Times Jumbo 1044

Author   helenoughamPosted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
In contrast to the last Jumbo I blogged on (1039), I thought this one was at the easier end of the scale, taking me 16 minutes.
As usual, * indicates an anagram.

Across
1 ACROPOLIS – A CROP, + silo (reversed)
6 CRAFTSMANSHIP – MAN’S after RAFTS, surrounded by CHIP
13 ADEPT – hidden in sofT-PEDAlling, reversed
14 CLAIRVOYANT – (actor vainly)*
15 GENRE – R (first letter of rain) in GENE. A nice reference to the film ‘Singing in the Rain’
16 ELEPHANTINE – double definition. The first part refers to the song ‘Nellie the Elephant’ (all together, now – ‘…packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus…’)
17 PREDOMINATE – PRATE, around mode (reversed) + IN
18 ISRAELI – (fair isle)*, minus ‘f’. I’m a little unsure as to why an Israeli would necessarily be a ‘faithful’ inhabitant, though.
20 HISTORY – HI + STORY (relation in the sense of relating a tale/story)
21 OCULIST – IS in Old CULT
23 IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME – (infuse menthol itself)*
27 SOB – SO + Bowhead
28 NORMAL – NORMA + L
29 BUMPER – double definition
31 BRASSERIE – wRASSE in BRIE
34 BLINDFOLD – LIND + F, in BOLD
35 REGAIN – REIN, around G + A
36 MANIAC – MA, + Cain (reversed)
39 USE – US + E
40 POLLY PUT THE KETTLE ON – cryptic indication, referring to the nursery rhyme
42 DUSTMAN – DUST (defined by ‘cover with only a little’) + MAN
43 CHINOOK – O + O, in CHINK (CHINOOK is maybe better known in the UK as a model of helicopter, but it’s also a type of wind in North America)
45 TERRACE – TRACE around ER; ‘domestic row’ defines a TERRACE of houses
47 RE-EMERGENCE – RedEEMER + GEN + CE
49 SHADOW PRICE – (hospice ward)*. I hadn’t come across the term SHADOW PRICE before, but it’s given in Chambers and other standard dictionaries
51 UNION – bUNION
52 EVEN-STEVENS – EVE + N + STEVEN + S
53 ARENA – (an era), reversed
54 SMELLING SALTS – M in SELLING, + SALES with T replacing E
55 YESTERDAY – (redates)*, surrounded by Y + Y

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Down
1 ACADEMICIAN – (a manic idea)* around C (the symbol for the speed of light)
2 ROE DEER – sounds like ‘rode’, + E’ER
3 PITCH – PIT + CromlecH
4 LICENTIOUS – (client)* + IOUS
5 SLAVISH – SLASH around V I
6 CARPET SWEEPER – PETS WEEP in CARER
7 AMORPHOUS – AMOROUS outside PH
8 TRACERY – TRY around ACER
9 METROPOLITAN – (Ottoman peril)*
10 NEGRITUDE – (Intrigued)*
11 HENNA – cHENNAi. CHENNAI is the modern name for Madras
12 PRESENTABLE – PRESENT, + B in ALE
19 EMERALD – RA, in E (key of E) + MELD
22 IN SERVICE – IN (at the crease, in cricket) + SERVICE (opening ball in a tennis rally)
24 TARDINESS – TAR + DINES + S
25 LAUNDRY – L + A + UNDRY. If something is wet it could be described as ‘un-dry’
26 FEBRILE – FE (Fe is chemical symbol for iron) + Bround + RILE
30 RIGHTEOUSNESS – (this generous)* + S
32 SHATTER – hidden in cruSH AT TERminal
33 BOWLING GREEN – BOW (to BOW = to yield) + LING + GREEN (sage green)
34 BLUNDERBUSS – BLUNDERS, around sub (reversed)
37 CONFEDERACY – CON + FED + E, + RACY (indicated by ‘blue’, i.e. somewhat indecent)
38 PENTHOUSES – THOU + SEe, in PENS
40 PIMPERNEL – double definition; reference is to the fictional character, the Scarlet Pimpernel
41 UNIVERSAL – UNI (short for university), + (reveals)* without one letter ‘e’
43 CONKERS – sounds like ‘conquers’
44 KNAVERY – Y, after K + N + AVER
46 ANISEED – DeliA, + IS in NEED
48 ELITE – E + LITE
50 PLACE – PLACEt. A PLACET is a ‘yes’ vote by, e.g., a governing body etc.

6 comments on “Times Jumbo 1044”

  1. Yes quite straightforward, except that not knowing/remembering placet 50dn took a long time and went in with a shrug..
    1. Helen, in the interests of 100% accuracy, might I suggest you amend 10dn to NIGRITUDE? Needless to say, the reason I spotted it is that I got it wrong on the day, and then took an absolute age to spot where my error lay. Like many others*, I went with the word I knew i.e. NEGRITUDE, without stopping to work out that it doesn’t quite fit the anagram…

      *the fact that even Magoo fell into the same trap is no consolation

      1. This was where I fell too, but as I’d put in NEGRITUEE I never even spotted that my mistake was more than just a typo!
        This strikes me as a deliberate trap. Very cunning.

        Edited at 2013-07-27 06:50 pm (UTC)

      2. Many thanks topicaltim – I’ll shortly post a correction. Given that so many of us (including you, me and even Magoo) were fooled by it, I wonder how many correct entries the Times will receive for this puzzle?
  2. The fact that Magoo, and Topicaltim, and Helen made the same error as I did, pace Tim, consoles me a heap.

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