Word Puzzle 114

Word Puzzle 114 – Solution with Explanation

Theme: None.

Clues:

1. “Listen, I worry about what precedes the tower or coast” (5)

  Ivory, listen (homophone of) “I worry”, rest is def as in Ivory tower or Ivory coast.

2. Popcorn for the spooner or a smutty genre (3, 4)

Cop porn, spooner (spoonerism of) “popcorn”, smutty genre (def)

3. Waddle around and be a bum (6)

  Dawdle, around (anagram of) waddle, bum (def)

4. Slacker’s general knowledge about the medieval brothel from the east (9)

Goldbrick, slacker (def), GK (general knowledge), about (container), old (medieval), crib

(brothel), from the east (reversal of) “crib”

5. Republican in Dodge, high on gas breathes with heaviness (11)

Avoirdupois, R (republican), in (insertion), avoid (dodge), up (high), on (juxtaposition), O

(gas), is (breathes), heaviness (def)

6. Chap penning his first recipe book is some cook (6)

Happen, some (hidden), cook (def), rest is fodder.

7. Half-Jacks from Rolling stone’s number (7,4,5)

  Jumping Jack Flash, implicit meta, Half-jacks (target), one way to get it is via anagram

  (Jumping) of “Jack flash”.

8. Find Euro-gas that’s remarkable (10)

Outrageous, find (meta), Euro-gas (target), one way to get it is via anagram (out) of

“rageous”.

9. Upset to get Neil a silly gift that’s essentially striking (7)

Salient, upset (reverse scan), essentially (hidden), striking (def), rest is fodder.

10. Trashing one’s putting form (7,4)

    Setting upon, trashing (def), form (anagram of) “one’s putting”.

11. Family war? (8)

   Division, DD

12. Excuse for writing up, beginner’s “Enterprise Resource Planning” manual? (7)

   Pretext, excuse (def), writing up (reversal of) beginner’s (1st letters in/acrostic),

  “Enterprise Resource Manual” i.e., ERP, text (manual)

13. How to get open loan using aggression to overcompensate for small size (8, 7)

   Napoleon complex, how to (meta), open loan (target), rest is def., one way to get the target

   is via Napoleon anagram (complex)

14. Prescription from Apple for fixing your phone dropped in water? “rub rice on it” (6)

   Rubric, prescription (def), from (hidden), rest is fodder.

15. Edited preamble, with a note is passable (9)

   Permeable, edited (anagram of) preamble, with (juxtaposition), E (note), passable (def)

16. Second-rate work goes to pieces (5)

   Apart, second (second letter in) rate i.e., a, part (work), to pieces (def)

17. Oblige regularly in job when in doubt (7)

  Dubiety, regularly (alt letters in) “oblige”, in (insertion), duty (job), doubt (def)

18. Planet at the center of universe with retrograde star (5)

   Venus, planet (def), center of (middle letters in) universe, with (juxtaposition), retrograde

   (reversal of) sun (star)

19. Fruit bird (9)

   Raspberry, DD.

20. Sign set in the exotic Narnia, the fantasyland (7)

   Nirvana, V (sign), set in (insertion), exotic (anagram of) Narnia, fantasyland (def)

21. Setter and that cockney woman on a float (7)

   Meander, me (setter), and (and), er (that cockney woman), float (def)