Times Jumbo 1119

Author   helenoughamPosted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
Not exceptionally difficult, and containing (I think) relatively few obscure answers. Getting the answer to 35dn relies on knowing what photographers in the UK make their subjects say in order to elicit smiles – what’s the equivalent in other countries?

As usual, * indicates an anagram.

Across
1 GENTLEMEN – Spooner might have transposed this as ‘mental gen’ (‘intellectual dope’)
6 CHAFFED – CHAFED around F. The definition is ‘Ragged’ – to ‘rag’ someone means the same as to ‘chaff’ them
10 SEPAL – P in SEAL
13 ORDINAL – OR (other ranks) + DIN + A L. ‘First’ is an exmple of an ORDINAL number
14 NEPOTIC – oNE + POT + I/C
15 LEAN-TOS – LE + ANT + OS
16 CALLING A SPADE A SPADE – cryptic indication
17 OAR – OR (yellow or gold) around A
18 EMERGE – eg (‘as’) + REME, all reversed
20 HEADER – double definition
21 RADIOGRAM – (diorama)* around GR
23 MALEFACTOR – MALE FACTOR
25 PLUM PUDDING – PLUMP, + last letters of ‘you consumed’, + DING
29 ROGER – ego, reversed, surrounded by R + R
30 STANDOFF – N + DO, in STAFF
31 BARRACKS – double definition
34 DELICATE – ELI + C, in DATE
36 HOTHOUSE – THOU in HOSE
37 WHALE – WHO, with ALE replacing the o
39 TRADE SECRET – (street cred)* around A
41 TABLECLOTH – a rather clever cryptic indication
43 CATAMARAN – CAT + RAN, around A MA
45 HUBCAP – cryptic indication
47 SWATHE – SHE, around WAT (Wat Tyler)
49 ASP – A SiP
50 HAPPY AS THE DAY IS LONG – cryptic indication, alluding to the dwarf ‘Happy’ in Disney’s ‘Snow White’
52 PASTERN – P + ASTERN
53 AVOCADO – A + V + O + CAD + O
54 SMETANA – SET + ANA, around Music
55 DRONE – a topical reference; hidden in squaDRON Expendable
56 SOLOMON – SOLON around OM (Order of Merit)
57 EN PASSANT – (peasants)* around corN

Down
1 GROUCHES – (coughers)*
2 NODAL – NO DAL
3 LANDING GEAR – (angel daring)*
4 MALIGN – MAN, around girl, reversed
5 NONESSENTIAL – cryptic definition
6 COPLAND – COP (‘get hold of’) + LAND (‘light’)
7 AT THE DROP OF A HAT – cryptic indication
8 FOCUS GROUP – F + O/C + US + OUP (Oxford University Press), all around GR
9 DULLARD – DULy, + LAD around teacheR
10 SHAREHOLDER – cryptic indication (to a ‘bull market’); ‘bulliSH AREna’ is a SHARE HOLDER
11 POTPOURRI – (uproot rip)*
12 LUSTRUM – LUST + RUM. A LUSTRUM was a period of five tears in ancient Rome
19 EVANGEL – (leg + nave), reversed
22 CASSETTE – SET in CASTE
24 RIDE OUT THE STORM – (Methodist tourer)*
26 PLATELET – P, + (et al) reversed, + LET
27 GUSHER – G + USHER
28 CREDIT – RC, reversed, + EDIT
32 COAL-TIT – L in COAT, + IT
33 CUPBOARD LOVE – cryptic indication, referencing the nursery rhyme ‘Old Mother Hubbard’
35 CREAM CHEESE – CRAM around E, + CHEESE (what you’re supposed to say when having your photograph taken, to make you smile)
37 WELL-WISHERS – definition and cryptic indication
38 BRANDY-BALL – BRAND, + by, reversed, + ALL
40 ANTIPASTO – (tapas not I)*
42 RED GIANT – ED + GI, in RANT
43 CHAPPED – CHAP + PEDals
44 REPINES – REES around PIN
46 BAHRAIN – BRAIN around A H
48 HYSSOP – HenrY’S + SO + P
51 OMAHA – hidden in tOMAHAwk

7 comments on “Times Jumbo 1119”

  1. Agree that this was at the easier end of the Jumbo spectrum. I have one question for the setter though: 37d was it supposed to be ‘three’ or ‘their’?
  3. DNK HEADER, but it wasn’t much of a problem with the checkers. Did wonder about 37d–and there’s another typo in this week’s Jumbo. LOI 33d.
  4. Thanks for blogging,Helen.I get the first ‘spread’ but not the second one,someone help.LOI 48d,liked ‘by’.(ONG’ARA,NAIROBI)
    1. The second ‘spread’ refers to the food on the table. SOED sv ‘spread’ 5 ‘a large or elaborate meal or buffet, esp. as provided for a guest, etc. colloq. E19’ and gives a quote ‘Kate goggled when she .. saw the food. “What a spread!” she exclaimed.’

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