CRYPTO CLUES CCXXI

GAMES Magazine

August, 1994

Harvey Estes (1-6)

GAMES/World of Puzzles

August, 2020

Frasier Simpson ( 7-10)

 

1. Keeps broken vases 

 

2. Shortest cheese party 

 

3. Opposed commercial poetry

 

4. Stop car by a heavy winter coat

 

5. Change an elevated part of a church 

 

6. Help a soldier securing a border town

 

7. Antlers damaged leased cars. 

 

8. Stranger nears quiet horseman (definition)

 

9. Beats Dick and Jane's dog back

10. Puts up with Goldilocks' adversaries

 

Answers:

 

1. SAVES (vases)

2. BRIEFEST (brie fest)

3. ADVERSE (ad verse)

4. PARKA (stop car = park) [by a = by the letter "a"]

5. ALTAR (alter)

6. EL PASO (hELP A SOldier) 

7. RENTALS (antlers)

8. EQUESTRIAN (nears quiet)  

9. TOPS (beats) [reversal of SPOT]

10. BEARS (homograph)