Word Puzzle 95

Word Puzzle 95 – Solution with Explanation

Theme: None.

Clues:

1. Exploit female appearing in religious flyer (8)

Housefly, use (exploit), F (female), appearing in (insertion), holy (religious), flyer (def)

2. Warning to vacate building (6)

Caveat, warning (def), building (anagram of) vacate.

3. Bizarre way to place a bet (7)

Offbeat, bizarre (def), way to reach (meta), “a bet” (target), one way to get to “a bet” is via 

anagram (off) of (beat)

4. Batter raced home from 2nd base, encouraged by loud cheers from the deck (7)

Terrace, from (hidden), deck (def), rest is fodder.

5. Fine for reportedly Trump’s felony type (6)

Classy, fine (def), reportedly (homophone of) Class E (Trump’s felony type)

6. Tried tofu in order to get fiber (9)

  Fortitude, in order (anagram of) “tried tofu”, fiber (def)

7. Slap on bottom to show support? (9)

Undergird, gird (slap), on (juxtaposition order), under (bottom), support (def)

8. Sold our son essentially in a bad way ... sad!! (8)

Dolorous, in a bad way (anagram of) sold + our + o (son essentially i.e., middle letter in son),

sad (def)

9. Stop at terminal lounge for some small talk (6)

Patter, some (hidden), small talk (def), rest is fodder.

10. Gadget for performing translation in headline (11)

Contraption, gadget (def), on (performing), tr (translation), in (insertion), caption (headline)

11. Obscure visual about the artist (8)

   Oracular, obscure (def), ocular (visual), about (container), RA (artist)

12. Dreaming to get ready pie? (5,3,8)

   Rapid eye movement, implicit meta, dreaming (def), ready pie (target), one way to get ready pie,

   is via rapid + eye anagram (movement)

13. Flower fly (4)

   Blow, DD

14. Normal for heads of some Adventist institutional churches (7)

   Prosaic, normal (def), pro (for), heads of (first letters in) “some Adventist institutional churches”

15. Restrict man breaking into the spectacular massage parlor with a key (12)

   Circumscribe, restrict (def), M (man), breaking into (insertion), circus (spectacular),

   crib (massage parlor), E (key)

16. Get Escargots de Bourgogne from shop? (5)

   Argot, from (hidden), shop (def), rest is fodder.

17. Mid 80’s heavy metal band to resist (7,6)

   Twisted sister, implicit meta, mid 80’s heavy metal band (def), resist (target), one way to get

   resist is via anagram (twisted) of sister.

18. Sick pervert (7)

   Corrupt, DD.

19. Unacceptable to replenish beer when tipsy (13)

   Reprehensible, unacceptable (def), tipsy (anagram of) replenish + beer.

20. Original in style, Al wanted no part in it, I also didn’t ... (7)

   Initial, original (def), in (hidden), rest is fodder.

21. Pony up without back interest in response (6)

   Retort, up (reversal of) trotter (pony), without (deletion of) back (last letter in) interest, i.e., T,

   response (def)