Saturday Times Jumbo Cryptic 1182 Saturday December 19Th 2015

[sandranufc]

44a I picked up stroke as batter (7) e?e?a?h 30a film directors genius retaining heartless scene (10) ???e?s?e?n

[Captain2]

Eisenstein

[fiction-factory]

eyewash (bather?)

[fiction-factory]

eyelash sorry so it is batter (an eyelid)

[sandranufc]

Thank you captain an fiction factory and merry Christmas

[dannyk13]

Eyelash
Eisenstein

[fiction-factory]

Thanks. Same to you sandra. (Is the NCUF a reference to your team?)

[Captain2]

... and all the best to you and yours sandranufc

to explain 44
Genius = Einstein + s(cen)e heartless scene, gives you film director

[fiction-factory]

NUCF not NCUF

[dannyk13]

FF it is actually NUFC

[newton.11]

30a = EISENSTEIN = Einstein (genius) with SE (heartless ScenE) = film director