Word Puzzle 156

Word Puzzle 156 – Solution with Explanation 

Theme: None 

Clues:  

1. Desperate cash need constraining the famous Austrian neurologist’s epicaricacy (13) 

Schadenfreude, desperate (anagram of) “cash need”, constraining (container), Freud 

    (Austrian neurologist), epicaricacy (def) 

2. Command bridge partners by tipping? (5) 

Askew, ask (command), EW (bridge partners), tipping (def) 

3. Annie Hall portrayer nearly accepting the Royal Academy review as being harsh (9) 

Draconian, Diane (Annie Hall portrayer Diane Sawyer), nearly (delete the last letter), 

    accepting (container), RA (Royal Academy), con (review), harsh (def) 

4. Often dermatologists recommend cold showers to people who have skin that’s somewhat 

delicate (6) 

Tender, somewhat (hidden), delicate (def), rest is fodder. 

5. Weary about the first sign of rawness in male gland (9) 

Prostrate, weary (def), at the first sign of (1st letter in) rawness, in (insertion), prostate (male 

gland) 

6. Pulled away free (8) 

Detached, DD. 

7. In a strange way find the sandy hill (12) 

Outlandishly, in a strange way (def), find (meta), sandy hill (target), one way to get the target 

    is via, anagram (out) of “landishly” 

8. Model fled with Hank the cook (9) 

Transpire, T (model), ran (fled), with (juxta), spire (hank), cook (def) 

9. Dark cloud (7) 

Obscure, DD. 

10. Smash a downhill skiing record in darkness (6) 

   Shadow, in (hidden), darkness (def), rest is fodder. 

11. Gun law announced (6) 

   Cannon, gun (def), canon (law), announced (homophone) 

12. Offbeat spa’s tenth resort bombs!! (5,3,5,3) 

   Beats the pants off, resort (anagram of) “offbeat spa’s tenth”, bombs (def) 

13. Cushioning for me turning a skateboarding manoeuvre by the book (9) 

   Emollient, cushioning (def), turning (reversal of) me, ollie (skateboarding manoeuvre), by 

   the (juxta), NT (book) 

14. Supplement for a shelf? (5,3) 

   Flesh out, implicit meta, supplement (def), shelf (target), one way to get the target is via 

      flesh anagram (out) 

15. Soldier seen around the shelled site of D-day landing, associated with the final British letter 

   he ravened (11) 

   Gormandized, GI (soldier), seen around (container), shelled (remove letters from both ends 

      from) Normandy (D-day landing site), associated with (juxta), Zed (last letter in British 

      English), ravened (def) 

16. Buick Montana from the controversial Heath Ledger starrer (9,8) 

      Brokeback mountain, clue form of x from y => meta clue, Buick Montana (target), rest is 

   def, one way to get the target is via anagram (broke) of “back mountain” 

17. Bird shrink (5) 

   Quail, DD 

18. Recoil in horror from electromagnetic ring experiment results (6) 

   Cringe, recoil (def), in (hidden), rest is fodder. 

19. Blue states mostly in torpor (10) 

   Stagnation, stag (blue), mostly (delete last letter from) nations (states), torpor (def) 

20. Controls for state bisecting hellholes (7) 

   Stifles, controls (def), FL (state), bisecting (insertion), sties (hellholes) 

21. ... Elicits some boos and catcalls for the bipartisan speech in congress (5,5) 

   Calls forth, elicits (def), some (hidden), rest is fodder.