CRYPTO CLUES CLXXX

GAMES/World of Puzzles  

November, 2014 

Joan Ward (1-3)

Bob Stigger ((4-9) 

 

1. Feeling hurt in mess tent

 

2. Poise in L.A. can be fantastic

 

3. Pitchers head away from underground tunnels 

 

4. Cover up skin

 

5. Race nut turns to mythological creature

 

6. Skeptic re-structured our debt

 

7. Europeans with pronounced stoops

 

8. Polished the car again and drove away

 

9. Luxuriate in the sound of European language 

 

HINTS:

1. Anagram

2. Anagram

3. Beheadment 

4. Homograph

5. Anagram

6. Anagram

7. Homophone

8. Homophone

9. Homophone

 

Answers:

 

1. SENTIMENT (in mess tent)

2. BALANCE (L.A. can be)

3. SEWERS (ewers)  

4. HIDE

5. CENTAUR (race nut)

6. DOUBTER (our debt)  

7. DANES (deigns)

8. REBUFFED (re-buffed)

9. BASQUE (bask)