FALSE START

Dell PennyPress Variety Puzzles

April 1, 2019

 

The answer to each clue below will be a word that answers one element of the clue, preceded by a single initial letter - the false start - creating a new word which will satisfy the second element of the clue. Wordplay is fair play.

 

1. Blackmailing a witch

2. Double agent firebug

3. Championed Pop

4. Cantankerous knight 

Answers:

 

1. HEXTORTION

2. SPYROMANIAC

3. DADVOCATED

4. SIRASCIBLE