Word Puzzle 68

Word Puzzle 68 – Solution with Explanation

Theme: The theme is hundred (in commemoration of 100^th puzzle done last week), all thematic clue contain a synonym of hundred (as found in MW dictionary).

1. Stonyhearted, ruthless (def), ton (hundred), involved in (insertion), break up (anagram of) ye (the, as in “ye olde clock tavern”) + hardest

2. Nowadays, for the time being (def), somehow (anagram of) say + no, hosting (container), wad (hundred)

3. Buffalo wings, how to (meta), swing (target), famous American appetizer (def), one way to get swing is from anagram (buffalo) of “wings”

4. Allotment, ailment (trouble), without (deletion of) i (one), gathering (container), lot (hundred), subsidy (def)

5. Stola, a long robe (def), helping to make (hidden), in the mirror (reversal), rest is fodder

6. Nightspots, cabarets (def), wild (anagram of) n (new) + pot (hundred), S (dollar) + sight

7. Messenger, page (def), mess (hundred), engineers to drop in (delete in from), without (deletion of) ES (directions)

8. Cheap shot, heap (hundred), held in (insertion), c (college), shot (firing), unsportsmanlike behaviour (def)

9. Handicraft, trade (def), raft (hundred), following (placed after), hand (index), ic (I see)

10. Stack, hundred (def), inside (hidden), rest is fodder

11. Massages, butters up (def), mass (hundred), ages (times)

12. Stir-crazy, how to get (meta), tris (tromethamine) is the target, rest is def, one way to get tris is anagram of stir i.e. stir crazy (anagram)

13. Pyramid scheme, lost (anagram of) myriad (hundred) + p (power), scheme (game), three-card monte (def)

14. Muchacho, much (hundred), acho (trimmed nachos i.e. drop end letters), Mexican lad (def as in lad in Spanish)

15. Noodles, n (name), oodles (hundred), heads (def)

16. Pipe dreams, piped (conducted), reams (hundreds), illusions (def)

17. Pinnacle, C (hundred), mount (anagram of) C + N (north) + Alpine, peak (def)

18. Gloss, “Mounting … lose” (fodder), some (hidden), sheen (def)

19. Profusion, hundred (def), pro (for), fusion (cocktail)

20. Lashings, hundred (def), lashing (flogging), S (butt of Lucas i.e. last letter)

21. Meritorious, admirable (def), merit (virtue), or (alternative), IOUs (debts)