CRYPTO CLUES CXLV

Dell PennyPress Variety Puzzles

Volume129 (1-4)

GAMES Magazine

October, 2024

Stella Zawistowski (5)

Bob Stigger (6-10)

1. Ad section, for instance, still covers south (container [south = S])

2. Become less severe concerning religious fast time (two words)

3. Crooked routes to expulsion

4. Some doctors smoked in secret (two words [smoked meat])

 

5. Making deals with short reading after revisions (anagram)

6. Reverend Spooner's frightening trimmer with a pioneer wagon

7. Lackadaisical date, never excited

 

8. Target arranged a sailboat race

9. Hemingway novel of struggling self-aware mortal (anagram)

 

10. Widespread negativity holds back ideological program (container/hidden reversal) 

Answers:

1. INSERT (IN S ERT)

2. RELENT (RE LENT)

3. OUSTER (routes)

4. OBSCURED ( OBS CURED)

5. HORSE  TRADING (short reading)

6. PRAIRIE SCHOONER (scary pruner)

7. ENERVATED (date, never)

8. REGATTA (target a)

9. A FAREWELL TO ARMS (self-aware mortal)

10. AGENDA (widespreAD NEGAtivity)