CRYPTO CLUES CLXV 

GAMES Magazine

July/August, 1981(1-4)

April, 1995 (5-10)

Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

 

1. She's alert, agitated, and mean

 

2. Peer inside piano, bleakly

 

3. Intensive studies in demolition derby sites

 

4. Glass worker is more idle after the third of August

 

5. Infielders and leader of team in cellar 

6. Audibly removes the peel from fruit

 

7. Daffy set aside dates

 

8. Rudely stare at some frog legs 

9. The actor who played Spock is back in Wyoming

 

10. Nickname for true lump of charcoal

 

HINTS:

1. Anagram

2. Hidden word

3. Two meanings

4. Beheadment 

5. Curtailment

6. Homophone 

7. Anagram

8. Hidden word

9. Reversal

10. Two words (true = so)

 

Answers:

 

1. HEARTLESS (she's alert)

2. NOBLE (piaNO BLEakly)

3. CRASH COURSES

4. GLAZIER (lazier) [third of August = G] 

5. BASEMENT (basemen + T [leader of team]

6. PEARS (pares) or PARES (pears)

7. STEADIES  (set aside)

8. OGLE (frOG LEgs)

9. WYOMING (wYOMINg) [NIMOY] 

10. SOBRIQUET (so + briquet)