HEX SIGNS I
Credit: GAMES Magazine - Feb. 1992
Mike Shenk

Each answer in this puzzle is six letters long. Each clue consists of a sentence from which these six letters have been removed and replaced by asterisks. The object is to re-instate the missing letters (supplying spacing as needed) to complete a sensible sentence. As a solving hint, each clue contains a synonym or short definition of the answer word. For example, given the clue

The Great Pyr******ands in the center of several smaller ones on the bank of the Nile.

The answer word would be AMIDST, which completes the sentence

The Great PyrAMID STands  in the center of several smaller ones on the bank of the Nile.

The words in the center serve as a definition of AMIDST.

1. None of the tribesmen saw the medi******n flick a lizard into the cooking pot.
2. At state dinners in Washing******sts will rarely use foul language.
3. The perfume maker put a secretion of the orc******lass vials.
4. The TV program host said that laws against burning the fl******nger our freedom of speech.
5. The inventor of the waterb******e of the most underrated geniuses of all time.
6. Cereal covered with su******ardly the best breakfast for a loud, hyperactive child.
7. The sore loser wouldn't congratulate the other team's co******ym class.
8. Our scout group went campin******king in the forest named for a celebrated Indian brave.

Answers:

1. mediCINE MAn  (flick)
2. WashingTON GUEsts  (language)
3. orcHID IN Glass  (secretion)
4. flAG ENDAnger  (program)
5. waterbED IS ONe   (inventor)
6. suGAR IS Hardly  (loud)
7. coACH IN Gym  (sore)
8. campinG AND HIking  (celebrated Indian)