Word Puzzle 159

Word Puzzle 159 – Solution with Explanation 

Theme: None 

Clues:  

1. After losing heart, dropout against the woman’s preference? (8) 

Druthers, losing heart (delete middle letters in) dropout, against (juxta), Her's (woman’s), 

    preference (def) 

2. Quiet about counter-revolutionary study (6) 

Ponder, p (quiet), on (about), counter (reversal of) red (revolutionary), study (def) 

3. Which Aryan supremacist is secretly conservative? (5) 

Chary, conservative (def), secretly (hidden) 

4. Flexible guy adopting the fashion label (9) 

Malleable, flexible (def), male (guy), adopting (container), fashion (anagram of) label. 

5. Agent Seagram tipped the impresario (5,7) 

Stage Manager, tipped (anagram of) “Agent Seagram”, impresario (def) 

6. Channel boss (6) 

Leader, DD. 

7. Magician pranks the cockney girl (9) 

Trickster, magician (def), tricks (pranks), t (the), er (cockney girl) 

8. Get handouts with Beatles number (5,3,5) 

Twist and shout, get (meta), handouts (target), Beatles number (def), one way to get the 

target is via anagram (twist) of “and shout” 

9. White light (6) 

Benign, DD. 

10. What will you get here? A lot better understanding of the incorporeal (8) 

    Ethereal, of (hidden), incorporeal (def), rest is fodder. 

11. Fierce prize-fighter hold’s back on credit notes (10) 

   Pugnacious, fierce (def), pug (prize-fighter), can (hold), back, reversal of can, on (juxta), 

      IOUS (credit notes) 

12. How to obsess over Jason Sudeikis starrer? (8,6) 

   Horrible bosses, how to (meta), obsess (target), rest is def, one way to get the target is via, 

      anagram (horrible) of “bosses” 

13. Lake Buckner constructed in a manner that bypasses rules and niceties (4-7) 

   Bare-knuckle, constructed (anagram of) “Lake Buckner”, rest is def. 

14. I will repeat for the ignorant (10) 

   Illiterate, I’ll (I will), iterate (repeat), ignorant (def) 

 15. Moans from a member of secret society for men only (9) 

    Freemason, implicit meta, moans (target), rest is def., one way to get the target is via 

    anagram (free) of “mason” 

 16. Green in colour? Though that’s the best banana I’ve ever eaten!! (5) 

    Naive, green (def), in (hidden), rest is fodder. 

 17. Notice the disagreement after the princess left due to hardship (9) 

    Adversity, ad (notice), diversity (disagreement), left (deletion of) Di (princess), hardship 

    (def) 

 18. Essay test (5) 

    Trial, DD. 

19. The Doctor hit Harris in frustration (4,5) 

    Hair Shirt, doctor (anagram of) “hit Harris”, frustration (def) 

20. Loot the retreating socialist Greek character after emptying the pistol (7) 

   Plunder, loot (def), retreating (reversal of) [red (socialist), nu (Greek character)], after 

   (positionally after), emptying (delete all the middle letters of) pistol i.e.; PL 

21. Odd looking dated dispenser of paper money (4,10) 

   Dead Presidents, odd looking (anagram of) dated dispenser, paper money (def)