Jumbo 1048

Author   sghansonPosted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
I don’t recall anything troublesome with this one. It seems to me that there were fewer anagrams and more double definition type clues than normal, but that is all I can add to the explanations below.

Across
1 EZRA POUND – EZRA = book, POUND? = cheap
6 TIPSTER – TIP = tail, STER(n) = rear
10 SEPAL – SEAL = closer, around the second letter of (s)P(eak)
13 deliberately omitted – please ask if unsure
14 SURPASS – SURP(rise) = unexpected result, AS = when, S(on)
15 PAISLEY – PA(r)SLEY = herb, around I = one
16 THE WRITING ON THE WALL – double definition
17 VAT – VAT(ican) = city
18 DEPLOY – D(eceptiv)E, PLOY = stratagem
20 MENTOR – MEN = people, TOR = eminence (in a geographical sense)
21 LASSITUDE – (US DETAILS)*
23 FORTINBRAS – FORT – sounds light fought = went into battle, IN BRAS = in women’s clothing
25 ARTICULATED – double definition
29 ASTER – (f)ASTER = quicker
30 LETHARGY – (GREATLY)* around H(orse)
31 CLASS WAR – double definition, the first cryptic
34 CARTHAGE – CART = carry, HAG = witch, (stak)E
36 PEDANTIC – PIC = film, around DANTE = poet, with his last letter moved to the beginning
37 PHASE – sounds like FAYS = fairies
39 LEGERDEMAIN – LEG = limb, REMAINED*
41 DOUBLE BIND – double definition, the second cryptic
43 GILT-EDGED – GILT = pig, EDGED = made slow progress
45 HEATHY – HEA(l)THY = blooming
47 DISTIL – LID = cover, around ITS, all reversed
49 TEE – TEE(s) = river
50 ALL FINGERS AND THUMBS – double definition, the second cryptic
52 STAMINA – ANIMAT(e)S = enlivens, reversed
53 TSARIST – STRAITS*
54 GRUFFLY – G(rab), RUF = FUR = coat, reversed, FLY = hurry away
55 ALEPH – ALE = drink, P.H. = public house = pub
56 HANDS-ON – HANDSO(me) = attractive, N(ame)
57 DESPERATE – (fe)E, SPER = REPS = agents reversed all in DATE = meeting

Down
1 deliberately omitted – please ask if unsure
2 ROUGE – ROUG(h) = boisterous, E(nergy)
3 PATERNOSTER – POSTER = bill, around A TERN = a bird
4 UPDATE – U(niversity), DATE = appointment, around P(age)
5 DISINTEGRATE – DISINTE(r) = expose, GRATE sounds like GREAT = major
6 TURNOUT – double definition, the first leading to TURN OUT
7 PRAETORIAN GUARD – (AN AIRPORT ARGUED)*
8 TESSELLATE – TES(t)ATE = willing, around SELL = shift merchandise
9 deliberately omitted – please ask if unsure
10 SCILLY ISLES – S.C. = that is, ILL = bad, YES = indeed, around IS = one’s, and L(eave)
11 POLE VAULT – POLE = perch, VAULT = series of arches
12 LAYETTE – double definition, the first cryptically suggesting the addition of “ETTE” to the end of an noun makes a little version
19 PLOTTER – P(awn), LOTTER(y) = chancy enterprise
22 ANALOGUE – ANA. = stories, LOGE = box, around U = for all to see (cinema rating)
24 SNAKE IN THE GRASS – (A GREENSHANK SITS)*
26 COLD CALL – double definition, the second mildly cryptic
27 deliberately omitted – please ask if unsure
28 PARCEL – double definition, the second a cryptic reference to the phrase “part and parcel”
32 WHATNOT – NOW* T, arund HAT = bowler
33 STOUT-HEARTED – the heart of godFATher could be defined as STOUT
35 HORSERADISH – R.A. = artist, in HORSE DISH = mislabelled meat creation. Almost topical
37 PUBLIC HOUSE – PUBLIC = people, H(orrible), O USE = no use = totally unhelpful
38 HARD-BITTEN – double definition
40 GOLDEN AGE – (AGO LEGEND)*
42 OLD STYLE – LOTS* around D(aughter), YLE = ELY = See, reversed
43 GO TO SEA – GOT = understood, (h)OSEA = prophet
44 GOLIATH – HOG = pig, around TAIL = curly bit, all reversed
46 ARRAIGN – ARRAN = Scottish island, around G.I. = soldier, reversed/td>
48 ADAGES – AD = notice, (c)AGES = prisons
51 MAFIA – AIM = plan, around F.A. = footballers, all reversed

6 comments on “Jumbo 1048”

  1. I just now noticed that I’d forgotten to go back and check answers that I hadn’t fully parsed or that I had some question about, and there were quite a few this time. One of them was PAISLEY; isn’t ‘woolly’ a DBE here? I never would have worked out FORTINBRAS from wordplay: with my rhotic accent, fort/fought are certainly not homophones. I stupidly put in ‘gold-edged’ at 43ac; I suppose I was lucky in having only that one error.
  2. ‘Deliberately Omitted’ – pathetic. Are we supposed to find that amusing? Wouldn’t it be good if there was a website where you could go to check ALL your answers. Either give the answers or don’t.
    1. Feel free to disagree.. but giving gratuitous offence to volunteer bloggers seems pretty crass behaviour, mr/ms “anonymous”
    2. Rather than posting gratuitous, offensive comment, you might try clicking on ‘about this blog’ at the top of the page, where you can read an explanation of why some answers are omitted. You can also read there a caution about posting offensive comments.
    3. I can’t add any more to the replies above.

      I am always happy to assist with the missing entries upon request, although the practice among my fellow bloggers seems to be inconsistent now and as I start by drafting explanations for all the answers and then removing some for posting I may just as well post them all – it would be less work.

      As another suggestion, if you are desperate for answers to clues you could use The Times website or newspaper – the full solution is published today, although there is obviously a cost to this.

      1. I much appreciate the work my fellow bloggers do, and the jumbo bloggers more than most, since you have twice the work and half the feedback. I comment on all the clues when I blog and I recommend you do too Simon.. maybe the anonymous posters will be more appreciative 🙂

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