CRYPTO CLUES XXII

GAMES/World of Puzzles

August, 2019

Bob Stigger (1-3)

Todd Rew (4-10)

 

Each clue below contains the definition of its answer and an indication of its answer's literal makeup using wordplay. Either half may come first, and finding the dividing point between the two parts is the key to solving. 

1. Relative in Riviera resort, we hear (homophone)

2. Almost finished bringing up dried fruit (deletion of final letter)

3. Ten dimes lost in lake-bottom muck (anagram of ten dimes)

4. Average poetry standards (letter + plural word)

5. Ask if flotilla contains a rowboat (hidden word)

6. Not-a-man altered state (anagram)

7. Let it out for championship (anagram)

8. Ogle if a suspect leaves (anagram and second definition)

9. Audibly quote spy (homophone)

 

10. Feeling like Quasimodo (two meanings)

11. Exerts dominance with regard to terribly sore diver (anagram of sore diver)

Answers:

 

1. NIECE 

2. RAISIN

3. SEDIMENT

4. CODES (C + ODES)

5. SKIFF (aSK IF Flotilla)

6. MONTANA

7. TITLE

8. FOLIAGE (ogle if a) [leaves = foliage]

9.  SIGHT (cite)

10. HUNCH

11. OVERRIDES