Times Jumbo 1259

Author   helenoughamPosted on Categories Jumbo Cryptic
I got 14ac and 57ac early on when solving this and thought there might be a wine theme, but – unless you also count 47dn – it looks as though it was just coincidence. 38dn was a new one on me.

As always, * indicates an anagram.

Across
1 COROT – hidden in sculpTOR OCcupied (reversed)
4 MEMORANDUM – MAN + DUMb, around Rome (reversed
9 CHEQUE – sounds like ‘Czech’ (though possibly not if you are Czech)
14 SAUVIGNON – S + AVIGNON around U
15 ARGUS PHEASANT – (ragu’s)*, + PEASANT around H
16 ANDORRA – AND, + RR in Overgrown + A
17 REPELLENT – REEL + LENT (the time of fasting), around Partner
18 DERBY – double definition
19 CHICKEN-HEARTED – CHIC + KEN + TED, around HEAR
22 TODDLER – Taste + ODDER, around L
25 ENTERPRISE – ENTER, + PRISE (sounds like ‘prize’)
27 DAILY EXPRESS – Y, in DAIL + EXPRESS
30 INIGO – IN I GO!
31 BRICKBAT – BRICK + BAT
32 LARBOARD – LARD around BOAR. Definition is ‘Sailor’s left’
35 DETRAINS – (and tries)*
36 ANACONDA – ANA + CON + D.A.
37 SCION – C in SImenON
39 REDISCOVERED – DISCO, in REVERE (Paul Revere) + D
41 DEGENERATE – DissolutE + (teenager)*
43 DEMOTIC – DEMO + TIC
45 REPRESENTATIVE – cREATIVE around PRESENT
48 PANTO – PAN + This Outrageous
49 UNSETTLED – double indication
51 PALERMO – PALER + MO
53 INCORPORATION – IN, + CORPORATION (old-fashioned jocular term for a belly)
54 NEAR THING – N + EARTHING
55 YONDER – hidden in beYOND ERitrea’s
56 TENDERFEET – TENDER FEET
57 PINOT – PI + NOTe

Down
1 CO-STAR – (Actor’s)*
2 ROUND THE TWIST – ROUND + THE TWIST
3 TRIER – R in TIER
4 MONTAGE – MONTAGuE
5 MONARCHISTIC – (rich)* in MONASTIC
6 REAPPEAR – REAP PEAR
7 NIGEL – In, reversed, + GEL
8 UNSTEADILY – (Lady Justine)*
10 HOARDED – could, with a lot of imagination, sound like ‘whore did’
11 QUADRILLE – A DRILL in QUE
12 ENTRY – sENTRY
13 WHAT’S THE DAMAGE – double indication
20 CORPORALS – CORPSe around ORAL
21 TEA-DANCE – first and last letters of each of the words ‘The Aged Association convene’
23 RESIDENCES – (See cinders)*
24 BEWILDERED – BE WILDE + RED
26 ROBINSON CRUSOE – ROBINS + ON, + CRU (sounds like ‘crew’), + alternate (odd) letters of ‘scored’
28 PUBESCENT – PUB (‘local’) + E + SCENT
29 SKIN-DEEP – N + DEE, in SKIP
33 ANIMADVERSION – pANIc + MAD VERSION
34 INDEPENDENCE – (dined)* around PEN, + ‘ENCE
38 PETRISSAGE – TraineR after PE, + I’S SAGE
40 DOMINICAN – DO + MINI + Cool + AN
42 DECLINER – DEC (short for Deceber) + LINER
44 TOO TRUE – TOOT + RUE
46 TOPMAST – (Toast MP)*
47 ROTGUT – ROT + GUT (German words for ‘red’ and ‘good’)
48 PLINY – PL + I + NY
50 THIRD – Teachers + HIReD
52 LIT UP – UP, after L + IT

7 comments on “Times Jumbo 1259”

  1. I may be wrong, but I have a feeling that ‘Rome’ in 4 ac. was clued as something like ‘city from the West’. As with ‘Air’ in ‘Iberia’ on Wednesday’, shouldn’t this be ‘city from the East’? Four-footer
    1. I think you’re right – didn’t catch on to this first time round! Unless we’re both missing something, it should be ‘city from the east’ as you suggest, or else ‘city to the west’, not ‘city from the west’.

      Does anyone else have thoughts on this?

    1. Hi Ong’ara – yes, I liked 53ac too.

      ‘gel’ is a (rather outdated) upper-class English pronunciation of ‘girl’.

      ‘corpse’ can mean – in the theatrical context in the UK; I’m not sure whether it’s much used elsewhere – to unintentionally step out of character by laughing, or to be so incapacitated by laughter as to have to stop performing.

      All the best, Helen

  4. I suspect that 4ac is an error for ‘from the east’; ‘to the west’ seems too vague for Rome. DNK PETRISSAGE (LOI); and I was slowed down some by TENDERFEET, as I would have expected ‘tenderfoots’. The word is a so-called exocentric compound, which regularize: sabretooths, lowlifes, bigfoots, etc. COD to 33d.
  5. Tks for yr excellent blog of an enjoyable puzzle. I needed your explanation for ROTGUT. PETRISSAGE was new to me too, but I got it from wordplay.

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