The Times - Concise May 28 2005 crossword clues & answers

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The Times - Concise May 28 2005

Clue	Answer
(Of fruit) more mature	RIPER
Abandons (rubbish)	DUMPS
Bottom was one (MND)	WEAVER
Candidate (for job)	APPLICANT
Cooking instructions	RECIPES
Countryside for crops or livestock	FARMLAND
Courageous	VALIANT
Dark beer, not strong in flavour	MILD
Demonstrate (truth)	PROVE
Dreary, gloomy	DISMAL
Earth	SOIL
Edmund -, sixteenth century poet	SPENSER
Expressing regret	RUEFUL
Fish of carp family	RUDD
Irritable, stylish	SNAPPY
Jailer (archaic), (of service) provided ready for use	TURNKEY
Lose one's footing	SLIP
Metal assay sign	HALLMARK
Not melodious	TUNELESS
Pampered	COSSETED
Policeman (colloq.)	COP
Raise objections	DEMUR
Shortfall	DEFICIT
Slightly mad (colloq.)	DOTTY
Somerset hills	MENDIPS
Unlock, undo (poetic)	OPE
Very short clothing item	MINIDRESS
Window glass sealant	PUTTY
(Of friend) very close	BOSOM
(Of fur) long and unkempt	SHAGGY
(Of hair)light yellowish brown	SANDY
(Often ironic) expression of gratitude	THANKSAMILLION
- Hundreds provide resignation route for MP	CHILTERN
- Spenser, English poet	EDMUND
A disadvantage	DRAWBACK
Able to be used, free	AVAILABLE
Allaying of doubts and fears	REASSURANCE
Alopecia	BALDNESS
Armed forces member below officer rank (US)	ENLISTEDMAN
Ask too high a price	OVERCHARGE
At the present time	NOWADAYS
Become greater	INCREASE
Below, town in Wales	NEATH
Commercial timbrologist	STAMPDEALER
Deep chasm	ABYSS
Dessert (colloq.)	AFTERS
Ducal seat near Woodstock	BLENHEIMPALACE
Early steel-making apparatus	BESSEMERCONVERTER
Educate	SCHOOL
Eg, Le Notre, Brown or Jekyll	LANDSCAPEGARDENER
Exploratory survey (colloq.)	RECCE
Falcon	PEREGRINE
Feline breed	SIAMESECAT
Final declining phase (of something)	SUNSET
First book of the Bible	GENESIS
Former Spanish dictator	FRANCO
Formerly	ONCE
Iliad wooden construction	TROJANHORSE
Left aground on a shore	STRANDED
Like burnt residue	ASHY
Mother of Elizabeth I	ANNEBOLEYN
Mutually reliant	INTERDEPENDENT
Naval weapon	TORPEDO
Needlework style	CROSSSTITCH
Obsession	MANIA
One believing nothing can be known of the nature of God	AGNOSTIC
One of original thirteen US states	CONNECTICUT
Part of TV series	EPISODE
Police rank	SERGEANT
Problem solver	TROUBLESHOOTER
Rather strange	ODDISH
Reigning champion	TITLEHOLDER
Reimbursed	REPAID
Respectful address to titled person	LADYSHIP
Roman garment	TOGA
Rough cloth	TWEED
Seductive female spy	MATAHARI
Small amount	HANDFUL
Small melon variety	CANTALOUPE
Such as a battery-driven car	ELECTROMECHANICAL
Surname of Shakespeare's wife	HATHAWAY
Temporary prohibitions of activity	MORATORIA
To that (formal)	THEREUNTO
Trade exhibition, (of weather) fine	FAIR
Unlit state	DARKNESS
Well known	NOTED
With only a slight chance of success (2,1,4,3,1,6)	ONAWINGANDAPRAYER
Worker paid according to periods worked	DAYLABOURER

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