Jumbo 938

Author   sghansonPosted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
This took me about 30 minutes, which is certainly among my faster times for the Jumbo. I only really needed to check the result of the anagram at 6D, which I had vaguely remembered in any case.

Across
1 IN TRANSIT – one needs M(otorway) IN the word TRANSIT to form transmit = broadcast
6 PRESS – (ex)PRESS = rapid.
9 SESTINA – (ISN’T EAS(y))*
13 DWARF – D = five hundred, WAR = engage in fighting, F(ilm). The use of war as a verb is unusual, more commonly it is make war.
14 MARINER – LINER with MAR = damage replacing the inital L
15 AQUARELLE – A QUELLE(d) = subdued, around R.A .= artist
16 AUSTRALASIA – ALAS = unfortunately, inside AUSTRIA
17 HIGH-POWERED – HIGH = drunken, P.O.W. = fighting prisoner, (nos)E, RED = bloody
18 CREATE – CRATE = case, around E(nquiry)
19 BENIDORM – BEN = chap, I, DORM = shared bedroom
21 KARATE – KATE = girl, around AR(abian)
25 ENDPAPER – or END PAPER
26 CORNISH RIVIERA – (CHOIRS ARRIVE IN)*
28 SYNOD – NO = number, inside initial letters of Salisbury, York, Durham
29 PRAGUE – P(l)AGUE around R(iver)
30 CONSTRAINT – CONS = prisoners, TRAIN – are taught, T(ime)
33 ANARCHICAL – AN ARCH = a feature of some bridges, I CAL(l) = I term
35 HUMOUR – RUMOUR = report, with H(enry) replacing the inital letter.
36 Deliberately omitted – please ask if unsure
38 UTILITARIANISM – (MILITIA AT RUINS)*
40 PIRI-PIRI – s(PIRI)t twice
42 Deliberately omitted – please ask if unsure
43 IDOLISES – I = current, (SOLDIE(r)S)*
54 SPIKED – SKIP = KIPS = sleeps, reversed, ED(itor)
47 FLANNELETTE – FL(orida), ANNE = girl, LETTE(r) = character
50 NIGHTINGALE – double definition
52 ABSTAINER – ABS T(r)AINER = one developing muscles
53 IVANHOE – IVAN = Tsar, followed by alternate letters in cHoOsEs
54 Deliberately omitted – please ask if unsure
55 DEPLETE – DELETE = abolish, around P(arking)
56 MINSK – M(illions), IN, S(toc)K
57 IMMODESTY – I’M MOD = no rocker, (S(on), YET)*
Down
1 INDIA – in the radio alphabet hotel = H, so India = I
2 TRANSCENDENTALIST – (TENDS, CERTAIN SLANT)*
3 AT FIRST HAND – AT FIRST = to start with, HAND = manual worker
4 SOMALI – SO = ergo, MALI = country on the Niger
5 THRUSTER – THE (burne)R, around RUST = corrosion
6 PONS ASINORUM – (PASSION)*, NO, RUM = spirit. I needed to check this one.
7 EARTHBOUND – double definition
8 SLANG – hidden in groupS LANGuage
9 STUD POKER – STUD = boss, OK = authorisation, in PER = for each
10 SCREWDRIVER – SCREW = take advantage of, DRIVER = man offering lift
11 Deliberately omitted – please ask if unsure
12 AGENDA – AGED = ancient, around N(ame), A(nswer)
18 CHELSEA BUN – CHELSEA = team, BUN = NUB = decisive point, reversed
20 MASTODON – (A MOST)*, DON = fellow
22 THE PICKWICK PAPERS – THE PAPERS = the exams, around PICK = choose, WICK = hamlet. Wick as a small settlement appeared the next day in the Sunday Times Cryptic.
23 Deliberately omitted – please ask if unsure
24 MASTERMIND – (IN (a)MSTERDAM)*
27 PAGANINI – PAGAN = no believer, IN, (concert)I
31 SORDID – SO = for that reason, I’D = I had, all around R,D
32 QUESTION MARK – QUEST = hunt, I = one in Roman numerals, ON MARK = concerning Apostle. There is a question mark at the end of the clue
34 CHIPPENDALE – (LED CHAP, PINE)*
36 HAIRPIN BEND – HAIRPIN = found in locks, BED = bottom of canal, around N(ew)
37 INDONESIAN – IN (Queenslan)D, ONE, SI = IS reversed, AN
39 AT A GLANCE – AT = towards, AG = silver, LANCE = pike
41 FENG SHUI – (SHE FUNGI)*
45 AFRAID – A RAID = an attack, around F(emale)
46 Deliberately omitted – please ask if unsure
48 AESOP – A, ESOP = POSE = stance, reversed
49 THRUM – THUM(p) = hit, around R = Queen.
51 ENTRY – (s)ENTRY = guard

4 comments on “Jumbo 938”

  1. I also found this easy for a Jumbo, except for 6dn, which took me about half an hour on its own. Eventually it occurred to me that the spirit might be “rum” at the end and then I was able to construct the rest, although I didn’t believe it as it went in and googled it before submitting.
    Any temptation to complain about the obscurity of it vanished when I discovered what it meant: you couldn’t really put PONS ASINORUM in a crossword a then make the clue easy!
  2. 24:04 for me. I’m slightly baffled that you reckon your 30 minutes is one of your faster times, Simon, as I had you down as one of the fast brigade!

    PONS ASINORUM (remembered from schooldays) went straight in.

    1. Often I don’t fully concentrate on the Jumbo – if the football is on for example I try and multi-task, although my wife says that men can’t.

      I was pleaed with around 30 mins, but the following week was much quicker – probably nearer 20 mins, which was probably my best.

      I need to go back to doing the daily ones on paper rather than online to practice for Finals day – nearly typed Cheltenham there – hope to see you then.

      1. I normally solve online but I’ve taken to doing the Saturday 15×15 and Jumbo on paper one after the other as practice.

        See you in Wapping.

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