Times Cryptic Jumbo 1553 - 30 April 2022

[jerrywh]

Hello again. This Jumbo I thought was rather more straightforward than average, with no unknowns and only one spelling issue (at 34dn). Certainly a great deal easier than the beast that was 1548, the last one I blogged. There seemed to be a lot of girls (Ena,  Esther, Lucy, Susie) and quite a lot of extremely long single words clued with anagrams

Comments

[kevingregg]

DNK CHIV, only 'shiv'; DNK TALON, GEORGE. And DNK the verb 'naff', only the adjective, so I had some difficulty in making sense of the clue. Liked COTERIE.

[jackkt]

Popping in only to have my customary moan about CRESCENDO being clued as 'high point'. Unfortunately there's enough support for it now in reputable dictionaries to let the setter off the hook, but at least Collins has the decency to be sniffy about it by prefacing most of its entries that support it with 'some people say'. If we're going to stray from its actual meaning there's a perfectly logical argument to be made that when you 'reach a crescendo' you are at its lowest point and are about to begin getting louder.

[keriothe]

Not too hard but I also put ANESTHETISE with exactly the same logic. Drat.