Theme: Job Tiles and Descriptions
Featuring job titles related to the paranormal, high-falutin’ job titles found on the internet, other interesting job titles,
and sundry words for padding purposes.
by Ken Greatorex and Roy Arnott
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STANDARD CLUES
Note that actual job titles that have been used in sampled employment advertising are shown in blue italics
ACROSS:
1. Confidence trickster’s assistant; stooge [5]
9. Someone who works on an oil exploration crew [12]
10. Diviner or dowser of water or minerals [9]
13. Employ [3]
14. “Media Distribution Officer” [8]
15. “Gastronomical Hygiene Technician” [10]
17. Creative activity, such as painting, music, literature, and dance [3]
19. Evil spirit removalist [8]
22. The study and practice of fermentation of beer and wine [7]
24. Pig’s place [3]
27. Sought after property of bread, but not so much of old men [6]
29. Smear with paint or other sticky substance [4]
30. Silver’s symbol [2]
32. Second-in-command to a specific pirate in children’s fiction [4]
34. Small portable computer [6]
36. Exhibitionist [5]
37. Person authorized to draw up or certify contracts, deeds, wills, etc [6]
39. Point on the compass rose equivalent to a bearing of 67° 30′ [3] (Hint: NE is 45°)
40. “Entrance and Exit Facilitator” [7]
42. Tear [3]
44. Ore of lead [6]
46. Scrap glass for recycling [6]
48. Cause to be loved or liked [6]
50. Surprisingly Rufinus, not Francis has the job of Patron Saint of this central Italian city [6]
51. Mountain, possibly of ice [4]
53. “Guest Services Agent” [12]
55. Tough skin of certain fruit [4]
57. Seat on a horse [6]
59. Fish eggs [3]
61. (British) Ticket scalper; (American) one who sells racing tips [4]
62. Crystal ball gazer [6]
63. Joint between thigh and lower leg [4]
64. Tin’s symbol [2]
66. Enquire too inquisitively into one’s private affairs [3]
68. Month [3]
69. One whose job description is “Performer of Circumcisions” [5]
70. Charlatan (formerly a seller of patent medicines) [10]
DOWN:
1. Designated wise person [4]
2. Rein, tether [5]
3. Inclined to stereotype or discriminate against elderly people [6]
4. Illegal seizure of power [4]
5. Traditionally: one who was skilled in the paranormal arts [5]
6. One who prophesies on the basis of visions of the future [4]
7. Of repulsive appearance [4]
8. & 21 down: Paranormal principles applied liberally to architecture and design in some countries [4, 4]
11. Building which houses things of historical, scientific, artistic or cultural interest [6]
12. Novel [3]
16. Beam [3]
18. Weight of an empty vehicle or container [4]
21. See 8 down
22. Great enthusiasm for a cause [4]
23. Member of a film crew [4]
25. One whose occupation is reading tea leaves [13]
26. One who claims to have been abducted by aliens [11]
27. One who studies crop circles [11]
28. & 45 down: “Brand Ambassador, (Retail)” [4, 9]
31. & 56 down: “Waste Management and Disposal Technician” [7, 3]
33. Adult male humans [3]
35. & 52 down: “Adventure Travel Site Interpreter” [4, 5]
38. “Mixologist” [9]
41. Main constituent of chromosomes [3]
43. Liquid produced in infected tissue [3]
45. See 28 down
47. “Information Advisor” [9]
49. “Modality Managers” [6]
52. See 35 down
54. Musical instrument [4]
56. See 31 down
57. Remove surface layer from liquid [4]
58. Contradict, repudiate, gainsay [4]
60. Gem [4]
64. A worker who does not join a strike or who takes the place of another worker who is on strike [4]
65. “_ _ _ degree”; raised to a very high level [3]
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS:
1. Quiet sick stooge [5]
9. Member of launch crew of V1? [12]
10. Let loose or cage men to find what is below the surface [9]
13. America takes direction to utilise [3]
14. Spread pop by ear for news spreader [8]
15. Lowest form of kitchen life [10]
17. Confused sailor provides creative work [3]
19. Confront demons with former Middle Earth goblin specialist? [8]
22. Wine is sunlight, held together by water. — Galileo Galilei
A poetic version of this study [7]
24. Porcine palace? [3]
27. Number oxidised to form a hard surface layer [6]
29. Slap on gold in sound level [4]
30. Metal found within limits of folio [2]
32. Seem confused? Hook Bosun [4]
34. One circuit with spinning device computes [6]
36. Words change for exhibitionist [5]
37. Yon rat, the lawyer [6]
39. Academic not involved in colonic irrigation provides direction [3]
40. Light weight in British Rail, but can block door [7]
42. Tear found in centre of offal [3]
44. Strong wind not applicable to source lead [6]
46. Copper, 50, rented glass scraps [6]
48. Expensive finish to make loveable [6]
50. Chez Francis [6]
51. Make mountain – note energy unit [4]
53. Into receipts sorting at check in [12]
55. Mill without gravity to leave skin [4]
57. Miserable number, the French, on horse [6]
59. Even groove components are fishy [3]
61. Where French in motorcycle race urge [4]
62. Sulphurated weeper has a ball [6]
63. Birth joint we hear [4]
64. Take opposite directions to find metal [2]
66. Odd characters at a do stick their nose in [3]
68. Might be a period [3]
69. Off cutter, but it is not cricket [5]
70. Get up, note the kitty, fraudster! [10]
DOWN:
1. Herb is wise [4]
2. Tether the French residue [5]
3. Adage is true but it contains discriminator [6]
4. Police officer carries heavy metal to strike a blow [4]
5. Taped, twisted but competent [5]
6. Move bishopric to King for one to foretell the future [4]
7. Smug lyrics contain part lacking beauty [4]
8. & 21 down: Align fine gush for qi harmony [4, 4]
11. A daughter of Zeus, with hesitation, establishes a collection [6]
12. All but S points to novel arrangement [3]
16. Its angle of incidence equals its angle of departure [3]
18. Gross – Payload [4]
21. See 8 down
22. To laze about is not consistent with this [4]
23. The King is dead. Take hold [4]
25. Camellia stem appendage prognosticator [13]
26. Exec ripener used for ET guests [11]
27. Esoteric log adjusted for paddock art assessor [11]
28. & 45 down: Counter operative to grass on accomplice [4, 9]
31. & 56 down: Spencer’s job [7, 3]
33. Users found in rest room entrance [3]
35. & 52 down: Tripper herdsman? [4, 5]
38. Joe’s job [9]
41. And changed forensic marker [3]
43. Work lacks nothing but shows sign of infection [3]
45. See 28 down
47. Marion’s job [9]
49. Florence’s jobs [6]
52. See 35 down
54. Medical specialisation at Old England makes wind [4]
56. See 31 down
57. Scrape snow gear x 1000 [4]
58. Use suede nylon, but it has scope to contradict [4]
60. Woo tells us it enhances cosmic consciousness and induces psychic and mystical visions [4]
64. Yellow element + yellow taxi = pariah [4]
65. This degree could be 360 [3]