Times Jumbo 1174

Author   helenoughamPosted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
Apologies for the somewhat late posting – I’ve been travelling today.

As always, * indicates an anagram.

Across
1 ZEBEDEE – ZEE around BEDE
5 DOTCOMMER – sounds like dot + comma, which together form a semicolon – hence ‘; quoted?’
10 ISIS – the Egyptian goddess ISIS was both the wife and the SISter of Osiris
14 ATTENTION SPAN – ATTENTION (sounds like ‘a tension’) + SPAN
15 NESTORIUS – (son is true)*. This 5th-century archbishop of Constantinople was new to me
16 HANDBARROW – HAND + BAR + ROW
17 RENEGOTIATE – RENE + GOT + I + ATE
18 SKILL – S, + KILL (indicated by ‘while away’, as in ‘kill time’)
19 PREMIER CRU – (rum recipe)* around R
21 JULIET – LIE in JUT
23 FUNNY HA-HA – last letters of ‘if you run down any’, + HA-HA. FUNNY HA-HA as opposed to FUNNY PECULIAR
25 EAT UP – hEAT UP
26 ASHFORD – hidden in areA’S HF OR Digital
28 THE PARTY’S OVER – THE + P + ARTY + SO + VERy
31 OUT WITH IT – OUTWIT + HIT
33 POPULATED – P + (due to pal)*
35 APPLE OF THE EYE – double indication
37 LAY DOWN – LAY + DOWN
38 NOUNS – NOUS around N
40 MILLBOARD – L + BOAR, in MILD
42 SEDATE – S + E, + DATE
44 RATTLETRAP – RAT-TRAP (answer to 20dn), around LET
46 RALLY – double definition (‘over the Net’ here refers to tennis)
48 DISNEYESQUE – DI’s + N + EYES + QUE
50 DRAG QUEENS – DRAG, + QUEEN’S (college)
52 TASMAN SEA – (steam as an)*
53 SPIN-THE-BOTTLE – SPIN (‘Dress up’, as in ‘put a spin on’), + THE BOTTLE
54 HIDE – ‘villain doctor turned to when speaking’ indicates that HIDE sounds like ‘Hyde’, as in the novel ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’
55 ICED LOLLY – ICED (‘American finished off’, i.e. killed), + LOLLY (like ‘bread’, a slang term for money)
56 SHEA NUT – (EU hasn’t)*

Down
1 ZEAL – Z (‘some value’), + alternate (even) letters of ‘detail’
2 BATTALION – BAT + TA + LION
3 DON’T DILLY-DALLY ON THE WAY – a quotation from the song ‘My old man said follow the van’
4 EPICARP – EPIC + CARP, with the C shared between the two words
5 DONER KEBABS – (d breaks bone)*
6 TYPEWRITE – geT prioritY + PEW + RITE
7 OWNER – dOWNER
8 MA NON TROPPO – MANON, + (op port) reversed
9 RESIGN – S in REIGN
11 SHIKARI – HI + K, in SARI
12 SUSPECTED – S + US + PEC + TED
13 NOT TOUCH WITH A BARGEPOLE – cryptic indication
18 SOFT-TOP – SOFT + TOP
20 RAT-TRAP – (part + tar), reversed
22 WASTEFUL – (a few lust)*
24 ANTITANK – hidden in barbariAN TITAN Known
27 OCHRE – chore, with O moved to the front
29 EMPTY – (my pet)*
30 VIADUCT – sounds like ‘vier [one who vies] ducked’
32 TUESDAY – Wed(nesday) comes after Tue(sday)
34 DON PASQUALE – SQUAd, in DON + PALE
36 ELMER GANTRY – Epoxy Resin, in ELM + GANTRY
37 LAST-DITCH – LAST + DITCH
39 SEED DRILL – SEE + DD + RILL
41 ARLINGTON – (to large inn)*
43 DISUSED – U in DISSED
45 PIQUETS – PIQUE, + st reversed
47 SENSEI – SENSE + I
49 EASEL – EASE + generaL
51 NEXT – X in NET

3 comments on “Times Jumbo 1174”

  1. Lots of DNKs: 5d, 20d, 5ac, 56ac, 40ac. I wondered about 3d, knowing nothing of the song; fortunately the checkers were decisive. COD maybe to 33ac.
  2. Thanks for the blog Helen. I didn’t do this puzzle but I did make a vague promise to leave a comment on your next blog.

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