The Times - Concise Jan 31 2009

ClueAnswer
(Of wine) medium dry DEMISEC
A rise to prosperity, fame, etc SUCCESSSTORY
Allowing liquid or gas to pass POROUS
Animals such as the panda and rhino ENDANGEREDSPECIES
Brief description THUMBNAIL
Bring about; animate INSPIRE
Brother to Romulus REMUS
Cannabis cigarette SPLIFF
Carefully selected HANDPICKED
Characteristic spirit (of a culture, etc) ETHOS
Coming out of sleep again REAWAKENING
Continues to exist PERSISTS
Cost when buying shares BIDPRICE
Crime and Punishment author; TV odyssey OK (anag.) DOSTOYEVSKY
Crosby/Kelly/Sinatra film HIGHSOCIETY
Customary practice USAGE
Descent PARENTAGE
Domestic manager HOUSEKEEPER
English county STAFFORDSHIRE
Experience difficult times HITABADPATCH
French Jacobin leader, guillotined in 1794 ROBESPIERRE
Frightened AFRAID
Glittering with changing colours IRIDESCENT
God of the north wind BOREAS
Higher (in position) UPPER
Informal gathering GETTOGETHER
Interminable ENDLESS
Knives, forks, spoons CUTLERY
Licence for invention PATENT
Long-running sci-fi series STARTREK
Money orders for use abroad TRAVELLERSCHEQUES
Money paid per item completed PIECERATE
Not deserved UNMERITED
Nought NOTHING
Officially examined INSPECTED
Officially ordered DECREED
Part of the Mass AGNUSDEI
Put into effect IMPLEMENTED
Rear molars WISDOMTEETH
Red fruits RASPBERRIES
Result of rough calculation GUESTIMATE
River mouth ESTUARY
Rotating coupling SWIVEL
Russian tsar who died in seventeen twenty five PETERTHEGREAT
Set fire to IGNITE
Showing care and thought for the future PRUDENT
Silent NOISELESS
Something continuing to exist from an earlier period SURVIVAL
Something not to be stirred up HORNETSNEST
Strong desire to travel WANDERLUST
Support for kettle or pot over a fire TRIVET
Ten sixty six battle HASTINGS
This may be found in a double room TWINBED
Throws in random directions SCATTERS
Tool for, eg, removing wallpaper SCRAPER
Tragic heroine of Irish myth DEIRDRE
US upper house member SENATOR
Wanderer NOMAD
Word/picture puzzle REBUS
Working in an orderly manner METHODIC
(Of surface) uneven BUMPY
Adjust lens again REFOCUS
Angry state of mind TEMPER
Area for skateboarders SKATEPARK
Ban VETO
Banner headline STREAMER
Born as (former name) NEE
Canadian region YUKON
Counterpart to yin YANG
Fantasist DREAMER
Film buff CINEASTE
Free from deceit SINCERE
It controls the motion of engine cylinder valves CAM
Large expanse of sea OCEAN
Let it go! FORGETIT
Listlessness ENNUI
Metal TITANIUM
One like Julius Caesar ROMAN
Prepare for publication again REEDIT
Sacred HOLY
Sea robber PIRATE
Shoe with no fastenings STEPIN
Slow-cooked meat dish STEW
Temporarily halt SUSPEND
The proving of a will PROBATE
Trader MARKETEER
Underlying support BASIS
Unusual, odd STRANGE
Anagrammer Crossword Solver is a powerful crossword puzzle resource site. We maintain millions of regularly updated crossword solutions, clues and answers of almost every popular crossword puzzle and word game out there. We encourage you to bookmark our puzzle solver as well as the other word solvers throughout our site. Explore deeper into our site and you will find many educational tools, flash cards and plenty more resources that will make you a much better player.