Word Puzzle 179

Word Puzzle 179 – Solution with Explanation 

Theme: None 

Clues:  

1. Get some sizzling porn from the vulgar nerd living down the aisle (6) 

   Garner, get (def), some (hidden), rest is fodder. 

2. Brag about a doctor’s rodomontade (7) 

   Bombast, boast (brag), about (container), MB (doctor), rodomontade (def) 

3. Repay the expert accountant, getting into detail (11) 

   Reciprocate, repay (def), pro (expert), ca (accountant), getting into (insertion), recite (detail) 

4. Muscle control (9) 

   Constrain DD. 

5. Catch flu from quick temper? (5,4) 

   Short fuse, meta of the form x from y, flu (target), quick temper (def), one way to get flu is 

   from short fuse (flux) 

6. Ex VP stifling awful cries about his vision (10) 

   Prescience, Pence (Ex VP), stifling (container), awful (anagram of) cries, vision (def) 

7. Fabricate your past? (4,2,1,5) 

   Cook up a story, implicit meta, fabricate (def), your past (target), one way to get the target is 

   via, anagram (cook) of “up a story” 

8. Possibly enamour bond to confound him through deceptive means (2,1,6,2) 

   Do a number on, possibly (anagram of) “enamour Bond”, rest is def. 

9. Land gridiron score (5,4) 

   Touch down, DD. 

10. Couple of people witnessed this cat terrifying the children at the playground (7) 

     Scatter, couple (def), of (hidden), rest is fodder. 

11. Break for Bond’s boss who was captured by the French spy (8) 

     Fragment, break (def), M (Bond’s boss), captured by (insertion), Fr (French), agent (spy) 

12. Obstacle to discourage the breach (9) 

     Deterrent, obstacle (def), deter (discourage), rent (breach) 

13. Prostitute’s approach is said to be antagonistic (7) 

     Hostile, Ho's (prostitute’s), style (approach), antagonistic (def) 

14. Smoky impersonator acquiring Oakland’s team (7) 

     Miasmic, smoky (def), mimic (impersonator), acquiring (container), A’s (Oakland’s team) 

15. Remarkable patent (8) 

     Striking, DD. 

16. Bother-some answer to the question, which Ivy league college is most overrated? (5) 

     Chivy,  bother (def), some (hidden), rest is fodder. 

17. Excuse for a shrub? (5,3) 

     Brush off, meta clue of the form x for y, excuse (def), shrub (target), one way to get the 

  target is via brush anagram (off) 

18. Downplay embarrassing date flops (4-5) 

     Soft-pedal, downplay (def), embarrassing (anagram of) “date flops” 

19. Royal man in heroic novel (7) 

     Homeric, royal (def), m (man), in (insertion), novel (anagram of) heroic 

20. Prisoner reportedly got through to the judge (8) 

     Conclude, con (prisoner), reportedly (homophone of) clued (got through to), judge (def) 

21. Shrink replacing you with yours truly during work out (9) 

     Constrict, shrink (def), replacing (swap) u (you) with i (yours truly), in (during) construct 

  (work out)