CRYPTO CLUES CXCIII

GAMES Magazine

July, 1983

E.R. Galli (1-6)

GAMES/World of Puzzles

September, 2025

Editors (7-8)

Stella Zawistowski (9) 

Bob Stigger (10) 

 

1. State of suspension troubled Mobil

 

2. Tiny brace can be used for woodworking

 

3. Bravery could make him sore

 

4. Reptile upset a girl a lot

 

5. Under the bean patch

 

6. Meals, one hears, were tedious.

 

7. Returning stag 

 

8. Central part of the arts

 

9. Amphibian with digits, it' said 

 

10. Where Hawaiian tourists spend plenty of seconds in roiling waves while surfing.

 

HINTS:

1-5: Anagrams

6: Homophone

7: Reversal

8: Hidden word

9: Homophone

10: Second letters 

 

Answers:

 

1. LIMBO (Mobil) 

2. CABINETRY (tiny brace)

3. HEROISM (him sore)

4. ALLIGATOR (girl a lot)

5. BENEATH (the bean)

6. BORED (board)

7. REED (deer)

8. HEART (part of tHE ARTs)

9. TOAD (toed)

10. OAHU (rOiling wAves wHile sUrfing)