Times Jumbo 1194

Author   helenoughamPosted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
Not too difficult this time, I thought. I didn’t know the historical reference in 1ac, though. 23ac is probably the most obscure answer.

As always, * indicates an anagram.

Across
1 BARE BONES – double indication; refers to “Barebone’s” Parliament of 1653
6 LIFE ASSURANCE – (file)* + ASSURANCE
13 WAGON – WAG ON
14 GOLDCREST – GOLD (indicated by “or”) + Conservatory + REST
15 REBECCA – REBEl + C + C + A
16 ELEMENTARY MY DEAR WATSON – ELEMENTARY + (term nowadays)*
18 HOSPITAL – HOSTA around PI, + L
20 STEADY ON – STEADY + ON
21 CRAVE – C + RAVE
23 TEAPOY – EA + Person, in TOY
24 CANVAS – CAN + AS, around V
25 SPHERICAL – RI in (chapels)*
28 LEFT-HANDED – LEFT (‘gone’) + HANDED (‘passed over’)
29 DIOR – rod, reversed, around I
30 WEE FREE – cryptic indication
32 ADMIRED – AD + MIRE + cupboarD
34 ROAD – sounds like rode (‘got a lift’)
35 MAGNUM OPUS – MAGNUM, + (soup)*
38 CORRELATE – COR + RELATE
39 RASHER – RASH + ER
40 STRONG – SONG around TerroR
43 RAITA – some might pronounce RAITA the same as righter
45 HOGMANAY – HOG, + MANY around A
47 CONCRETE – CON + CRETE
49 LEAST SAID SOONEST MENDED – cryptic indication
52 AUSTRIA – A US TRIAl
53 EVAPORATE – pave, reversed, + ORATE
54 PANEL – PANE + L
55 PAY AND DISPLAY – PAY + AND + DISPLAY
56 SET EYES ON – (toes seen clearly)*

Down
1 BOWLER HAT – (blow earth)*
2 RAGGED STAFF – RAGGED + STAFF
3 BONNE – BONNEt
4 NIGHTJAR – NIGHT JAR
5 SALARY – alas, reversed, + yr, reversed
6 LOCOMOTIVE – LOCO MOTIVE
7 FREUDIAN SLIP – (find super liar)*
8 ACTUARY – ACTUALLY, with LL replaced by R
9 STRAW IN THE WIND – cryptic indication
10 ROBOTIC – ROB + OTIC
11 NECROMANCER – NEC (National Exhibition Centre) + ROMANCER
12 ELAN – hidden in mELANcholy
17 WELLNESS – WELL + (Loch) NESS. I’ve often wondered – English already has ‘health’ and ‘well-being’, so why do we need WELLNESS too?
19 IRON HORSE – cryptic indication
22 CAREFREE – REF in CAREEr
25 SERRATED – R + RAT in SEED
26 RHEUMATIC – (me haircut)*
27 AN IDEAL HUSBAND – cryptic indication
28 LEAF CURL – wordplay indicates an anagram of ‘flea’, i.e. ‘flea’ is CURLed
31 HADRIAN’S WALL – HAD ALL, around RI and NSW around A
33 MERCILESSLY – cryptic indication; (MERCI-LESSLY) suggests without MERCI, French for ‘thank you’
36 PROCEEDINGS – IN + Grow, in PROCEEDS
37 ESCAPOLOGY – APOLOGY after ESC
41 GWENDOLEN – (new golden)*
42 LOFTIEST – LIEST around OFT
44 ALSO-RAN – RAN, after A LSO (London Symphony Orchestra)
46 GUINEAS – (a genius)*
48 LEMANS – LE MANS. Not sure why the clue includes ‘keep’
50 EMPTY – double indication (‘running on empty’)
51 RASP – double definition

5 comments on “Times Jumbo 1194”

  1. 45m. I found this quite tricky, and I don’t think I was alone with my careless TEAPOT.
  2. I found this of about average difficulty, but I went for TEAPOT in 23A because it arguably fitted the wordplay and I assumed it was a definition I’d not come across before (I hadn’t heard of the correct answer). I also managed to put NIGHTCAP into 4D, but that was indefensible as I knew NIGHTJAR and the question mark meant it couldn’t be a straight double definition.
  3. Also wrote TEAPOT, never having heard of TEAPOY, a tricky jumbo for me. (Ong’ara, Kenya)

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