Jumbo 994

Author   helenoughamPosted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
I didn’t find this too difficult – around 21 minutes – though I did have to look up a couple of terms (otter-board, inheratrix). As usual, * indicates an anagram.

Hope to see some of you (including linxit) at Anax’s birthday celebrations today!

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Across
1 SYMPHONIC – (in my shop, + stoCked)*
6 HOSTELLERS – HOSea, a book in the Bible, + TELLERS
12 TREASON – The REASON
13 MAINSHEET – MA + IN, + SET round HE (His Excellency, defined by governor)
14 NEVER – wordplay indicates “never-never”, a hire-purchase scheme
16 ENTREPRENEUR – (repent)* + RENE + UR
17 SLEAZINESS – S + LAZINESS around E (initial letter of 16 ac)
19 BACKSCRATCHING – SCRATCH (defined by withdraw) in BACKING
22 EYEGLASS – E + Y + EG + LASS
24 AWEARY – AY around WEAR (a river in Sunderland)
25 DECAHEDRON – DON, around EC (East Central; City of London area) + A + HE + DR
26 RABBI – RABBIt
29 DONE – DON + theatrE
30 HOMESPUN – HOME + PUN, around SchoolE
32 UPLIFTING – double definition
34 SUSTAINED – (date sinus)*
35 CREVASSE – REV (reverend) + ASS, in CE (Church of England)
36 WHIP – double definition (the political “whip” is short for “whipper-in”)
39 NYMPH – NiftY + MPH (miles per hour)
40 SQUIREHOOD – S + HOOD, around QUIRE (old spelling of choir)
42 ALPINE – A + L + PINE
44 SHALLOWS – Saint + HALLOWS
46 HOLIER-THAN-THOU – cryptic definition
48 INHERITRIX – IN + TRIX (sounds like tricks), around HER + I. A fairly obscure term for a female inheritor, I think
49 OSTENTATIOUS – (e aunt is so ott)*
53 LARCH – L + ARCH
54 IRONSTONE – IRON + TONE round Summit
55 VERMEER – veneer, with RM (Royal Marine, indicated by jolly) replacing the last letter of Titian
56 PROPAGANDA – PROP + A + UGANDA
57 MOTORCADE – MOOR + CADE around This

Down
1 SWEPT – SEPTember around WithE
2 MISMEASURE – MIS (sounds like miss) + MEASURE (measure is a North American term for a bar of music, hence the Carnegie Hall reference)
3 HONORARY – HORARY (happening every hour) round ON
4 NOMEN – cryptic second definition (“no men”)
5 CHIHUAHUA – CHI, + HULA-HULA minus the Ls
6 HOST – double definition
7 SEEMLY – SEE (in the ecclesiastical sense) + MY round L
8 ESTUARY ENGLISH – cryptic indication (estuary = “big mouth”)
9 LANDING CRAFT – LANDING (gaining) + CRAFT
10 RIVIERA – I (one) in RIVERA (Diego Rivera, Mexican artist and husband of Frida Kahlo)
11 OTTER-BOARD – hOTTER (hotter as it might be pronounced in Bow, London), + BOARD. I’d never previously heard of an otter-board</s>
15 RESISTING – I (One) + getS, in RESTING
18 INTERNEE – INTER + NEE (French for born)
20 CHEONGSAM – CHE (Guevara) + (song)* + AM
21 TREMENDOUS – MEND in (our set)*
23 TROUBADOUR – TROU (sounds like true) + BA + DOUR
28 DO ONE’S OWN THING – DOONES (reference to Lorna Doone) + OWN THING
31 PICAROON – sounds like “pick a rune”. A PICAROON is a pirate, or just a scoundrel or rogue
33 BACHELORSHIP – (archbishop)* round EL
34 SINGSPIEL – SING round (slip)* round E. SPIELSING is a German opera form
37 PRECURSORY – CURSOR in PREY
38 PLANETARIA – PLAN + ET (the film) + ARIA
41 HAILSTORM – (toils)* in HARM
43 WHATEVER – (where vat)*. Probably my favourite clue in this puzzle
45 ADHERER – A, + HER in red (reversed)
47 MINOAN – MOAN round IN
50 EXERT – EER (ever) round X, + T
51 OBESE – hidden in tO BE SERVED
52 OSSA – SA (sex appeal) under O + S

7 comments on “Jumbo 994”

  1. I printed off this and the bonus puzzle onto one sheet of paper, one one side and one the other, thinking it would last me the week. But in the end I went through both in an hour so both must be quite easy I reckon.

    Have fun oop north (as it is from here in Kent) and give Anax/Dean my best regards & wishes

  2. Isn’t that SINGSPIEL? SING over, not around, (SLIP +E)

    Edited at 2012-09-08 09:54 pm (UTC)

    1. Quite right – it is SINGSPIEL. I’m correcting the entry. SPIELSING somehow how sounds so much more musical…
  3. This wasn’t easy for me, evidently; over an hour before I gave up timing myself. And I never did get 11d, since the ‘Bow’ reference escaped me (not sure that I’d have got it even if I’d twigged to that). Also DK ‘never-never’, but there wasn’t any doubt on the solution there, at least.
  4. 24:00 for me. I’ve come across OTTER-BOARD before – in the Times crossword, I thought, but it could have been some years ago.
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