Times Jumbo 1219

Author   helenoughamPosted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
Not too challenging, I thought, though it introduced me to a new word (the ancient people at 54ac) and a phrase (51ac) that I’d never encountered before with that particular meaning.

As always, * indicates an anagram.

Across
1 DIRECTIONAL – (R + E) in DICTION, + ALl
7 DEFEND – DEF + END
10 OTIC – O + TIC
14 ANCIENT – ANC + I + ENT
15 CATTALO – TA + L, in CATO. “Cross” here indicates a (cattle) hybrid
16 ATHLETE – A + THE, around LETter
17 TREASURE-TROVE – SURE in TREAT, + ROVE
18 ASCENSION – CE, + first letters of “name saints”, in A SION
19 CREED – CREE + haD
21 OVERPLAYED – OVERPLAYED. Yes, it’s the cricket reference; after six deliveries, one OVER has been PLAYED
23 THRACE – T + HoRACE
25 PALISADE – PAL, + IE around SAD
26 SECOND DIVISION – SECOND + DI + VISION
29 MARROWS – ROWS after MAR(ch)
30 PEER GROUP – double indication (“upper house” = House of Lords)
31 DENIM – I’M after DEN
32 READE – READEr
34 GENERATES – GEN + ERA, + set (reversed)
37 ADMIRER – AD, + MR around IRE
39 TWO-DIMENSIONAL – (in town some lad I)*
41 METRICAL – C in TRIAL, after ME
43 FATHER – HER after FAT
44 SCREEN DUMP – (censured)* + MP
45 TONIC – (in surrounded by cot), reversed
48 ALL BLACKS – LB in AL (Capone) LACKS
49 ELECTORAL ROLL – cryptic indication
51 UP A TREE – double indication. I’m familiar with “up a gum tree” to indicate “in difficulties”, but I’d never come across just “in a tree” in that context before
52 ONE-SHOT – ONE’S HOT
53 OLDSTER – bOLDER around ST
54 EDOM – thEM around DO
55 TARSUS – double indication
56 PLEASANTEST – LEAS + ANT, in PEST

Down
1 DRASTIC – DR + ASTI + C
2 ROCKEFELLER – ROCK + E + FELLER
3 CHESS – CHE (Guevara) + SS
4 INTERIOR DESIGNER – cryptic indication
5 NICETIES – NICE TIES
6 LITHOSPHERE – (Hitler’s hope)*
7 DRAKE – D + RAKE
8 FLOG A DEAD HORSE – double indication
9 NUANCE – NUN around A, + CE
11 TREPIDATION – (I do natter)*, around PI
12 CLEANSE – LEAN (meat) in CaSE
13 SHANGHAI – SANG around H, + H + AI
20 DISPOSE – IS P, in DOSE. The definition is “Place”
22 ALONG – ALONe + G
24 DISPLACED PERSONS – “press on” in an anagram of (hence “displaced”) PERSONS
25 POMFRET – double definition
27 NUMERAL – just a cryptic indication, I think
28 SPANISH CUSTOMS – double indication
31 DEMERIT – ME, in tired (reversed)
33 AMONTILLADO – A MON + TIL + ADO
35 RHONE – O replacing I in RHINE
36 MIDNIGHT SUN – the letter G (good) is in the middle of NIGHT, hence MIDNIGHT is ‘cryptically good’; + SUN
36 TRAINEESHIP – (he is painter)*. An “&lit” clue where the whole clue is also the definition
38 RECONNOITRE – RE + (notice no geaR)*
40 I DECLARE – CLARE after IDE
42 SUBTITLE – IT in SUBTLE
43 FEATURE – FEAT + URE
46 CULPRIT – PRIm in CULT
47 SCHEMA – SCH + E + MA
49 EWERS – EWES around R
50 LED ON – L, + node (reversed)

3 comments on “Times Jumbo 1219”

  1. Edom is mainly (but not exclusively) a biblical term, and only old testament at that .. so probably there was some tribal activity under that name but no actual historical facts available.

    Not come across (a-cross?) cattalos, before…

  2. Several DNKs, including of course CATTALO (which also isn’t in my ODE); also 25d in either sense (fortunately I knew the castle), 44ac, 7ac DEF. 13d took a long time, as ‘trick’ would not have occurred to me as a definition for SHANGHAI. The Cree are Canadian Indians.

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