CRYPTO CLUES CCXIV

Dell PennyPress Variety Puzzles

Volume 142 (1-4)

GAMES/World of Puzzles

February, 2026 (5-10)

 

1. Name Scrabble piece containing T (container)

 

2. Some clothing breathes, they say (homograph)

 

3. Heavy burden, so lab rats adopted (anagram) 

 

4. Cattle drive (homograph)  

 

5. Be in charge of a kind of weather (homophone)

 

6. Cuts back on classwork (homophone)

 

7. Long look at vegetable plot (anagram)

 

8. Pop icon's a bird (homophone)

 

9. Revolutionary War general's note found in baby's clothing (container)

 

10. Source of gold Fidel altered into a treacherous place (definition, anagram) 

 

Answers:

 

1. TITLE (TI T LE)

2. PANTS

3. ALBATROSS (so lab rats)

4. STEER

5. REIGN (rain)

6. LESSENS (lessons)

7. GANDER (garden)

8. SWIFT (swift)

9. LAFAYETTE (LA FA YETTE - [musical note]) 

10. MINEFIELD (source of gold = MINE)