CRYPTO CLUES CXCVII 

1. Loot bag

2. Nuts are to make speeches 

3. A strange island of bare mud  

4. Pea soup is partially transmogrified 

5. Favorite platform covers everything

6. Timer where the Thames is ebbing out 

7. Third degree holds that girl like an angel 

8. I stared, upset with the bitter denunciations

9. Catching others pocketing a quantity of gold 

10. Some shenanigans, looking back on it, are downright silly

HINTS:

1. Homograph

2. Anagram

3. Anagram

4. Hidden word

5. Container

6. Anagram

7. Container

8. Anagram

9. Hidden word

10. Reversal 

 

Answers:

 

1. SACK

2. ORATE (are to)

3. BERMUDA (bare mud)

4. SMOG (tranSMOGrified)

5. PALLET (P ALL ET)

6. BIG BEN (ebbing)

7. CHERUBIC (C HER UBIC)

8. TIRADES (I stared)

9. INGOT (catchING OThers)

10. INANE (shENANIgans)  

 

Credits: 

2: Harvey Estes

4: Fred Piscop

6: Harvey Estes

9-10: Fred Piscop 

 

Harvey Estes:

GAMES Magazine

July, 2011

Fred Piscop

GAMES/ World of Puzzles

October, 2025