CRYPTO CLUES XV

GAMES/World of Puzzles

September, 2022

#1-3: Terry Freeland

#4: Bob Stigger 

1. My brother's daughter is going to school in a French seaport, so I hear (Homophone)

2. The Utah city proposition (charade - two words)

3. Refrain from anxiety about the globe (container) 

4. Director Federico succumbed to temptation in Italy's capital (charade -three words)

 

5. Flower that's full of amor (hidden word)

6. Sweet way to cheat (two meanings)

7. Nun's routine attire (two meanings)

8. Say no to trash (stressonym - two meanings)

9. Changing times (anagram)

10. Myopic colonel clutches flute (hidden word)

HINTS:

3. Globe - orb

4. Italy's capital - I

Answers:

 

1. NIECE (homophone of Nice)

2. THEOEM ( the + orem) 

3. FORBEAR (fear is "about" the orb / forebear = refrain)

4. FELLINI (fell in I)

5. CLOVER

6. FUDGE

7. HABIT

8. REFUSE - (re fuse' - ref' use

9. ITEMS

10. PICCOLO (myopic colonel)