Word Puzzle 82

Word Puzzle 82 – Solution with Explanation

Theme: Taken on a bicycle for a ride!

Clues:

1. Design the Italian boat missile (10)

· Projectile, project (design), IL (the in Italian), E (boat), missile (def)

2. Judge a princess entering the school after commencement (10)

· Adjudicate, judge (def), a (a), Di (princess), entering (insertion), educate (school), delete first letter in educate (after commencement), the whole thing is container (around), J (Japan)

3. Cheap celebrity (5)

· Light, DD

4. American expat in a foreign country, showing a bit of temper? (6)

· Patina, temper (def), a bit of (hidden), rest is fodder

5. Fine outcome of fairy tale that is nameless (9)

· Ineffable, outcome of (anagram of) fine, fable (fairy tale), nameless (def)

6. Assortment that is germane somehow (9)

· Menagerie, assortment (def), somehow (anagram of) i.e. (that is) + germane

7. Unfit 4 cycling? Not good (5)

· Inapt, unfit (def), patina (answer to clue 4), cycling (letter circulation), not (deletion), A (good)

8. Heard that the gearhead consumed a peg and became hypersensitive? (6)

· Tetchy, heard that (homophone of) techie (gearhead) = techy, consumed (container), T (peg), hypersensitive (def)

9. Cycling charlatan after losing money makes a come back (7)

· Riposte, cycling (letters circulation indicator) of imposter (charlatan) – m (losing money), come back (def)

10. Dial in an easygoing manner (4-4)

· Laid-back, meta, dial (target), easygoing (def), one way to get dial is laid reversal (back)

11. Cycle 9 without a placard (6)

· Poster, cycle (letters circulation of) riposte (answer to clue 9), without (deletion of) i (a)

12. Some employees forget to get here in time for their meeting (3-8)

· Get-together, some (hidden), meeting (def), rest is fodder

13. Trick the French with a cunning twist (6)

· Frolic, trick (def), Fr (French), cunning (anagram of) coil (twist)

14. Brilliant city doctor with medical specialization (7)

· Lambent, brilliant (def), LA (city), MB (doctor), ENT (medical specialization)

15. A dark greyish blue colour by or in itself (5)

· Perse, DD perse = dark greyish blue colour, per se = by or in itself

16. Agitated radical (not conservative) group blamed for pretty much everything by Trump republicans (6)

· Antifa, agitated (anagram of) fanatic (radical), not (deletion of) C (conservative), rest is def.

17. Cycling 9 men are back!!! (9)

· Posterior, cycling (letters circulation of) riposte (answer to clue 9), OR (men), back (def)

18. Office supply in place say (10)

· Stationery, office supply (def), stationary (in place), say (homophone indicator)

19. Spooner’s monarch or red admiral say, they often do this (7,2)

· Flutter by, spooner’s (spoonerism indicator), butterfly (monarch or red admiral say), they often do this (what butterflies often do – def)

20. How to sort tinder with Bond’s refrain? (6,3,7)

· Shaken not stirred, meta (how to), sort tinder (target), Bond’s refrain (def), one way to get the target is via anagram (shaken) of “not stirred”

21. Concentrate!!, though initially lacking try to cycle (5)

· Rivet, concentrate (def), initially lacking (delete first letter of) strive (try), to cycle (letter circulation)