Times Jumbo 1139

Author   helenoughamPosted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
Happy Easter, everyone!

I found this puzzle fairly straightforward, and it didn’t include too many obscure answers or references; I don’t think 25ac is widely used except by anatomists, and I’d not come across 6dn before, though it’s a variant of a much commoner phrase. Two moths in one puzzle is maybe a little unusual…

As always, * indicates an anagram.

Across
1 FACEPACKS – F + ACE + PACKS
6 BEVEL – B (letter ‘Number two’ in the alphabet), + lEVEL
9 CUPCAKE – CU (symbol for the element copper is Cu) + PC (Police Constable; ‘copper’), + alternate letters of ‘tackle’
13 SOMME – SOME around M
14 POULENC – (couple)* around N
15 TIGER MOTH – TOT around I GERM, + H
16 STAR-STUDDED – STARS ThUDDED
17 UNPRINTABLE – UNABLE (‘Not fit’) around PRINT (‘still’ in the photographic sense)
18 INDIGO – INIGO around D
19 WINNIPEG – sounds (possibly) like ‘win a peg’
21 IGNITE – N, in I GITE (GITE – holiday cottage in france)
25 MENINGES – MEN + INGESt
26 PERMANENT TOOTH – (a month in treetop)*, minus I
28 BOOTY – ‘beauty’ might be pronounced like BOOTY in Suffolk
29 TROUGH – The ROUGH
30 WATER-SKIER – (tries wake)* around R
33 LIFE CYCLES – LI + FE (chemical symbols for lithium and iron are Li and Fe), + CYCLES
35 SCAMPI – SI (French for ‘if’), aound CAMP
36 CROUP – Usually in CROP
38 SOCIAL CLIMBERS – cryptic indication + definition
40 MOTOR CAR – MO + TO + R + CA + R
42 URCHIN – U + RC + IN, around H
43 BEQUEATH – EQUinE in BATH
44 CHIPPY – double definition
47 TUTTI-FRUTTI – TUTTI + (turf it)*
50 FIDDLESTICK – FIDDLES TICK
52 GLACIALLY – GaL, + CIA in ALLY
53 OBVIOUS – OBliVIOUS
54 OVOID – OVID around O
55 ALLEGRO – A + LL + EG + RO
56 TASER – ShE in TAR
57 SEA CHANGE – hidden in ‘affectS EACH ANGEl’

Down
1 FUSES – FUSS around E
2 COMMANDING OFFICER – COMMANDING, + IC in OFFER
3 PRESS AGENCY – PRESAGE around S, + N + CitY. I was surprised by ‘warning’ to indicate PRESAGE, but it seems that the latter can be a noun as well as a verb
4 COP OUT – OP, in CO + jUsT
5 SQUADDIE – S + DIE, around QUAD
6 BLEEDING EDGE – BLEEDING (‘Cursed’) + EDGE. A BLEEDING EDGE is a part of an organisation that comes up with innovative ideas
7 VACUUM PUMP – VAC + U MP U MP around U
8 LIT UP – double definition
9 COGNITION – (noticing)* around O
10 PERITONITIS – PERON (refers to Eva Peron) around IT, + IT IS
11 A-BOMB – AB (abdominal muscle) + O MB. ‘Fat Man’ was the type of atomic bomb detonated over Nagasaki in 1945
12 ECHOES – EC + HOES
18 IMMOBILISE – I’M + MOBILE around I’S
20 GENDARME – (grenade)* around M (central letter of Nimes)
22 TROPIC OF CAPRICORN – (iconic prop for actor)*, minus one ‘o’
23 HECTIC – HE, + IT (reversed) in CC
24 THIRD PARTY – double definition
27 FORELIMB – (b miler + o + f), reversed
31 EDITOR – mEDIa sTORy
32 SCARLET FEVER – SCAR + (felt)* + EVER
34 CRASH-DIVING – C + RASH + DIVINe + G
36 CLOTHES MOTH – cryptic indication (‘habits’ here indicates clothes
37 UBIQUITOUS – dUBIOUS around QUIT
39 CONTRALTO – (cartoon)* around LT (lieutenant)
41 STUDIOUS – STUDIOS around U
45 STIGMA – It’s, reversed, + GM + A
46 PLASMA – LAMA after P, around S
48 TRAIL – The RAIL
49 TRYST – hidden in ‘CovenTRY STreet’
51 KEDGE – KnowlEDGE, where ‘Today link initially’ indicates now + l

6 comments on “Times Jumbo 1139”

  1. Something about Jumbos makes me extremely prone to silly, careless errors. This time I had PERMANANT TOOTH and TRAWL. I wonder what it will be this week…
  2. ‘Novel’ is the definition, “Tropic of Capricorn” being a novel by Henry Miller, who also wrote “Tropic of Cancer”. Does anyone read him anymore?
  3. Thanks for blogging,Helen,got all correct.How is 22d ‘novel’?(ONG’ARA,NRB)
  5. Smidge pedantic as I had the same speed solve parsing of this, but it misses one of the Us. I think you need to double up the “posh MP” not just the MP, so that you get VAC + UMP,UMP around U.
    1. Many thanks fathippy2, you’re quite right – I’ve amended the posting.

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