Times Jumbo 1149

Author   helenoughamPosted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
On the easy side, this one, I thought. 37ac, GLAIR, was probably the most obscure answer

As usual, * indicates an anagram.

Across
1 OAKUM – first letters of ‘old African king’s unusual moral’
4 CLOUDBURST – LOUD BURS, in CT
9 IMPISH – wIMPISH
14 CONTRALTO – Cotton, + ONTO around R ALT
15 SMALLHOLDINGS – SINGS, around MALL + Hugging + OLD
16 IMAMATE – I’M A MATE
17 ALERTNESS – ALbERT + NESS
18 COCOA – COCO + A
19 BOISTEROUSNESS – (tour boss sees in)*
22 IMMENSE – MM (Military Medal; ‘gong’) + (seen)*, after I
25 ARCHBISHOP – ARCH + BISH + OP
27 READJUSTMENT – JUST MEN, in READ + T
30 INURE – IN UR, +Escorts
31 ACID-HEAD – A CID HEAD (i.e. A, + ‘head of the Criminal Investigation Department’)
32 PILLAGER – ILL AGE, in PR
35 ALTITUDE – ATTITUDE, with L replacing the first T
36 ATHENIAN – THE N, in A IAN
37 GLAIR – greylaG + LAIR. GLAIR is a lovely old word for the white (or albumen) of an egg
39 INTERROGATOR – IN TERROr + GATOR
41 ESPLANADES – PLAN A, in (seeds)*
43 TANGIER – double definition
45 ANTARCTIC OCEAN – (creation can act)*
48 BLEEP – B, + Peel reversed
49 CATALYSIS – could sound like ‘cat, Alice’s’ – reference is to Alice Liddell who inspired Lewis Carroll’s two ‘Alice’ books
51 EPITHET – THE, in E PIT
53 WHISTLE-BLOWER – double indication
54 INDECORUM – IN DEC(ember) O RUM
55 DRESSY – DRESS + smartlY
56 BANDLEADER – Blues + AND, + LEADER which could sound like ‘lieder’
57 RHYME – could sound like ‘rime’ (frost), depending on pronunciation

Down
1 ORCHID – ORC + HID (lady’s tresses are orchids)
2 KANGAROO COURT – cryptic indication
3 MARIA – MAIA around R
4 COLLEGE – COLE (‘Porter, perhaps’) around LEG
5 ONOMATOPOEIA – could sound like ‘on a mat a peer’
6 DISPERSE – DIS PER SE
7 UNAPT – PT after UNA
8 SILVERSIDE – S SIDE, around (liver)*
10 MODICUM – MUM, around O + DICk
11 INNOCENCE – (once)* after INN, + CE
12 HOSEA – HO + SEA
13 CONSTITUTIONAL – double definition
20 SUBVERTER – VERT, in rebus (reversed)
21 ELEVATED – E + LEEDs, around VAT
23 ENTERPRISE – ENTER, + PRISE (sounds like ‘prize’)
24 CAPITALIST – CAPITALS around I, + Tax
26 STAND CORRECTED – cryptic indication (a chairman wouldn’t stand)
28 TELEGENIC – TEEN + IC, around LEG (yes, it’s this week’s cricketing reference)
29 WHITE-OUT – WE around HIT, + OUT
33 GRANDFATHERLY – GRANDLY, around FAT HER
34 DISSATISFIED – SATISFIED after DIS (the second reference in this puzzle to DIS as the underworld or its boss)
38 TARANTELLA – Ashton + RAN + TELL, in TA
40 TANGERINE – ANGER, surrounded by TIN + Erupt
42 PRESERVE – P + RESERVE
44 IMPETUS – I’M + PET, + US
46 CHEDDAR – ED, in (Chard)*
47 STYMIE – STYE around MI
48 BOWED – double definition
50 LOWED – sounds like ‘load’
52 INCUR – I, + run (reversed), around Camp

2 comments on “Times Jumbo 1149”

  1. Whizzed through this in 46′, a pb for me or as near as dammit; so I’d agree with Helen on the relative easiness. As a practitioner of rhoticism, I could have done, of course, without 5d, but I’m resigned. DNK MM (22ac), but wordplay was sufficient. Ditto lady’s tresses. 20d LOI. Somehow I knew, or at least recalled, GLAIR.
  2. As someone for whom completing the Quick Cryptic is a good day and getting one or two full cryptic answers is a brilliant one, I was disappointed to see this puzzle reusing – even simplifying – a Quick Cryptic clue from earlier in the week.

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