CRYPTO CLUES  CLXXVIII

GAMES/World of Puzzles

May, 2025

Bob Stigger (1-9)

Dell PennyPress Variety Puzzles

April, 2022 (10- 12) 

 

 

1. Miserable, a deck crew is told a joke

 

2. In Scandinavia, the naughtiest deity

 

3. Darkness eternally shrouds legislature

 

4. Something displayed a by a store clerk , perhaps a magnet

 

5. Fudge is a breakfast food

 

6. Motown's Stevie is a marvel

 

7. Clever reconstruction of statue

 

8. Slip into a Russian river 

 

9.  Area set aside for overflow crowd and substitute husband at wedding 

 

10. Sunbeams are uplifting, they say

 

11. Tease the doctor, a person of good taste

 

12. Mediterranian capital near some chickens 

 

HINTS:

1. Anagram

2. Hidden word

3. Hidden word

4. Anagram

5. Two meanings 

6. Homophone

7. Anagram

8. Homophone 

9. Wordplay

10. Homophone

11. Anagram

12. Two words 

 

Answers: 

 

1. WISECRACKED (a deck crew is)

2. ATHENA (scandinaviA THE NAughtiest)

3. KNESSET (darKNESS ETernally)

4. NAMETAG (a magnet)  

5. WAFFLE 

6. WONDER, wonder

7. ASTUTE (statue)

8. DON (don) 

9. STANDING ROOM - STAND-IN GROOM 

10. RAYS (raise)

11. AESTHETE (tease the) [doctor = change]

12. ATHENS (at hens)