CRYPTO CLUES CLXI

GAMES/World of Puzzles

Holiday, 2025

Patrick Berry (1-7)

GAMES Magazine

September, 1984

Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon (8-10)

 

1. Illness traveled through the air, reportedly

2. Request to open a barrel

3. Rock garden's pitfalls

4. Single type of seafood

5. Actual uranium in rebuilt engine 

6. Persian king storing oxygen copies

7. It eradicates notes from opera seria  

8. Get a book - though forbidden 

9. Extra cost for remodeling huger cars

10. Cattle guides

 

HINTS:

1. Homophone

2. Beheadment

3. **

4. **

5. Uranium = U

6. Oxygen = O

7. Hidden word

8. Hidden word

9. Anagram

10. Two meanings (homograph)

 

Answers:

 

1. FLU (flew)

2. ASK (cask) 

3. DANGERS 

4. SOLE

5. GENUINE (real) [engine + U]

6. XERXES (Xerxes + O) 

7. ERASER (opERA SERia)

8. TABOO (geT A BOOk) 

9. SURCHARGE (huger cars)

10. STEERS