Times Cryptic Jumbo 1546 – Daisy, Daisy give me two GTs and two PMs

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This was a relatively straightforward Jumbo, but a NHO plant, a “foreign” sporting term and a couple of bits of head-scratching wordplay kept me on my toesies.

First in was KEY RING and last, because I couldn’t(and still can’t) fully parse it was LORELEI.

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

The technical stuff:

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 WED[nesday]


Across

1
Jailer might carry this barrel around your home (3,4)

KEY RING – KEG around Y[ou]R IN

5
Obliged to live with mature fowl outside (8)

BEHOLDEN – BE, OLD in HEN

9
It’s used in school periods with ruler (6)

ERASER – ERAS, ER (her Maj)

13
Spirituality of poetry in different spheres? (16)

OTHERWORLDLINESS – LINES in OTHER WORLDS

14
Maureen struggles to make films (6)

MOVIES – MO VIES

16
Bring round popular award for tearful woman (5)

NIOBE – IN reversed, O.B.E.  Greek mythology, innit.

17
Delay American writer in South Dakota (7)

SUSPEND – U.S. PEN in S[outh] D[akota]

18
What peers undergo in French with no jewellery (9)

ENNOBLING – EN, NO BLING

19
Stray Italian in politician’s domain (9)

TERRITORY – ERR IT[alian] in TORY

21
Study 100 in Spain filling southern church (7)

SCIENCE – CIEN in S[outhern] C[hurch of] E[ngland]

22
Young reporter probing South Africa’s submarine tanks (5)

SCUBA – CUB in S[outh] A[frica].  Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.  One of the great acronyms.  Better than Breathing Underwater Machine or Divers’ Air Fulfilment Tank

23
Suggest leader should leave basically (5)

IMPLY – sIMPLY

25
English Daisy, say, initially getting spring treat? (6,3)

EASTER EGG – E[nglish] ASTER, E.G., G{etting}

27
Liberal lots of foreign cash for rock attraction (7)

LORELEI – Right.  L = Liberal and LEI is the plural of the Romanian currency the Leu, but that doesn’t account for ORE.  I don’t think that’s another currency and I don’t think Liberal = LORE so I’m stumped.  Any offers?  Am I being dim?

29
Short Swedish girl in 49 is making complaint (9)

GASTRITIS – ASTRI{d} in GT (sports car from 49 qv) IS

31
Tweedledee, say, twirling in twilit dance (9,4)

IDENTICAL TWIN – (in twilit dance)*

34
Melbourne barrister? (6,7)

QUEENS COUNSEL – A sort of DDCDH. I think this is just a nod to ex PM the second Viscount Melbourne who was a close advisor to Queem Victoria.

35
Don’t use compass to find this loyal PM (4,5)

TRUE NORTH – TRUE (loyal) NORTH (you wait ages for a dead Prime Minster then two show up at once).  Compasses, of course, point to magnetic, not true North.

37
It cuts chips oddly in gold circles (7)

INCISOR – C{h}I{p}S circled by IN OR.

39
Play down grand muffler? (4,5)

SOFT PEDAL – DDCDH, the cryptic bit being piano-related

42
Declining job in printers, maybe, with no energy required (5)

DYING – DYeING

43
Runs into small bucket in retreat (5)

MEETS – Reversal of S[mall] TEEM

45
Exhaust patience at first, cutting scrub (7)

DEPLETE – P{atience} in DELETE

47
Workers breach a keen contract (9)

AGREEMENT – MEN in A GREET (Scots word for cry/weep)

49
Son left mark, driving this? (6,3)

SPORTS CAR – S[on], PORT, SCAR (cross-ref to 29)

50
Repeated statement quietly, causing pitfall (7)

MANTRAP – MANTRA, P[iano]

52
Stop patient swallowing tablet (5)

CEASE – CASE around E

54
One leaving home before boxing fighter (6)

EMIGRE -ERE around MIG

55
Having travelled so far, Susan grasps marsh plant (5-2-9)

GRASS-OF-PARNASSUS – (so far Susan grasps)*

56
Former nurse welcomes a day in the country (6)

SWEDEN – S[tate] E[nrolled] N[urse] around WED[nesday]

57
His pony’s faltered under such treatment (8)

HYPNOSIS – (hispony’s)*

58
Rail worker and crew following cart about (7)

YARDMAN – MAN after DRAY reversed

Down

1
Ignoramus working with nerd lifted object (4-7)

KNOW-NOTHING – reversal of ON (working) WONK then THING

2
Swift creature loves fodder to be flipped (5)

YAHOO – reverals of O O HAY, a class of animal in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

3
One crazy king’s over supporting current ME citizen (7)

ISRAELI – Reversaal of I LEAR’S under I (current)

4
Household effluent potentially a measure of economy? (5,8,7)

GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT – DDCDH

5
Good shots which are aimed at cow? (5-4)

BULLS-EYES – DDCDH.  Neat (pun intended)

6
Very healthy hedges split down the middle (5)

HALVE – V[ery] in HALE

7
Baseball shot bordered stream briefly (4,5)

LINE DRIVE – LINED, RIVE{r}.  I have it on good authority that a hit or hit ball is never, ever, called a “shot”, so the setter has seemingly mixed US and Brit sporting terms.  A line drive (aka rope, frozen rope, liner) goes “like a banshee” at about head height and will hurt a bit if it hits you.

