CRYPTO CLUES CXXXVI

GAMES/World of Puzzles

May, 2016

Adam Fromm (1-4)

Pam Wylder (5-8)

GAMES Editors (9)

 

[Clues 1, 3, 4, 6, and 7 are anagrams.]

 

1. Chicken order is handled badly

2. Island helps to make music a priority (hidden word)

3. Consumed by terrible scorn, I'm red

4. He swore, "It changes or else!" 

5. Gets rid of storage sheds (two meanings)

6. Oddly, I clam up in public

 

7. Buggy got ruined taking the back roads 

8. Speech or a lecture about musical composition (hidden word)

9. Cities plan a development having open space for walking (hidden word)

10. Counted frozen chicken out loud (homophone)

Answers:

 

1. RHODE ISLAND RED (order is handled)

2. CAPRI (musiC A PRIority)

 

3. CRIMSON (scorn I'm)

 

4. OTHERWISE (he swore it)

 

5. SHEDS

 

6. MUNICIPAL (I clam up in)

 

7. DETOURING (got ruined)

 

8. CHORALE (speeCH OR A LEcture)

 

9. ESPLANADE (citiES PLAN A DEvelopment)

 

10. NUMBERED (numb bird)