CRYPTO CLUES CLXXXVII 

GAMES Magazine

July, 1984

Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon (1-8) 

Dell PennyPress Variety Crosswords

Summer, 2025 (9-12)  

 

1. Monkeys with cassettes that won't start (beheadment)

 

2. Marx brother performing with spear (charade/two words)

 

3. Awfully tedious in the open air (anagram)

 

4. Return cart three feet (reversal)

 

5. Monetary gain for seer (homophone)

 

6. Vocalist is one who burns (heteronym)

 

7. They must keep alternative proposition (container)

 

8. Speaker in moratorium (hidden word) 

 

9. A young woman is wrong (2-word homophone)

 

10.  Place for putting young (heteronym)

 

11. Saw each other as passe` (homograph)

 

12. Composer sues a sound-alike (2-word homophone) 

 

Answers:

 

1. APES

2. HARPOON (Harpo On)

3. OUTSIDE

4. YARD

5. PROFIT (prophet)

6. SINGER (One who singes)

7. THEORY (THE OR Y) 

8. ORATOR

9. AMISS (a miss)

10. GREEN (putting - as in golf) 

11. DATED

12. SOUSA (sues a)