CRYPTO CLUES CCXXXVII

GAMES Magazine

December, 1992

Fraser Simpson (1-4)

Frances Yang (5-8)

November, 2001

Todd Rew (9-10) 

 

1. Nearby, like diet drinks

 

2. Cat lies playfully,  able to stretch

 

3. Discover unusual marital breakups 

 

4. He challenged three billy goats to fish from a motorboat

 

5. Broken Easter egg set aside

 

6. More decorative financier drops in 

 

7. Maurice's car got slimy transporting snails 

 

8. Odd items of dirty gear in laundry machine

 

9. A girl? Wrong

 

10. Crown held in absentia ransomed

 

HINTS:
1. Stressonym / hyphenated

2. Anagram

3. Anagram

4. Folklore villain - homograph

5. Anagram

6. Deletion

7. Hidden word

8. Odd letters

9. Homophone 

10. Hidden word 

 

Answers:

 

1. LOCAL (lo-cal)

2. ELASTIC (cat lies)

3. DIVORCES (discover)

4. TROLL

5. SEGREGATE (easter egg)  

6. FANCIER (financier) 

7. ESCARGOTS (mauricE'S CAR GOT Slimy)

8. DRYER (DiRtY gEaR)

9. AMISS (a miss)

10. TIARA (absenTIA RAnsomed)