CRYPTO CLUES VI

Cryptic clues are answered with answers disguised in wordplay. For example, the clue, Colonist runs off animals, could be answered by ANTELOPES. An ant is a colonist (ant colony), runs off can be ELOPES, and ANTELOPES are animals.

Can you think of a single-word answer that would satisfy all parts of he clues below?

1. Eric cooked some grain.

2. Don't start temperature at all

3. French playwright backing into poison shrub

4. Re-arrange space - it is free from disease

5. Orchestral element caught with liquor

6. A tax agency broadcasts

7. Condemned to tend scene change

Ansewers:

1. RICE

2. EVER 

3. SUMAC (CAMUS)

4. ASEPTIC (anagram of space it)

5. SNARE DRUM (snared rum)

6. AIRS 

7. SENTENCED (SENtEnCed)

Credit:

Dell PennyPress Variety Puzzles

Summer, 2019