CRYPTO CLUES CCXVI 

GAMES/World of Puzzles

April, 2018

Pam Wylder (1-3)

Patrick Berry (4- 8)

Bob Stigger (9-13)

 

1. Something hunted in excavation site (homograph)

 

2. Pain killer wasted on a novice (anagram)

 

3. Require leaders of every nation to assemble in London (acronym)

 

4. One who stays up late - oddly (anagram)

 

5. Some comedy better left unfinished (curtailment)

 

6. Inkpad manufactured in Shanghai (anagram)

 

7. Hypnotic eyes holding attention (hidden word) 

 

8. Bad dream involving weapons (anagram)

 

9. Worship a colonial patriot (homophone)

 

10. Bean spread served as an appetizer (heteronym)

 

11. Snake calculator (homograph)

 

12. Squirrel away money (homophone) 

 

13. Dwell overmuch on filling jobs, essentially (hidden word) 

 

Answers:

 

1. QUARRY

2. NOVOCAINE (on a novice)

3. ENTAIL (first letters)

4. NIGHTOWL (with long)

5. IMPROV (better = improve)

6. KIDNAP (Shanghai - slang for kidnap)

7. NOTICE (hypNOTIC Eyes)

8. ARMED (dream)

9. REVERE (revere)

10. PATE ("patay")

11. ADDER

12. CACHE (cash)

13. OBSESS (jOBS ESSentially)