Times Jumbo 1109

Author   helenoughamPosted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
Apologies for posting this so late today! Overall I though this was medium-difficulty, but for some reason it took me ages to get 32dn (BARNARDO).

As usual, * indicates an anagram.

Across
1 RIDING HABIT – RIDING (‘up’) + H + A BIT
7 HIPPOCAMPUS – (chap pop music)*
13 PRIVATE ENTERPRISE – PRIVATE (‘retiring’) + ENTER (‘join’) + PRISE (sounds like prize)
14 EXTOL – EX (‘wife once’), + lot, reversed
15 CANUCK – AN, in CUCKoo
16 ALARMIST – A LIST, around ARM
17 ATTABOY – TAB, in A + TOY
19 LADY’S MAID – (dismal day)*
21 ASSASSIN – ASS (twice) in front of IN (‘home’)
23 DAZE – sounds like days
25 ISSUE – double definition
27 E + N, + SIGN (‘recruit’, as in sign on)
28 CHANGELESS – ANGEL in CHESS
30 NOTCHING – ton, reversed, + aCHING
31 STRIKE A BARGAIN – STRIKE AGAIN, around BAR
34 SEPARATE TABLES – playwrighT ABLE, in SEPARATES (‘parts’). The reference is to two one-act plays by Terence Rattigan
35 CROMLECH – C, + L in ROME, +CH
38 SQUEEZE BOX – SQUEEZE (‘milk’) + BOX (‘carton’)
40 ERRATA – RAT in ERA
41 DENIM – (mine + D), reversed
43 RELY – ELY (a ‘see’ in the ecclesiastical sense) beside (‘to the east of’) R
44 SORENESS – OR, in (senses)*
45 DEDICATES – Crimes, in (set aided) reversed
48 ASSUAGE – AS, + U in SAGE
49 WITHDRAW – WIT + DRAW, around H
50 JANGLE – J + ANGLE
53 ILIAD – I, + daily reversed
54 ALICE-IN-WONDERLAND – (inane riddle a clown)*
55 NEGLIGENTLY – (I l gen), reversed, + GENT +LadY
56 YORK MINSTER – (merry stinko)*

Down
1 RAPSCALLION – spar, reversed, + CALL ON around I
2 DJINN – INN after DJ
3 NUANCES – NUisANCES
4 HEEL – double definition (‘command given to setter, say’ indicates the command HEEL as given to a dog)
5 BANGLADESH – BANG + LASH, around DestitutE
6 THE GREAT GATSBY – (strategy beg hat)*
7 HAPPIEST – cHAPPIE + SorT
8 POINT – quadruple definition!
9 OPERATION – PE (physical education) in ORATION
10 AVESTA – AVE + ST (short for avenue and street respectively), + A
11 PUT A BRAVE FACE ON IT – cryptic indication
12 SILLY SEASON – O, in (illness say)*
18 CABERNET – BERN + E, in CAT
20 DESKTOP PUBLISHING – (think up possible)* in DemandinG
22 SCHLEP – SCH + LEaP
24 BEGRIMED – EG in BRIM, + ED
26 ETHERNET – ETHER (‘number’), + ten reversed
29 VICE-PRESIDENCY – (evidence R spy)*, around I C
32 BARNARDO – ran (‘worked’) reversed, in BAR (‘outlaw) + DO (‘cheat’)
33 STOOGE – O replaced by D in STODGE
34 SUSURRATION – (as our turn is)*
36 HOMESTEADER – HOME (‘in’) + STEER, around AD
37 HARD LABOUR – HARD + LABOUR
39 EXONERATE – EX + RATE, around ONE
42 LEATHERY – LEERY around pATH
46 CHAGRIN – CHAIN aropund GR
47 GARDAI – (a drag), reversed, +I
49 WHIST – W HIT around S
51 GRAFT – double definition
52 IDEM – hidden in insIDE Most

3 comments on “Times Jumbo 1109”

  1. It took me ages to get 32d, too–my LOI–but I know the reason: I’d never heard of the man. Also DNK ‘boozer’ in that meaning, or GRAFT (51d)=labor. I liked the hidden in 52d, but my COD was 34ac or 7d.
  2. Wrote in LIFE-PRESIDENCY instead,that was my only mistake.Barnados Homes for orphans quite common in the Third World,so am surprised that Kevingregg has never heard of him.Thanks Hellen for blogging.
    C.ONG’ARA,
    NAIROBI.
    1. Believe me, if you had any idea of what I don’t know, you wouldn’t have been surprised. This is totally off topic, but is the G’ in your name an implosive?

      Edited at 2014-09-22 03:46 am (UTC)

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