Times Jumbo 1019

Author   helenoughamPosted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
Not too difficult, I thought – it took me 20 minutes, including the time needed to check the answers to 40ac and 20dn (see comments below). One of these days I really am going to sit down and learn all possible cricketing terms off by heart…

As ever, * indicates an anagram.

Across
1 CHIRPIEST – CHIT, around Raspberry + PIES
6 RECOGNISED – (designer)* around COmpany
12 NOVELLO – NOVEL + LO
13 GLUTAMATE – GLUT + AM + ATE
14 SKIED – SKIrtED
16 OF THE ESSENCE – “Key” is the definition; the cryptic indication is to OF THE ESSEN CE, where CE = Church of England. I’m not sure that “the” is indicated by the wordplay
17 PLANTATION – PLAN + TATI (the late film director Jacques Tati) + ON
19 FALL ON DEAF EARS – FEARS, around ALL + (of Aden)*
22 PROLOGUE – PRO, + LOGUE (sounds like log, = record)
24 NADINE – A DINE after N
25 REINSTATES – REIN + STATES
26 TESLA – set, reversed, + LA
29 DACE – ACE after ponD
30 FRUITFUL – double definition
32 PICTORIAL – PLace around Victoria
34 TAIL-ENDER – AIL in TENDER
35 NORMANDY – N + OR (other ranks) + MANY (= legion) around (key of) D
36 SPAM – double definition – SPAM in the sense of junk e-mail
39 SPELL – P in SELL
40 EXTRA COVER – EXTRACt + OVER. As usual, it was the cricketing clue that threw me; I’d never heard of EXTRA COVER in this sense and had to resort to artificial aids to work out what the second word was
42 DOMAIN – D, + I in OMAN
44 TONING UP – IN, + PUG (= boxer) reversed, by TON
46 LICENTIOUSNESS – (lust is one sin)* around CE
48 BOTTOM LINE – BOTTOM is a character is Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream (abbreviated to MND here)
49 PARKING METER – this would be the Rev. Spooner’s version of “marking peter”, where peter is a slang term for a safe
53 SEISM – IS, in SE (South-East) + ChathaM
54 INTUITION – I + N + TUITION
55 STATUTE – T in STATUE
56 BRIDEGROOM – BEG ROOM around RID
57 ENACTMENT – CourT in (ten mean)*

Down
1 CIVET – hidden in quiTE VICious (reversed)
2 I’LL BE BOUND – ILL, + BOsUN in BED
3 POOLSIDE – sloop (reversed), + IDE (sounds like eyed)
4 EAGLE – E, + Elgar reversed. “Score” here refers to golf
5 TRUNCHEON – (turn)* + Confident + HE + ON
6 RYAN – (NAY + R), reversed. Reference is to the film “Saving Private Ryan”
7 CRADLE – (declare)*
8 GREEN CROSS CODE – GREEN, + COD (to kid) in CROSS + E
9 INSTALLATION – I, + STALL in NATION
10 EXITING – EX + I +ThING
11 UNCONFINED – UN + CON + FINED
15 DANCE HALL – (Lad he can)* + L
18 PRATTLER – P + RATTLER (= rattlesnake)
20 LIDOCAINE – LINE around DOC + AI. LIDOCAINE was new to me, but the wordplay was helpful and the -CAINE ending was fairly predictable for an anaesthetic
21 AMELIORATE – first letters of “Avoid motorway excesses”, + oil (reversed) + RATE
23 STEP-PARENT – (test paper)* around examiNation
27 SAILPLANE – SnAIL, + PLANE (sounds like plain)
28 BRIDGE-BUILDING – double definition
31 FANTASIA – FAN + TASmanIA. I thought this was a very clever clue with a beautifully misleading surface reading
33 WELL-INFORMED – LL IN FORM, in WEED
34 TEST TUBES – butts (reversed) in TEES
37 MINISERIES – MISERIES around NI (Northern Ireland)
38 CONSUMMATE – CON + SUM + MATE
41 OPERATIVE – PE + R, in (a vote I)*
43 POINTS AT – P, + (station)*
45 NUTTIER – NUT (National Union of Teachers), + TIER
47 ONE-TWO – O (a circle, hence “ball”), + NET, + WO (without)
50 KINDA – KIN, + DA (District Attorney)
51 TAUNT – hidden in greaT AUNTs
52 FIRM – F, + odd-numbered letters of “in Rome”

3 comments on “Times Jumbo 1019”

  2. Slogged through this in 96′, but evidently mistyped 1ac, maybe as ‘chippiest’. DNK 8d, 40ac (of course), 47d (ditto). Liked 14ac & 19ac

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