Times Jumbo 1144

Author   helenoughamPosted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
The expression at 56ac was a new one on me, but generally I didn’t think there were too many obscure elements in this puzzle.

As always, * indicates an anagram.

Across
1 ALBERT CAMUS – ALBERT + CAMe + US
7 BETTING SHOP – BizarrE, + (nightspot)*
13 STEP INTO THE BREACH – STEP + IN + TOT + HE + BREACH
14 ASTON – AS TO + N
15 GO DOWN – a GODOWN is a warehouse in India and some other parts of south and east Asia
16 OUTWEIGH – OUT (‘available’ in the sense that a magazine issue that’s OUT is ‘available’) + WEIGH
17 REGENCY – RE, + aGENCY
19 AT ANY RATE – ATE, around A + N + (tray)*
21 OPIUM DEN – I + Uncomfortable + MD, in OPEN
23 WELL – double definition
25 IRATE – pIRATE
27 AMALFI – IF (the poem by Rudyard Kipling) + LAMA (all reversed)
28 CHESTERTON – CHESTER + TO + N
30 NO-FRILLS – N + OF + ILLS, around R
31 BRING UP THE REAR – BRING UP + THERE, + RA (reversed)
34 LORD PALMERSTON – PALMER in LORDS, + not (reversed)
35 PASSPORT – PASS + PORT
38 BELA LUGOSI – GO, in (bullies a)*
40 AVIATE – hidden in SwanseA VIA TEnby
41 DALEK – DALE + Klingons
43 ROSE – double definition
44 EINSTEIN – EIN (German for ‘one’)+ STEIN
45 EASY TERMS – double indication
48 AWAITED – A + WAIT + ED
49 SACRISTY – (it’s scary)*
50 STRESS – miSTRESS
53 IRONY – IRON (‘club’ in the golfing sense) + Y
54 ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE – cryptic indication
55 NOSTRADAMUS – NOUS, around mad arts (reversed)
56 LARGE-HANDED – HAND (‘applause’), in LARGE ED

Down
1 ASSIGNATION – A + S + SIGN + nATION
2 BREAD – RE in BAD
3 RAILWAY – (wary)* around AIL
4 CATS – cast, with s moved to the end
5 METHUSELAH – double definition, referring to a size of champagne bottle
6 SHERWOOD FOREST – ISHERWOOD + FOR + EST
7 BURSITIS – (rubs it itches)*
8 TRASH – WHIPPEt + RASH
9 IN HARNESS – IN + HARNESS
10 GRANGE – G + RANGE
11 HOT UNDER THE COLLAR – (round the)* + THE COLLAR
12 PENNY-A-LINER – PEN + A LINER, around NY
18 PARALLEL – A + LL, in PARE, + L
20 A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS – refers to the Robert Bolt play A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS and “The Four Seasons” by Vivaldi
22 MAHOUT – MA + H + OUT. A MAHOUT is someone who rides or keeps an elephant
24 RELEASED – RE (Royal Engineers; ‘sappers’) + LEASED (‘let’)
26 EXIT POLL – (exploit)* + L
29 UNCONVENTIONAL – UN + CONVENT + I ON A L
32 TRAVERSE – (Ben) TRAVERS + E
33 VERSUS – VERSe + US
34 LIBERTARIAN – (irritable)* + AN
36 TAKES AS READ – (area’s staked)*
37 PAPER TIGER – PAPER, + Germany in TIER
39 GUILDFORD – GUILD + FOR Devonians
42 RED CROSS – RED (sounds like ‘read’), + CROSS (annoyed; ‘put out’)
46 TITANIA – TITANIc + A
47 STAYER – SER (short for ‘series’) around TAY
49 STEAM – Stretcher + TEAM
51 ELAND – firE + LAND
52 STYE – hidden in cruSTY Eyelid – I liked this clue a lot because of the surface reading

5 comments on “Times Jumbo 1144”

  1. Albert at 1ac is becoming a regular these days.
    Somewhat held up by stupidly putting “roadway” at 3dn but otherwise straightforward (but enjoyable), with quite a lot of write-ins… can’t see eg 51ac or 20dn holding anyone up for very long

    Edited at 2015-05-02 09:27 am (UTC)

  2. I had to cheat to get 38ac: not a solvable clue if you haven’t heard of the actor. But for some inexplicable reason I had put ACTON at 14ac so it was all in vain anyway.
  3. At 41′, this is probably my Jumbo pb. As Jerry says, a number of write-ins–although not 51ac; 53ac? certainly 43ac. Keriothe must be even younger than I thought not to have heard of Bela Lugosi. Probably doesn’t know Vera Hruba Ralston either, poor fellow. I, on the other hand, didn’t know Palmer in 34ac, or HP in 45ac, but those gaps in my otherwise gappy knowledge weren’t damaging.
    1. Oh, I’m very young, me. Based on a straw poll of the two people in my kitchen who are the same age, not having heard of Mr Lugosi makes me ignorant in matters cinematic. Neither has heard of VHR though, and only one has heard of Dorothy Lamour. But that’s my wife and she is something of an old cinema buff.
  4. BELA LUGOSI,GUILDFORD hardest in this xword,the rest quite easy.(ONG’ARA,NRB)

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