Word Puzzle 83

Word Puzzle 83 – Solution with Explanation

Theme: None

Clues:

1. One’s facial flab and onerous tummy fat can be concealed by ease? (7)

· Abandon, ease (def), concealed by (hidden), rest is fodder

2. True issue surrounding cannabis? (4-2)

· Spot on, true (def), son (issue), surrounding (container), pot (cannabis)

3. Liberal to endlessly manage credit notes (7)

· Copious, liberal (def), endlessly (delete last letter in) cope (manage), IOUs (credit notes)

4. Nominate the Asian diplomat (7)

· Attaché, attach (nominate ), E (Asian), diplomat (def)

5. Record a book summary (7)

· Epitome, EP (record), I (a), tome (book), summary (def)

6. … unembarrassed, the Utah cop apprehended the head cashier (9)

· Unabashed, unembarrassed (def), U (Utah), nab (cop), head (first letter in) apprehended i.e., a, shed (cashier)

7. A married Greek character on the board is inflexible (9)

· Immutable, I (a), M (married), Mu (Greek character), table (board), inflexible (def)

8. Snail-like fish without a broken tail (8)

· Dilatory, snail-like (def), dory (fish), without (container), broken (anagram of) tail

9. Resign abruptly over misused capital (9)

· Sovereign, misused (anagram of), resign + over – r (abruptly i.e., delete the tail letter in over), capital (def)

10. Card game for blogger? (9)

· Blackjack, implicit meta, target (blogger), card game (def), one way to get blogger is b (black) + logger (jack)

11. Awesome visionary (9)

· Fantastic, DD

12. Maiden in slimmer version, provides hope (9)

· Meliorism, IO (maiden), in (insertion), version (anagram of) slimmer, hope (def)

13. Every second in school, Hours!! To exaggerate (5)

· Color, every second in (alternate letter selection in) “school hours”, exaggerate (def)

14. There is another way to get a thief (7)

· Heister, another way (anagram of) there is, thief (def)

15. Waited on the telephone in earnest (5)

· Staid, stayed (waited), on the telephone (homophone), earnest (def)

16. Case = 5 times plenty? (7)

· Example, E (5), X (times), ample (plenty), case (def)

17. A teetotaller held in part of NY penitentiary, next to Donald for example, is the victim? (7,4)

· Sitting duck, I (a), TT (teetotaller), held in (insertion), Sing (part of NY penitentiary, Sing-sing ), next to (juxtaposition), duck (Donald for example), victim (def)

18. Straddle on pink limo for instance (8)

· Bestride, straddle (def), best (pink), ride (limo for instance)

19. Timberland the finest, extreme cycling emporium? (6)

· Forest, timberland (def), extreme (first letter in) finest, cycling (letter circulating indicator), store (emporium)

20. Always outspoken, Nelson often lands in the doghouse (6)

· Kennel, in (hidden), doghouse (def), rest is the fodder

21. Srikkanth Krishnamachari’s maiden ton in January 1986 was a sheer piece of magic (8)

· Charisma, piece of (hidden), magic (def), rest is fodder