Word Puzzle 98

Word Puzzle 98 – Solution with Explanation

Theme: None.

Clues:

1. Helps in making sausages (8)

Assuages, helps (def), making (anagram of) sausages.

2. Nearly naked Nick dropped his cape? What a bore!! (6)

Nudnik, nearly (delete last letter in) nude (naked), dropped (delete) c (cape) from Nick, bore

(def)

3. Task committee (10)

  Commission (DD)

4. Reach Salerno from US city (3, 7)

New Orleans, implicit meta, Salerno (target), one way to get Salerno is via anagram (new) of

“Orleans”.

5. Notable MIDI composition that’s unbeatable (11)

Indomitable, composition (anagram of) notable + MIDI, unbeatable (def)

6. Henry left this south American country after the preliminary survey to coordinate ... (9)

Reconcile, Henry left (deletion of H from) Chile (south American country), after (positionally

after), recon (preliminary survey), coordinate (def)

7. Locus classicus for baby universe that’s not big (9)

Microcosm, locus classicus (def), micro (baby), cosmos (universe), not (deletion of) OS (big)

8. Eternal clash over intellectual uprising (9)

Perennial, eternal (def), peal (clash), over (container), uprising (reversal of) inner

    (intellectual)

9. Frolic with lady resulted in a type of infection? (6)

Fungal, fun (frolic), gal (lady), type of infection (def)

10. Shy as a skittish Sally (6)

  Sashay, skittish (anagram of) “shy as a”, sally (def)

11. Glowing in dark, the fleece of Mary’s little lamb enthralled children over the ages (7)

  Lambent, glowing (def), in (hidden), rest is fodder.

12. Cruise with pirates at sea (7)

   Traipse, cruise (def), at sea (anagram of) pirates

13. Limp wood? (6)

   Lumber, DD

14. Bastard penning hymns regularly on congress (5)

   Synod, sod (bastard), penning (container), regularly (alternate letters in) hymn, congress

   (def)

15. You are almost an expert in cosmic infinite? (12)

    Immensurable, ur (you are), almost (delete last letter in) able (expert), in (insertion),

    immense (cosmic), infinite (def)

16.  Sort of blue drawing in very black splash? (6)

    Bubble, sort of (anagram of) blue, drawing in (container), BB (very black), splash (def)

17. How to get inert ions using technique to create ordered list (9,4)

   Insertion sort, how to get (meta), inert ions (target), rest is def, one way to get inert ions is

   via “insertion” anagram (sort)

18. Scram from flipping tent after ridgepole broke (5)

   Elope, scram (def), from (hidden), flipping (reversal), rest is fodder.

19. Snoring during long haul in sprinkle (6)

      Mizzle, zz (snoring), during (insertion), mile (long haul), sprinkle (def)

20. Pickle crush (5)

   Swamp DD

21. Wrong about hard resting place for butts (7)

   Ashtray, astray (wrong), about (container), H (hard), resting place for butts (def. as in

  Resting places for cigarette butts)