Times Jumbo 1104

Author   helenoughamPosted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
Medium-difficult, I thought, with one answer (29ac) that I’d not met before.

As usual, * indicates an anagram.

Across
1 DOUBLE-PARK – CHEST (‘ark’) after DOUBLE P (pp, the two middle letters of ‘supper’)
6 AT FIRST SIGHT – AT FIRST + SIGHT
14 BRISTOL – BRISTLe around O
15 BROUGHT – ROUGH in BT
16 ANIMATE – A NI MATE (i.e. a friend from Northern Ireland)
17 UVEA – UV + EA
18 BIRDIE – double indication: the photographer’s request ‘watch the BIRDIE’, and one under par in golf
20 PRODUCED – (proud)*, + dec (December) reversed
24 HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON – double indication; one of the seven ‘Wonders’ of the world
25 DETROIT – DETRITus around O
26 NINETIES – NINE TIES
27 DAMMIT – sounds like ‘dam it’
29 PROVOST MARSHAL – PROVOST (a PROVOST can be a senior academic administrator at a college such as King’s), + MARSHAL (‘Arrange get-together’)
31 FRIEDMAN – FRIED MAN (ugh!)
34 CAST-IRON – ASTIR in CON
36 BURY THE HATCHET – cryptic indication
39 DECEIT – sounds (rather) like ‘de-seat’
41 MORALIST – ORAL in MIST
43 SPONSOR – SONS + OR, around P
46 REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST – reference is to the novel by Marcel Proust; ‘book’ is the definition
47 LORRAINE – RAIN in LORE
48 AT WILL – A TWILL
49 IDLE – that fish so common in crosswords, the IDE, around L
53 OMINOUS – O + MINUS, around O
54 ONESELF – ONE’S ELF
56 SCORNED – batsmaN in SCORED
57 PITCH-AND-TOSS – double definition
58 HEATHENISM – ATHENS around I, in HEM

Down
1 DEBOUCHED – DEB (short for debutante) + OUCH + ED
2 UNITED NATIONS – cryptic indication
3 LOTH – LOTHario
4 POLLING STATION – G ST in POLLINATION. Rather a clever clue, I thought
5 RIB – RIBa (reference is to the Royal Institute of British Architects)
7 TOGO – TO GO
8 INTERLOPER – (report line)*
9 STANDS BY – double definition
10 SWITCHBLADE – SWITCH + BLADE
11 GRAND SLAM – S + L, in GRANDAM (an old word for a grandmother)
12 TIER – TIgER
13 POSEIDON – POSE + I DON
19 DRAW NEAR – DRAWN EAR
21 KIMONO – KIM + O NO
22 UNSTEADY – (sad tune)* + Y
23 INSTINCT – IN + STINT around C
28 BRAHMS AND LISZT – double indication; ‘Canned’ here means drunk, and BRAHMS AND LISZT is Cockney rhyming slang for another synonym of drunk…
29 PICADORS – sounds like ‘pick adores’
30 SQUEAKER – E in QUAKER under S
32 MY HUSBAND AND I – cryptic indication, referring to a phrase attributed to Queen Elizabeth II
33 CHAT SHOW – double definition (‘chats’ are birds, such as stonechat, whinchat etc.)
35 IRIS MURDOCH – (horrid music)*
37 TAOIST – TA + jOIST
38 DOWN-AND-OUT – double indication (‘to be canvassed a final time’ refers to a knockout in boxing)
40 COMPLAINT – MP (‘one with seat’) + LAIN, in COT
42 INFRA-RED – (find)* around RARE
44 ROTTERDAM – OTTER + D, in RAM
45 ARKANSAN – ARK + A + N + SAN
50 LOOP – LOOPy
51 LESS – hidden in ‘PiLES Steadily’
52 ROME – first letters of ‘remain open most evenings’
55 FEE – refers to the giant’s catchphrase ‘Fee Fie Foe Fum’ in the fairy tale ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’

10 comments on “Times Jumbo 1104”

  1. An enjoyable 28 mins spent on this pangram – I particularly liked 54a, 33d and 55d. Thanks to the setter and Helen for the explanations.

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  2. Completely defeated by 29ac: I didn’t know the military term, and it never occurred to me that a word for ‘arrange get-together’ might come after a word for ‘King’s Head’. The ‘at’ is very sneaky. No complaints though: it’s a perfectly fair clue, just hard!

    Edited at 2014-08-23 12:17 pm (UTC)

  3. 35 mins. DECEIT was my LOI after BIRDIE. I think I may have got PROVOST MARSHAL from definition and checkers, but it was two weeks ago so I can’t remember. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST definitely went in as a best guess from the checkers and the wording of the clue. Whenever I see Proust I have to make an effort not to mentally pronounce it as it was pronounced in the Monty Python sketch.
  4. Fortunately, I did know the term PROVOST MARSHAL, but couldn’t make sense of the clue until I got here. Also couldn’t make sense of BRAHMS & LISZT, although at least I was correct in suspecting a CRS expressionLOI BIRDIE. COD to 1ac.
  5. got those two from the checkers and the latter from remembering the names of the two composers who are common in Times xwords .used to have the crossword companion by jeremy williams that had cockney rhyming slang but someone did not return it to me when i lent it to him in 1994.
  7. Excellent clue. I didn’t know the term but guessed it from the checking letters. In parsing I dreamed up whoever I might know of who was a provost, and the ghost story writer par excellence – M.R. James – came to mind. He was provost of Eton. What I didn’t know until I googled him was that he’d also been provost of Kings College Cambridge, which is a bit esoteric so I assume the setter just meant a generic college head.
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