The Times - Concise May 15 2010 crossword clues & answers

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The Times - Concise May 15 2010

Clue	Answer
1980s Soviet economic policy	PERESTROIKA
Action showing disrespect of legal processes	CONTEMPTOFCOURT
Alaskan city	ANCHORAGE
Ancient state in central Italy	ETRURIA
Australian mammal	PLATYPUS
Badly done; recycled fibre	SHODDY
British actress (1888-1976)	DAMEEDITHEVANS
Canopy over four-poster bed	TESTER
Captain Hook's right-hand man	SMEE
City on the eastern edge of the Rockies	COLORADOSPRINGS
Clothing on top of other clothing	OUTERWEAR
Coarse material	BUCKRAM
Crude	COARSE
Cue given to actor	PROMPT
Dark-backed seabird, Puffinus puffinus	MANXSHEARWATER
Dregs	SEDIMENT
Ejection from a window	DEFENESTRATION
Embellishment of a room	DECOR
English statesman (1729-97)	EDMUNDBURKE
Expecting a baby	PREGNANT
Facility on word-processor or typewriter	TABULATOR
Foolish person	NINCOMPOOP
From a group of particular Pacific islands	POLYNESIAN
Ham cured or smoked	GAMMON
Highest mountain in England	SCAFELLPIKE
In a joyous manner	JUBILANTLY
Indian dairy drink	LASSI
Jerks backwards	RECOILS
Large lizard	MONITOR
Large sea	OCEAN
Laxative medicine	APERIENT
Long (often tapering) flag	STREAMER
Lowered in price	REDUCED
Lowest rank of Royal Navy sailor	ORDINARYSEAMAN
Mediterranean island	CORSICA
Metallic element	ZINC
National anthem of Wales	LANDOFMYFATHERS
Of necessity	PERFORCE
Period between reigns	INTERREGNUM
Person who toes the line	CONFORMIST
Positive or negative, not 0	NONZERO
Proposed as basis for argument	POSITED
Provider of extra bed heat	ELECTRICBLANKET
Put back together again	REASSEMBLED
Put down in rank	DEMOTED
Quite probably	ASLIKEASNOT
Regulation	RULE
Remove oily substance from	DEGREASE
Result or effect	CONSEQUENCE
Rice dish	RISOTTO
Ripens	MATURES
Royal Indian female	RANI
Sample	TASTE
Separate and distinct	DISCRETE
Small units of time	NANOSECONDS
Taken in excess food	OVEREATEN
Taxonomic group	SPECIES
Tight with money	STINGY
Valve with three electrodes	TRIODE
Variety shows	REVUES
Aromatic herb	DILL
Blackberry	BRAMBLE
Breed of dog	SPANIEL
Descend on rope	ABSEIL
Diplomatic messenger	ENVOY
Disease of horses	GLANDERS
Extremely angry	WAND
Fierce fire	BLAZE
Gambling establishment	CASINO
Gloomy, drab	DINGY
Latin American dance	SALSA
Loud metallic sound	CLANG
Magical rod	IRATE
Mediterranean island	MALTA
Member of school staff	TEACHER
Minotaur slayer	THESEUS
Of everyday language	DEMOTIC
Process of doing up (room)	REDECORATION
Repeat performance	ENCORE
Roman god of love	CUPID
Secluded; rank	PRIVATE
Someone who's just come	ARRIVAL
Stemmed drinking glass	GOBLET
Sudden catastrophe	DISASTER
Type of shop window robbery	SMASHANDGRAB
V-shaped stripe	CHEVRON

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