CRYPTO CLUES CXXXI

GAMES Magazine

May, 1986

Karen Hodge (1-2, 5-10)

Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon (3-4)

 

1. Card game's span

2. Argyle belt 

3. Pronounces conditions

4. Former President's money gift

5. Al cut open a wild melon

6. Price of travel is reasonable

7. Go up a tree missing top branch 

8. Pilot landed in Ottawas via Toronto

9. 25% of cucumber eaten by stray bug

10. Small amount of money for distant object

 

HINTS:

1-4: Double meanings

5: Anagram

6. Homophone

7. Beheadment

8. Anagram

9. Container 

10. Charade (two words)

 

Answers:

 

1. BRIDGE

2. SOCK

3. STATES

4. GRANT

5. CANTALOUPE

6. FARE (fair)

7. LIMB (climb) 

8. AVIATOR

9. LOCUST (LO CU ST)

10. FARTHING