CRYPTO CLUES XXXVI

GAMES Magazine

March/April, 1981

Henry Hook

 

1. End of ledger taken off shelf (curtailment)

 

2. Sailors on a romp hiding submarine equipment (hidden word)

 

3. Drive double-zero miles per hour (two "words")

 

4. Rope a donkey in - - - behold! (container) 

 

5. Blue jeans material is dug up (reversal) 

 

6. Our planet can give you a broken heart (anagram) 

 

7. Hawaiians, lacking leadership, indulge in name calling (beheadment) 

 

8. Movie derived from backward aspect of farm life (reversal) 

 

9. Tight spots demonstrated by bishop in chess (hidden word) 

 

10. A weaver's apparatus is turned to cash (definition and anagram) 

 

11. What a comic might do when the first of the restrictions is removed (beheadment) 

 

12. Parade month (two meanings) 

 

13. Geraldine dropped in unexpectedly. We celebrated.

 

Answers: 

 

1. LEDGE (ledger)

2. SONAR (sailors on a romp) 

3. OOMPH (00 + MPH) 

4. LASSO (L ASS O)

5. DENIM (mined) 

6. EARTH (heart - letters broken up)

7. SLANDERS (ISLANDERS) [ignore inflection]

8. FILM (farm life) [reversed]

9. PINCHES (bishop in chess)

10. MOOLA (a loom) [reversed]

11. IMITATIONS (limitations)

12. MARCH

13. REGALED (GERALDINE - IN)