Times Jumbo 735

[cheaton]

42d - one's free to stop, but does one take more chances with his help? 4,5

[kettledrum]

I think I put slip coach, but didn't understand the 2nd part of the clue.

[Aquagility]

What letters?

[kettledrum]

Aquagility - I had S - I - C - A - H

...Some think it helps our Latin - noStrum
...I know the 'I' is right - TSEliot quote
... In game, defeat by English, about a hundred runs - laCrosse
...In one of the islands, Joseph wrote, one's not admitted - outcAst
...Without pretension, have to intervene in famine - down to eartH

Am reasonably confident about them all !

[cheaton]

I have the same answers as you kettledrum, I just couldn't get the slip coach bit - also thought about spin coach as you get more chances with a 'spin' - is it some cricketing term?? Thanks for your help.

[cheaton]

Just found out what a slip coach is so you must be right kettledrum - I suppose if he is coaching your slips - or mistakes, you may be able to take more chances?? Bit tenuous!

Thanks a lot.

[kettledrum]

The first part of the clue is, I think, to do with trains. A slip coach is one that is freed from the rest of the train - being pulled by an engine - and is left to free-wheel until coming
to a stop in the chosen station.

Don't understand the 2nd part at all !

[swannbaker]

Slip coach - one who coaches slip fielders .