CRYPTO CLUES CCX

GAMES Magazine

September, 1982

Will Shortz (1-8)

Gary Disch (9-10) 

 

1. Shipment said to come from vein in silver mine (homophone)

 

2. Real ingenue is disguise (anagram)

 

3. One of three travel by permit (two words)

 

4. Skunks have it. So do rats, to some degree (hidden word)

 

5. Lamps will be provided to airplane rides after the first (beheadment)

 

6. Impish cartoon boy did a no-no on the escalator (reversal)

 

7. Sick in bed, as charged (container)

 

8. I, for example, dispatch (second definition)  

 

9. Exchange hands the wrong way (reversal) 

 

10. This involves taking everything off the damaged tapestries (anagram)

 

Answers:

 

1. LODE (load)

2. GENUINE (ingenue)

3. TRIPLET (trip = travel/let = permit)

4. ODOR (sO DO Rats)

5. LIGHTS (Flights)  

6. DENNIS (sinned [no-no] {going up - as an escalator})

7. BILLED (B ILL ED)

8. LETTER (I is a letter/dispatch, as noun, is a letter)  

9. SWAP (paws) 

10. STRIPTEASE (tapestries)