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Tracks
No 1654
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
10 Cause, justification (6)
11 Eventually (2,3,6,2,4)
12 Deserving reward or praise (11)
18 Person held in custody (8)
20 Enjoying a run of success
(2,3,5,2,1,4)
22 Place of worship (6)
24 Cutting instrument (8)
26 Selfless concern for others’
wellbeing (8)
29 Magically or surprisingly changed
(14)
32 Adversary (8)
33 Barrier maker; swordsman (6)
34 Greatly surprise (11)
36 Frivolous; giddy (5-6)
37 Reinforced resin material (10)
39 High noble estate (9)
42 Italian name of Sicilian city (8)
46 Eg, physics (7)
47 Shiny plating (6)
49 Well known (5)
51 Large group of fish (5)
52 Assistant (4)Cryptic clues
Across
1 In position with weapons for
military command (7,4)
7 Say what I saw and heard, naked
man in court (4,7)
13 No piffling oration broadcast, but
something of enduring value (9-8)
14 Fields for example almost all next
to sea (5)
15 Macbeth’s life a brief one, but a
measure of a certain intensity (6)
16 Heavenly group beg one to
interrupt less regularly (8)
17 Material can appeal to the left,
and in France to the right (7)
19 Excellent month with a brilliant
sight (9)
21 Bond linking animal to one insect
(8)
23 Jump out of plane tree in the end
(4)
25 Indian sage’s last to lead islanders
(5)
27 Odds on at first, nonetheless (4,2)
28 Water and a leek vegan digested
(4,6)
30 Sweet ban rejected: a handout all
round (8)
31 They distrust all sportsmanship:
it flourished only without pressure
(14)
34 Baronet is concealing difficult
time, old flame discovered (7,2,5)
35 In Rome, building stone dries up,
but not out (2,6)
38 Soldiers love armoured vehicles to
capture so-called German (5,5)
40 Heart is troublesome, somewhat,
for performer (6)
41 Captain engaging Mike to do a
rush job (5)
43 In inaccessible place I lost Jane (4)
44 Artist and minor comic (8)
45 A “dispiriting” worker, tax
inspector finally traps men (9)
48 Wounded hare — it’s less speedy?
(7)
49 Angry way we must enter lawless
zone (4,4)
50 Hard work with a new
catchphrase (6)
53 A poem in part of cell (5)
54 Most substantial course is
something involving blackbirds?
Allow opposition (5,2,10)
55 No one more important than
Cassius once? (3,8)
56 Three or four days perhaps a short
space to penetrate obscure
knowledge (4,7)
Down
1 Operetta ticket costs around
November said to fluctuate (8,3)
2 The end, in two languages, is
delicate in another (5)
3 People being leaderless, competent
king is creator of opportunities (7)
4 Fight’s ending with victory for
Tweedledum — or Tweedledee?
(4)
5 Remarkably rare day round
fireplace for head of gang (10)
6 Cleaner, or theatre ghost? (8,6)
7 Most general doubts are resolved
after leaving university (8)
8 Briefly, a storyteller’s other name
(5)
9 Employee carries on, clean (4,5)
10 Drum almost filled with a fruit (6)
11 Animals in group on the way out?
(10,7)
12 Profit from ID document, and
betray trust (4,3,4)
18 Charlie admitted too many
tenants: one’s on the bed (8)
20 For example, Plato’s gall-bladder
problem that has a transforming
effect? (12,5)
22 Short performance by little
creatures and big ones (6)
24 Wanting assistance from power in
underworld, minutes away from
tricky situation (8)
26 Senior pupil hid lager to distribute
(4,4)
29 Vehicle fitted with the one
replacement body part that
sparkles in its turn (9,5)
32 In regular succession go off
people, forgetting first name (8)
33 Shown a card — taken (6)
34 Penniless, taking new courage,
loving disaster? (6,5)
36 Really, really mean to take charge
(11)
37 Man of the cinema shot tennis, I
see (10)
39 For Judith and others, a call father
accepts with cry of delight (9)
42 Being most stupid, is buried in wet
earth (8)
46 Writer leaves joint epistle
unfinished (7)
47 Long and very narrow lake I
approach (6)
49 Expression of delight about
examiner’s last question (5)
51 Messy stuff runs out of some rock
(5)
52 Inspection of car that is held (4)Across
1 Useful and informative (11)
7 Radioactive element (11)
13 Ceremony marking sovereign’s
official birthday (8,3,6)
14 Thespian (5)
15 Had the same opinion (6)
16 Work in imitative style (8)
17 Form of demonstration (7)
19 Bride’s clothes and linen (9)
21 Top garment (8)
23 Wild pig (4)
25 Genus of trees (5)
27 In slow time (6)
28 Representative of the ship’s owner
on a merchant ship responsible for
the goods being carried (10)
30 Equestrian sport (8)
31 Unpredictability of behaviour (14)
34 Predicting the future (7-7)
35 Small quantity (8)
38 Help, aid (10)
40 Innermost membrane around an
embryo (6)41 Support for injured arm (5)
43 Shapeless mass (4)
44 Leaving a mark on the skin (8)
45 Becoming active again (9)
48 Arrived at (7)
49 Pink bird (8)
50 Very thin paper (6)
53 Mission in San Antonio (5)
54 Emergency device in rail carriages
(13,4)
55 That's absurd (3,4,4)
56 Untidy (11)Down
1 Hard to control or deal with (11)
2 Clean abrasively (5)
3 Subdue by force (7)
4 Eg, bamboo (4)
5 Done within a building (10)
6 How synthesisers produce sound
(14)
7 Musical note (8)
8 Not tightly fixed (5)
9 Place for hearth and grate (9)times2 clues
Jumbo crossword No 1561
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 —
including The Times Universal
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
1561, PO Box 2164, Colchester, Essex CO2 8LJ; or
emailed to: [email protected], with “Cryptic 1561”
or “times2 1561” in the subject line, to arrive by June 23.
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