Jumbo 1318

Author   sghansonPosted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
Sorry for the slight delay in posting this – I was going to set it to post automatically early this morning but other tasks intervened. Apologies for any errors due to haste.

Nothing to quibble about in this one – but some good clues. I especially liked 56A.

Across
1 COGNOSCENTI – COOING* around SCENT = perfume
7 TRANSCRIPTS – TRATS = Italian restaurants around N = new and SCRIP = share certificates
13 REST ON ONE LAURELS – cryptic definition
14 TWERP – T(o)WER = one hauling, P(iano)
15 EGOIST – ET = SF film, around GO = energy and IS
16 BLANCHED – BLED = ran, around A N(orthern) CH(urch)
17 PIONEER – PIER = support, around ONE = individual
19 SCRIMSHAW – SS = ship, around CRIM = criminal, initial letters of H(as) A(lready) W(recked)
21 UNAWARES – UN = French article, A = English article, WARES = goods for sale
23 IVES – (l)IVES = is
25 OASIS – O = love, AS = when, IS
27 SPRAIN – SP = P.S. = additional comment, reversed, RAIN = bad weather
28 POINSETTIA – POINT = position, around SET = placed, I(sland), A(rea)
30 EPISODIC – EPIC = big contest, around SOD = divot and I
31 PEASANTS REVOLT – (PASTORAL EVENTS)*
34 PANCAKE TUESDAY – double definition, the first cryptic referring to the fact that the fast of Lent commences on Ash Wednesday
35 CATACOMB – CA = around, TOMB = burial area, around A and C = key
38 ELEMENTARY – (ENEMY LATER)*
40 DAMAGE – DAME = grand lady, around AG = silver
41 AUDIT – (pl)AUDIT = praise
43 IRON – IN = popular, around RO(d) = staff
44 FENG SHUI – FE = Iron = 43, (IS HUNG)*
45 INAUGURAL – IN AL(l) = after considering everything, around AUGUR = herald
48 TOUGHIE – TIE = match, around (r)OUGH = uneven
49 MIGRAINE – MIG = Russian plane, RAINE(d) = came down
50 CLOSED – CD = recording, around LOSE = fail
53 REIGN – (ta)NGIER = African city, reversed
54 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE – (RECEIVES YOUNG TILL)*
55 CONFEDERACY – C.E. = church, around ON and FED = nourished, RACY = lively
56 EXEUNT OMNES – stage direction meaning all the cast leave the stage – the play cannot continue until at least one actor enters again
 
Down
1 CORNERSTONE – CORNERS = pins down, TONE = style
2 GUSTO – GO = travel, around (d)UST = earth
3 OPOSSUM – OP = work, OS = unusually large, SUM = quantity of money
4 CLOT – CLOT(h) = material
5 NEEDLEWORK – NEED WORK = be unemployed, around LE = the in French
6 ISLAND UNIVERSE – (VENUS LANDER IS)*
7 TOUCHPAD – TOUCH = a little, PAD*
8 AHEAD – A(ctivity), HAD = held, around E(nglish)
9 SISYPHEAN – SIN = wrong, around (HE PAYS)*. I mixed the I and Y in a Championship semi final on this word a couple of years ago and it still rankles!
10 RATION – (ado)RATION = worship, with A and DO = function removed
11 PRESERVATION ORDER – P(riest), RESERVATION = concern, ORDER = religious group
12 SUPPRESSANT – SUP = drink, PRESS = journalists, ANT = soldier
18 CHASTISE – CHASE = go after, around STI(r) = prison
20 RUSSIAN REVOLUTION – RAN = organised, around US = American and SI = IS, reversed, R(un), EVOLUTION = development
22 AMOUNT – A, MOT = word, in French, around UN
24 SERENATA – (ARENA SET)*
26 SHOW A LEG – SALE = transaction, around HOW = methodology, G(ood)
29 AS FAR AS I CAN SEE – double definition
32 SPACEMAN – S(ingular), PACEMAN = fast bowler
33 TUAREG – TUG = yank, around ARE = live
34 PREHISTORIC – PRETORI(a) = African city, around HIS = man’s, C = 100
36 BATTLEDRESS – BATT(y) = eccentric, LED = guided, R.E. = soldiers, S.S. = ship
37 MARIONETTE – cryptic definition
39 THEME TUNE – THE MET = American opera house, UNE = a in French
42 THUGGERY – TRY = hear, around HUGGER = one embracing
46 GALILEO – GALI = I LAG = I delay, reversed, LEO = constellation
47 CHANCE – (Jackie?) (Charlie) CHAN = detective (thank you Jerry), C.E = civil engineer
49 MOIRA – MORA = A ROM = a memory, reversed, around I = one
51 STERN – STEN = NETS = trawler’s equipment, reversed, around R(ight)
52 SCAN – S(chool), CAN = preserve

7 comments on “Jumbo 1318”

  1. 1:27:45 but with my usual misspelling of INAUGERAL Bah humbug! Will I never learn? Thanks setter and SGH.
    1. Thank you for the correction – I knew I was compiling this entry too hastily
  3. About 53 minutes for me, so just a little slower than usual. Failed to parse IRON and RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, so thanks for that. RATION would have been my LOI, but I found I’d neglected SERENATA. PANCAKE TUESDAY my favourite.
  4. A couple of DNKs–SHOW A LEG, ISLAND UNIVERSE, TRAT–but they didn’t slow me down too much as I recall. I slowed myself down by tentatively putting in SO at 29d (I tend to say ‘so far as …’), making a mental note to see if it should be AS, and of course losing the mental note, which made PEASANTS REVOLT much harder to spot. In one of Ring Lardner’s absurdist playlets, the curtain descends for 7 days to indicate the passage of a week; would that count as the play going on in the absence of actors?

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