Solving time 14:36
A pretty easy puzzle, but the clues read well and there are a couple of good &lit clues. The 15×15 cryptic on the same day was really tough, so this one’s low difficulty may have been some kind of intentional compensation. I finished the jumbo 20 minutes faster than the 15×15 – any minutes faster is a rarity, so I suspect this will be my biggest ‘wrong way’ difference for a very long time.
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | BOOTS,TRAP – don’t know exactly what a ‘boots’ did, but can remember references in stuff like Jerome K Jerome. |
| 10 | TRAIT = “trey” – according to the dictionary, you can say ‘trait’ without pronouncing the second T |
| 14 | SALAMI,S – ‘salami tactics’ = tackling a problem in little slices |
| 18 | INCITE = “in sight” = visible and “insight” = understanding |
| 21 | TUMBLE DRY = (let drum by)*, &lit. |
| 39 | PE(ACE,KEEP)ER |
| 53 | I,M(IT)ATE – Fletcher Christian was the mate on the Bounty. |
| Down | |
| 8 | RESOLUTION – when a discord in music ends, it’s said to ‘resolve’ |
| 22 | SPITFIRE – P,I in anag. of strife, & lit. |
| 24 | HE,ROW,OR,SHIPPING |
| 27 | (Damon) RUN,YON |
| 28 | C=constant,ATNIP=pinta rev. – One or two younger solvers might need telling that “Drinka pinta milka day” was a classic bit of advertising copy writing that got ‘pinta’ into the dictionary. |
| 42 | SWINDLER – one of those cryptic defs that can still fool you after years of solving. |
| 46 | VARIANT – R/L swap in valiant |
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