CRYPTO CLUES XII

Cryptic clues 1-3 use hidden words to disguise the answers. Clues 4-7 use anagrams. Clue 8-9 use homophones. Clues 10-11 use containments.

1. Universal sauce

2. Klingon's limitless jargon

3. Stick with terrific linguine ingredient

4. Began work with dietician 

5. The rain ruined cook's headgear

6. Lacrimal secretions from alien predators

7. Drop from the sky? Better heat up car

8. Underwrites math functions

9. Relations with colonists overheard

10. Following a backward meeting in the emergency room

11. Cast embracing pastry treat is unexpected ("cast" as in throw)

Anwers:

 

1. SALSA (univerSAL SAuce)

 

2. LINGO (kLINGOn [

   (dropping first and last letters = limitless) 

 

3. CLING (terrifiC LINGuini)

 

4.  INITIATED (dietician)

 

5. HAIR NET (the rain)

 

6. TEARDROPS ( predators)

 

7. PARACHUTE (heat up car) 

 

8. COSIGNS (cosines) 

 

9. AUNTS (ants)

 

10. RETINUE (unite in ER)

 

11. STARTLING (tart in sling) 

 

Credit:

GAMES Magazine

February, 1998

Combined:

Todd Rew

Harvey Estes