Word Puzzle 55

Word Puzzle 55 – Solution with Explanation

Theme: Typical sections found in Newspaper

1. Classified Advertisements, Classified (top secret), advertisements (communiques), in papers (thematic def)

2. Dally, Flirt (def), d (date), ally (associate)

3. Real estate, E (oriental), state (express), post (after in position), real (certified), in papers (thematic def)

4. Palaver, “Met .. for” (fodder), some (hidden), chitchat (def)

5. Editorial, Lair (covert), o (cipher), tide (trend), rejected (reversal of the whole thing), in papers (thematic def)

6. Bivouac, B (Bach’s), iv (4), o (0), u (high class), ac (account), board (def)

7. Business, “For .. encounter” (fodder), some (hidden), traffic (def)

8. Jeremiad, Rant (def), Jeremy (Kafka actor as in Jeremy Irons), for the most part (delete last letter), I (Number one), AD (in the modern age)

9. Allonge, “Bet .. print” (fodder), buried in (hidden), rider (def)

10. Headlines, Titles (def .. thematic), head (leader), lines (limitations)

11. Forlorn, Lonesome (def), for (as long as), lorn (lonely)

12. Didactic, Moralistic (def), in (hidden), rest is fodder

13. Sports section, Port (haven), in (insertion), SS (Nazi), section (neighborhood), covered in the papers (def thematic)

14. Envelope, Envelop (invest), e (five thousand), a conventionally accepted limit (def as in push the envelope)

15. Horoscope, Section in papers (thematic def), mislead (anagram of), coo (top corporate post), + hopers

16. Offends, How to (meta), send (target), insults (def), one way to get send is anagram (off) of ends

17. Local news, Lo cal (lite), NE + WS (pairs of opponents as in Bridge), in a rag (thematic def)

18. Defect, DD as in mark and as in emigrate

19. Obituaries, Bit (act), in (insertion), O (love), U (boat), Aries (sign), in the papers (thematic def)

20. Chemical engineer, Profession (def), apt for (meta), chic male (target), one way to get chic male is from an anagram (engineer) of chemical

21. Pulchritude, Doctor (anagram of) cultured + phi (Greek symbol), sex appeal (def)