MIND FLEXERS VIII

Credit: GAMES Magazine

Fraser Simpson

Match the items on the left with those on the right based on similar meanings. The relationships are disguised by the use of puns or altered spacing within words. For example, given the clue DISCONSOLATE, the answer could be "midnight record" (disc on so late).

1. Carpooler                                 Dot dash dash

2. Hoover                                     Pushkin

3. Briefest                                    Adonis

4. Clanking                                  Automate

5. Shove                                       Margin

6. Morsel                                      Cheese celebration

7. Who's the boss?                        Rehabilitation

8. Constraining                             Adam

9. Outer space                               Commit matricide

10. Domain                                   Chieftain

Answers:

1. Automate (Auto mate)

2. Adam (A dam)

3. Cheese celebration (Brie fest)

4. Chieftain (Clan king)

5. Pushkin (Push kin)

6. Dot dash dash (Morse L)

7. Adonis (A don is)

8. Rehabilitation (Cons' training)

9. Margin

10. Commit matricide (Do ma in)