Word Puzzle 90

Word Puzzle 90 – 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

1.     To make matters worse, former artist associated with R&B deviously put away (10)

2.     Hangman Ali’s myth made up by this writer (1,5,9)

3.     Anxious to find a room? (5)

4.     Crafty display to win rubber over Portugal at home (7)

5.     During the conference one could always find Marg in a lecture hall or at a booth exhibiting, outside (8)

6.     After Martin’s hope went to pieces, he became a pessimist (11)

7.     Stubborn monkey on a rope touring the city (10)

8.     Curve around the crooked turn lead one down the garden path (8)

9.     Friend of Joe in agony (7)

10.  Mysterious report about working with the dead (9)

11.  Talk about someone maliciously when they are not present to win the pin (8)

12.  Study alternate current (12)

13.  Lag in arrival at estimated time?  (6)

14.  First weigh the candy (not hard) and then accept it (11)

15.  Retirement sanctuary (7)

16.  Fortification via mammoplasty perhaps (10)

17.  Sally used articles in talk (6)

18.  Speak out to get to a nut (4,2)

19.  Converts at cocktail parties (7)

20.  King Lear’s daughter Regan a mischievous maiden, took over secretly the control (6)

21.  Kenneth’s pig trashed the pen (7,4)

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