MIND FLEXERS CXXXIII

Answer each clue by matching it with one of the choices below. The relationships are disguised by double meanings, altered spacing within words, and/or other wordplay.

1. Like tying your shoes

2. Like a bit of wordplay

3. Dishonestly, honestly

4. Controversial  topic

5. Turn down

6. Like a C in physics

7. Change of heart

8. Alley oops

9. Bottom line

10. Par for the coarse 

CHOICES:

a. Dog-ear

b. Guttter ball

c. Profanity

d. Earth

e. nature, NATURE

f. X-axis

g. On the sly

h. Third rail

i. Hard

j. Punish

 

Answers:

 

1. e- Second nature

2. j - Punish (pun-ish)

3. g - On the sly (anagram of honestly)

4. h - Third rail (the electric rail in a subway) 

5. a - Dog-ear (as a page corner)

6. i - Hard (k sound)

7. d - Earth

8. b - Gutter ball (bowling alley) 

9. f - X-axis (graph)

10. c - Profanity (coarse) 

 

Credits:

1: Kiran Pandey

2: Gary Larson and Amy Ensz

7: PEN GWYN (The Enigma, 6/25) 

8. Janice Luttrell