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Tracks
No 1174
Lay tracks
to enable
the train to
travel from
village A to
village B.
The numbers
indicate
how many
sections of
rail go in
each row
and column.
There are
only straight
rails and
curved rails.
The track
cannot
cross itself.
Solution
on Monday
19 Part of a chicken often broken (8)
22 Topic for debate (5)
23 Deprivation of official status (16)
25 Distinguished academic (7)
28 Herb of the parsley family (7)
29 Betraying disciple (5,8)
30 Place of escape from danger (8)
32 Not evoking much admiration (12)
34 Shell sometimes used as a trumpet
(5)
36 Audible expression of grief (11)
37 Unwilling to consider something (10)
40 Time for which an item is saleable
(5,4)
41 Imaginary literary kingdom (9)
43 Standing alone (7)
45 Mass of waves approaching the front
of a ship (4,3)
46 Society of insurance underwriters (6)
48 Steadiness, courage (5)
51 Rush of air; render (someone) out of
breath (4)Cryptic clues
Across
1 List that starts at H (8,5)
8 Problem reported by newspaper
occasionally (9)
13 Female writer briefly including
a mystic syllable (5)
14 All ventured out having
experienced little (11)
15 Covert mercenary in position in
Jamaica (5)
16 Philosopher one girl entertains
over the years (9)
17 School broadcast welcome (4)
18 American singer depressed meets
Charlie Parker (8)
20 Line appended to schedule going
round (6)
21 Flower of British nobility
baroness made famous? (7,9)
24 Baltic people succeeded amongst
elite pupils (9)
26 King opposed to an apriorist (7)
27 Fool in school system (5)
29 Toothache rages, having
consumed mostly cold drink (3,9)
31 Dramatic platform
accommodating good band (10)
33 One short poem penned by a
Mitford in Cambridge? (10)
35 Mark is sullen about English
having to stand for trespass (12)
38 Broadcast brings controversy (5)
39 Island man in Iowa converted
(3,4)
40 Putting together new dissertation
after second year (9)
42 Vulgar verse still needs correction
in book (9,7)
44 Sweet run for B52? (6)
47 Shoot wraps the whole onion (8)
49 Transgression involving parking
for short trip (4)
50 League has location for playing
across island (9)
52 Tree more bare with bark initially
removed (5)
53 Basic soldier, endlessly in two
minds, stops hunting target (11)
54 Absurd how dialogue ends (5)
55 Fungus needs soil and sun (9)
56 Valuable box: safe found in
stretch in river (8,5)
Down
1 Confine foreign character
ascending slope in shadowy
areas (9)
2 Search vigorously over time for
minor radical (7)
3 Girl born on farm makes
conciliatory gesture (5,6)
4 Crested lizard one year vanishing
from country (6)
5 Hatters mad to receive Roman
Catholic rulers (9)
6 Gossip from British bird about
soaps (12)
7 Woman on river leaves to cook
perennial favourites (10)
8 Completely convinced, faithful
ultimately placed in ground (4)
9 Mediator me in representative
level of organisation (6,10)
10 Charged for contract (5)
11 One incarcerated in murderous
family home (7)
12 One to relish canard spread? (13)
19 Ran second copy by news boss (8)
22 Opponents at table go to law for
result (5)
23 Food sent round hospital has
lactoprotein taken out (10,6)
25 Snacks made from bird parts (7)
28 Wicked male and one with
common sense (7)
29 New Stone Age hut is found in
buildings complex (7,6)
30 Lease smallest rooms — key
supplied for free (3,5)
32 Revised data given captures
deplorable weakness (12)
34 Resin from tree around eastern
India (5)
36 The other driver on move in
Cairo is a PhD (11)
37 Interpreter, one in principal role:
public house worker? (10)
40 Lecherous Sarah promises to pay
without bill (9)
41 Tight cord flexed when first
pulled (9)
43 Youth from Abydos with piercing
look (7)
45 Soldiers ordered to carry kit (7)
46 Bar worker keeps whiskey in
coat (6)
48 Tree line to extend over (5)
51 Stick close to housemate in
block (4)Across
1 Not kind or helpful; not likeable (13)
8 At extremely small scale (9)
13 Ring-shaped coral reef (5)
14 Smooth and musical to the ear (11)
15 Break; leave suddenly (5)
16 Something less impressive than
expected (4,5)
17 Man-eating giant (4)
18 Gift to charity (8)
20 Deliberate destroyer of property (6)
21 Desire to kill and maim (16)
24 Simplicity; country manner (9)
26 Range over which one can hear (7)
27 Technique of painting on dry
plaster (5)
29 City of South Africa (12)
31 Rough or harsh texture (10)
33 Not robustly; daintily (10)
35 Fourth wife of Henry VIII (4,2,6)
38 Warning device (5)
39 Radioactive element named after
a Danish physicist (7)
40 Telephone security device (9)
42 Planned new home for the Museum
of London (10,6)44 Securely moor at sea (6)
47 Green liqueur (8)
49 Egyptian goddess (4)
50 Lose one’s ability to cope (4,5)
52 Lazy person (5)
53 Desirability as a spouse (11)
54 Norwegian playwright (5)
55 Annoyed or teased unkindly (9)
56 Novel by Aldous Huxley (7,2,4)
Down
1 Like many garage doors (2-3-4)
2 Winter figure (7)
3 Assault; harassment (11)
4 Soldier’s protection (6)
5 Unsophisticated US country
person (9)
6 Branch of mathematics (12)
7 Elaborate vocal ornamentation (10)
8 Lead pellets; photographed (4)
9 Historic Hertfordshire market
town (7,9)
10 Opera by Puccini (5)
11 General feeling of illness or unease
(7)
12 Have done with an unprofitable
venture (3,4,6)times2 clues
Jumbo crossword No 1468
The prize for each of the first
correct solutions to the Cryptic
and times2 Jumbo clues to be
opened will be a collection of
Times reference books —
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Atlas of the World, Collins
English Dictionary & Thesaurus, and Bradford’s
Crossword Solver’s Dictionary published by
HarperCollins. Entries should be marked “Cryptic” or
“times2” and sent to: The Times Jumbo Crossword
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emailed to: [email protected], with “Cryptic 1468”
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