Word Puzzle 127

Word Puzzle 127 – Solution with Explanation

Theme: None.

Clues:

1.  Make good for an infiltrating refugee, attracted to Spain (7)

  Expiate, make good for (def), I (an), infiltrating (insertion), expat (refugee), attracted to

(juxta), E (Spain)

2. Danger follows after thlaspi is regularly scattered (9)

Haphazard, hazard (danger), follows after (juxtaposition placement after), regularly (alternate

    letters in) thlaspi i.e., “hap”, scattered (def)

3. Gag the board and the CIO, at fault for magniloquence (11)

Braggadocio, at fault (anagram of) gag + board + CIO, magniloquence (def)

4. Quiet stroll on Saturday in hell?  (8)

Shambles, sh (quiet), amble (stroll), on (juxta), S (Saturday), hell (def)

5. Verbally say “agreed” (7)

  Allowed, aloud (verbally), say (homophone), agreed (def)

6. Critic once deduced that he was wrong and somewhat relented (8)

Conceded, somewhat (hidden), relented (def), rest is fodder.

7. Distress letters from priest stating that “God is temperamental”, causes commotion (9)

Distemper, distress (def), letters from (hidden), rest is fodder.

8. Make it through the rain (7)

Weather, DD.

9. Forward March (7)

Advance, DD.

10. Hot for haute spoof (4,3,2,5)

   Bent out of shape, implicit meta, hot (def), haute spoof (target), one way to get the target is

   Via anagram (bent) of “out of shape”

11. How to find Ms. Daniel with the help of young woman in trouble? (6,2,8)

    Damsel in distress, how to find (meta), Ms. Daniel (target), rest is def, one way to find the

   target is via “damsel in” anagram (distress)

12. How to be on set with a brickellbush plant? (5, 7)

   False boneset, how to (meta), be on set (target), rest is def, one way to get the target is via

   Anagram (false) of boneset

13. Hot bath impacting the tipsy? (8,2,3,3)

   Champing at the bit, hot (def), tipsy (anagram of) “bath impacting the”

14. Light ale brewed around here (8)

   Ethereal, light (def), brewed (anagram of) ale, around (container), there (here)

15. Thing for sweet tea say (9)

   Specialty, thing (def), special (sweet), say (homophone of) tea.

16. Lecture from a doctor in conclusive origin of earth (8)

   Lambaste, lecture (def), a (a), MB (doctor), in (insertion), last (conclusive), origin of

   (1st letter in) earth

17. Good selection of articles covering methods for precaval identification of blockage (5)

  Valid, good (def), selection (hidden), rest is fodder.

18. Original colors (9)

   Character, DD

19. Good walk with a friend (10)

   Legitimate, good (def), leg it (walk), with (juxta), I (a), mate (friend)

20. Hard luck for traders (3-7)

   Ill-starred, implicit meta, hard luck (def), traders (target), one way to get the target is via

   anagram (ill) of starred.

21. Heads of European Union countries have regularly engaged in this con (6)

   Euchre, 1st letters in (heads of) “European ... engaged”, con (def)