Word Puzzle 164

Word Puzzle 164 – Solution with Explanation 

Theme: None 

Clues:  

1. Place in Alabama for resources? (11) 

Wherewithal, where (place), with (in), AL (Alabama), resources (def) 

2. Busy maggot devouring most of the corn (6) 

Bemuse, busy (def), bee (maggot), devouring (container), most of (delete last letter in) mush 

(corn) 

3. Lively? In-fact quite the opposite, “Man! I’m a tedious sort ...” (8) 

Animated, lively (def), in (hidden), rest is fodder. 

4. Reign with sacrifice? (8) 

Offering, implicit meta, reign (target), sacrifice (def), one way to get the target is via, 

    anagram (off) of “ering” 

5. Rock genre with stamina say (5) 

Metal, rock genre (def), mettle (stamina), say (homophone) 

6. Bull beef? (6) 

Muscle, DD. 

7. Reprimand for casual wear? (5,4) 

Dress down, DD. 

8. Bald, non-binary mother perhaps (11) 

Transparent, bald (def), trans (non-binary), parent (mother perhaps) 

9. Benefits of sugarcane juice are somewhat ambiguous (6) 

Arcane, somewhat (hidden), ambiguous (def), rest is fodder. 

10. Curious to meet fat Howey? (3-2-3-3) 

   Out-of-the-way, to meet (meta), curious (def), fat Howey (target), one way to get the target 

   is via, anagram (out) of “of the way” 

11. Foul number 1 say (7) 

   Noisome, foul (def), NoI (number one), some (say). 

12. Favourite dessert (5) 

   Sweet, DD. 

13. Plunked for this fat brown tote in shreds? (4,2,3,3) 

   Went to bat for, plunked for (def), in shreds (anagram of) “fat brown tote” 

14. Sail without a setter in wreckage (7) 

   Flotsam, float (sail), without (deletion of) a, sam (setter, i.e. me), wreckage (def) 

15. Cream for brutal cold respite (5,6) 

   Corps d‘elite, cream (def), brutal (anagram of) “cold respite” 

16. Crash of all servers lead to a major rush at terminal 2 (7) 

   Shatter. Crash (def), of (hidden), rest is fodder. 

17. Revisit nineties with gravitational redshift (8,5) 

   Einstein shift, revisit (meta), nineties (target), rest is def, one way to reach the target is via, 

   Einstein anagram (shift) 

18. Weary of trick by English anarchist (9) 

     Knackered, weary (def), knack (trick), by (juxta), E (English), red (anarchist) 

19. About the lowest form of poor (3,2,3,6) 

     Out at the elbows, anagram of (form of) “about the lowest”, poor (def) 

20. Leaderless venture involved in embezzlement (10) 

     Peculation, leaderless (delete 1st letter in) speculation (venture), embezzlement (def) 

21. Run in with a small caravan (7) 

     Scamper, run (def), s (small), camper (caravan)