CRYPTO CLUES CCLV

GAMES/World of Puzzles

June, 2025

Kenneth Bays (1-4)

August, 2026

Bob Stigger (5-11)

 

1. Wardrobe section includes plus-sized

 

2. Cooks up chocolate confections

 

3. Come up, riding in car I serviced

 

4. A sea dweller proclaimed love

 

5. A woolen fabric woven in Rome

 

6. Place for the congregation, not for the clergy

 

7. Feign diplomacy, losing face

 

8. Obscure Colorado ski resort, say

 

9. Large herbivore depicted in Iron Age relics

 

10. Slicker pasta often combined with cheese

 

11. Dispensed with re-organization of Delta  

 

HINTS:
1. Hidden word

2. Definition - homograph

3. Hidden word

4. Homophone

5. Definition - anagram

6. Homograph

7. Definition - beheadment

8. Homophone

9. Anagram

10. Homograph

11. Anagram

 

Answers:

 

1. OBESE (wardrOBE SEction)

2. FUDGES

3. ARISE (cAR I SErviced)

4. AMORE (a moray)  

5. MERINO [sheep breed]

6. LAY

7. ACT (feign) TACT 

8. VEIL (Vail)

9. ONAGER (irON AGE Relics) 

10. MAC 

11. DEALT [dispensed with] 

UNUSUAL WORDS CXXVII

Can you give a simple definition of these less-frequently-used words?

1. COL

3. TOR

3. CRU 

4. URIAL 

4. NIDUS

6. PLISSE

7. ARGOSY

8. GALENA

9. PANGOLIN

10. UNIGENITURE

 

Answers:

 

1. COL - Mountain pass

2. TOR - Rocky outcrop

3. CRU - Vineyard

4. URIAL - Wild sheep of south/central Asia

5. NIDUS - A nest, as for spiders, insects, birds, etc.

6. PLISSE  Puckered, crinkled fabric

7. ARGOSY - Fleet of merchant ships carrying a rich cargo

8. GALENA - Mineral that is the main ore source of lead 

9. PANGOLIN - Scaly anteater of Africa/Asia - It can roll itself into a ball

10. UNIGENITURE - Being an only child 

SYNONYM/ANAGRAM. CCCXLIX

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. COY + CUP = O

2. HAD + SIR = R

3. ORE + TAN = O

4. AIL + CLOG = L 

5. ROT + YELL = T

6. DEN + WILD = D

7. EGO + SCAR = C

8. ALTO + COIN = L

9. CUTE + IRON = N

10. COIF + TENT = C

11. LAVA + PROP = A

 

Meanings of the anagrams:

1. Fill, use

2. Food

3. Decorated

4. Reasonable

5. Kind of transport

6. Slowly become smaller

7. Flower

8. Place

9. Have a little OCD, perhaps

10. Ticker-tape parade stuff 

11. Sanction

 

Answers:

 

1. OCCUPY

2. RADISH

3. ORNATE

4. LOGICAL

5. TROLLEY

6. DWINDLE

7. CORSAGE

8. LOCATION

9. NEUROTIC

10. CONFETTI

11. APPROVAL  

GAMES/World of Puzzles

August, 2026

Scott Erdman

 

I AM NOT AN ANIMAL

 

The answers to the following clues are all things and people that share names with animlas but are not animals. 

 

Ex. Expert (or cheater) at the poker table

Ans. CARD SHARK

 

1. Auto mechanic, in slang

2. Police informant

3. Device for breaking down barricades

4. Habitue of local watering holes

5. Frankfurter

6. Louisville Slugger, e.g.

7. Scripps word contest for kids

8. Carpenter's cutting support

9. Many a child in Dickens' novels

10. Pipe unclogger

11. One whose nose is always in a novel

12. Official decree from the Vatican

13. Inconsiderate land-straddling driver

14. Hotshot lawyer

15. Ball of lint under the bed

16. One singled out to take the blame

17. One outstanding in his field

18. It moves the cursor  

19. One whose bark is worse than his bite

20. Member of an all-Black post Civil War Army regiment  

 

Answers: 

 

1. Grease monkey

2. Stool pigeon

3. Battering ram

4. Barfly or lounge lizard

5. Hot dog  

6. Baseball bat

7. Spelling bee

8. Saw horse

9. Street urchin

10. Plumber's snake

11. Bookworm

12. Papal bull

13. Road hog

14. Legal eagle

15. Dust bunny

16. Scapegoat

17. Scarecrow

18. Computer mouse

19. Paper tiger

20. Buffalo soldier  

TWO OUT OF THREE XVI

Anagram two of the three words in each clue to get a synonym for the third word. 

