Times Jumbo 1234

Author   helenoughamPosted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
Quite a high proportion of anagrams here. I didn’t find it too tricky, but there were some obscure answers such as 25ac, 27ac and 48ac.

As always, * indicates an anagram.

Across
1 BAUDELAIRE – alternate (odd) letters of ‘beat-up’, + DE LA MARE with I replacing MA
6 MASS-PRODUCED – MASS (‘service’) + PRODUCED
14 LUSTRAL – LUST + R + AnimaL
15 DRAFTEE – RAFT in DEE
16 LET SLIP – LET + SLIP
17 CAMP – triple definition
18 PSYCHE – PSYCHo + E
20 ALLEGROS – ALL + E + GROSz (George Grosz, the German artist – at least I think that’s how this part of the clue works!)
24 A TASTE OF ONE’S OWN MEDICINE – (see confidant someone wait)*
25 ACHAEAN – A PAEAN, with CH replacing P
26 MAL DE MER – MALE around DEM, + R
27 KISLEV – (likes)* + V
29 IN THE FAMILY WAY – IN THE FAMILY, + WAY
31 CHEMICAL – Lab, after CHE (Guevara) + MICA
34 INCIDENT – INDENT around CI
36 MAN OF THE MOMENT – E + NT, after MAN OF THE MOM
39 INSIST – (sit-ins)*
41 CAMBODIA – CAM + BOA around D + I
43 OUTBRED – OUT + BR + ED
46 THE NORMAL COURSE OF EVENTS – (unfasten or remove clothes)*
47 RETICULE – ROLE, with U replacing O, around cite (reversed)
48 TUYERE – (EU TYRE)*
49 CHAR – triple definition
53 OSMANLI – OS + MAN + sLIm
54 WARLOCK – raw, reversed, + LOCK
56 UNBOUND – U in BOND, after UN
57 KINDERGARTEN – KINDER + GAR, + net (reversed)
58 INSENTIENT – IN + SENTImENT

Down
1 BALACLAVA – double indication
2 UNSYMPATHETIC – (ethics put many)*
3 EARL – EARLy
4 ATLAS MOUNTAINS – (A nominal status)*
5 RED – bRED
7 ALTO – hidden in ScOTLAnd, reversed
8 SHETLANDER – SHE + T + LAND + ER
9 RELIEVED – RELIVED around E
10 DETERMINISM – DETER + MINIS + M
11 CELESTIAL – (teas I)* in CELL
12 DOPE – DO + PE (Physical Education)
13 BAKEWELL – BAKE WELL
19 CHOW MEIN – ME IN, after CHOW
21 ATHENE – hidden in seA THE NEptunian
22 MODERATO – MODE, + o tar reversed
23 CERVELAT – CERT around VELA
28 WHEEL OF FORTUNE – just a cryptic indication, I think
29 INITIATE – I + NIT I ATE
30 YEARBOOK – YEARn + BOOK
32 CLEARING HOUSE – OUSE, after CLEARING + H
33 STRATEGY – TEG in STRAY
35 DISCONTINUE – (in seduction)*
37 OCTAVE – double indication
38 WALLFLOWER – WALLOWER around FL
40 STEERSMAN – (mare’s nest)*
42 DURATION – RATION, after D + middle letter of ‘January’
44 DISCREDIT – DISC + R, + tide (reversed)
45 SMOCKING – M in SOCKING
50 FORK – FOR + K
51 BRAE – BRAkE
52 ABET – AET around B
55 KEN – double indication

4 comments on “Times Jumbo 1234”

  1. 41m but with ACHAEON, because I can’t spell ‘paean’.
    When I’m in charge clueing words like KISLEV and TUYERE with anagrams will be banned, and 23dn is the most unspeakably awful clue I’ve seen for a while.

    Edited at 2016-11-19 05:09 pm (UTC)

  2. Did this one yesterday in quite a few separate sessions which is the norm for me – I keep all the Saturday Times crosswords in a pile and get round to attempting them eventually, sometimes before they are blogged but usually weeks later by which time there is little point in adding a comment here. Managed to parse all the answers in this one which doesn’t always happen even when I manage to get all the answers. Thanks to blogger and setter.

    David, Warwick

  3. Keriothe already indicated my problems with this puzzle; I finally resorted to the dictionary sv CERV… for 23d, making this a DNF. No trouble with ACHAEANS, at least; the word is all over the Iliad.

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