FLEXERS XXIV

STRICTLY SPEAKING I
Credit: GAMES Magazine
June, 2000
Jack Donohue (#1-6)

Answer each clue by matching it with one of the choices listed below. The choices are in random order. Wordplay is fair play.

1. Fibs habitually
2. Empty a PC folder
3. Remove a car's chrome
4. Advanced more money to
5. Needed more aspirin
6. Keep changing clothes
7. Distant object
8. Cost of a Van Gogh painting
9. It's in the far Northwest
10. Product of Greek culture

CHOICES:

a. Attained
b. Feta cheese
c. Farthing
d. Correct a wrong
e. Give in
f.  Vincent Price
g. Guardian
h. Escape key
i. Puts trust in
j. Make dirty

Answers: 

1. i - Puts trust in (relies/re-lies)
2. j - Make dirty (defile/de-file)
3. g - Guardian (defender/de-fender)
4. e - Give in (relent/re-lent)
5. a - Attained (reached/re-ached)
6. d - Correct a wrong (redress/re-dress)
7. c - Farthing (far thing)
8. f - Vincent Price (Vincent van Gogh)
9. h - Escape key (computer keyboard position)
10. b - Feta cheese (starter culture)

Credits:
#9-10: Paula Gamache