Times Cryptic Jumbo 1511 – the doctor will see you now

Author   PenfoldPosted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
Hello again Jumbo fans.  I can’t say how long this offering took me as I solved it across a number of sessions under various solving conditions.  It was tricky though, with a fair few bits of unusual vocab with a bit of a medical thread running through it.

First in was TOASTER and last was CUPCAKE

If any of my explanations don’t make sense then feel free to ask for further elucidation.

Clues are in blue with the definition undelined.  Anagram indicators are in bold italics.

Notation:

DD: Double definition
CD: Cryptic definition
DDCDH: DD/CD hybrid where a straight definition is combined with a cryptic hint.

&Lit: “all in one” where the entire clue is both definition and wordplay.

(fodder)* denotes an anagram of the letters in the brackets.

Rounded brackets are also used to add further clarity

Squiggly brackets {} indicate parts of a word not used

Deletions are struck out

Square brackets [] expand an abbreviation or shortening like H[usband]


Across

1
Prize money to be shared? It could be topped, in case? (7)

CUPCAKE – CUP (prize) + CAKE (money to be shared, presumably as in “I’d like a bigger share of the cake” or similar).  It took me ages to see how this worked and the definition is most oblique.

5
Subordinate topic (7)

SUBJECT – DD

9
Bubble car, say, son has taken over from husband (7)

VESICLE – VEHICLE with S[on] replacing H[usband]

13
Interrupting, ignoring introductions on a January day’s end? (11)

INTERVENING – wINTER eVENING.  Clever.

14
Every Charlie sitting in plane gives a big wave (11)

BEACHCOMBER – EACH C[harlie] in BOMBER

15
Lovely entertaining European relative (5)

NIECE – NICE around E[uropean]

16
Kitchen device rotates cooking (7)

TOASTER – (rotates)*.  This reminded me of those wretched conveyer-belt toasters you get in hotels where once round = still just bread and twice round = charcoal.

17
Mother is holding capital back together with notes (9)

MEMORANDA – MA around ROME reversed and AND

18
Time to cut opening photo session in golf contest — the lot (3,5,8,5)

THE WHOLE SHOOTING MATCH – T[ime], HEW, HOLE, SHOOT, IN, G[olf], MATCH.  Seeing golf in the clue led to my wasting time pondering if there was a term the whole eighteen yards. Quite.

23
Capsize open vessel (8)

OVERTURN – OVERT URN

25
French city’s name is translated (6)

AMIENS – (name is)*

27
Note just what one is looking for in offensive academic? (7)

ERUDITE – E (note) + IT (just what one is looking for) in RUDE

30
Broken up getting back into narcotic shrub (5)

KAPUT – UP reversed in KAT.  KAT was a new one on me, I think.

32
Composer of substance I will back (7)

CORELLI – CORE, I’LL reversed.  Not the mandarin geezer, but the Italian composer / violinist Arcangelo of that ilk, b1653.

33
Check performance of screen and computer peripheral (4-5)

TEST-DRIVE – TEST, DRIVE

35
Beguiling scheme to sharpen up returned Labour? (9)

HONEYTRAP – HONE, PARTY reversed

36
Thoroughly search around university and see charging unit (7)

COULOMB – COMB around U[niversity], LO.  I can just about remember Coulombs from school science lessons but I don’t think I’d be able to remember enough about them to draw one.

37
Bad-tempered note about not drinking (5)

RATTY – RAY around T[ee]T[otal].  I didn’t know the musical note RE could also be anglicised as RAY.  Doh.

38
Place crate with working parts for harpsichords (7)

PLECTRA – PL[ace], (crate)*

40
Move in the middle of keen game (6)

ECARTE – CART (as in help me cart this piano up the stairs) in {k}EE{n}

41
Group of planes singular chap planted around court (8)

SQUADRON – S[ingular] RON around QUAD

44
Healthy calories and more PE sorted out cause of blocked arteries (21)

HYPERCHOLESTEROLAEMIA – (healthy calories more pe)*.  I dare some some of you will have got the letters in the right places based on hyper, cholestero and what was left over but I couldn’t be arsed and looked it up.

48
Food of poor quarter in land round Madrid neither finished (9)

SPAGHETTI – GHETT{o} in SPAI{n}.  Clever again.

50
Road user growth swelled by 151 (7)

CYCLIST – LI in CYST

53
Fur bought initially during offer period (5)

SABLE – B{ought} in SALE

54
Go beyond one small tango in unfashionable foxtrot? (11)

OUTDISTANCE – I S[mall] T[ango] in OUT DANCE

55
Hillary perhaps organising team reunion (11)

MOUNTAINEER – (team reunion)*.  Sir Edmund of course.

56
Believing in an illusion of Christ, refer to fish being turned (7)

DOCETIC – reversal of CITE COD.  You’ve probably already been to the dictionary for this one.

57
Carbuncle, gemstone in the end certainly something from a mine (7)

EYESORE – {gemston}E, YES, ORE

58
Foul fiend featured in sermon’s terrifying (7)

MONSTER – hidden

Down

1
Dependant court accepts right to hold another’s property (6)

CLIENT – C[our]T around LIEN.  I didn’t know this meaning of client.

2
Invalid’s conspicuous around unit (7)

PATIENT – PATENT around I.

3
Contract aide initially to welcome outside people (9)

AGREEMENT – A{ide}, GREET around MEN

4
Get up before chalet emptied (5)

ERECT – ERE, ChaleT

5
Appropriate uniform I used in firm (8)

SUITABLE – U[niform], I in STABLE

6
Wreck’s left out in wide bay (5)

BIGHT – BlIGHT

7
Turn up to get my attention over bar (7)

EMBARGO – GRAB ME reversed, O[ver].  It took me an age to see how this worked.  I was put off by BAR being in both the clue and the answer.  Inelegant?

