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Tracks
No 1602
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
18 Kitchen strainer (8)
20 Citrus preserve (9)
21 Horned mammal (10)
23 Lack of harmony (10)
27 Standing across (something) (9)
28 Close to utter failure (2,4,4,4)
31 Duration of existence (8)
33 Utterly absurd (12)
34 Securing (9)
37 (Of a voice) loud and powerful (10)
38 Senior cleric (10)
41 New coinage (9)
43 Managing board member (8)
45 Change the form of (7)
47 Spinach-eating sailor (6)
50 Freshwater fish (5)
51 Tropical climber (5)
52 Sudden rush of wind (4)Cryptic clues
Across
1 Quiet expert aboard vessel, stylish
craft (9)
6 Book hotel accommodation with
flash support for cleaner (10)
12 Opera item limitless selection
getting cheers (7)
13 Figure in Russian history circling
European border — this one? (9)
14 French town’s displays with no end
of luxury (5)
16 Representative uncovered person
circling a lake in Colorado initially
(12)
17 Support English account penned by
academic and cleric (10)
19 Good worker getting corporation to
invest in Russian currency in
scramble (5-3-6)
22 I sense accommodating half of
family would be shocking (8)
24 Kings besetting oil producers for a
small amount (6)
25 GP producing notes after key
treatment? (5,5)
26 Nice retired performer? (5)
29 Not often put forward or what’s
recalled in another area (4)
30 Very sweet article for cake
decoration (8)
32 Absurd address to judge is keeping
most of court in uproar (9)
34 Openings channelling right warm
material to fire (9)
35 Composer butchers composition (8)
36 Virile male, not clever, not very
good (4)
39 Tom’s first in to clinch bargain (5)
40 Father got bigger, ditching uniform
that’s in pieces (10)
42 Former Israeli leader penning
second lot of reminiscences (6)
44 Yes, a cuckoo with a limp is an
obvious target (4,4)
46 Old place, perhaps not upright,
containing a lot of buddleia,
rampant (6,8)
48 Source of milk and bread you
wheeled round? (3-7)
49 One promoting heathen Greek god
suppressed by Protestant (12)
53 Keep at the instructions, say,
extracting energy or gas (5)
54 Women’s greeting given to both
sides before game — it’s
revolutionary (9)
55 Better work on industrial efficiency
in the field? (7)
56 MI5 boss possibly securing shelter
for one about to go off? (10)
57 What sounds like very much a
routine wine? (9)
Down
1 Metal embedded in stone? That’s
some effort (5)
2 Dessert served with sweet wine in
later upheaval (10)
3 Daughter avoiding carefully
describing online business (1-7)
4 Anticipates chap’s securing work (5)
5 Fruit I’m beginning to munch, being
outside (9)
6 Put out male entering bar, falling
over (4)
7 Dismissed odd bits of curry? Uproar
(6)
8 Head of monastery bending
religious rule will get dismissal (8,6)
9 Holiday firm can get excited about
composer anniversary finally (6,6)
10 Copper pulled up a vehicle over
booze (7)
11 Subordinate cracked — runs for
moneylender (10)
15 Demo is kept up around America: a
bit of a headache generally (9)
18 Friends turned up a little hastily (8)
20 What’s in the overhead locker? (5,4)
21 Cost of hiring hill maybe involving
one is falling fast? (10)
23 Newspaper and book to peruse:
that’ll keep you going (5,5)
27 Excellent soldiers I placed around
castle, with stronger reason (1,8)
28 Expecting providing obstruction will
restrict line (2,3,6,3)
31 Very good to engage in popular
craze, eradicating a problem with
sleeping (8)
33 Aggression erupting in Greece
following alarm (12)
34 Spectators run to embrace tennis
great — it expresses warmth (3,6)
37 Join Labour, say, upset over a right-
winger being insulting (10)
38 New Zealand city very familiar with
good fashion (10)
41 Disreputable number taking top
prize, eliminating first three (9)
43 Bribe for radio announcer not
reduced? It should be stopped (8)
45 Possibly not full scale outrage (7)
47 Weak with age, from date around
zero? (6)
50 A sauce served up with Uruguay’s
foremost rice dish (5)
51 Only partially fair on soccer clubs
(5)
52 Happy head of BBC is upset about
French article (4)Across
1 Certainly not (2,2,5)
6 Armed or violent opposition (10)
12 Make slightly wet (7)
13 Hormone affecting heart rate (9)
14 Tartan twilled cloth (5)
16 Act of making (something) better
(12)
17 Resembling jelly (10)
19 Russian composer (6-8)
22 Visit places as a tourist (8)
24 Making a mistake (6)
25 Process of setting free (10)
26 Separated (5)
29 Horses harnessed together (4)
30 Registered as a member (8)
32 Rigid, unable to change (9)
34 Pleasant smell (9)
35 Unyielding quality (8)
36 Fish; singing voice (4)
39 Farm animal (5)
40 Truncating (10)
42 Spanning structure (6)
44 Ancient language of Italy (8)46 State of being made poor (14)
48 Close examination (10)
49 Deceitful person (6-6)
53 Fertiliser from seabirds (5)
54 Senior manager (9)
55 Keyboard composition (7)
56 Continuing or recurring (10)
57 Written notes (9)
Down
1 Billiard table material (5)
2 Fussy fault-finding (10)
3 Plant with humanlike root (8)
4 Adjust (to new conditions) (5)
5 Substitute (9)
6 Foul smelling; high social standing
(4)
7 Metal tray (6)
8 Melodramatic style (14)
9 Place for classical dramas (12)
10 Agile mountain creature; leather
(7)
11 Weakening, damage (10)
15 Having difficulty with reading
words or letters (9)times2 clues
Jumbo crossword No 1549
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
1549, PO Box 2164, Colchester, Essex CO2 8LJ; or
emailed to: [email protected], with “Cryptic 1549”
or “times2 1549” in the subject line, to arrive by April 21.
Open to 18+, UK & ROI residents only. The winners and
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