Jumbo 1383

Author   sghansonPosted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
A fairly standard Jumbo, with nothing too much of concern.

Across
1 TIMES NEW ROMAN – TIMES = by, NEW = anagram of ROMAN = norma
8 SUGARPLUM – SUP = dine, around GAR = fish, LUM(p) = put up with
13 REALO – hidden in montREAL Opposition
14 DISENTRANCE – DANCE = disco, around I = one, SENT = affected by ecstasy, and R = right
15 DEMON – DEN = study, around M.O. = way of doing things
16 HIGH-LEVEL – HIGH = drunk, LEVEL = even
17 IGOR – (v)IGOR = American vitality
18 INSOLENT – the Isle of Wight ferry operates IN SOLENT waters
20 OCCUPY – alternate letters in tOuChY around CUP = reward for winners
21 PERSONAL COMPUTER – (PERCEPTUAL MORONS)*
24 DESERT RAT – D(-day), RETREATS*
26 RISINGS – RIGS = doctors, around SIN = evil
27 VERDI – VERDI(ct) = judicial decision
29 GUESSING GAME – (USING SAME EGG)*
31 POTENTILLA – POT = grass, (A LENTIL)*
33 NINE-TO-FIVE – double definition
35 CARRY-FORWARD – CAR = carriage, RY = track, FOR, WARD = former guard
36 RARER – RAER = REAR = rump, reversed around (skewe)R
39 TRACHEA – TRA(p) = mouth, around ACHE = pain
40 ACCIDENTS – ACC = account, I.D. = papers, SENT*
42 TURN OVER A NEW LEAF – TURNOVER = pie, ALE around NEW = fresh, A, F(ish)
44 MOUSER – M.O. = way of acting, USER = long established right
47 OBSTRUCT – OBS = old boys, TRUC(k) = lorry, T = tons
49 BILL – B(r)ILL = wonderful
50 CAESARIAN – CAN = Canadian, around A, E= European, and SARI = dress
52 ILEUM – MUE(s)LI = breakfast food, reversed
53 OBSCENITIES – OB = obsolete, CITIES = big towns, around EN = little space
54 BREAM – BEAM = ray, around R = river
55 MILWAUKEE – MI = note, L = lake, WEE = tiny, around AUK = seabird
56 STEPTOE AND SON – (TEASED NON STOP)*. Definitely one for the more mature solvers and I’m not sure whether this ever made it overseas. I hope not!
 
Down
1 TORCHWOOD – (DOCTOR WHO)*. I had heard that the Torchwood TV series was so named because it is an anagram of Doctor Who
2 MYALGIC – M = maiden, YAL = LAY = put, reversed, GI = soldier, C = cold
3 SPOILSPORTS – S(oa)P, OILS = lubricates, PORTS = openings
4 ENDIVE – initial letters of Even and Needs, DIVE = a plunge into water
5 RESILIENT – RESIT = take again, around LIEN = legal right to possession
6 MANTIS SHRIMP – M = millions, ANTI = against, S = second, SHRI = title for respected Indian, MP = parliamentarian
7 NARROWNESS – NAR = RAN = managed, reversed, ROW = disagreement, NESS = head
8 SAND – SAD = blue, around N = a number
9 GREENHOUSE EFFECT – GREEN = fresh, HOUSE = home, EFFECT = produce
10 RADIO – RIO = port, around A aand D = day
11 LAMBERT – LAMBER = one delivering sheep, T = time
12 MONITOR LIZARD – MONITOR = screen, L = left, IZARD = chamois
19 CLANGOUR – C = caught, LANGUR = monkey, around O = ring
22 PIVOT – TO V.I.P. = to somebody, all reversed
23 GRANDFATHER CLOCK – cryptic definition
25 STERNER – STERN = back, E.R. = Queen
28 RELEARN – REL = relative, EARN = merit
29 GENERATIONISM – (MAIN SET IGNORE)*
30 GIVEAWAY – GIVE WAY = let others go, around A
32 PARALLELWISE – (SEA WALL PERIL)*
34 TORSO – OS = bone, ROT = decay, all reversed
36 RADIOCARBON – RADIO C = charlie, BARON*
37 CHEEKINESS – CHE = revolutionary, KINES(i)S = movement
40 ANARCHIST – AN = a, ARCH = leading, I = one, ST = street
41 STRONGMAN – ST = good man, RON = Reagan, G MAN = FBI agent
43 RUSSELL – RUSE = trick, around S = singular, L,L = lines
45 SMILEYS – double definition
46 LESSEE – LESS = not so much, E(stat)E
48 RUMBA – RUM = odd, BA = soul
51 ISLE – alternate letters in dIsSoLvE

6 comments on “Jumbo 1383”

  1. I would spell it Caesarean .. mind you, I do spell it wrong half the time
  2. Took me 86:45 but I got there unscathed. PARALLELWISE is a strange word! Thanks setter and sgh.
  3. If I’m very much mistaken, “Steptoe and Son” was adapted in the US as “All in the Family”, with Carroll Thing as a bigoted, bad-tempered, right-wing –yet somehow, supposedly, loveable– cab driver and Rob Reiner as his son-in-law. I’ve never seen ‘Caesarian’ spelled that way, although my English-Japanese dictionary gives it as an alternative spelling.

    Edited at 2019-06-08 10:31 am (UTC)

    1. I think All in the Family was the US version of Till Death Us Do Part. Steptoe and Son was about a father and son team of rag and bone men. The father was repellent and the son had frustrated artistic and cultural aspirations.
      1. So I am, indeed, very much mistaken. Could I have been thinking of “Sanford and Son”, with Redd Foxx? I believe he played a rag and bone man; never saw the program.
        1. I think that may well be the US equivalent – at least Wikipedia says that it was based on Steptoe and Son.

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