Word Puzzle 87

Word Puzzle 87 – Solution with Explanation

Theme: None

Clues:

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

Abandon, walk away (def), characters in (hidden), rest is fodder

2 Deposit-box obliquely? (5-6)

Kitty-corner, kitty (deposit), corner (box), obliquely (def)

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

Rapscallion, devil (def), no (no), I (one), par (standard), returns (reversal) of “no + I + par”,

without (container), S (God’s), call (subpoena)

4 Anemic dollar grant? (6)

Sallow, anemic (def), S (dollar), allow (grant)

5 Search for alien around center of Alcor (5)

Scour, search (def), sour (alien), around (container), C (center of Alcor)

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

Notorious, prominent (def), OR (men), IOUs (debts), follow (positionally after), retro (reversal

of) ton (style)

7 Paradise operating between two states? (6)

Utopia, paradise (def), OP (operating), between (insertion), UT + IA (two states)

8 catfish the upper-crust (7)

Genteel, gent (cat), eel (fish), upper-crust (def)

9 Dread the arrest (12)

Apprehension, DD

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

Doldrums, old (aged), in (insertion), drums (barrels), cold storage (def)

11 John Barleycorn batting a poisonous insect (10)

Intoxicant, John Barleycorn (def), in (batting), toxic (poisonous), ant (insect)

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

Substitute teacher, implicit meta, fill-in at school (def), cheater (target), one way to cheater

is anagram of (substitute) teacher

13 Liberal man jumped in the front of the tree (5)

Maple, ample (liberal), M (man), jumped in the front (move letter M to the front), tree (def)

14 Encourage frolic in the gym (6)

Prompt, encourage (def), romp (frolic), in (insertion), PT (gym)

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

Dysentery, DY (case of i.e. first and last letters in) deputy, sentry (warden), imprisoning

(container), E (oriental), trouble (def as in malady)

16 Arouse the nurse? (9)

Encourage, DD

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

Stormy Daniels, implicit meta, Don (as in Trump) had affair with her (def), denials (target),

one way to get denials is via anagram (stormy) of Daniels

18 Artist hung-over? George left (5)

Degas, artist (def), sagged (hung), over (reversal), G (George), left (deletion)

19 Ordered ginseng for flu patient (4-9)

Long-suffering, ordered (anagram of) ginseng + for + flu, patient (def)

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

Summit, climax (def), in (hidden), overturned (reverse scan), rest is fodder

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

Laplace transform, find/get … from/with (meta), Capella (target), rest is def, one way to get

Capella is from Laplace anagram (transform)