Word Puzzle 145 – Cryptic Clues:
Theme: Captain bone spur’s wild, wild world
Clues:
1. Pawn defense (8)
2. Petty cash kept economy liquid (6,5)
3. Fortune of doom, Waikiki’s metal band made the top 50’s list last week (6)
4. How to find a loner sap with goods? (8,7)
5. IBM users break down in depression over the expenditure (12)
6. Seize the distinguishing feature embodying the old city (5)
7. How to get the boogerman with repercussion? (9,6)
8. Draft duty (6)
9. Odd movie about JD Vance’s wife holding Trump’s head on demand? (4-4)
10. Trump’s lawyer introducing the new age Cuban dance (8)
11. Cathleen Marcos arranged to “get” the corrupt US supreme court judge (8,6)
12. Sailor’s myth according to hearsay, is about the special counsel (4, 5)
13. The Don is making amends finally, after living a life full of debauchery (8)
14. After commencement, the attitude to welcome the King (lacking any alternative) was that
of restraint (10)
15. Succeeded to get heard (4,3,5)
16. Dictator’s venture flourished (6)
17. Lesser of the two evils? As one could easily infer, I ordered the right choice (8)
18. Mysterious Mandrake hovers over the supremo (5,3,6)
19. Regularly demean after depression, by replacing love with extreme anger on this night of
witches (9)
20. Feverish? Then quit the eccentricity by limiting the unfavorable aspect (8)
21. Former first lady without an award in battling cancer (8)