CRYPTO CLUES LXXIX

Dell PennyPress Variety Puzzles

Summer, 2020 

1. Poor Big Ben is in decline (anagram)

2. Toothy critter residing in Purgatory (hidden word)

3. Headless spade ruined house (deletion)

4. Red nebula swirls, but not too much (anagram)

5. Road a meeting place (two words)

6. Elaborate phonetic Greek letter by two companies

7. Hazardous material thrown at bosses (anagram)

 

8. Ignited some prayer (two words)

 

9. Fill up small canyon (homograph)

 

10. Tend to run west, southeast (partial reversal)

Answers:

 

1. EBBING

2. GATOR (purGATORy)

3. HOVEL (SHOVEL) 

4. ENDURABLE (red nebula)

5. AVENUE (A VENUE)

6. ROCOCO (rho)

7. ASBESTOS (at bosses)

8. LITANY

9. GORGE

10. NURSE (tend to) / RUN west - to the left, as on a map)