Times Jumbo 1199 – Easter Monday

Author   helenoughamPosted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
A not-too-tough Jumbo (I thought), with quite a high anagram count, for the bank holiday Monday.

As always, * indicates an anagram.

Across
1 SPRING – triple definition
5 MUSTANG – MUG, around S + TAN
9 MINDLESS – MIND LESS
13 SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI – (curtail trading mission)*
14 TRUMPERY – TRUMPEt + RY
15 PROTEST – ROT in PEST
16 DRUDGE – DUDGEon around R
17 SIDEWINDER – (drew inside)*
20 EXTINGUISHER – EXTINGUISH ER (i.e kill Queen Elizabeth)
23 APSE – hidden in cheAP SEating
24 EVACUATE – EVA + CUTE, around A
26 DECLINED – DECk + LINE + D
29 PROTUBERANCE – PRO + TUBE + RAN, + first letters of ‘controlling entrance’
30 DISPASSION – DIS, + (in soaps)*
32 SUPPLEMENT – SUPPLE MEN, +T
34 SLIP OF THE PEN – SLIP + OF THE PEN
36 BELIEVER – (evil)* in BEER
38 BOOTLACE – just a cryptic indication, I think
39 TEAK – TEA + drinK
41 DISAGREEMENT – (regiment sad)* around E
43 DRY-CLEANER – DRY (‘avoiding alcohol’) + CLEANER (‘daily’)
44 BAYEUX – B + AYE + U + X
46 MASTERY – MARY around STE
48 SACRISTY – STY, around first letters of ‘any church’s robes in store’. An &lit clue – the whole clue is wordplay but also definition
50 IT IS LATER THAN YOU THINK – cryptic indication (if you move the ‘it’ of ‘titling’ to the end you get ‘Tlingit’)
51 ANATOMIC – A + N + ATOMIC
52 NOWHERE – won, reversed, + HE + RE
53 EL NINO – the words ‘help and dig snow’ with their outermost letters stripped off

Down
2 POSER – PER around OS
3 INCOMPETENT – INTENT, around COMP + E
4 GARDENIA – (drainage)*
5 MONEY – ONE in MY
6 SLIPPER – pils, reversed, + PER
7 AGGLOMERATE – (motel garage)*
8 GLOVE – Guard + LOVE
9 MOISTENED – MOll + lISTENED
10 NOMAD – NO + MAD
11 LINGUISTICS – L + IN + G + U, + STICS (sounds like sticks)
12 SHINGLE – SINGLE around H
18 IMPORTUNE – I’M + PORT + UNE
19 DIVERSE – DIVERS + E
21 TREADMILL – (drill team)*
22 UNCHASTE – UN, + T in CHASE
25 CONSTABLE – C, + ON STABLE (indicated by ‘where a roof’s needed over bays [i.e. horses], maybe)
27 EXONERATE – EXON + ER + AT + servicE
28 OBSERVER – OB + SERVER
31 SLOUCHY – SLY around OUCH
33 PHILATELIST – PHIL ATE LIST
34 STOP THE SHOW – S + TOP, + HES + H in TOW
35 EXTRADITION – EXTRA eDITION
37 RHEUMATIC – (me haircut)*
40 BLACK TIE – BLACK + TIE
42 ITALIAN – IT + A, + nail reversed
43 DOYENNE – DONE around YEN
45 XYLEM – (elm)* after X + Y
47 SIREN – RE in SIN
48 SCORE – S + CORE
49 TOKEN – TO + KEN

6 comments on “Times Jumbo 1199 – Easter Monday”

  1. Funny thing about jumbo blogs, you wait for ages then three come along all at once 🙂

    I don’t remember a lot about this one but my answer sheet is completely blank apart from the answers themselves, no doodles or question marks, so it must have been quite easy

  2. All I remember is that it took me forever to parse 20ac once I got the word from checkers. I’m afraid I still don’t get EXON.
    1. It is simply an obscure word – one of the top 4 Yeomen of the Guard according to Chambers
      1. Thanks. I’m embarrassed to say I looked it up post-solve, and somehow overlooked it, seeing only the genetic sense; I think I really am due for reading glasses. Of course, as Keriothe says below, what else could it be? which is why I was able to solve it.

        Edited at 2016-04-11 06:24 am (UTC)

    2. It’s a handy word for crossword purposes, because it also has an alternative meaning – part of a gene that doesn’t code for protein (an exon as opposed to an intron).
  3. 18:59. A rare sub-twenty-minute time, and no mistakes, so it must have been easy. I had no idea about EXON but what else could it be?

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