The Times - Concise - Times2 Concise 6592 - December 24, 2014

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Academic dissertation THESIS
Authorise EMPOWER
Bringer of retribution AVENGER
Fast foxtrot QUICKSTEP
Financial gain PROFIT
Formal speech ADDRESS
Grow faint FADE
Keep-fit exercise SITUP
Knife or pencil improver SHARPENER
Licence for inventors; obvious PATENT
Light sleep SNOOZE
Likely to profit QUIDSIN
Local dialect PATOIS
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Made of poor metal TINNY
Nervously excited FEVERED
Of Spain or Portugal IBERIAN
Part of the brain CORTEX
Piquantly flavoured TANGY
Relating to the planet Jupiter JOVIAN
Roman goddess MINERVA
Simultaneous action UNISON
Stewed meat/veg dish RAGOUT
Thailand formerly SIAM
Truncated trunk STUMP
Unlawful killing MURDER
Warped, perverted TWISTED