Word Puzzle 89

Word Puzzle 89 – Solution with Explanation

Theme: None

Clues:

1. Assign proxy? (8)

Delegate, DD

2. First person entering the class is a geek (6)

Genius, I (first person), entering (insertion), genus (class), geek (def)

3. Our outfits turned out to be lucky (10)

Fortuitous, turned out (anagram of) our + outfits, lucky (def)

4. Get book about brain mostly (6)

Garner, get (def), about (reversal of) rag (book), nerd (brain), mostly (delete last letter)

5. Finally, Marv and Ali zeroed in on the key artifacts from the ruin (9)

Vandalize, ruin (def), from (hidden), rest is fodder

6. Why study the international beat? (9)

Conundrum, why (def), con (study), un (international), drum (beat)

7. Abigail associated with the French buffet was an imposter (9)

Charlatan, char (Abigail), associated with (juxtaposition), la (the in French), tan (buffet). Imposter (def)

8. I moved up in military and got married (7)

Marital, I moved up (move I to left in) martial (military), married (def)

9. Mean agent? (6)

Medium, DD

10. Besides working, auditors are stupid (5)

Moron, more (besides), on (working), auditors (homophone), homophone of “more on” is moron, stupid (def)

11. Crouch to get to the pool? (4,2)

Curl up, crouch (def) to get to (meta), pool (target), one way to get pool is via loop (curl) reversal (up)

12. Gas from the cooking cylinder leaked and exploded like a bomb. As the crowd gathered outside, the police arrived (7)

Bombast, gas (def), from (hidden), rest is fodder

13. Push liberal nonsense (6)

Drivel, drive (push), L (liberal), nonsense (def)

14. Student joining the west coast school promises to pay? Nice!! (8)

Luscious, L (student), joining (juxtaposition), USC (west coast school), IOUS (promises to pay), nice (def)

15. Either edit your article to remove the false accusations or these streets will be covered in blood (8)

Heredity, blood (def), in (hidden), rest is fodder

16. How to get air gun set with what’s on a fraudulent check? (6,9)

Forged signature, how to get (meta), “air gun set” (target), rest is def, one way to get the target is via anagram (forged) of “signature”

17. Business cutting premium early (10)

Precocious, CO (business), cutting (insertion), precious (premium), early (def)

18. Make some brioches and baguettes (7)

Sandbag, make (def), some (hidden), rest is fodder

19. A remarkable year for NASA engineering with Nimbus R52 (5,9)

Annus Mirabilis, engineering (anagram of) NASA + Nimbus + RLII (R52), rest is def

20. Intensity of energy wave (7)

Emotion, intensity (def), E (energy), motion (wave)

21. Treat asthenia (8)

Delicacy, DD