The Times - Concise May 24 2014 crossword clues & answers

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The Times - Concise May 24 2014

Clue	Answer
Consumed	EATEN
Duration, extent	LENGTH
Eg, Edinburgh native	SCOT
Eg, native of Baghdad	IRAQI
Example of type	SPECIMEN
Financial officer	TREASURER
Game played at opponents' ground	AWAY
Glass-half-full person	OPTIMIST
Insurance statistician	ACTUARY
Kenyan capital	NAIROBI
Make progress; be friends	GETON
Occurring often	FREQUENT
Old form of illumination	GASLIGHT
One staying in support of a ruler or government	LOYALIST
Pair of verse lines	COUPLET
Passing critical remark	SIDESWIPE
Perceive	SEE
Small crustacean	SHRIMP
Snooker shot	PLANT
Submit; produce	YIELD
Suspended	HANGING
The thing's	ITS
Upside-down	INVERTED
Very brave	HEROIC
— City; — centre	GARDEN
— Plane; — point	FOCAL
(in) great difficulty	DIRESTRAITS
(Of sound/colour) softened	MUTED
Ancient weapon	LONGBOW
Animal expedition	SAFARI
As well	BESIDES
Be overbearing	DOMINEER
Burrowing insect	DIGGERWASP
Cavalry sword	SABRE
Character of a community or age	ETHOS
Christian love of humankind	CARITAS
Code of polite behaviour	ETIQUETTE
Contract (work) to an external supplier	OUTSOURCE
Convincing	CREDIBLE
Curt rudeness	ABRUPTNESS
Digital video system	NICAM
Distended	SWOLLEN
Eg, cast member for Swan Lake	BALLETDANCER
Everywhere at the same time	OMNIPRESENT
Feeling blissful happiness	BEATIFIC
Fossilised resin	AMBER
German poet and dramatist	GOETHE
Glasses	SPECS
Having indigestion	DYSPEPTIC
Identical twins	TWEEDLEDEEANDTWEEDLEDUM
In private	BEHINDCLOSEDDOORS
Injuring with hot water or steam	SCALDING
Know-all	SMARTALEC
Legitimate, honest	ABOVEBOARD
London terminus	EUSTON
Mexican hat	SOMBRERO
Mildly astonished	SURPRISED
Moving staircase	ESCALATOR
No longer fresh	STALE
On a par (with); pie suds (anagram)	UPSIDES
Orbiter for weather observation	METEOROLOGICALSATELLITE
Overseas	ABROAD
Personal life story	MEMOIR
Plan; plot	SCHEME
Policeman's non-uniform wear	PLAINCLOTHES
Proof one was elsewhere when crime was committed	ALIBI
Proverbially swearing soldier	TROOPER
Pun	PLAYONWORDS
Remote military camp	OUTPOST
Sailing vessel	YACHT
School period	LESSON
Seek election; attitude	STAND
Semi-precious stone; road reflector	CATSEYE
Sensation of flavour	TASTE
Slow flow of fluid	SEEPAGE
Small pointed beard	GOATEE
Strangely	ODDLY
Superior group	ELITE
The disadvantages of both alternatives	WORSTOFBOTHWORLDS
Thin and bony like a corpse	CADAVEROUS
Thinking logically	REASONING
Three hued	TRICOLOURED
Too long, slow or dull	TEDIOUS
Unintended escape (of fluid)	LEAKAGE
Utter coward	POLTROON
Very angry	IRATE
Wooded area of Hampshire	NEWFOREST
Word used to express commiseration to a child	DIDDUMS

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