CRYPTO CLUES CLXIV

GAMES Magazine

July/August, 1981 

Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

 

1. Fellow eating piece of meat has to chew vigorously (container)

 

2. Tamper, we hear, with an Olympic award (homophone)

 

3. Ship's first voyage with band (letter + word)

 

4. Author of The Stranger is tree climbing (reversal)

 

5. Unnaturally dread snake (anagram) 

6. Small sea creature found among roly-poly porpoises (hidden word)

 

7. Moving in the classic exercises (anagram)

8. Impulses evident in our gestures (hidden word)

 

9."I'll row," he said. (homophone)

 

Answers:

 

1. CHAMP (CHA M P) [A = piece of meat]

 

2. MEDAL (meddle)

 

3. STRIP (S = ship's first / TRIP = voyage / STRIP = band [narrow piece of cloth]

 

4. CAMUS (sumac)

 

5. ADDER (dread)

 

6. POLYP (roly-POLY Porpoises) 

7. CALESTHENICS (in the classic)

 

8. URGES (impulses) [oUR GEStures]

 

9. AISLE (row pronounce with a long O)