Times Jumbo 886 – Sat 28 August 2010

This I found was quite an easy puzzle, maybe the quickest I’ve ever solved a Times Jumbo, 47 mins.
* = anagram
ACROSS
1 DOG-EAT-DOG Cryptic definition punning on ‘boxer’ , a type of dog
6 DECONTAMINATE (I’d meant at once)*
13 LOOSE O in LOSE
14 PRAYER MAT Ayer (philosopher) in (tramp)*
15 HANUMAN AN in HUMAN
16 GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES 1953 movie starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe A very good cryptic definition that raised a smile
18 TU S SLING Sling referring to David and Goliath, I guess
20 NO BLESS E
21 SUSHI SLUSH less L I
23 DYEING “dying” pun on ‘fading’
24 T(h)E REDO
25 PAT RON ESS(ays)
28 SOLAR YEARS solar year is time world takes to go around sun
29 giN EVE
30 NICOSIA A1 SOC IN all reversed
32 HASHISH ASH IS in H and H
34 REAL regal less g real = very (American usage)
35 ACT ONE’S AGE ACTON E SAGE
38 DRESSES UP Good cryptic definition, punning on ‘gear’
39 DOUSED DO USED
40 Marie STOPES topes after last letter of blokishness
43 LOTUS LOT (French department) US (unserviceable = no good for anything)
45 ORDINATE (an editor)*
47 PIS ALLER s (son) and all in pier
49 ENOUGH IS AS GOOD AS A FEAST Cryptic definition
52 ISHMAEL hm (him heartlessly) for r(right) in Israel. Definition: outcast
53 BARCELONA A NO LE CRAB (all reversed)
54 REITH From early days of the BBC (Aunty) “wreath”
55 CARPET SWEEPER pet in car’s weeper
56 SWEETENER wee in (enters)*
DOWN
1 DELIGHTED light in deed
2 GROUND’S WELL Lord’s cricket ground in London
3 AREAL “aerial”
4 DOPAMINE (a pod) reversed mine
5 GRAINS in (home) in gras(s)
6 DEEP-ROOTED (do deportee)*
7 CAMP-FOLLOWER camp fo(o)l lower
8 NATURES Ur (ancient city) in nates (seat)
9 ACHILLES TENDON tend in a chill E son
10 INNINGS cf winnings (w = wicket)
11 AIMLESSNESS raiment becomes rent when there’s no ‘aim’
12 ERNE “earn”
17 MISSTATE Miss Tate (gallery)
19 LANDRAILS (all drains)*
22 TEARDROP tea r op containing dr (doctor)
25 PREACHER PR E’ER outside A CH
26 ORCHESTRA OR (soldiers) CHE (guerrilla)’S TRA (art reversed = revolutionary skill)
27 MEPHISTOPHELES (the simple hopes)*
28 SCHEDULE My favourite clue ed (editor) in (h clues)*
31 LANDING STRIP Cryptic definition punning on ‘taxi’
33 SHEET ANCHOR “She tanker”
36 APPELLATION “Appalachian”
37 AUCTIONEER Cryptic definition
41 STRETCHER Double definition
42 AIRS PACE
44 SAUSAGE USA in SAGE
46 DI SABLE
48 ODIOUS carOUSing after ODI
50 FIR ST
51 DISC discover less over (deliveries – cricket)