Word Puzzle 182

Word Puzzle 182 – Solution with Explanation 

Theme: None 

Clues:  

1. Apparent place associated with the revolutionary Andrew Lloyed Weber’s musical (8) 

   Putative, apparent (def), put (place), associated with (juxta), revolutionary (reversal of) Evita 

   (Andrew Lloyed Weber’s musical) 

2. Juvenile not at the house? (6) 

   Immure, immature (juvenile), not (deletion of) at, house (def) 

3. X-man's trick? (6) 

   Gambit, DD. 

4. Drunk took over the good book (8) 

   Besotted, drunk (def), bested (took), over (container), OT (good book) 

5. First person topping UCLA? perhaps an old man with an acknowledgement of guilt (3,5) 

   Mea culpa, me (first person), topping (juxta), perhaps (anagram of) UCLA, Pa (old man), an 

   acknowledgement of guilt (def) 

6. Unit for land measurement bully say (7) 

   Hectare, unit for land measurement (def), hector (bully), say (homophone) 

7. Tenebrous brochure about massive returns, not in Iran (11) 

   Crepuscular, tenebrous (def), circular (brochure), about (container), super (massive), returns 

   (reversal), not in (deletion of) Ir (Iran) 

8. After steaming broccoli, Bert, ineptly cooked the pufferfish, and upon eating which he felt 

   somewhat sick (9) 

   Libertine, somewhat (hidden), sick (def), rest is fodder. 

9. Ran on reportedly blue fume (4,5) 

   Blew smoke, ran on (def), reportedly (homophone of) blue, smoke (fume) 

10. Better for ice stand? (11) 

     Outdistance, implicit meta of the form X for Y, better (def), ice stand (target), one way to 

     get the target is via anagram (out) of distance.  

11. Softly spell aptitude (8) 

     Penchant, p (softly), enchant (spell), aptitude (def) 

12. Password for Nemo (11) 

     Countersign, implicit meta of the form X for Y, password (def), Nemo (target), one way to 

     get Nemo is via reversal (counter) of omen (sign) 

13. Tennis draw with catastrophic foreboding (5,2,3,4) 

      Straw in the wind, catastrophic (anagram of) “Tennis draw with”, foreboding (def) 

14. Hope of having a quiet evening faded quickly, I noticed a Cobra in the hallway, with a gasp 

      I recoiled ... it was going to be a long night (6) 

     Aspire, hope (def), of (hidden), rest is fodder. 

15. War blunder (8) 

     Struggle, DD. 

16. Hobo tenet from George Thorogood song (3,2,3,4) 

     Bad to the bone, meta clue of the form X from Y, hobo tenet (target), rest is def, one way to 

     get the target is via anagram (bad) of “to the bone” 

17. As soon as she caught his second wind, Leslie took off, unfortunately she tripped and her 

     race ended nastily in a fall (7) 

     Dwindle, in (hidden), fall (def), rest is fodder. 

18. Expression of Irish pride by Doctor Georg Harbin (4,2,5) 

     Erin go bragh, Expression of Irish pride (def), doctor (anagram of) “Georg Harbin” 

19. Fixed array (7) 

     Uniform, DD 

20. Rig the land measure covering two states (8) 

     Accoutre, rig (def), acre (land measure), covering (container), CO and UT (two states) 

21. National security agency in a fight for pay (10) 

     Compensate, NSA (national security agency), in (insertion), compete (fight), pay (def)