Word Puzzle 125

Word Puzzle 125 – Solution with Explanation

Theme: None.

Clues:

1. Money grabbing purple dinosaur? What nonsense!! (7)

Blarney, L (money), grabbing (container), Barney (purple dinosaur), nonsense (def)

2. Talk featuring John who ranked first at Eton (5)

  State, talk (def), featuring (hidden), rest is fodder.

3. Frank was fourth in audition for real (10)

Forthright, in audition (homophone of) fourth which is forth, right (for real)

4. How to find the red file with the help of a baseball player? (10)

Outfielder, how to find (meta), red file (target), baseball player (def), one way to get the

target is via anagram (out) of “fielder”.

5. Forget the heart surgery perhaps (6)

Bypass, DD

6. Increase the fenced area around the building say (8)

Compound, DD (as in increase and as in fenced area around the building for example)

7. Sacrifices for the singer? (9)

Offerings, implicit meta, sacrifices (def), singer (target), one way to get the target is via,

anagram (off) of “erings”

8. What Djokovic did when the chair umpire called his serve, “let” was dumb? (8)

  Reserved, cryptic double definition as in dumb and as in, tennis players “serve again” after a

  let call.

9. Cool come back in setting up an elaborate prank to fool a close buddy. (5)

Aloof, cool (def), come back (reversal), in (hidden), rest is fodder.

10. Mellow whale fillet cooked warm (4-6-4-3)

   Hail-fellow-well-met, cooked (anagram of) “mellow whale fillet”, warm (def)

11. Show how to ruin toast with an example (12)

    Illustration, show how to (meta), ruin toast (target), example (def), one way to get the

    target, is via anagram (ill) of “ustration”

12. Body of a hero with an attitude (9)

   Substance, body (def), sub (hero), stance (attitude)

13. Classify section in note (11)

   Compartment, classify (def), part (section), in (insertion), comment (note)

14. Trump led the RNC into a state, best described as, dazed and inherently confused (7)

   Rumpled, confused (def), inherently (hidden), rest is fodder.

15. Claim that a pin was found in beer (6)

   Allege, claim (def), leg (pin), found in (insertion), ale (beer)

16. Sleepy feeling with most of the set surrounded by tranquility (9)

   Quiescent, sleepy (def), most of (delete last letter in) scene (set), surrounded by (container),

   quiet (tranquility)

17. Deport the group (8)

   Relegate, DD

18. Cover a metropolis looking for job (8)

   Capacity, cap (cover), a (a), city (metropolis), job (def)

19. Cover for ten revolutionary men, infiltrating the center (5,6)

   Locum tenens, cover (def), revolutionary (anagram of) “ten men”, infiltrating (insertion),

   locus (center)

20. Breaking into both email boxes with a key (6)

   Outing, breaking (def), out + in (both email boxes), with (juxta), g (key)

21. She carried her bag every day to the office, it was in this horrible shade of green (7)

   Herbage, green (def), of (hidden), rest is fodder.