Thursday, February 27, 2014

CROSS SETS
Credit: GAMES Magazine - October, 1982
Mike Shenk

The blanks in the following clues can be filled in with letters that will create related words. For example, given the clue

S_ _ _ L
_ I _ H _
T _ _ _ E
_ E _ R _ _ G
_  _ U _ H,

the answer would be

SMELL
SIGHT
TASTE
HEARING
TOUCH - - The five senses

1)
W_ _ _ _ R
_ P _ _ _ G
_ _ T U _ _
_ U _ M _ R

2)
E _ _ E
_ U _ O _
O _ _ _ _ _ O
_ I _ H I _ A _
_  _ P _ R _ _ R

3)
_ O _
H _ _ P _
_ _ _ E Y
_ N _ _ Z _
G _ U M _ _
B A _ _ _ _ L
_ _ E E _ _

4)
M _ _ _
V _ _ _ _
_ A _ _ H
_ _ U _ O
_ _ T U _ _
_ R A _ _ S
J _ _ _ T _ _
_ _ P _ _ N _
_ _ __ C _ _ Y

5)
_ _ D
_ _ _ E
G _ _ _ _
V _ _ _ _ T

_ _ D _ G _
_ _ L _ _ W
_ _ _ _ G _

6)
P _ _ C _
P _ _ S _ C _
_ _ D _ C _ _ _
_ H _ M _ _ T _ _
E _ _ _ _ M _ C _
L _ _ _ R _ _ U _ _

Answers:

1)
Winter
Spring
Autumn
Summer - four seasons

2)
Erie
Huron
Ontario
Michigan
Superior - five Great Lakes

3)
Doc
Happy
Dopey
Sneezy 
Grumpy 
Bashful
Sleepy - Seven Dwarfs

4)
Mars
Venus
Earth
Pluto
Saturn
Uranus
Jupiter
Neptune
Mercury - Nine (traditional) planets in the solar system

5)
Red
Blue
Green 
Violet
Indigo
Yellow
Orange - Seven colors of the rainbow

6)
Peace
Physics
Medicine
Chemistry
Economics
Literature - Six categories of the Nobel Prize













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