QUOTES CCLXXVI 

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Thomas Wolfe 

 

You're only as good as the people you hire.

Ray Kroc  

 

Our habits are first cobwebs and then cables.

Author Unknown

 

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. 

Author Unknown 

Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings.

W.H. Auden

 

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

Hannah Arendt

 

There's nothing so annoying as arguing with someone who really knows what he's talking about.

Author Unknown 

 

Knowledge leads us from the simple to the complex; wisdom leads us from the complex to the simple.

Author Unknown 

 

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That's what's wrong with it.

Noel Coward 

 

There is something about the present which we not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.

Virginia Woolf 

 

OUT OF PLACE 

Dell PennyPress Variety Puzzles

August, 2025

 

The following names have something in common. Can you determine what it is?

 

1. ERMA

2. TINA 

3. DAN

4. KEN

5. LIZ 

 

HINTS:

1. Each name can be found in the name of a related word. 

2. The related words are countries.

 

Answers:

 

1. gERMAny

2. argenTINA

3. jorDAN

4. KENya

5. beLIZe  

SYNONYM/ANAGRAM CCCLII

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

1. ERR + YAP = P

2. TIE + ZINC = C

3. NIP + LACE = P

4. RAY + GIFT = G 

5. IRIS + OVEN = R

6. FLAT + HUNK = T 

7. TAIL + ENMITY = I 

8. MAID + SINGLE = M

9. GONE + SURELY = G 

10. ROUSE + MISTY = M

 

Meanings of the anagrams:

1. Supplication

2. Voter, for one

3. Bird

4. Please

5. Changed, updated version

6. Grateful

7. Very personally

8. Like a red herring

9. Sharing unselfishly

10. Strange, unexplained

 

Answers:

 

1. PRAYER

2. CITIZEN

3. PELICAN

4. GRATIFY

5. REVISION  

6. THANKFUL

7. INTIMATELY

8. MISLEADING

9. GENEROUSLY

10. MYSTERIOUS  

  

CRYPTO CLUES CCLXVI

GAMES Magazine 

April, 2006

Pam Wylder (1-3)

March, 2014

Emily Cox and HenryRathvon (4- 10)

 

1. Taxes Goodyear products

 

2. Fretwork running across small attic enclosure

 

3. Passage, though not in Torah, about king of Israel 

 

4. Current conscription

 

5. In Helsinki, test some toys 

 

6. True, Ma has changed with age 

 

7. Turned upside down, poetically 

 

8. Like a monarch's terrible allergy

 

9. Loose pet spared from highway hazard 

 

10.  Something you can count on, understand?

 

HINTS:
1. Homograph

2. Hidden word

3. Hidden word

4. Homograph

5. Hidden word

6. Anagram

7. Definition / two words

8. Anagram

9. Anagram

10. Definition / two words 

 

Answers:

 

1. TIRES

2. LATTICE (smalL ATTIC Enclosure)

3. AHAB (torAH ABout)

4. DRAFT

5. KITES (helsinKI, TESt)  

6. MATURE (true, ma)

7. INVERSE (in verse)

8. REGALLY (allergy)

9. SPEED TRAP (pet spared)

10. DIGIT (dig it?)  

 

  

 CHARADES VII

Ex. HEADWEAR + ASIAN FOOD STAPLE = WHIM

Ans. CAP + RICE = CAPRICE

 

1. Average/acceptable + Quantity = Of most importance

 

2. Valve controller in an engine + Period of time = Canon product

 

3. Be victorious + Several = Gentle and attractive in a sweet way

 

4. Auditory organ + Artificial hair = Insect with pincers

 

5. Noble deed + Objective feminine pronoun = Plumage

 

6. Ancestral group + Pre-ordain = Secretive

 

7. Informal job + Trick = Enormous

 

8. Warmth + Female chicken = Unbeliever 

 

Answers:

 

1. PAR + AMOUNT = PARAMOUNT

2. CAM + ERA = CAMERA

3. WIN + SOME = WINSOME

4. EAR + WIG = EARWIG

5. FEAT + HER = FEATHER

6. CLAN + DESTINE = CLANDESTINE

7. GIG + ANTIC = GIGANTIC

8. HEAT + HEN = HEATHEN  

 

TRIPLE BONDS XV

SPLIT ENDS III

A two-word phrase can be placed between the two words of each clue below to give three over-lapping two-word phrases. For example, given the clue WAX _____  ______ PLATE, the answer would be POETIC LICENSE, as in WAX POETIC, POETIC LICENSE, LICENSE PLATE.

1. OVER _______   _______ TOP

2. PLATE _______   _______ FAN 

3. HAIL _______   _______ DAYS 

4. SUN _______   _______ DOWN 

5. GLUE _______   _______ EIGHT

6. TIRE _______   _______ POWER

7. WHITE _______   _______ RING

8. DEEP _______   _______ POINT

9. FIRST _______   _______ HEAD

10. CHURCH _______   _______ DOOR 

 

Answers:

 

1. OVER THINK TANK TOP

2. PLATE GLASS CEILING FAN 

3. HAIL CAESAR SALAD DAYS

4. SUN DIAL TONE DOWN

5. GLUE STICK FIGURE EIGHT

6. TIRE WALL FLOWER POWER

7. WHITE CHRISTMAS TREE RING

8. DEEP SPACE NEEDLE POINT

9. FIRST LOVE LETTER HEAD

10. CHURCH MOUSE TRAP DOOR

ADD A LETTER - GET A NEW WORD CCCXIII 

Add the designated letter to each word and re-arrange the letters to get a new word.

1. OPUS + I

2. GALE + I

3. DATE + C

4. SANG + H 

5. TUNA + G 

6. PUREE + O

7. GRIME + A 

8. HOTEL + A

9. CARET + N

10. CHASE + W

11. CEREAL + P

12. DEMEAN + R 

 

HINTS:
First letter of the new words:

1. P

2. A

3. C

4. G

5. G

6. E

7. I

8. L

9. N

10. C

11. R

12. M 

 

Answers:

 

1.  PIOUS

2. AGILE

3. CADET

4. GNASH

5. GAUNT

6. EUROPE

7. IMAGE 

8. LOATHE

9. NECTAR

10. CASHEW

11. REPLACE

12. MEANDER