Times Jumbo 1129

Author   helenoughamPosted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
I found this easier than most Jumbos (it took me around 16 minutes, in an interrupted session), but still enjoyable to solve.

As usual, * indicates an anagram.

Across
1 LANOLIN – L, + ANON (old-fashioned term for ‘shortly’, ‘soon’), around L + I
5 PICNICKY – sounds like ‘pick’, + NICKY. I’d never come across the adjective version of ‘picnic’ before, but it’s in the standard dictionaries
9 ACTING – double indication
13 VOTE WITH ONE’S FEET – cryptic indication (FEET indicated by ‘supporters’)
14 SPRAWL – warp, reversed, in SenegaL
16 BUYER – sounds like ‘byre’ (though I’m sure some will disagree!)
17 ARIZONA – ARIA, around N Oz, reversed
18 SMALL-BORE – BORE (‘carried’) after Shopping + MALL
19 ELSEWHERE – EL + SEW + HERE
21 STIPPLE – TIPPLE after S
22 TEARS – double indication for a pair of words spelt the same but with different pronunciations and meanings (heteronyms, for those who enjoy the grammatical terms)
23 EMOTE – EffusivE around MOT
25 LETHARGIC – H after LET, + (cigar)*
27 NIRVANA – N IR + VAN + A
29 STRATAGEM – (get a smart)*
31 PROCRASTINATE – PRO, + (a nice start)*
34 THREE-CORNERED – THREE (a cardinal number) + CORNERED
35 ITALICISE – IT, + ALICE around IS
37 INSPECT – IN SECT around P
39 MOUSTACHE – MUST ACHE around O
42 GENII – Invasion + I, after GEN (short for ‘general’)
43 INGOT – INiGO + Tapas
45 NEITHER – (therein)*
47 MONOMANIA – ON + OMANI, in MA
49 AUTOCROSS – ACROSS, around U + TO
50 ROSEATE – ROSE + ATE
52 LYCEE – LYChEE
54 ICE CAP – middle 6 letters of nICE CAPe
55 COME OUT IN THE WASH – double indication
56 NORWAY – NO WAY around R
57 PERSPIRE – SPIRE, after PE + R
58 TREASON – R in TEAS, + ON

Down
1 LOVABLENESS – (noble’s slave’)*
2 NUTTY – double definition
3 LOWBROW – B in LOW ROW
4 NOT HAVE A LEG TO STAND ON – double indication
5 PROMINENT – PROM + IN, + ENT (ear, nose & throat [department])
6 CREDO – RE, in C + DO
7 INFLATING – dINING around FLAT
8 KNEES-UP – K, + seen (reversed), + UP (‘in court’)
10 CO-PILOT – CO + PLOT around I
11 INAMORATA – IN A MO[ment] + TA (Territorial Army), around RA (Royal Academy; ‘Burlington House’)
12 GALLEY SLAVE – cryptic indication
15 HAVE ONE’S CAKE AND EAT IT – cryptic indication
20 SCOURER – double definition
21 SHARPER – double definition
24 EXTREME – Tension in EX + REME
26 CORGI – majoR in CO-GI (‘fellow [American] soldier’)
28 RAILING – double definition
30 MINIM – double definition, also indicating that MINIM is a palindrome
32 OLDSTER – D in HOLSTER
33 AVIGNON – cryptic indication, referring to the song ‘Sur le pont d’Avignon’
34 TRINIDADIAN – DAD + I, in TRINIAN – refers to Ronald Searle’s fictional school ‘St Trinian’s’
36 ELIZABETHAN – (laze in bath)* around E
38 SIGHTSEER – SIGHTS (what competitors at the Bisley National Shooting Centre require) + E’ER
40 UNHARNESS – UN + ARNE’S + S, around H
41 CAMPANILE – CAMP + A + NILE
44 TOCCATA – TA-TA around OC + C
46 INSHORE – IN, + SHE (novel by Rider Haggard), around OR
48 MALTESE – MALE, around TES (Times Educational Supplement)
51 SAUDI – SA + UDI
53 CHAOS – so, reversed, after CHA

One comment on “Times Jumbo 1129”

  1. 39′, for me lightning-quick for a Jumbo. DNK Burlington House and Bisley, which slowed me down. Also didn’t know the liquid meaning of MINIM, but that wasn’t a problem. Perhaps a function of the ease of solving, I see that I haven’t marked any CODs. That’s all right; it was worth it to get in under the hour.

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