CRYPTO CLUES CLX

Dell PennyPress Variety Puzzles

Spring, 2022

1. Insignificant quarry worker, I hear 

2. Keymaker told smoked-salmon legend

3. Make way for net gain

4. Common spat for person in court

5. Alert attendant following obstetrician 

6. Foreigner with a property right

7. Enthusiasm for stormy green seas

 8. Analog: it's lost in wistful remembrance

HINTS:

1. Homophone

2. Homophone or two words (bad pun) 

3. Homograph (two meanings)

4. Two words (word + word)

5. Attendant = servant

6. Two words (word + word) and stressonym

7. Anagram

8. Anagram 

Answers:

 

1. MINOR

2. LOCKSMITH (lox myth)

3. YIELD

4. PLAINTIFF (plain tiff)

5. OBSERVANT  

6. ALIEN (a lien)

7. EAGERNESS (green seas)

8. NOSTALGIA (analog: it's)