Times Jumbo 1164

Author   helenoughamPosted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
I had to post this in a bit of a rush, so apologies for any errors that have crept in – please point them out and I’ll correct them as soon as possible.

As always, * indicates an anagram.

Across
1 WINDOW TAX – WIND (as in trade wind) + OWT + A + X
6 CRAVEN COTTAGE – CRAVEN (‘yellow’), + CAGE around OTT
13 RANGE – double definition
14 INVISIBLE – (I lives in)*, around B
15 UPLYING – U + PLYING
16 TELL ME WHERE IS FANCY BRED – last word sounds like ‘bread’. The song is from Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’
18 AVIEMORE – VIE MORE, after A
20 ON CAMERA – ON (indicated by ‘leg’; this week’s cricketing clue) + CAME + RA
21 RADII – alternate letters of ‘art – and did it’
23 EUNICE – EU NICE (what a supporter of the UK Independence Party wouldn’t say!)
24 CAPTOR – CAP + TOR
25 WISECRACK – WISE (‘sound’) + CRACK
28 UNHINDERED – UN + HIND + ERE + perioD
29 TSAR – rasta, reversed. ‘Dreads person’ indicates ‘person with dreadlocks’
30 RINGLET – RT around INGLE
32 LOO ROLL – O + OR, in LOLL
34 IRON – ‘Few, with the exception of wife’ indicates Fe, chemical symbol for iron
35 SHOWJUMPER – cryptic indication
38 FRED HOYLE – F + RED, + Y in HOLE. English astronomer, 1915-2001
39 PRAISE – A in PRISE
40 BICARB – BARB around IC
43 END OF – (fed on)*.
45 NINETIES – NICETIES, with N replacing the C
47 BAR STOOL – BARS + TOOL
49 OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY – SAND + FAR AWAY, after OVER THE HILL (‘past it’)
52 PILGRIM – lip, reversed, + GRIM. Christian is the hero of John Bunyan’s ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’
53 PHALANGER – H in PAL, + ANGER (‘seeing red’)
54 PERIL – PER + ILl
55 DEPRESSURISED – (used disperser)*
56 RUNNERS-UP – RUNNER, + SUP (‘down gradually’, i.e, drink slowly)

Down
1 WORST-CASE – (Socrates w)*
2 NONILLIONTH – NON-ILL + I + (not)* + H
3 OLEUM – OLE + UM
4 TRIPWIRE – TRIP + WIRE
5 XAVIER – XVI (sixteen in Roman numerals), + alternate letters of ‘years’, around A
6 CASHEW NUTS – sac, reversed, + HEW + NUTS
7 AMBASSADRESS – B in AMASS, + A DRESS
8 EVERAGE – E, + (as a rev), reversed. Reference is to the Barry Humphries character Dame Edna Everage
9 CLUTCH AT STRAWS – double indication
10 TOLL BAR – TOLL (as in ‘death toll’), + BAR
11 ANISEED BALL – I SEE in AND, + B + ALL
12 EGGY – refers to the toast ‘soldiers’ that can be dipped into the yolks of soft-boiled eggs
17 PICKETER – PETER (e.g. TSAR PETER), around ‘ICK
19 MACINTOSH – MAIN around C, + TOSH
22 TAKE FIVE – double indication
25 WAR CHEST – ARCH in WEST
26 CONFUCIUS – could sound like ‘con fuchsias’
27 HENLEY-ON-THAMES – (h helmets anyone)*
28 UPLIFTED – (pet fluid)*
31 HOSPITAL PASS – HOSPITAL (Guy’s maybe’) + PASS. A HOSPITAL PASS is something unpleasant in a team sport such as rugby
33 OVERDEVELOP – O + VERDi + EVE + LOP
36 PLAY ON WORDS – PLAY ON + WORDS
37 MAKE A STAND – MAKE + AS, + TAND (sounds like ‘tanned’)
41 BELLYFLOP – (by full pole)*, minus the u
42 WARFARIN – WARFARe + IN
44 FOR FREE – (offerer)*
46 NO-HOPER – (phone or)*
48 ONAGER – NAG in O’ER
50 RUPEE – hidden in ’employEE PURposefully’, reversed
51 SPED – SPEND (‘fork out’), minus luncheoN

5 comments on “Times Jumbo 1164”

  1. Thought this was the toughest one for several months. The unknown 16A went in last, a guess that seemed the likeliest option from the checkers and sparse information from the clue.
  2. Definitely the toughest jumbo for me in memory, made all the harder by the number of DNKs, like CRAVEN COTTAGE, AVIEMORE (LOI), OLEUM (2LOI), PHALANGER and BKs (barely knew), like ANISEED BALL, HENLEY-ON-THAMES, HOSPITAL PASS, and ‘soldier’. At some point I lost interest in the puzzle qua puzzle and settled into a grim determination to solve the bastard or die in the attempt.
  4. I found this extremely hard, and only finished it this morning when I saw the blog and thought to go back to it, having given up on my first attempt. My feelings on the puzzle were rather like Kevin’s at that point, but there was a certain satisfaction in wrestling the damned thing into submission.

    Edited at 2015-09-06 08:26 pm (UTC)

  5. Thanks for the blog. I too found this extremely hard but very satisfying to complete after many hours esp as all the clues were bullet-proof once teased out.

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