The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 1024 - March 2, 2013

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Clues Answers
A seaman stole this empty wagon BOATSWAIN
Ads showing a different water softener WASHINGSODA
Approximate place for pitchers BALLPARK
Basin I'd stowed in punt BIDET
Chain letter read out on the radio SIERRA
Check Crabbe's most successful works BLOCKBUSTERS
Coarse show entertaining the Spanish INDELICATE
Criminal to pinch rare bat CHIROPTERAN
Cuts regularly depleted birdseed? That's not true! LOPSIDED
Debut of Parisian filmmaker working with leading lady to produce screen version? ADAPTATION
Don't panic — little boy is going nowhere BECALMED
Drifters move rapidly, not getting back on board and not rising ZOOPLANKTON
Eliot revised end of Middlemarch, adding one chapter from an early period EOLITHIC
Engine driver passes over eastern line DIESEL
English maidens associated with county sets EMBEDS
Events missed by those who have retired ALLNIGHTERS
Excitedly shouting, Red Guards may do this RIDESHOTGUN
Film producer shows where Maggie Tulliver was drowned in river DEMILLE
Flower that's extremely attractive in glass PAEONY
Game characteristic of cassowary PIGINTHEMIDDLE
Going round Niamey (not New York), having left messages EMAIL
Greek saint heals wound THESSALIAN
Hooded cloak from old university retained by poet BURNOUS
I worried about US university supplying copy IMITATE
In the open air with fleece and cap OUTDO
Indigenous Australian bird rejected island KOORI
king calling for some mulled wine EDWIN
Lacking power, fly from new goods packed in salt perhaps? HANGGLIDE
Le Fanu's uncle is turning up with girl briefly SILAS
Licence required after introduction of potassium bromide PLATITUDE
Lights etc? Not on a lake! OFFAL
Clues Answers
Losing capital, reformer and writer never seem to stop king ... UTHERPENDRAGON
Male given drink becomes more cheerful BUCKSUP
Mark and Del taken aback? Rose is happy as Larry TICKLEDPINK
Mass held by priests for harvest festival LAMMAS
Material used for clothes horse brought back the answer BARATHEA
Most spruce mizzenmasts miles away at sea SNAZZIEST
Obvious argument for one in suit PLAINTIFF
Off course when meeting carrier ASTRAY
Perhaps double-dealing doctor saves NHS ink KNAVISHNESS
Posh girls tucked into a North Riding appetizer ANGELSONHORSEBACK
Purchase lots of sheets, say, for ancient craft BIREME
Quiet supporter impressed by the Queen's old-fashioned humour PHLEGM
Rows about stray dogs TERRIERS
Scratching head, look for weapon LANCE
Seaside attraction: hollowed-out cave to run through PIERCE
See pottery: dished plate STEREOTYPE
Seized legally, as policeman's taught DISTRAINED
Society caring for many insects SWARM
Songbird with duck in court during case TROUPIAL
Staggering, last two in horse race son has entered SENSATIONAL
Stolen credit card may be processed thus SWIPED
Stop row about Greek character DETAIN
Stores without liquor — they'll bring back memories KEEPSAKES
Suddenly reveal source SPRING
Times leader backing paper qualification is tactful one DIPLOMAT
Tobacco tin on old hat SNOUT
Unenthusiastic leader of party in parliament shown up TEPID
Victorian protesters win local guarantee after regrouping ANTICORNLAWLEAGUE
Welsh town endlessly entering contest to produce a poem VILLANELLE
Who ate meal if playing ball? WHALEOFATIME
Wounded animal rolls over under stone STUNG