CRYPTO CLUES LXXVII

GAMES Magazine

July/August, 1982

Henry Hook

 

The first five clues can be answered using anagrams.

1. Clam soup he'd crow about 

 

2. Awful squeeze in type of bed

 

3. In rhyme, a confused trio climbed in 

 

4. Awkwardly reach up at a skydiver's gear

 

5. Eerie tune had tormented 

6. Impetuous, Sarah loses one (deletion)

7. At home in four (two meanings)

8. Attempted to make it red (two words)

9. Unit of weight right on time (two words)

Answers:

 

1. CHOWDER (he'd crow)

2. QUEEN-SIZE (squeeze in)

3. BLIND MICE (climbed in)

4. PARACHUTE (reach up at)

5. HAUNTED (tune had) 

6. RASH (SARAH) 

7. QUARTERED

8. TRIED (it + red)

9. OUNCE (on + cue)