CRYPTO CLUES XVII

BIG BOOK OF GAMES

CRACKERJACK CRYPTICS

Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

 

Answer the cryptic clues below using anagrams, hidden words, homophones, and other wordplay.  

1. Seat for you and me and the woman over there (charade - two or more words)

2. Exotic ingredients on a cake (hidden word)

3. Fish around while getting art equipment (container)

4. Rule breaker ruined the race (anagram)

5. Reduces homework assignments, so we hear (homophone)

6. To put it another way, others had dinner (charade)

7. Forest's edge once divided city, in time (container)

8. Overthrow in coups, etc. (hidden word)

9. Encounter swarm returning (reversal)

Answers:

 

1. USHER (us + her/ seat - usher as a verb)

 

2. ICING (exotIC INGredients)

 

3. EASEL (art equipment/ eel is around as [while])

 

4. CHEATER (rule breaker -anagram of the race)  

 

5. LESSENS (reduces - homophone of lessons [homework assignments]

 

6. RESTATE (to put it another way[rest - others/ ate - had dinner]) 

 

7. TIMBERLINE (forest's edge [Berlin - once-divided city/inside TIME]) 

 

8. UPSET (overthrow - coups, etc)

 

9.  MEET (encounter - reversal of TEEM [swarm])