8
Oriental plant occupying narrow space (7)

EASTERN – ASTER (you wait ages for a daisy etc…) in EN (a printing space)

10
Old doctor in mad rush to obtain lozenge (7)

RHOMBUS – O[ld] M[edicinae] B[accalaureus] in (rush)*

11
Singular religious ceremony‘s song? (9)

SPIRITUAL – DD? A spiritual is song, obvs, so is there a religious ceremony called “spirituals”? Am I missing something?

12
Acceptance of the inevitable departure from office (11)

RESIGNATION – DD

15
It may be patent where academic lives? (12,8)

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – DDCDH

20
Sally’s part of speech originally stopping ceremony (7)

RIPOSTE – P[art] O[f] S[peech] in RITE

21
Sort of agents casing city (7)

SPECIES – SPIES around E.C.

24
After close of play, faces male supporter (1-6)

Y-FRONTS – {pla}Y, FRONTS

26
Mean character invested in slick wheels (3,2)

GET AT – ETA in GT (you wait…)

28
Checked about learner given new inside cover (7)

RELINED – REINED around L[earner driver]

30
Society party’s completely rejected chip suppliers (5)

SPUDS – reversal of S[ociety] D[emocratic] U[nionist] P[arty] ‘S

32
Obscure bits of film hidden in engine casing (7)

ECLIPSE – CLIPS in E{engin}E

33
Give out bitter sent over when conflict’s raging (7)

WARTIME – reversal of EMIT RAW

34
Which French unknown beats posers? (11)

QUIZMASTERS – QUI, Z, MASTERS

36
Drug stolen from summit: motive for serious crime (4,7)

HIGH TREASON – HeIGHT, REASON

38
Monk taking care of snack, holding one up (9)

COENOBITE -C[are] O[f], BITE around ONE reversed

40
Order member‘s forenames to be broadcast (9)

FREEMASON – (forenames)*

41
Paris had resolved to import first of German copiers (9)

DIAGRAPHS – (Paris had)* around G{erman}

44
Release TV for nothing (3,4)

SET FREE – SET, FREE

46
Paint wine with fish (7)

PORTRAY – PORT, RAY

48
Decrypted name in patisserie (2,5)

EN CLAIR – N[ame] in ECLAIR

51
Poles surround old fine bays? (5)

NOOKS – N[orth] S[outh] around O[ld] OK

53
Tea service brought up after start of autumn (5)

ASSAM – MASS reversed after A{utumn}

10 comments on “Times Cryptic Jumbo 1546 – Daisy, Daisy give me two GTs and two PMs”

    1. Duh. Thanks Kevin, I did think I was being dim. I’ll write out “I must lift and separate” 100 times.
  2. But ORE is a currency, in Denmark and Sweden, although it’s spelled öre or øre.
    1. Ah yeah, thanks Kevin. I missed it in my Chambers app because of the “funny” O.
  3. DNK the grass, COENOBITE. I biffed LORELEI and SPIRITUAL from a couple of checkers, without reading the clue, and then parsed. I didn’t understand the Melbourne connection, but fortunately didn’t have to. No outstanding clue, but I liked ‘rock attraction’.
  4. In general I liked this crossword .. clues so concise I wondered if it might be one of Dean’s efforts.

    Failed to parse 39ac (Ta Penfold) and was not keen on 30dn. I tend to see cooks as chip suppliers, and potatoes merely as the ingredient. Is a balsa tree a model plane supplier? Don’t think so .. still, only a mer though.

  5. 50 minutes and a bit, but with LORALEI as I didn’t know ore, and went with Cilla’s lora lora for lots. Doh! Lore was more helpfully clued in a more recent puzzle. Thanks setter and Penfold.
  6. I’m continuing my recent habit of only doing the jumbos when I see the blog appear, so this is fresh in my memory. Quite easy (about 20 minutes) but I really enjoyed it. Working out the apparently outrageous but actually entirely fair anagram was particularly satisfying.
    I spent seven years travelling to and from Sweden, Norway and Denmark more or less every week for work, but I never carried any cash (never needed it) and only learned about ORE from doing these puzzles.
  8. Enjoyed this one and finished in about an hour having cheated on COENOBITE. I’d always thought that EN CLAIR simply meant in plain language rather than in code and therefore didn’t need to be decrypted.

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