Jumbo 1173

Author   sghansonPosted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
I could blame the Crossword Championship Finals which were on the same weekend as this one, but that would not be fair – I made a couple of silly errors when submitting this. One I spotted, but the other took some help.

There were a number of unfamiliar words that I needed to check on, but all the clues were fair and the wordplay was clear enough so I don’t think there is anything to complain about.

Across
1 CELESTIAL – CELL = little room, around EST(ate), IA = A1 = excellent, reversed
6 SYMPTOMATISES – (MOST MATY SPIES)*
13 RAMEN – RAN = managed, around ME
14 FORTNIGHT – FORT = stronghold, (k)NIGHT = mounted soldier
15 REDOUBT – R.E. = soldiers, DOUBT = lack of belief
16 MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK – cryptic definition
18 TEA PARTY – TEP = PET = favourite, reversed, around A, ARTY = pretentious
20 LIMOUSIN – LIMOUSIN(e) = big vehicle
21 YEMEN – YE MEN = old fashioned way of addressing chaps
23 CHINTZ – CH = church, I = one, N.T. = portion of scripture, Z(echariah)
24 POUNCE – P(iano), OUNCE = cat
25 SHORT-WAVE – as opposed to a long goodbye
28 MINIMALISM – MINIM = note, around MALI’S = African country’s
29 MEAT – MAT = dull, around E(nergy)
30 DAMASKS – DAM = mother, ASKS = requests
32 DEPOSIT – DEPOT = storehouse, around SI = IS reversed
34 TIER – TI(g)ER = wild beast
35 CHARLESTON – CHARLTON = part of Greenwich, around E(nglish) S(ociety). I saw The Who play live at Charlton in about 1976, but I had not realised it was part of Greenwich
38 UNSCATHED – (CANE THUDS)*
39 ARABLE – (p)ARABLE = sower story. “And some fell on stony ground”
40 SATANG – SANG = gave musical performance, around TA = thanks. Had to check this one as I did not know the word
43 THAIS – sounds like TIES = bonds
45 TYMPANIC – TYM = sounds like TIM = little boy, PANIC = fright. I entered TIMPANIC and could not find my error, until Mark Goodliffe pointed me in the right direction
47 REVERSAL – REVER(ie) = dream, SAL = Sarah
49 CARRY THE WORLD BEFORE ONE – cryptic definition. Atlas carried the world, and pre-lunch implies before one p.m.
52 POLENTA – POLE = European, (kitche)N, T.A. = volunteers
53 TWENTY-ONE – WENT = disappeared, in T(y)RONE = NI County
54 UTTER – double definition
55 CLANDESTINELY – CLAN = family, LISTENED*, Y = variable
56 SUSPENDED – SUED = petitioned, around SPEND = waste
 
Down
1 CHROMATIC – C.H. = companion, ROMA(n)TIC = loving
2 LAMENTATION – LAME = poor, NATION = country, around (eviden)T
3 SYNCH – sounds like SINK = founder
4 INFINITE – IN = at home, FINE = OK, around IT
5 LYRIST – LYR(ic)IST = one who writes the words
6 SENSATIONS – (SEASON ISNT)*
7 MAGNETOMETER – (TO MEET GERMAN)*
8 TATTIES – TAT = rubbish, TIES = restricts
9 MARCHING ORDERS – double definition
10 TIDEWAY – YAW = deviation, EDIT = change, all reversed
11 SQUARE MEALS – as opposed to round which is the normal shape of pizzas. Not the home made ones in our house!
12 SETT – SET = ready, T(ime)
17 IN SEASON – INN = pub, around SEA = the drink and SO = therefore
19 ARTEMISIA – ARIA = song, around (IS MET)*
22 COSSETED – SSET = TESS = tragic female, reversed in CO-ED = school
25 SATCHELS – hidden in flowerS AT CHELSea
26 TEMPERATE – TEMP = stand in worker, ERA = time, T(h)E
27 CLUTCH AT STRAWS – double definition, the first mildly cryptic
28 MADE UP TO – MAD = silly, E.U. = type of union, PTO = please move on
31 BETACAROTENE – (NECTAR TO A BEE)*
33 PASSACAGLIA – (ALAS I GASP)* around A C(old). Another one that needed checking
36 TRANSPORTED – TRA(i)N = vehicle, SPORTED = had fun
37 MARIOLATRY – (A LOT MARRY I)*. Yet another to check, and I mistyped this on entry.
41 GOLDEN ROD – GOD = divine being, around OLDEN = ancient and R = king
42 DEAFNESS – DEAN = cleric, around F = loud, final letters in hE getS crosS
44 SHRINED – NERDISH*
46 MAESTRI – (IS A TERM)*
48 ABBOTS – A B(ishop), BOTS = maggots = flies, early on
50 ROUSE – the River Ure becomes the River Ouse as it flows downstream in Yorkshire
51 EPIC – PI = Greek character, in E.C. = Fleet Street area

5 comments on “Jumbo 1173”

  1. I did ‘timpanic’ too, and thought that might be my error, although I didn’t bother to check. I also thought that ROUSE might have been it, since I knew nothing about the Ure/Ouse connection; but the checkers seemed to demand it. DNK about Charlton, but no matter; ditto for SATANG. Not knowing TATTIES made it my LOI. I’ve often had a problem solving when the setter spells as one word something I spell as two; this time the reverse came up: I (and the SOED) spell 41d as GOLDENROD.
  2. As I told our setter in the George on the day (he asked how I’d found his Jumbo) this was, for me, particularly straightforward, as I solved it in the time left after completing the 3 preliminary 1 puzzles.

    I was at a lunchtime concert the week before where a harpsichordist played a 33d and I said to my colleague that I ought to try to remember the word as it was bound to appear in a crossword eventually!! ‘Eventually’ arrived sooner than I’d expected.

    Thanks to Helen and Mr M.

  3. One abandoning vehicle had fun, becoming overjoyed (11)
    To me, a train does not quite seem to be a vehicle. It seems to have too many wheels to be a single vehicle.
    1. I would agree that a train is not included in the common usage of vehicle, but the dictionary definition is much wider – for example “any conveyance in or by which people or objects are transported, esp one fitted with wheels” from Collins online, and this would cover a train
  4. Wrote TIMPANIC too.LIMOUSIN took me ages to get, otherwise a fairly gentle Jumbo. (Ong’ara, Nairobi)

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