CRYPTO CLUES CXX

Dell PennyPress Variety Puzzles

Volume 123 (1-5)

GAMES/World of Puzzles

February, 2024

Stella Zawistowski (6-9)

 

1. Update fashion: zero denim  (anagram) 

2. Celtic lass I cast is excellent  (anagram)

3. Inquiring contemptible person with debts  (word + abbreviation)

4. Withdraw to provide more medical care  (two meanings)

5. Limo after six for clergyman  (Roman numerals)

6. That woman - a recluse from engineering school in Cambridge (word + abbreviation)

7. Scary female horse consumes taxi (container)

8. Small worker chasing legume crop - agricultural worker (two words)

9. Legal issue with a Mexican sandwich (two words)

Answers:

 

1. MODERNIZE (zero denim)

2. CLASSIC (Celtic lass I cast)

3. CURIOUS (cur + IOUs)

4. RETREAT

5. VICAR (VI = six)

6. HERMIT 

7. MACABRE (ma cab re)

8. PEASANT

9. TORTA