CRYPTO CLUES XXXVII

CROSSWORD A L'ANGLAISE

GAMES Magazine

May/June, 1979

Will Shortz

 

1. To clean messy curbs (anagram)

 

2. "Come back, Ron, I'm not yet twenty-one! (reversal)

 

3. Change the males in a commercial (container) 

4. There's a moat concealing an island (hidden word)

5. A stove, to an extent (two meanings)

6. Tired of the inn's meals, we hear (homophone)

 

7. Baby puppies make a mess (two meanings)

8. Animal with a poker stake and an easy gait (false compound)

8. Rang the bell again, in a sense, like Hawthorne's "Tales" (homophone)

9. Yale is beaten handily (anagram)

10. Sign of vindication after the guillotine (beheadment)

11. Jam the wildlife areas (two meanings)

Answers:

 

1. SCRUB (anagram of curbs)

2. MINOR

3. AMEND (AmenD)

4. SAMOA (there'S AMOAt)

5. RANGE

6. BORED (board)

7. LITTER

8. TWICE TOLD (twice tolled)

9. EASILY (yale is)

10. INDICATION (V is "beheaded") 

11. PRESERVES