CRYPTO CLUES CCXXV

GAMES/World of Puzzles

August, 2020

E. R. Galli

 

1. Girl who's coming out and turning over garden plot

 

2. Hood's sweetheart with arm in cast

 

3. He's malicious - average, that is

 

4. Cost is upsetting very sober people

 

5. Dustin dances with colony member

 

6. Cave exposing rot totally

 

7. Cancels flowers that bloom only once (except the first of April)

 

8. Puzzle in GAMES isn't quite finished ..... but it's cryptic

 

9. Bones in the leg slant after it turns  

  

HINTS: 

1. Definition and reversal

2. (Robin) Hood - Anagram

3. Homograph + abbreviation for "that is"

4. Anagram

5. Anagram

6. Hidden word

7. Drop a letter 

8. Anagram less one letter, definition

9. Two definitions, reversal 

 

Answers:

 

1. DEB (bed)

2. MARAIN (arm in a)

3. MEANIE (mean + i.e.) [mean = average]

4. STOICS (cost is)

5. NUDIST (Dustin) [nudist colony]

6. GROTTO (exposinG ROT TOtally)

7. ANNULS (annu  a  ls)

8. ENIGMA (in game  s )

9. TIBIAS (slant = bias) [it turns = ti]