Jonesin' Crossword

March 12, 2024

Matt Jones 

BRUTE FORCE

The answers to the clues below will have something in common. Can you determine what it is?

1. Noodles that translate to "little ribbons"

2. Leafy replacements for burger buns

3. Covert escape route, perhaps

4. Cry of some desert creature protectionists

 

Hint:

The title is a hint.

Answers:

 

1. FETTUCCINI 

2. LETTUCE WRAPS

3. SECRET TUNNEL

4. LET TURTLES ALONE

 

Each phrase conceals the consecutive letters ETTU - as in ET TU, Brute - Caesar's words to Brutus as he (Caesar) was being stabbed to death on the Ides of March (15th).