CRYPTO CLUES CCXLVIII

GAMES Magazine  

January, 1983

Merl Reagle (1)

March, 1983

Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon (2-9)

 

1. Four Tops are singled out in rock and roll encyclopedia  - highly unusual

 

2. Trolley car returning to shopping center

 

3. Robber group surrounds large truck

 

4. Hawaiian garland certainly is for fun

 

5. Run from the sound of a pesky insect

 

6. Moving to a city in Alabama

 

7. Endlessly lifting fruit

 

8. Mad heretic is holding stick 

 

9. Alumna exercising with training book

 

HINTS:
1. Initial letters

2. Reversal

3. Container

4. Definitions - two words

5. Homophone

6. Homophone

7. Curtailment

8. Hidden word

9. Anagram

 

Answers:

 

1. RARE (Rock And Roll Encyclopedia)

2. MART (tram)

3. BRIGAND (B RIG AND)

4. LEISURE (garland + certainty)

5. FLEE (flea)

6. MOBILE (Mobile/mobile)

7. RAISIN (raising)  

8. ADHERE (mAD HEREtic)

9. MANUAL (alumna)