PHYSICAL PHRASES

Dell PennyPress Variety Puzzles

Volume 342 (1-4)

 

Answer each clue with a phrase containing a body part.  

 

1. Agree

2. Pay a tab

3. Memorize

4. Hitchhike 

5. Snobby 

6. Advantage 

7. Supplicating 

8. Very close (2) 

9. Follow directions

10.  Well-informed, alert

11. Bit of encouragement

12. Struggle to the utmost 

 

Answers:

 

1. See eye to eye

2. Foot the bill

3. Learn by heart

4. Thumb a ride

5. Nose in the air 

6. Have a leg up

7. On bended knee

8. Hand in glove / Joined at the hip

9. Toe the line

10. Ear to the ground

11. Shot in the arm  

12. Fight tooth and nail 

  

 

POINTS TO PONDER CXXXIII

No vessel can compare in romantic interest and patriotic reverence with the properly accorded fame of the "Mayflower". Her name is linked with the fundamentals of American democratic institutions. She was the wave-rocked cradle of our liberties.

Henry B. Culver

The Book of Old Ships  

COMPLETE-A-WORD XXXI

Fill in the dashes with 4-letter answers to the clues to complete 7-letter words.

1. Mailed, for example         _ _ GME _ _

2. Fossil fuel                         _ _ MIC _ _

3. Settled up                          _ YR _ M _ _

4. Mild oath                          _ _ ULA _ _

5. "Pick up the ....."              _ _ N _ AK _

6. Plunge                              _ ECE _ _ _

7. Rave                                 T _ _ _ SI _

8. Houston University         A _ T _ _ L _

9. Equine dam                   CO _ P _ _ _

10. Italy, with "the"             _ _ _ S _ ER

11. Floor square                  CU _ _ C _ _ 

Answers:

1. SENT - SEGMENT

2. COAL - COMICAL

3. PAID - PYRAMID

4. GOSH - GOULASH

5. PACE - PANCAKE

6. DIVE - DECEIVE

7. RANT - TRANSIT

8. RICE - ARTICLE

9. MARE - COMPARE

10. BOOT - BOOSTER

11. TILE - CUTICLE  

CRYPTO CLUES CCXXXIV

GAMES Magazine

March/April, 1982

Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon (1, 4, 7, 11)

October, 1982

Mike Shenk (2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9,10, 12, 13)

 

1. Ms. Oakley is awfully inane

 

2. Friends strike back

 

3. Reduces homework assignments, we hear

 

4. Moonstarer, possibly!

 

5. Watch monarch going on a hunt

 

6. Votes for President after Grant is beheaded

 

7. Animal doctor is terribly naive trainer

 

8. Wax from Warsaw

 

9. That messy assortment of jewels

 

10. Driver, if young, has to give proof

 

11. A demon horribly wailed

 

12. Wise man goes through US employments

 

13. Turned silent to hear a speech  

 

HINTS: 

1, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13: Anagrams

2. Definition - Reversal

3. Homophone

5. Two definitions - two words

6. Beheadment

8. Homophone

10. Hidden word

12. Container 

 

Answers:

1. ANNIE (inane)

2. PALS (friends) [reverse of SLAP (strike)]

3. LESSENS (lessons = homework)

4. ASTRONOMER (moonstarer)

5. SEEKING (watch = see / monarch = king)

6. AYES (votes for) [HAYES = President after Grant]

7. VETERINARIAN (naive trainer)

8. POLISH (capital P - from Warsaw / small p - wax)

9. AMETHYSTS (that messy) 

10. VERIFY (give proof - driVER IF Young) 

11. MOANED (a demon) 

12. USAGES (employments) [U SAGE S]

13. LISTEN (silent) 

  

DROP A LETTER - GET A NEW WORD CXLV

GAMES/World of Puzzles

June, 2026

FAMILY REUNIONS

Bob Stigger

 

Drop one letter from each word and re-arrange the remaining letters to get ten related words.

 

1. ARMY

2. ALIEN

3. NEPALI

4. OPTION

5. CLERICS

6. LIGHTEN

7. QUAKERS

8. GEMSTONE

9. EMIGRATED

10. RETAILING 

 

HINTS:

First letters of the new words:

1. R

2. L

3. P

4. P

5. C

6. L

7. S

8. S

9. D

10. T

 

Answers:

 

1. RAY

2. LINE

3. PLANE

4. POINT

5. CIRCLE

6. LENGTH

7. SQUARE

8. SEGMENT

9. DIAMETER

10. TRIANGLE - - - Geometry terms   

NUMBER ANAGRAMS I

GAMES/World of Puzzles 

June, 2026

Rodolfo Kurchan

 

Anagram the letters of the given numbers to form a word. The letters given as clues do not appear in the numbers.  

 

Ex: ONE + TWO

H _ M _ _ _ _ _

Ans: hOm ETOWN 

 

Ex: THREE + FOUR

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ M _ R _

FURTHERmOr E

 

1. THREE + SEVEN

    _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ L _ _ S

 

2. THREE + EIGHT

     F _ A _ _ _ _ W _ _ _ _ _

 

3. TWO + EIGHT

     _ _ _ S _ _ R _ _ _

 

4. THREE + TEN

     _ _ _ _ A _ _ _ _ D

 

5. FOUR + FOUR

    _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

 

6. ONE + NINE

    _ _ _ _ C _ _ C _ 

 

HINTS:
First of the missing letters of the words:

1. N

2. E

3. G

4. T

5. F

6. I 

 

Answers:

 

1. NEVERTHELESS

2. FEATHERWEIGHT

3. GHOSTWRITE

4. THREATENED

5. FROUFROU

6. INNOCENCE 

 FOUR-WORD MARCH II

GAMES /World of Puzzles

June, 2026

Shawn Kennedy

 

In each row of each grid below, enter the same three-letter word in the three blank squares to form six-letter words reading across. 

 

1. _ _ _ TOR

    F _ _ _ PE

    SC   _ _ _ E

    UNW _ _ _ 

 

2. _ _ _ ERE

    C _ _ _ US

    SC _ _ _ I

    REV _ _ _

 

3. _ _ _ EGE

    M _ _ _ ET

    RE _ _ _ Y

    AP P _ _ _

 

4. _ _ _ ENT

    C _ _ _ OR

    SA _ _ _ I

    BED _ _ _

 

5. _ _ _ LER

    M _ _ _ RA

    SH _ _ _ Y

    DEC _ _ _ 

 

Answers:

 

1. RAPTOR

    FRAPPE

    SCRAPE

    UNWRAP

 

2. AMPERE

    CAMPUS

    SCAMPI

    REVAMP

 

3. ALLEGE

    MALLET

    REALLY

    APPALL

 

4. LAMENT

    CLAMOR

    SALAMI

    BEDLAM

 

5. ANTLER

    MANTRA

    SHANTY

    DECANT