Jumbo 1136 – Feb 28th

Author   fathippy2Posted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
Neat and tidy offering, consistent level of cluing with no stinkers or tricky vocabulary. Answers went in steadily and in good time.
Across
1 CASHPOINT – (shop it can)*
6 THROW IN – ROW = fight, inside THIN = fragile
10 CRUST – cryptic-ish definition with reference to “earn a crust”
13 INVERTED COMMA – (man cited over)* around M(atch), boxing being the include indicator
14 TENNESSEE – TEES, SEE, around N(uneato)N
15 REISSUE – SS=ship, IE=that is, reversed inside RUE=route (across the channel)
16 NATTIER – I(ntelligence) inside NATTER=talk
17 GUMTREE – GUM=stick, TREE=family arrangement
18 PUFFING BILLY – double def, tongue in cheek
20 UNINFORMED – UNIFORMED=like a soldier, around N(ight)
23 GUISE – sounds like GUYS
24 APHRODITE – (paired hot)*
25 BRAILLE – cryptic def
26 BUENOS AIRES – SERB=european, reversed around (USA ONE I)*
28 CUTTING EDGE – double def
30 NAPHTHALENE – NAP=sleep, HALE=well, inside (then)*
32 SWEET POTATO – sounds like SUITE POTATO, ie a slob on more than one couch
34 NON ZERO – ONZE = eleven in french, inside NR=near, O=old
36 ELECTORAL – (ol treacle)*
38 GRAIL – G, RAIL=bird=winger
39 SALIVATION – I, inside SALVATION
41 KINDERGARTEN – KINDER=more sympathetic, GEN=info, around ART
45 SKY BLUE – SKY=up, BLUE=down
46 TOASTIE – OAST=oven, TIE=cord
47 MISSION – MISS, I, ON
49 TAILPIECE – sounds like TALE, PEACE
50 CURTAIN RAISER – sounds like CURT’N’RAZOR
52 NAKED – DEAN, reversed, around K=king
53 SCENTED – inside S(cotlan)D, CENT=money (scarc)E
54 CLERGYMAN – (grey)*, M=male, inside CLAN=family

Down
1 CHIRRUP – R(ace) R(elations) U(pset) inside CHIP=token
2 SAVOIR FAIRE – O, IR, FAIR=blonde, inside SAVE=husband
3 PARTS – STRAP=belt, reversed
4 ICEBERG – ICE=decorate, BERG=composer
5 TIC – TIC(k)
6 TOMATILLO – TILL inside TOMATO
7 ROADIE – reverse of all the last letters of those long words (cant be bothered to type them!)
8 WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE – double def
9 NONAGON – NO NAG, means you cant ride, ON
10 CREAM SODA – REAMS = a great deal, in CODA=end
11 UNSCRAMBLED – double def
12 THEME – THE SAME= no different, without SA=south africa
16 NEITHER HERE NOR THERE – double def
19 ICE BOAT – (oce a bit)*
21 DIESEL OIL – DIES=comes to an end, OI=call, inside ELL=measure
22 DISCUS – DISCUS(s)
23 GO BANANAS – AN, AN, A inside GOBS
24 ARAPAHO – A, PARA=soldier, reversed, HO=house
25 BRISTOL – (shampo)O inside BRISTL(e)
27 SWEDEN – SWEDE, (garde)N
29 GEORGIA – double def, cf “Georgia on my mind” – song
31 PENALTY KICK – cryptic def
33 ALISTAIR SIM – LAST, AIRS, in AIM, for the often clued actor
35 ENVELOPED – ELOPE, after V, inside END
37 TWITTERED – TED, around WITTER
40 THESEUS – THE SEUS(s)
42 ROMANCE – ROMAN=italian, C(offe)E
43 NON-IRON – (butto)N, (tax)I, (drive)R, inside NOON
44 FAUCET – (cute)* after F(red) A(staire)
45 SATIN – SAT IN, implies didnt STAND OUT
48 SLANG – (expressio)N inside SLAG
51 ARC – hidden in (regul)AR C(urve)

7 comments on “Jumbo 1136 – Feb 28th”

  1. Some DNKs helped slow me down even further than my usual Jumbo time, such as 18ac, or WITTER at 37d. I also wasn’t aware that BRISTOL was associated with fashion. Didn’t think much of deriving SWEDEN from Swede. I did like 40d, 10d, and 33d, inter alia. (It’s Alastair, by the way, not Alistair.)
  2. Hands up anybody who wrote STARVATION at 39a before correcting it to SALIVATION.(ONG’ARA,NAIROBI)
  3. 6d TOMATILLO – TILL inside TOMATO ??
    That gives us too many Ts. I’ve been puzzling over this since it was published. Is it just a slip, or is there some other parsing?
    1. It is very rare that a mistake is made so I am reluctant to suggest that, but, apart from missing it both on solving and blogging due to the obvious nature of the answer, I cant see any other explanation. I tried to shoehorn ILL=green into it, but failed miserably. The construction seems clear to me, so I have to go with the error you suggest.
      1. Thanks for that. I often come here to look up parsings that puzzle me; this must be the first time I’ve been right
    1. Well done, didnt see that at all. Just goes to show that the initial fear – that the setter is never wrong – has been borne out yet again.

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