MIND FLEXERS XXI

GET THE PICTURE?
Credit: GAMES Magazine
November, 2005
Mary Ellen Slate

What's a downgrade? To most normal people it suggests a gently descending slope or decline in status or condition. But to cagey wordsmiths, it can also be a rating for feather-pillow filling. Similarly, Thinking is a skinny monarch and Peer group is simply a crowd of spectators.

Match each description below with one of the choices that follow.

1. What you do at the drive-thru
2. S M L or XL at a baseball game
3. Ten-year old with a rap sheet
4. Mother of puppies
5. Sign supporting candidate Reagan
6. How a nun usually appears
7. The North or South Pole
8. Two friends in prison
9. Suitable neckwear
10. Overloaded electrical socket
11. Healed wound on an athlete
12. Top ocean wave rider
13. K-Rations
14. Frequently seen tower
15. "Sorry, full" sign at a busy restaurant
16. WWI insect at the front lines
17. Vegetable garden sight
18. Position of officer looking through a periscope

CHOICES

a. Sports car
b. Warfare
c. Shortcoming
d. Head start
e. AAA
f. Notable
g. Childhood
h. Surface
i. Trenchant
j. Substance
k. Dogma
l. Justice
m. Capsize
n. Come to order
o. Properties
p. Electron
q. Inhabit
r. Pen pals

Answers:

1. n - Come to order
2. m - Capsize
3. g - Childhood
4. k - Dogma
5. p - Electron
6. q - Inhabit
7. l - Justice
8. r - Pen pals
9. o - Properties
10. c - Shortcoming
11. a - Sports car
12. h - Surface
13. b- Warfare
14. e - AAA
15. f - Notable
16. i - Trenchant
17. d - Head start
18. j - Substance