Word Puzzle 130

Word Puzzle 130 – Solution with Explanation

Theme: For the 200th puzzle, all clues have answers that either have “CC” or “OO” in them

Clues:

1. Work residency (10)

Occupation, DD.

2. Another neolithic cupola was discovered after some hiatus (6)

Hiccup, some (hidden), hiatus (def), rest is fodder.

3. How do you spot a rood in open-air? (7)

Outdoor, how do you spot (meta), rood (target), open-air (def), one way to get rood is via

anagram (out) of door.

4. Bill demanded to be applauded (9)

Acclaimed, Ac (bill), claimed (demanded), applauded (def)

5. Snapshot on California, dream location of famous circus perhaps? (10)

Piccadilly, pic (snapshot), on (juxta), CA (California), dilly (dream), rest is def.

6. Pay-off after the offer dear freshman (10)

Tenderfoot, foot (pay off), after (positionally after), tender (offer), freshman (def)

7. I would stress about disaster (8)

Accident, I’d (I would), accent (stress), about (container), disaster (def)

8. Peripheral attachment (9)

Accessory, DD

9. Trance music is described as ultrachic. Corybantic gyrations as its characteristics, oft

aided by psychotropic substances such as extract of blue weed (8)

Chiccory, extract of (hidden), blue weed (def), rest is fodder.

10. Harbor the Italian mobster (6)

   Lagoon, harbor (def), La (the in Italian), goon (mobster) 

11. Corner an accountant on fee (6)

  Accost, corner (def), Ac (accountant), cost (fee)

12. Highwayman concealing the squeak of a marsupial say (9)

   Bandicoot, bandit (highwayman), concealing (container), coo (squeak), marsupial say (def)

13. Hurler needing no introduction, in euphoria mostly after employing a “bait and switch” (10)

   Switcheroo, pitcher (hurler), needing no introduction (delete 1st letter in), in (insertion),

   Swoon (euphoria), mostly (delete last letter), bait and switch (def)

14. Commander following in disguise (6)

   Occult, OC (commander), cult (following), disguise (def)

15. Register lawsuit against the cabinet (8)

   Bookcase, book (register), case (lawsuit), cabinet (def)

16. Pop music ceded to rock music after getting secretly trashed (6)

   Sicced, secretly (hidden), trashed (def), rest is fodder.

17. Escape clause for over-supply of pickle (8)

   Loophole, escape clause (def), over (reversal of) pool (supply), hole (pickle)

18. How to get hoof stowed? When no longer in danger? (3, 2, 3, 5)

   Out of the woods, how to get (meta), hoof stowed (target), no longer in danger (def), one

   way to get the target is via anagram (out) of “of the woods.”

19. Correspond with journalist who’s been awarded (8)

   Accorded, accord (correspond), with (juxta), ED (journalist), awarded (def)

20. Morrison magic scattered like a virus perhaps (13)

   Microorganism, scatters (anagram of) “Morrison magic”, a virus perhaps (def)

21. Killing the thoroughbred over the first signs of Strangles and Hendra (9)

   Bloodshed, killing (def), blooded (thoroughbred), over (container), first signs of (1st letters

   in) Strangles and Hendra