CRYPTO CLUES CLIX

GAMES/World of Puzzles

Holiday, 2025

Stella Zawistowski (1-3)

Bob Stigger (4-12)

 

1. Talk about abbreviated Olympic event

 

2. Informal foot soldier ants' team

 

3. Penny swallowed by ground turtle

 

4. Across Indiana, the main detested person

 

5. Gal seen laughing about our mother tongue

 

6. Portia rarely displays jeweled coronet 

7. Muffler bolt

 

8. Rock poet's somewhat bawdy language

 

9. Get rid of storage structure

 

10. Pilots remain confused

 

11. Major island

 

12. Captures heat

 

HINTS:

1. **

2. San Francisco team

3. P = penny

4. Hidden word

5. Anagram

6. Hidden word

7. Two meanings

8. Hidden word

9. **

10. Anagram

11. Music

12. Homophone (slang) 

Answers:

 

1. DISCUS

2. GIANTS ( GI ANTS)

3. TERRAPIN (TERRA P IN) 

4. ANATNEMA (indiANA, THE MAin)

5. ENGLISH LANGUAGE (gal seen laughing)

6. TIARA (porTIA RArely)

7. SCARF

8. DYLAN bawDY LANguage)

9. SHED

10. AIRMEN (remain) 

11. KEY

12. COPS