Times Jumbo 1099

Author   helenoughamPosted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
I thought this puzzle was medium difficulty, with some clever clueing, and I learnt a new expression (44ac), so it was educational too!

As usual, * indicates an anagram.

Across
1 DIOXIN – DI IN, around OX
4 ROUND-TABLE – (do turn)* + ABLE (‘up to it’)
10 KICKS – double definition
14 BOTTLE-FED – BOTTLE (‘daring’) + FED
15 BE AT A LOOSE END – LOO (‘ladies’) + SEEN, IN BEAT + AD
16 OFFSIDE – OFF (‘turned’, in the sense of milk etc. going bad), + SIDE (sounds like ‘sighed’)
17 RIDES UP – RIP, around used (reversed). Definition is ‘Lifts with wear’
18 LOVE SET – LOVE + SET
19 SHOULDER TO SHOULDER – L in (Stroud householder)*
21 ACID – CA (‘about’), reversed, + ID
24 YONKS – last letters of ‘visibly no train back alas’
26 FOGBOUND – FOUND, around GB + O
27 STRIP OUT – OUT preceded by STRIP. In the online verson of the puzzle, the first word of the clue (‘remove’) appeared without a capital letter, but I think that was just a typo
29 DISGRACEFUL – D IS GRACEFUL
30 TAMAGOTCHIS – MA + GOT, in TA + CHIS. I suspect that TAMAGOTCHIS aren’t as popular now as when they first appeared in the mid-1990s, but I’m willing to be put right on this!
32 GROUND STAFF – GROUND + STAFF
35 THIS AND THAT – Tea-disH + AND (‘with’) + THAT (‘which’), around IS (‘one’s’)
37 TRIBUNAL – TRIBAL around UN
39 WALRUSES – law (reversed) + RUSES
40 YERBA – hidden in PlaYER BAnned
43 REED – RE + ED
44 A BRICK SHORT OF A LOAD – cryptic indication; here ‘stretcher’ means a brick that’s laid horizontally. I hadn’t come acros this particular variant of the ‘a sandwich short of a picnic’ idea before
47 CATCH ON – double definition
48 CRUDEST – (cuts red)*
50 EMOTIVE – coffeE + MOTIVE
51 SHIFT REGISTER – cryptic indication – ‘Is regret’ is what you get if you SHIFT the word REGISTER
52 ARACHNIDS – RAN around CH, in AIDS
53 ANTON – ANT + gONe
54 GO FOR BROKE – GO FOR (sounds – possibly – like ‘gofer’) + BROKE
55 BRIGID – B + RIGID

Down
1 DUBIOUSLY – DUB + IOU + SLY
2 OUT OF BOUNDS – cryptic indication + definition
3 ILL WILL – I’LL WILL, i.e. ‘I promise to leave [in my will]’
5 ODDER – fODDER
6 NOBODY’S FOOL – definition + cryptic indication, referring to traditional British dessert, the FOOL
7 THAT’S TORN IT – T + HAT-STORe + NIT
8 BEANPOLE – (one able)* around P
9 EMOLLIENT – MOLLIE in ENT
10 KOSOVO – KO (knock out) + SO + V + O
11 CHEESECLOTH – CE + SEC + LOTH around HE
12 SADAT – SAD, + ta (reversed)
13 AFTER-EFFECTS – double definition
20 TUG-OF-WAR – cryptic definition
22 DATA SET – DA, + test (reversed) around A
23 BIRTHDAY – (by a third)*
25 STRING UP – STRING (‘train’, as in retinue etc.) + UP
28 AMRITSAR – A MAR, around stir, reversed. A clever ‘&lit’ clue where the definition + wordplay together make a further, more exact definition
29 DOGSTAR – DOGS + TAR
31 GLADSTONE BAG – GLAD + ST + ONE, + gab (reversed)
33 OLIVER TWIST – OLIVER (Hardy, of Laurel and Hardy) + TWIST
34 FRANKFURTER – FRANK + FURThER
35 TORCH-BEARER – R in (bar to cheer)*
36 HARMONIZING – HARM + ON (defined by ‘leg’; a cricketing term) + I + ZING
38 ALBAN BERG – NB in (a large B)*
41 ADDRESSED – double definition
42 MISCHIEF – M (‘spymaster’) IS CHIEF
45 ANOTHER – A + NOT HER (‘him’ is NOT HER)
46 PHOTON – HOT in PONd.
47 CASCA – hidden in maniAC SACrificed
49 THANK – THANE, with K replacing the final E

9 comments on “Times Jumbo 1099”

  1. 39 mins, but I had an incorrect “harmonising” at 36dn so I can only assume I didn’t bother to parse the clue properly because it was “obvious” what the answer was. Eejit. TAMAGOTCHIS were still fairly popular 10 years ago but I haven’t got a clue if they still are. Of my correct answers ALBAN BERG was the LOI.

    Edited at 2014-07-19 12:19 pm (UTC)

  2. 45:16, so on the chewy side as far as I was concerned, and I also had a careless S in 36dn. Chucking in the answer when you understand most of the clue isn’t always a good idea.
  3. WALRUSES was my LOI, although it took me longer to parse ALBAN BERG. I was slow to get SADAT, as I hadn’t thought of him as a world leader (what I did think of him I won’t say here). Also slowed down at 15ac, because in the US it’s plural (loose ends). Lots of nice clues; maybe 54ac for COD. My bet is that tamagotchis are now where hula hoops are.
  4. I put Alban Berg in happily enough but never did quite parse it until now. Also carelessly put S in 36dn but then corrected it.
    I would say that 29dn should be (3,4) and not (7), and I notice Collins and ODO agree, though not Chambers
  5. Wrote in the above spelling.I thought American spellings are not allowed in the Times xword,though zing=go alright.
    C.ONG’ARA,
    Kenya.
    1. PS – apologies, I forgot to log in before I posted that last comment, so I appeared as ‘Anonymous’.
    2. I believe it’s more complicated than …IZING being US spelling while …ISING is the UK version. Several books on the English language say that both spellings are acceptable for UK usage, and many scientific journals – even those published in the UK – use the …IZING form routinely. I don’t think Americans normally use …ISING, though.
      1. There was a discussion on this here a while ago, can’t remember when. I grew up knowing–or so I thought–that it was a simple case of UK/s, US/z, but apparently the Z has been infiltrating britspeak without my noticing.
        1. …but apparently the Z has been infiltrating britspeak without my noticing.Z is standard in The Times and the OED.

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