Word Puzzle 75

Word Puzzle 75 – Solution with Explanation

Theme: Thematic words are both nouns and verbs.

1. Current tax entry (6)

· Access, AC (current), cess (tax), entry (def)

2. Drill rehearsal? (8)

· Practice, DD

3. Difficulty in getting change carrying fifty pound note (9)

· Challenge, difficulty (def), change carrying (change as container), L (fifty), L (pound), E (note)

4. Study the radio active strontium titanate sources at a distance (8)

· Contrast, con (study), “the … titanate” (fodder), sources (1^st letters), distance (def)

5. Flash a chick on the train? (9)

· Broadcast, flash (def), broad (a chick), on (juxtaposition), cast (train)

6. Prime estate at the famous landmark (6,5,8)

· Empire state building, implicit meta, prime estate (target), famous landmark (def), one way to get prime estate is “empire state” anagram (building)

7. Ready for the main issue? (6)

· Season, ready (def), sea (main), Son (issue)

8. Rumor has it, that Jack grew his personal wealth through corruption (7)

· Whisper, rumor (def), has (hidden), rest is fodder

9. Security to briefly guard a six footer with ease (9)

· Guarantee, security (def), Guar (briefly guard), ant (six footer), EE (ease)

10. Help opponents in a suit? (7)

· Benefit, help (def), NE (opponents), in (insertion), befit (suit)

11. Profit, after saving on deal (7)

· Bargain, gain (profit), after (position), bar (saving), deal (def)

12. Dress concealing an Arab and a German (7)

· Bandage, dress(def), concealing (hidden), rest is fodder

13. Patrons treated right in paradise (9)

· Transport, treated (anagram of) patrons, rt (right), paradise (def)

14. Resell plot containing Uranium (7)

· Auction, resell (def), action (plot), containing (container), U (Uranium)

15. Writer in kinky exercise, though not as an adventure (10)

· Experience, pen (writer), kinky (anagram of) exercise + pen, not (deletion of) s (as), an adventure (def)

16. How to get a pot over the kitchen work surface? (10)

· Countertop, how to get (meta), pot (target), kitchen work surface (def), one way to get pot is via reversal of (counter) top

17. I am like you are, beat!! (7)

· Measure, me (I am), as (like), ure (You are), beat (def)

18. Swear note in essay or short story for example (7)

· Promise, swear (def), mi (note), in (insertion), prose (essay or short story for example)

19. Shampoo use admitted by state chief minister? (6)

· Vacuum, shampoo (def), uu (use), admitted by (insertion), VA (state), CM (chief minister)

20. Raise said to be unlawful (7)

· Illicit, elicit (raise), said to be (homophone), unlawful (def)

21. Butch and Hertha, yet managed to reconcile (4,3,7)

· Bury the hatchet, managed (anagram of) Butch + Hertha + yet, reconcile (def)