NAME - DROPPING 

GAMES Magazine

January 1983

M.E.S.

 

Can you supply the last names of these well-known past or present people with unusual first names? 

 

1. Tab

2. Fess

3. Gore 

4. Coco

5. Strom

6. Beatrix 

7. Cottton 

8. Armand

9. Whoopi 

10. Zbigniew 

11. Thurgood 

 

Answers:

 

1. Tab Hunter

2. Fess Parker

3. Gore Vidal

4. Coco Chanel

5. Strom Thurmond

6. Beatrix Potter

7. Cotton Mather

8. Armand Hammer

9. Whoopi Goldberg

10. Zbigniew Brzezinski

11. Thurgood Marshall  

CRYPTO CLUES CCXLVI

GAMES Magazine

March, 1983

Editors (1-3)

Merl Reagle (4)

March, 2001

Bob Stigger (5-6)

Michael Sontchi (7-9)

 

1. Unspecific officer 

 

2. Coach ran game badly

 

3. Misfortune apparent in outraged youth  

 

4. Vacation locale having fancy leis 

 

5. Selection of cantatas is so long 

 

6. Some exotic liqueurs for snobby group

 

7. Lag behind like pitch

 

8. Suspect circles priests

 

9. Errand you botched all the time

 

HINTS:

1. Homograph

2. Anagram

3. Definition - Hidden word

4. Anagram

5. Hidden word

6. Hidden word

7. Heteronym

8. Definition - Anagram

9. Definition - Anagram

 

Answers:

 

1. GENERAL

2. MANAGER (ran game)

3. TRAGEDY (ouTRAGED Youth)  

4. ISLE (leis)

5. TATA (canTATAs)

6. CLIQUE (exotiC LIQUEurs)

7. TARRY (pronounced two ways)

8. CLERICS (circles)

9. YEAR-ROUND (errand you) 

 

 

The words below are made up of two smaller words - but they are not compound words. For example, GENE and TIC could be combined to form GENETIC, but GENETIC is not a compound word (like BEDROOM) because its two parts are not related. Can you think of the other half of the word below to make them longer - but not compound words? Some of the words may have more than one answer.

1. NO

2. NIT 

3. BUR

4. TEE

5. BAT 

6. HER

7. PAN

8. HEM 

9. CAM

10. SIDE 

 

(Possible) Answers:

 

1. NOVICE

2. NITRATE

3. BURROW/ BURLAP

4. TEETHE

5. BATHER

6. HERRING

7. PANTRY

8. HEMLOCK

9. CAMERA

10. SIDEREAL  

 

[FALSE COMPOUNDS] 

ANIMALGRAMS  II 

GAMES Magazine 

December, 2000

Raymond Hamel 

 

For each word in the first column below, can you choose a one word from the second column so that the combined eight letters can be arranged to spell the name of an animal? For example, MARE + MOST = MARMOSET 

 

PINK         PULP

RAFT        COOK

RISE          HISS

RUIN         MODE

SOUR        CHUM

STAY         SIGN

TACO        SODA

TRAY        TOOT 

 

Answers:

 

PINK + CHUM = CHIPMUNK

RAFT + HISS = STARFISH

RISE + TOOT = TORTOISE

RUIN + SODA = DINOSAUR

SOUR + MODE = DORMOUSE

STAY + PULP = PLATYPUS

TACO = COOK = COCKATOO

TRAY + SIGN = STINGRAY 

 

  

VESSELS 

If a pillow maker's vessel is a SOFT LAUNCH, what would be the vessel for ..... 

1. An academic

2. A lettuce grower

3. A carpenter

4. an actor

 

Answers:

 

1. SCHOLARSHIP

2. HEADLINER

3. NAIL CLIPPER

4. STAGE CRAFT

 

Credit: 

Jerry Miccolis  

CRYPTO CLUES CCXLV

GAMES Magazine

November/December, 1980

Henry Hook

 

1. Climb in the limo unthinkingly

 

2. Avis' competitor inflicts damage, we hear

 

3. Composition that Sousa wrote in one month

 

4. Unusually cruel result of stress or overwork

 

5. Sheriff's men are in possession

 

6. Two partners holding dizzying designs 

 

7. Greek character at the head of the table

 

8. Horns seen roaming around central Zaire 

 

9. The present I mentioned is given with feeling 

 

HINTS:

1. Hidden word

2. Homophone

3. Homograph

4. Anagram

5. Hidden word

6. Hidden word

7. Hidden word

8. Central Zaire = I 

9. Hidden word

 

Answers:

 

1. MOUNT (liMO UNThinkingly)

2. HERTZ (hurts)

3. MARCH

4. ULCER (cruel)

5. POSSE (POSSEssion)

6. OP ART (twO PARTners)

7. THETA (of THE TAble)

8. RHINOS (RH I NOS) [HORNS + I]  

9. SENTIMENT (preSENT I MENTioned) 

 

 

PLUG-INS  XVI 

Note from JA: Every puzzler has strengths and weaknesses. One of my weaknesses is anagrams. In my opinion, this PLUG-IN puzzle, and the others like it, is very difficult.

Form 7-letter words by re-arranging the letters of each 6-letter word and plugging in one of the underlined letters. Each of the underlined letters will be plugged into the same position in each 7-letter answer, and each underlined letter will be used only once. The answer to #1 is not STUDIES. 

R  O  A  S  T  E  D 

1. D U T I E S        _ _ _ _ _ _ _

2. C H A L E T      _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 

3. S I E S T A        _ _ _ _ _ _ _

4. S T E R E O       _ _ _ _ _ _ _

5. P O I S E S         _ _ _ _ _ _ _

6. S U I T O R        _ _ _ _ _ _ _

7. S T R A I N        _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 

HINTS:

a. The added letters will go in the first position in each new word.

b. First letters of the new words:

    1. O

    2. S

    3. E

    4. R

    5. D

    6. T

    7. A

 

Answers:

 

1. OUTSIDE

2. SATCHEL

3. EASIEST

4. RESTORE

5. DISPOSE

6. TOURIST

7. ARTISAN