Whereas “Uz”, she said in proper Yorkshire, are the people the Playhouse wanted to welcome. “Us”, she explained in a put-on, posh-provincial accent, are the people who are supposed to go to the theatre and read Literature and attend books festivals in grand marquees in southern England. Some years ago at a somewhat posh literature festival in the provinces I heard the then artistic director of the Playhouse, Jude Kelly, explaining what she understood by the phrase People Like Us. “I’m black, I’m from Dudley, I’m working class. “It seemed to me that Shakespeare was very much in the province of posh people,” he said on a Radio 4 series about the Bard. HUMDINGER - a DINGER is a bell, but a HUM is a buzz, so.Two years before making his serious stage debut as Othello at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Lenny Henry summed up his attitude to Shakespeare. THUMBPIECES - cryptic def, you need your thumb to hitch-hike, and you use it to press a thumbpieceĤ0 Piece of chicken held in the kitchen? (9)ĭRUMSTICK - double def, where the "kitchen" is a percussion sectionĤ2 Fabulous example of bell doubling as buzzer? (9) RIVER GOD - RD "protecting" IV ERGO ģ4 Former copper and spy chief in court getting pardon (6,2)ĮXCUSE ME - EX CU + M in SEE ģ5 Old creatures trampled, breaking into bits across pond (11)ĭIMETRODONS - TROD ON, "breaking into" DIMES ģ6 Do add a dose - a shot - and absolutely no more (4,2,1,4)ĭEAD AS A DODO - (DO ADD A DOSE A*) ģ7 They can be depressed by what it takes to hitch-hike! (11) What else did you guys enjoy?ġ Reduction in aid given to church body (7)ĬHASSIS - ASSISUKES ģ2 Water deity’s way, protecting quartet thus (5,3) Lots of potential CODs but I've just noticed again that 53ac's surface is a brilliant homage to Morse, so maybe I'll give it to that.
One of the best Jumbos I can remember blogging, this - quite often there's the feeling that a Jumbo setter might have (completely understandably, really!) gone into churn mode to get the job done, but there are a lot of clever, original, and/or legitimately hilarious clues here.
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