CRYPTO CLUES CCLXIII

GAMES Magazine

August, 1985

Mike Shenk (1-7)

Henry Hook ( 8-12)

 

1. Doctor dictates crucial examination

 

2. Off-key ode lover has to sing in the mountains

 

3. An involuntary spasm is oddly amusing

 

4. Interior design for section of worldwide  corporation

 

5. Brazenly ruthless swindlers

 

6. Prohibit shelving in army dwellings

 

7. Cast finished in speech

 

8. Seat in overturned sacks

 

9. A slicer chopped up bakery items

 

10. Mideast region suffering penalties

 

11. "The monster is back!" "So?"

 

12. List the exotic plant 

 

HINTS: 

1. Anagram

2. Hidden word

3. Two words / definition

4. Hidden word

5.  Anagram

6. Two definitions

7. Homophone / two definitions

8. Definition of "sacks"/reversal

9. Anagram

10. Anagram

11. Definitions / reversal 

12. Anagram 

 

Answers:

 

1. ACID TEST (dictates)

2. YODEL (off-keY ODE Lover)

3. ANTIC (an + tic)

4. DECOR (worldwiDE CORporation)

5. HUSTLERS (ruthless)

6. BARRACKS (bar + racks)

7. THREW (through)

8. STOOL (loots)

9. ECLAIRS (a slicer)

10. PALESTINE (penalties)

11. ERGO (ogre)

12. THISTLE (list the)  

COMPLETE-A-WORD XXXIV 

Dell PennyPress Variety Puzzles

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

1. Canter, e.g.           A _ _ _ NS _

2. Hideaway             G _ _ C _ E _

3. Lackluster             _ U _ _ _ LE

4. Escalate                T _ A _ P _ _

5. Terra firma           _ _ U _ _ RY

6. Reverberate          _ _ _ EL _ N 

7. Champion            C _ _ V _ _ N

8. Diplomacy           EX _ R  _ _ _

9. Origin, cause       _ _ WB _ A _

10. Fling                 _ _ NA _ _ A 

Answers:

1. GAIT - AGAINST

2. LAIR - GLACIER

3. DRAB - DURABLE

4. RISE - TRAIPSE 

5. LAND - LAUNDRY

6. ECHO - ECHELON

7. HERO - CHEVRON

8. TACT - EXTRACT 

9. ROOT - ROWBOAT

10. CAST - CANASTA  

SYNONYM/ANAGRAM CCCLI 

The two words in each line can be anagrammed into one - beginning with the given letter. The meanings of the anagrams are given below the clues.

1. LIE + SAY = E 

2. SOB + VALE = A

3. NICE + SEAR = I 

4. EPIC + SOUR = P

5. CART + STUB = S 

6. BALE + PATH = A

7. RANG + RUDE = G 

8. SURE + MOON = E

9. AUNT + SHOD = T

10. TIE + ACORN = C 

 

Meaning of the anagrams:

1. Simply

2. Clear from guilt

3. Enlarge

4. Very dear

5. Math operation

6. Kind of soup

7. Magnificence in style or appearance

8. Huge

9. 10 cubed

10. Invention

 

Answers:

 

1. EASILY

2. ABSOLVE

3. INCREASE

4. PRECIOUS

5. SUBTRACT

6. ALPHABET

7. GRANDEUR

8. ENORMOUS

9. THOUSAND

10. CREATION  

QUOTES CCLXXV

Never try to out-stubborn a cat.

Robert A. Heinlein

 

Art is the signature of civilization.

Beverly Sills

 

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.

Anne Lamott 

 

The year is always portrayed as an old man or a baby.

Bill Vaughan

 

A new broom may sweep clean, but an old one knows where all the dirt is. 

Author Unknown 

 

One doesn't discover new land without consenting to lose sight of the shore.

Andre Gide 

 

What will become of the younger generation? It will grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.

Author Unknown 

 

You can pay back a loan and never think of it again, but you are always in debt to the person who offers you great kindness.

Author Unknown 

 

What's the difference between  statesmen and politicians? If you agree with them, they're statesmen. If you don't, they're politicians.

Author Unknown 

 

Inviting people to laugh with you while you're laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You're still the fool, but you're the fool in charge.

Carl Reiner 

  

 

INGREDIENTS III

GAMES Magazine 

February, 2008

Stephen Sniderman

 

Some words contain letters that can be used to spell a related word. For example, INGREDIENTS contains the letters INSIDE, although not in that order. In this puzzle, you are given the letters of each shorter word in the order in which they appear in the longer word. Your job is to find both words. 

 

One way to start is by arranging the letters of the "inside" letters to form a word. (Sometimes they're already in the right order.) The first letter of each inside word is capitalized. Then you can try to find a longer word that fits the blanks and is related to the shorter word. Alternatively, you can try to fill the blanks to form the longer word, then see if you can arrange the inside letters to form a related shorter word. 

 

Ex. _ r I   _ an _ _

Ans. IRAN - SRI LANKA or SRI LANKA - IRAN (countries) 

 

1. _ h o _ _    I _ _ a _ d

 

2. P a _ _ _ _ r _ _ i _ 

 

3. _ _ _ i C _ _ _ _ _ t y 

 

4. P r _ _ _ _ _   _ y _ 

 

5. _ _ _ _ O w l _ _ _  

 

6. N _ m _ _ _ _ a _ _ _ e 

 

Answers (shorter word first):

 

1. IDAHO - RHODE ISLAND

2. PAIR - PARTNERSHIP

3. CITY - MUNICIPALITY 

4. PRY - PRIVATE EYE

5. OWL - MEADOWLARK

6. NAME - NOMENCLATURE 

 

  

 

CRYPTO CLUES CCLXII

GAMES Magazine

July, 2006

Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon (1-6)

Bob Stigger (7-9)

 

1. Speaker can run one off

 

2. Hardened, ruined crackers 

 

3. Beg for stories about rascals

 

4. When discussing a perfume, agree 

 

5. Speak of musical country in Europe

 

6. Brief re-arrangement of twos and threes 

 

7. Beef or fish

 

8. Romeo split Mobile for a big city 

 

9. Balancing time between dinner and bed  

 

HINTS:

1-2. Anagrams

3. Two words

4. Homophone

5. Homophone

6. Anagram 

7. Homograph

8. Anagram 

9. Stressonym

 

Answers:

 

1. ANNOUNCER (can run one)

2. INURED (ruined)

3. IMPLORE (imp + lore)

4. ASSENT (a scent)

5. GREECE (Grease)

6. SHORT AND SWEET (twos and threes)

7. CARP

8. METROPOLIS (romeo split)

9. EVENING 

  

DROP A LETTER - GET A NEW WORD CXLIX

GAMES/World of Puzzles

September, 2026

FAMILY REUNIONS

Bob Stigger

 

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

 

1. CHROME

2. LAPTOP 

3. OPERAS

4. INCLUDE

5. FORECASTS

6. MERCHANDISE

 

Answers:

 

1. HOMER

2. PLATO

3. AESOP

4. EUCLID

5. SOCRATES

6. ARCHIMEDES - - - Ancient Greeks