Word Puzzle 167

Word Puzzle 167 – Solution with Explanation 

Theme: None 

Clues:  

1. Soothe after being irritable (5-8) 

Short-tempered, implicit meta, soothe (target), irritable (def), one way to get the target is by 

deleting the last letter (short) from soothed (tempered) 

2. Elimination of time is inevitable? (7) 

Erasure, elimination (def), era (time), sure (inevitable) 

3. Cost management (6) 

Charge, DD. 

4. Go very quietly on a broken leg with indignation for a picture? (12) 

Doppelganger, do (go), PP (very quietly), on (juxta), broken (anagram of) leg, with (juxta), 

anger (indignation), picture (def) 

5. Ultimate fantasy no nymphomaniac can ever accept though somewhat it means the same (7) 

Synonym, somewhat (hidden), it means the same (def), rest is fodder 

6. Fuss over low grade given after finding a pellet in unfinished gimlet (7) 

Quibble, fuss (def), E (low grade), given after (coming positionally in the end), finding a BB 

    (pellet) in (insertion), unfinished (delete last letter of) quill (gimlet) 

7. Harshly criticize English beer found in this marvellous city of Brazil (3,4) 

Rip into, harshly criticize (def), pint (English slang for beer), found in (insertion), Rio 

   (marvellous city in Brazil)  

8. Help a spooner to hear a band (4,1,4) 

Bear a hand, help (def), spoonerism of hear a band = bear a hand 

9. While heading west, everywhere we tried the food, it was raw in this European city (6) 

Warsaw, while heading west (reverse scan), in (hidden) this European city (def), rest is 

Fodder 

10. Recapture the miracle perhaps (7) 

   Reclaim, recapture (def), perhaps (anagram of) miracle 

11. Scrap dump (7) 

   Abandon, DD. 

12. Eastern Ms. tumbled down the snake pit (5,4) 

   Mare’s nest, tumbled down (anagram of) Eastern Ms., snake pit (def) 

13. Get invalid UID from an Olympic swimming event? (10,6) 

   Individual medley, get ... from (meta), invalid UID (target), rest is def, one way to get the 

      target is via, individual anagram (medley) 

14. Subtle blemish covering the Spanish dress (9) 

   Embellish, subtle (anagram of) blemish, covering (container), El (the in Spanish), dress 

      (def) 

15. Modernize the river-walk (10) 

   Streamline, modernize (def), stream (river), line (walk) 

16. Stop and grab say (5) 

   Cease, stop (def), say (homophone of) grab = seize 

17. Hidden gem in Indian method (7,2,3,5) 

      Diamond in the rough, implicit meta, hidden gem (def), Indian method (target), one way to 

   get the target is via, “diamond in the” anagram (rough) 

18. Abstain from apathy and provide sister Mary, protection from the bullies (6) 

   Desist, stop (def), contributing (hidden), rest is fodder. 

19. Quiet perch (6) 

   Settle, DD. 

20. Best seducer say (6) 

     Better, best (def), baiter (seducer), say (homophone) 

21. Unsettling scam alert from a weisenheimer (5,4) 

     Smart Alec, unsettling (anagram of) “scam alert”, weisenheimer (def)