CRYPTO CLUES CCIX

Dell PennyPress Variety Puzzles

April, 2025 (1-10)

David P. Williams (11) 

 

1. Bears shot weapon

 

2. Hearty soup soaks if flipped over

 

3. Saws ham or sips fluid

 

4. Strings leaves in the middle of nowhere

 

5. I represent new business venture

 

6. First lady remains the highest point

 

7.  Little bird to fight and quarrel

 

8. Tight apes re-invented pasta

 

9. Refuse place for seamstress

 

10. Competitive boxer with Spanish money  

 

11. She's seen in nail salons 

 

12. Cheats on one's wife with two men 

  

HINTS: 

1, 3, 5, 8: Anagrams 

2: Reversal

4: Homograph

6-7: Two words

9: Heteronym 

10: Two words 

11. Hidden word

12. Two names 

 

Answers:

 

1. SABER (bears)

2. STEW (wets)

3. APHORISMS (ham or sips)  

4. STRANDS (strings or abandons)

5. ENTERPRISE ((I represent)

6. EVEREST (eve + rest)7

7. SPARROW (spar + row)

8. SPAGHETTI (tight apes)

9. SEWER (pronounced two ways)

10. CONTNEDER (con + tender) 

11. ILSA (naIL SAlons) 

12. PHILANDERS