CRYPTO CLUES CLXII

GAMES Magazine

September, 1984

Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon 

 

1. Tire Reagan's Vice President

2. We hear food salesman is yuckier

3. Endlessly reaching for a headache pill

4. Poor person in bar eating egg

5. Utensils brought up for spies

6. Sort some of pretty petunias

7. Lost abstract art, say

8. Batman turns chicken

9. Approaches tricky snare

10. Get a new opening in fence

11. Armed citizens routed evil giants 

HINTS:

1. Second definition

2. Homophone

3. Curtailment

4. Container

5. Reversal

6. Hidden word

7-11. Anagrams

 

Answers:

 

1. BUSH

2. GROSSER (grocer)

3. ASPIRIN (aspiring)

4. BEGGAR ( B egg AR)

5. SPOONS (snoops)

6. TYPE (sort ) [pretTY PEtunias]

7. ASTRAY (lost) [art, say]

8. BANTAM

9. NEARS (snare)

10. GATE (Get a)

11. VIGILANTES (evil giants)