Ex. SLY, YEN, ASK

Ans. YEN + ASK = SNEAKY (sly)

Ex.. HINT, REAL, ACUTE

Ans. HINT + ACUTE = AUTHENTIC (real)

 

1. CART, FAIR, PLANE

2. CASE, TAPE, TEST

3. KIDS, RICH, LEND

4. NAIL, EDICT, SAME

5. SIZE, TUNA, MIDGE

6. SEND, TEEN, LOCATE 

 

HINTS:
One of the words to be anagrammed:

1. CART

2. CASE

3. RICH

4. NAIL

5. TUNA

6. SEND 

 

Answers:

 

1. CART + FAIR = AIRCRAFT (plane)

2. CASE + TEST = CASSETTE (tape)

3. RICH + LEND = CHILDREN (kids)

4. NAIL + EDICT = IDENTICAL (same)

5. TUNA + MIDGE = MAGNITUDE (size)

6. SEND +  LOCATE = ADOLESCENT (teen)

CRYPTO CLUES CCLIV

GAMES Magazine

June, 2015

Bob Stigger (1-4)

GAMES/World of Puzzles

August, 2026

Chris Crossman (5-6)

Fred Piscop (7-9)

Bob Stigger (10-11) 

 

1. A breakfast cereal prepared with ease

 

2. Computer ruse destroyed D.C. institution

 

3. Take on outspoken superior

 

4. Help some diabetics 

 

5. Zeus backed up canal

 

6. Confuses sudoku and crosswords

 

7. Had ambitions of changing diapers

 

8. Consequences of running wild at the farm

 

9. Coveted position, anyway you look at it 

 

10. Be faithful and split

 

11. Foot needs to be better adorned 

 

HINTS:

1-2. Anagrams

3. Homophone

4. Hidden word

5. Reversal

6. Homograph

7-8. Anagrams

9. Definition - palindrome

10. Contronym

11. Anagram 

 

Answers:

 

1. WHEATIES (with ease)

2. SUPREME COURT (computer ruse)

3. HIRE (higher)

4. ABET (diABETics)

5. SUEZ (zeus)

6. PUZZLES (two definitions)

7. ASPIRED (diapers)

8. AFTERMATH (at the farm)

9. TOP SPOT

10. CLEAVE (opposite meanings)

11. FESTOONED (foot needs)  

CHARADES IV

Ex.  Sitar piece + Bakery treat = Waif

Ans. RAGA + MUFFFIN = RAGAMUFFIN 

 

1. Hat + S,M, or L = Tip over 

 

2. Buddy + Assert = Idle talk

 

3. Act + Penny = Museum guide

 

4. Finish + Auricle = Cause to be liked

 

5. Future prune + Years = Feathers

 

6. The Odyssey, for one + Go in = Ground zero 

 

7. Clever humor + That woman = Shrivel up

 

8. Paper money + Only = Fine fabric

 

9. Change + Indigenous one =  A choice 

 

10. Pleasant + Shirt-go-with for men =  Social refinements

 

Answers:

 

1. CAP + SIZE = CAPSIZE

2. PAL + AVER = PALAVER 

3. DO + CENT = DOCENT

4. END + EAR = ENDEAR

5. PLUM + AGE = PLUMAGE

6. EPIC + ENTER = EPICENTER

7. WITH + HER = WITHER

8. CASH + MERE = CASHMERE

9. ALTER + NATIVE = ALTERNATIVE

10. NICE + TIES = NICETIES