The Times - Concise May 31 2008 crossword clues & answers

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The Times - Concise May 31 2008

Clue	Answer
- Healey, former Chancellor of the Exchequer	DENIS
- Waugh, English writer	EVELYN
Bee/wasp wound	STING
Branch of an army	CORPS
Brother to Remus	ROMULUS
Child by marriage	STEPSON
Contaminated air from drainage system	SEWERGAS
Distinctive atmosphere	AURA
Extracting (metal) from ore by heating	SMELTING
Fastener	CLIP
Female sheep	EWE
François -, seventeenth-eighteenth century French composer	COUPERIN
Grow older	AGE
Have as a purpose	INTEND
Jack (cards)	KNAVE
Line of hereditary rulers	DYNASTY
Make (someone) laugh	AMUSE
Medway cathedral city	ROCHESTER
Native of Little Rock, US	ARKANSAN
Sniffing at (something)	SMELLING
Spring flower	CROCUS
Story	NARRATION
Succulents	CACTI
Suffer great hunger	STARVE
The US personified	UNCLESAM
Twisted confusedly	TANGLED
(Of disease) catchable from others	INFECTIOUS
Aim, objective	TARGET
Aircraft emergency device	EJECTIONSEAT
Ascertained the truth of (something)	VERIFIED
Assumed (something) as the basis for reasoning	POSTULATED
Beginning to weaken	WAVERING
Bosnian capital	SARAJEVO
Byname of William II	RUFUS
Cancelling (a law)	RESCINDING
Carol's good king	WENCESLAS
Cartoon character	RUPERTBEAR
Classification; sailor	RATING
Cold dessert	ICECREAM
Compelled	FORCED
Country of SE Asia	LAOS
Criminal deception	FRAUD
Cup holder	SAUCER
Cut short	CURTAILED
Defiant of authority	INSUBORDINATE
Detached, separated	DISENGAGED
Deteriorate	WORSEN
Distinctive smell	AROMA
Erased (mark) from a surface	EFFACED
Extreme greed	AVARICE
Extremely small	DIMINUTIVE
Fantasising	IMAGINING
Fast food	FISHANDCHIPS
Gland secreting digestive enzymes	PANCREAS
Greek Cynic philosopher	DIOGENES
Grey tin alloy	PEWTER
Herb used for flavouring	SPEARMINT
House/garden plant	CYCLAMEN
Inside part	INTERIOR
Invent, devise	CONCOCT
Landscape; public display of anger	SCENE
Lighthouse near Plymouth is on the - rocks	EDDYSTONE
Lived on	SURVIVED
Make (someone) drunk	INTOXICATE
MP's area	CONSTITUENCY
Noel Coward play (Madame Arcati)	BLITHESPIRIT
Now is the winter of our - (Richard III)	DISCONTENT
Of drugs taken for enjoyment	RECREATIONAL
One behaving wildly	TEARAWAY
Open-air entertainment	STREETTHEATRE
Owned	POSSESSED
Peter Sellers film role	DRSTRANGELOVE
Precious metal	GOLD
Pretentious, snobbish	LADIDA
Relating to education	ACADEMIC
Roman writer and orator	CICERO
Serving no purpose	USELESS
State administrators	CIVILSERVICE
Style of building design	ARCHITECTURE
Taking the best bits	CHERRYPICKING
Thought; belief	IDEA
Toy making coloured patterns	KALEIDOSCOPE
Tsunami	TIDALWAVE
Type of pottery	STONEWARE
Unsuccessful person or thing	DEADDUCK
Walk through water	WADE

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