8
Am anti-tourist — flying round area is shocking experience (14)

TRAUMATISATION – (am anti tourist)* around A[rea]

9
Passion of macho types in Italian city, missing Northern Ireland (9)

VEHEMENCE – HE-MEN in VEniCE

10
Thoroughly search tart concealing cents (5)

SCOUR – SOUR around C[ents]

11
Best incriminate revolutionary member of the government (7,8)

CABINET MINISTER – (best incriminate)*

12
Nag party, supporting willingness to listen (7)

EARBASH – BASH under EAR

19
Greeting speed merchant turning up in rented vehicle (4,3)

HIRE CAR – HI, RACER reversed

20
Images from staggering musical artist (9)

SIMULACRA – (musical)*, R[oyal] A[cademician]

21
Perhaps one making cast slowly break down (7)

MOULDER – DDCDH

22
Sliced meat — either end of pack hard work to keep cold (4,4)

PORK CHOP – P OR K, H[ard] OP[us], all around C[old].  I wouldn’t have said a chop was sliced exactly.

24
When it’s transported, did as plan except for packaging material (8,7)

EXPANDED PLASTIC – (did as plan except)*

26
Tchaikovsky’s Sixth loses its way, dry eastern form (9)

ETIQUETTE – pathETIQUE, T[ee]T[otal], E[astern].  If you don’t know the other name for Pete’s Symphony #6 you might have struggled a bit.

28
The whole world always has that energy (8)

EVERYONE – EVER, YON, E[nergy]

29
Stumble on loyal Scots with English about to fix up coalition (6,8)

TRIPLE ALLIANCE – TRIP, LEAL (my Chambers app has this as archaic or poetic rather than Scots), the C[irca] E[nglish] NAIL reversed.  Take your pick from one of several triple alliances.

31
One of two meeting to attempt to control eliminating ecstasy (7)

TRYSTER – TRY, STeER

34
Underwater clubs abandoning diving apparatus on wharf endlessly (7)

SUBAQUA – ScUBA, QUAy

39
Writhing unnaturally sorted out itch at toe (9)

ATHETOTIC – (itch at toe)*

42
Recognition of a key assignment (9)

ADMISSION – A, D, MISSION

43
Note settled puddles regularly in deserted location (8)

SOLITUDE – SO, LIT, {p}U{d}D{l}E{s}

44
Like ordinary tissue hospital is to establish the identity of (7)

HISTOID – H[ospital] IS TO I.D.

45
Hide in empty structure on Mediterranean island (7)

SECRETE – StructurE, CRETE

46
Going round one hospital department after a doctor (7)

AMBIENT – A M[edicinae] B[accalaureus], I, E[ar] N[ose and] T[hroat]

47
Who carries ale round topless bar? (6)

BEARER – BEER round bAR

49
Robbery losing support from Jewish expert (5)

HEIST – HEbraIST

51
Senior director holds a minute or very small role (5)

CAMEO – C[hief] E[xecutive] O[fficer] around A M[inute]

52
Found part of Bible set up as a revered item (5)

TOTEM – reversal of MET, O[ld] T[estament]

7 comments on “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1511 – the doctor will see you now”

  1. ….before submitting in 42:22 with fingers crossed. I parsed one of the 3 NHO’s (DOCETIC), but used a word searcher for ATHETOTIC and 44A, which was downright silly.

    I thought EMBARGO should have been defined as “ban” in the interests of elegance.

    Ian : at 32A you mean “mandolin”.

  2. I could see what was going on with 44ac but had to look up the spelling. No doubt the setter was unable to resist … but should have. And making it intersect with histoid and in turn, with docetic seemed a bit harsh.
    Still, I got there eventually
  3. Me too, I cheated a little by word-searching a couple. But then still gave up in just under 2 hours with three still to do: 1ac CUPCAKE, 40ac ECARTE and 2dn PATIENT.
    7dn and the BRA removed in 49dn brought to mind the story that a bra manufacturer once considered introducing a new line called EMBARGO which if you reverse it….
    I enjoyed doing the ones I could do, which is quite a lot in a Jumbo, so a good puzzle
  4. Having managed the hard parts, although I did look up a couple already mentioned after deriving them, I tripped up with a careless BEACHBOMBER. No idea why. The wordplay is quite clear. I always find it tricky to maintain my concentration on these Jumbo puzzles. 66:58 WOE. Thanks setter and Penfold.
  5. 47.28, either a bit trickier than usual or conditioned by the time I did it, which I forget.
    BEACHCOMBER gave me pause: that’s what it had to be, but perhaps influenced by JB Morton et al in the Daily Express*, I didn’t associate anything but the second half to a wave.
    Of course I “checked the spelling just to make sure” of HYPERWIBBLEWOBBLE, but under competition conditions I would have struggled. Thankfully, such sesquipedalian extravaganzas don’t crop up in compies.

    *Before the death of Diana, the Daily Express used to be a newspaper, with The Gambols and everything. Somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan, of course, but with snippets of real news. My parents took it daily.

  6. 33:34. I had no problem constructing HYPER-wotsit from the anagrist but failed with a careless MOMORANDA.
    I didn’t know the name of Tchaikovsky’s symphony but I did know Beethoven’s equivalent sonata. I can actually play most of it, and my daughter has learned it too in a blatant and entirely successful bid to outshine her old man.
    Heresies are always extremely odd but Docetism sounds particularly weird.

    Edited at 2021-08-21 03:57 pm (UTC)

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