CRYPTO CLUES CCXXXIV

GAMES Magazine

March/April, 1982

Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon (1, 4, 7, 11)

October, 1982

Mike Shenk (2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9,10, 12, 13)

 

1. Ms. Oakley is awfully inane

 

2. Friends strike back

 

3. Reduces homework assignments, we hear

 

4. Moonstarer, possibly!

 

5. Watch monarch going on a hunt

 

6. Votes for President after Grant is beheaded

 

7. Animal doctor is terribly naive trainer

 

8. Wax from Warsaw

 

9. That messy assortment of jewels

 

10. Driver, if young, has to give proof

 

11. A demon horribly wailed

 

12. Wise man goes through US employments

 

13. Turned silent to hear a speech  

 

HINTS: 

1, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13: Anagrams

2. Definition - Reversal

3. Homophone

5. Two definitions - two words

6. Beheadment

8. Homophone

10. Hidden word

12. Container 

 

Answers:

1. ANNIE (inane)

2. PALS (friends) [reverse of SLAP (strike)]

3. LESSENS (lessons = homework)

4. ASTRONOMER (moonstarer)

5. SEEKING (watch = see / monarch = king)

6. AYES (votes for) [HAYES = President after Grant]

7. VETERINARIAN (naive trainer)

8. POLISH (capital P - from Warsaw / small p - wax)

9. AMETHYSTS (that messy) 

10. VERIFY (give proof - driVER IF Young) 

11. MOANED (a demon) 

12. USAGES (employments) [U SAGE S]

13. LISTEN (silent)