MIND FLEXERS CXXXI

Answer each clue by matching it with one of the choices below. The relationships are disguised by double meanings, altered spacing within words, and/or other wordplay.

1. It's tricky

2. Wild thing

3. Harlem shuffle

4. Cabinet appointments

5. Majority of chopsticks and corkscrews

6. Perform behind a curtain 

7. Supporter of the arts

8. Looked over a bird

9. Some CIA grads 

10. Links halves

 

CHOICES:

a. Pastry chefs

b. Mahler

c. Nines

d. Doors

e. Night

f. Easel

g. Consonants

h. Sing in the shower

i. Sit 

j. Scandinavian

 

Answers:

 

1. i - Sit

2. e - Night

3. b - Mahler (1-3 are anagrams)

4. d - Doors

5. g - Consonants

6. h - Sing in the shower

7. f - Easel

8. j - Scandinavian (scanned an avian)

9. a - Pastry chefs (CIA - Culinary Institute of America

10. c - Nines (golf)

 

Credits:

1-3: Brendan Emmett Quigley

4-5: Kate Chin Park

6: Erik Agard

8: Merl Reagle