The Times - Concise Sep 01 2007

ClueAnswer
A humiliating failure FIASCO
Accepted proposition AXIOM
Big group of musicians ORCHESTRA
Bring about; without delay PROMPT
Casual chatter GOSSIP
Cogwheel; part of wing PINION
Conservative TORY
Echo-sounding device SONAR
Eg, rat RODENT
Freeholders (historical) YEOMEN
Japanese wrestling SUMO
Large sea OCEAN
Mark Twain hero TOMSAWYER
One of Christ's apostles SIMON
One of pair of supports on which something pivots TRUNNION
One of Scottish mountains over 3000 feet MUNRO
Painful, aching SORE
Powerlessness IMPOTENCE
Process of wearing away by friction ABRASION
Sharp end POINT
Ship that sank in 1545 MARYROSE
Six feet (depth of sea) FATHOM
Stubborn OBSTINATE
Subatomic particle ELECTRON
Usually MOSTLY
Wander ROAM
(Of wind) blowing from the sea ONSHORE
4840 square yards ACRE
Admit (defeat in match) CONCEDE
Amuses ENTERTAINS
Anxious NERVOUS
Behave incorrectly STEPOUTOFLINE
Being from space EXTRATERRESTRIAL
Bread fried with egg and milk FRENCHTOAST
Canines, molars, etc TEETH
Cat's cry MEOW
Caught (words) incorrectly MISHEARD
Colouring cosmetic EYESHADOW
Composure in trying circumstances SANGFROID
Corporation's meeting place GUILDHALL
Darwinian process NATURALSELECTION
Deserving of censure REPREHENSIBLE
Dickens novel DAVIDCOPPERFIELD
Easy to understand USERFRIENDLY
Eg, Fidelio OPERA
Female dancer BALLERINA
Fiddling Roman emperor NERO
Follow on ENSUE
Form into layers STRATIFY
French colony, now Nova Scotia ACADIA
Gentle sheen LUSTRE
Good but uneducated person ROUGHDIAMOND
Green vegetable BROCCOLI
Horse attendant STABLEBOY
Ireland EMERALDISLE
Isle of Man capital DOUGLAS
Item of bedlinen PILLOWCASE
Jewish religious leader RABBI
Luxury style of travel FIRSTCLASS
Magic word ABRACADABRA
Male deer STAG
Mute SILENT
Natural plant extract ESSENTIALOIL
Noble act; French foreign legion novel BEAUGESTE
Offer of reconciliation OLIVEBRANCH
One acting without constraint FREEAGENT
Owner's representative on merchant ship SUPERCARGO
Passage between seats AISLE
Preserves (as a mummy) EMBALMS
Prime minister PREMIER
Publisher's descrtion of book BLURB
Reading supports BOOKRESTS
Row of houses TERRACE
Snack, light meal (dated) TIFFIN
Spirits measuring device OPTIC
State of calmness QUIETUDE
Stoker's vampire DRACULA
Superfluous REDUNDANT
Swiss currency FRANC
Things are really happening NEVERADULLMOMENT
Type of star system; safely get x-ray (anag.) SEYFERTGALAXY
Unchanging in belief DYEDINTHEWOOL
Undistinguished writer SCRIBBLER
Unrelaxed; form of verb TENSE
White-hot INCANDESCENT
William —, English poet/visionary BLAKE
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