Word Puzzle 129

Word Puzzle 129 – Solution with Explanation

Theme: None.

Clues:

1. Excess of rare iron in gas (7)

Surfeit, excess (def), r (rare), Fe (iron), in (insertion), suit (gas)

2. Frustrate electricity distribution company perhaps with attack (9)

Discomfit, frustrate (def), discom (electricity distribution company), with (juxta), fit (attack)

3. Spill down by the sound of it (6)

Unveil, spill (def), unwell (down), by the sound of it (homophone)

4. Unintentional stress on gangster without papers (10)

Accidental, unintentional (def), accent (stress), on (juxta), Al (gangster), without (container),

ID (papers)

5. Do some analysis and set the speed limit at eighty miles per hour on this stretch (7)

Imitate, do (def), some (hidden), rest is fodder.

6. Cope with Whig’s competitor in a riot (4,2,5,4)

Come to grips with, cope with (def), in a riot (anagram of) “Whig’s competitor.”

7. Fell from grace to get wealth (5,3,3)

Broke the law, implicit meta, fell from grace (def), wealth (target), one way to get the target

Is via anagram (broke) of “the law.”

8. Hanging disallowed (8)

Declined, DD.

9. How to get niter from blend? (8)

Intermix, how to (meta), niter (target), blend (def), one way to get the target is via inter

anagram (mix)

10. Build up in anxiousness? Ring a therapist (6)

   Gather, build up (def), in (hidden), rest is fodder.

11. Recession blues (10)

   Depression, DD.

12. Draw the outspoken king (6)

   Magnet, draw (def), outspoken (homophone of) magnate (king)

13. God appeared and asked them “you guys been good?”, “yah, we have” they responded (6)

   Yahweh, God (def), appears in (hidden), rest is fodder.

14. Hot seat (7)

   Capital, DD.

15. How to goad Lin by leeching (11)

   Freeloading, how to (meta), goad Lin (target), leeching (def), one way to get the target is

   via anagram (free) of loading.

16. Classify the role in remark (11)

   Compartment, classify (def), part (role), in (insertion), comment (remark)

17. Exorcise to get ghouls (6,3)

   Slough off, implicit meta, exorcise (def), ghouls (target), one way to get the target is via

   slough anagram (off)

18. All right, now correlate! (8)

   Adequate, all right (def), AD (now), equate (correlate)

19. Consort’s blows hurt Rushdie badly (3,9,4)

   Rub shoulders with, consort (def), badly (anagram of) “blows hurt Rushdie.”

20. Ouster of East German with prejudice (9)

   Ostracism, ouster (def), OST (East in German language), racism (prejudice)

21. Couple snow-boarding around the capital of Tajikistan (10)

   Scattering, couple (def), S (snow), catering (boarding), around (container), capital of

  (1st letter in) Tajikistan i.e., T