MIND FLEXERS LXXV

Answer each clue by matching it with one of the choices below. The relationships are disguised by double meanings and/or altered spacing within words. The choices are in random order.

1. Tours with

2. Play with matches

3. Starter home

4. The way we word

5. XXX activity

6. Head turners

7. Grand total

8. Gets to the point

9. Choose paper over plastic

10. One who might be beside himself

 

CHOICES:

a. Tapers

b. Clone

c. Tennis

d. Eighty-eight

e. Owls

f. Avec

g. Uterus

h. Pay cash

i. Tic-tac-toe

j. Syntax

 

Answers:

 

1. f - Avec (Tours - City in France)

2. c - Tennis

3. g - Uterus

4. j - Syntax

5. i - Tic-tac-toe

6. e - Owls

7. d - Eighty-eight (piano keys)

8. a - Tapers

9. h - Pay cash

10. b - Clone 

 

Credits:

1-2: Patrick Berry

3: Byron Walden

4: Leslie Billig

5: Ross Trudeau

6. Tao Platt

7-8: Adam Aaronson

9: Victor Fleming

10. Stanley Newman