Word Puzzle 153

Word Puzzle 153– Solution with Explanation 

Theme: None 

Clues:  

1. Police asked to comb a Tiverton house suspected to be the hideout of a militant (9) 

   Combative, of (hidden), militant (def), rest is fodder. 

2. Most audacious font type? (8)  

   Boldface, most (delete last letter in) bold-faced (audacious), font type (def) 

3. Offend the fashionable neighbor (8) 

   Infringe, offend (def), in (fashionable), fringe (neighbor) 

4. Scrappy Doctor Pat Hawthorne (2,3,7) 

   On the warpath, scrappy (def), doctor (anagram of) “Pat Hawthorne” 

5. Get cool red from blue? (3-7) 

   Off-colored, get (meta), cool red (target), blue (def), one way to get the target is via, anagram 

   (off) of “colored” 

6. Smug with “high” feeling? (6) 

   Uppity, smug (def), up (high), pity (feeling) 

7. Network facility (7) 

   Complex, DD. 

8. Commissioned officer’s keynote on the radio (7) 

   Colonel, commissioned officer (def), on the radio (homophone of) Kernel (keynote) 

9. Heart of his family was his kitten Oreo (5) 

   Tenor, heart (def), of (hidden), rest is fodder 

10. Operation Polestar (9) 

     Direction, DD 

11. Intelligent sounding single (8) 

     Discrete, discreet (intelligent), sounding (homophone), single (def) 

12. For starters, zip away from the Indian girl, who is stacked? (6) 

     Zaftig, for starters (1st letters in) “zip away ... girl”, stacked (def) 

13. How to stop Al with a pin? (6,4) 

     Postal code, how to (meta), stop Al (target), pin (def), one way to get the target is via, postal 

     anagram (code) 

14. Sure about naughty runt being enslaved (10) 

     Indentured, indeed (sure), about (container), naughty (anagram of) runt, enslaved (def) 

15. Stranger hiding in the street looks conspicuous (7) 

     Salient, alien (stranger), hiding in (insertion), St (street), conspicuous (def) 

16. Old boy’s fix was nebulous (7) 

     Obscure, OB’s (old boy’s), cure (fix), nebulous (def) 

17. Toxic content on social media destroyed my career, now I have no money!! (5) 

     Venom, toxic (def), content (hidden), rest is fodder. 

18. Command a German soldier to tail the entourage (7) 

     Possess, command (def), SS (a German soldier), to tail (positionally after), posse 

     (entourage) 

19. Hate the hymn about a leader of Alexendria (8) 

     Anathema, hate (def), anthem (hymn), about (container), a (a), leader of (1st letter in) 

     Alexandria. 

20. Hold back the defective spymaster clone (5,4,5) 

     Cramp one’s style, hold back (def), defective (anagram of) “spymaster clone”. 

21. Succeeded to get heard (4,3,5) 

     Made the grade, implicit meta, succeeded (def), get heard (target), one way to get the target 

     is via, anagram (made) of “the grade”