CRYPTO CLUES CCXXVIII

GAMES Magazine  

August, 1986 

Mike Shenk (1-4)

Timothy Martin (5-7)

GAMES/World of Puzzles

September, 2015

Pam Wylder (8-10)

Bob Stigger (11)

 

1. Dried plum crop

 

2. Discover bananas in splits

 

3. Doctor Pasteur destroys papers

 

4. Central American nation hiding or in open view

 

5. Change lodgings

 

6. With a cab, circling a town in New York 

 

7. Dog and Hiawatha capturing famous Indian

 

8. Worker residing in modest hut

 

9. Ugly hat priced at a huge discount

 

10. Discover the traps out in the open

 

11. Oz tale involved a fanatic 

 

HINTS:

1. Homograph (two meanings)

2. Anagram

3. Anagram

4. Container

5. Homograph

6. Hidden word

7. Hidden word

8. Container

9. Anagram

10. Hidden word

11. Anagram 

 

Answers:

 

1. PRUNE

2. DIVORCES (discover)

3. TEARS UP (pasteur)

4. PANORAMA (pan or ama)  

5. QUARTERS

6. ITHACA (wITH A CAb)

7. GANDHI (doG AND HIawatha)

8. SHANTY (sh ant y)

9. DIRT CHEAP (hat priced)

10. OVERT (discOVER The traps)

11. ZEALOT (oz tale)