The Times - Concise May 23 2009 crossword clues & answers

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The Times - Concise May 23 2009

Clue	Answer
(Of an office) unpaid	HONORARY
Acting out a part	ROLEPLAYING
Brief failure (of memory)	LAPSE
Buying and selling	TRADE
Central aspect (of something)	QUINTESSENCE
China	PORCELAIN
Create; begin	ORIGINATE
Crushed with the feet	TRODDEN
Deal out (punishment)	ADMINISTER
Decide	MAKEUPONESMIND
Deep admiration	RESPECT
Departed	GONE
Domestic aid	HOMEHELP
Eg, pine	CONIFER
Favourite of Elizabeth I executed for treason	RALEIGH
Fellow-feeling	COMRADESHIP
Find the answer to (a clue)	SOLVE
Form of carbon for drawing	CHARCOAL
Garden plant with ornamental foliage	HOSTA
German city noted for china	DRESDEN
Glands in the throat	TONSILS
Groups of stars	CONSTELLATIONS
Have an effect on each other	INTERACT
Having the greatest height	TALLEST
Held back	RESTRAINED
High-protein pulse	LENTIL
Italian mountain chain	APENNINES
Lived together	COHABITED
Living off another	PARASITIC
Made healthy again	CURED
Make suitable (for a new purpose)	ADAPT
MC in full	MASTEROFCEREMONIES
Mean	AVERAGE
Mesmeric	HYPNOTIC
Mineral; like a snake	SERPENTINE
More hot and humid	STEAMIER
Mosque prayer leader	IMAM
Musical instrument with bellows	CONCERTINA
Of great duration; yearn	LONG
One inputting (eg, data)	ENTERER
One maintaining a golf course	GREENKEEPER
One opposed to EU power	EUROSCEPTIC
One pasting up advertisements	BILLPOSTER
One with a degree	GRADUATE
Punk rock group	SEXPISTOLS
Red gemstones	RUBIES
Relating to being	EXISTENTIAL
Relating to fireworks	PYROTECHNIC
Repositories	STOREHOUSES
Security legislation	OFFICIALSECRETSACT
Semi-precious stone	AGATE
Serious actor	TRAGEDIAN
Silent actor	MIME
Spell at the wicket	INNINGS
State of northeastern US	PENNSYLVANIA
Those who renounce a belief	APOSTATES
Tower of London guard	BEEFEATER
Use a broom	SWEEP
Valuable metallic ware	SILVERPLATE
Worn out through age	DECREPIT
Beloved	SWEETHEART
Child learning to walk	TODDLER
Cowboys' riding contest	RODEO
Crush underfoot	TRAMPLE
Disclosing something hitherto unknown	REVELATORY
External	OUTSIDE
Flying station	AIRBASE
George Washington's wife	MARTHA
Horned mammal	RHINO
Husband or wife	SPOUSE
Lasting forever	AGELESS
Less fat	THINNER
Lunge; propulsive force	THRUST
Metal mixture	ALLOY
Not as it should be	AMISS
Not known to others	SECRET
One mean with money	SCROOGE
Period of over-indulgence	BINGE
Put off	DETER
Seaman	MARINER
Senior diplomat	AMBASSADOR
Small coins	PENCE
Stand-in	SUBSTITUTE
Sudden large increase	SURGE

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