large-flowered plant HIBISCUS
Limbless body TORSO
Long hollow cylinder TUBE
Lymphocyte aiding immune response TCELL
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Making great demands EXACTING
Mediterranean cooking ingredient OLIVEOIL
Military shoulderpiece EPAULETTE
Motorway rest stop SERVICES
Not in accordance with the law ILLEGITIMATE
One unshakably devoted to an ideal SEAGREENINCORRUPTIBLE
Poisonous plant ACONITE
Purple colour; plant AMARANTH
Remove (a limb) AMPUTATE
Round figure CIRCLE
Saturate with a substance IMPREGNATE
Seemingly true PLAUSIBLE
Show that one feels superior CONDESCEND
Side of an entrance GATEPOST
Small entrance room ANTECHAMBER
Small pellets for hunting rifle BIRDSHOT
Soft, limp FLACCID
State of New England MAINE
Strength, solidity STURDINESS
Strictly moral in conduct PURITANICAL
Sugar and honey sweet NOUGAT
Theatre's entrance hall FOYER
Tidy and clean (feathers) PREEN
Treatment following release AFTERCARE
Very great IMMENSE
View, opinion, feeling SENTIMENT
Waste receptacle LITTERBIN
Wet and soft quality SOGGINESS
Youth ADOLESCENCE