CRYPTO CLUES XVIX

Dell PennyPress Variety Puzzles

Spring, 2019

 

A cryptic clues gives the definition of the answer disguised in wordplay. For example, GODLESS ONE AT  ROBBERY, would be ATHEIST. An atheist is a godless one, and at robbery is  AT HEIST.

1. He named new leaders (anagram of He named)

2. Brooch arrived at tennis match with love

3. Quaver at dizzying height (a quaver is an 1/8 note)

4. Accommodate Big Leo or else! (anagram of Big Leo)

5. Friends back up from an insult (reversal)

6. Cold Shakespearean king is lucid (abbreviation)

7. Market is strange-sounding (homophone)

8. Applied postage on front of envelopes to rush as a group

9. Chic apartment is not suitable (abbreviation)

10. Large wall hanging adhesive's effort (two words)

11. Fifty-one scolded and set free (Roman numeral)

12. New name of Ceylon irks Alan (anagram)

13. About goodies for hermits' lairs

14. Blood group heard to bring about clerical error

Answers:

 

1. HEAD MEN

2. CAMEO

3. HEIGHT (anagram of EIGHTH) 

4. OBLIGE

5. SLAP

6. CLEAR (C = cold)

7. BAZAAR (bizarre)

8. STAMPEDE

9. INAPT

10. TAPESTRY (tapes try)

11. LIberated

12. SRI LANKA

13. RE TREATS (RETREATS)

14. TYPE O (TYPO)