Word Puzzle 87

Word Puzzle 87 – Cryptic Clues:

Theme: None

Note:

· You need to provide full parsing. No response without parsing.

Scoring:

· No credit no response, without correct parsing.

· All clues worth 1 point except Kohli/meta clue(s) which are worth 2 points

Clues:

1 Walk away from characters in Paul McCartney’s “a band on the run” (7)

2 Deposit-box obliquely? (5-6)

3 Devil? No one with standard, returns without God’s subpoena (11)

4 Anemic dollar grant? (6)

5 Search for alien around center of Alcor (5)

6 Prominent men with debts, follow retro style (9)

7 Paradise operating between two states? (6)

8 catfish the upper-crust (7)

9 Dread the arrest (12)

10 Aged in barrels at cold storage .. (8)

11 John Barleycorn batting a poisonous insect (10)

12 Fill-in at school to catch the cheater (10,7)

13 Liberal man jumped ahead of the tree (5)

14 Encourage frolic in the gym (6)

15 Case of deputy warden imprisoning an oriental causing trouble (9)

16 Arouse the nurse? (9)

17 Don had affair with her resulting in denials (6,7)

18 Artist hung-over? George left (5)

19 Ordered ginseng for flu patient (4-9)

20 Climax in overturned ruling as judge insisted that every victim must be compensated (6)

21 Find Capella with a tool for solving differential equations? (7,9)

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