CRYPTO CLUES CCLIV

GAMES Magazine

June, 2015

Bob Stigger (1-4)

GAMES/World of Puzzles

August, 2026

Chris Crossman (5-6)

Fred Piscop (7-9)

Bob Stigger (10-11) 

 

1. A breakfast cereal prepared with ease

 

2. Computer ruse destroyed D.C. institution

 

3. Take on outspoken superior

 

4. Help some diabetics 

 

5. Zeus backed up canal

 

6. Confuses sudoku and crosswords

 

7. Had ambitions of changing diapers

 

8. Consequences of running wild at the farm

 

9. Coveted position, anyway you look at it 

 

10. Be faithful and split

 

11. Foot needs to be better adorned 

 

HINTS:

1-2. Anagrams

3. Homophone

4. Hidden word

5. Reversal

6. Homograph

7-8. Anagrams

9. Definition - palindrome

10. Contronym

11. Anagram 

 

Answers:

 

1. WHEATIES (with ease)

2. SUPREME COURT (computer ruse)

3. HIRE (higher)

4. ABET (diABETics)

5. SUEZ (zeus)

6. PUZZLES (two definitions)

7. ASPIRED (diapers)

8. AFTERMATH (at the farm)

9. TOP SPOT

10. CLEAVE (opposite meanings)

11. FESTOONED (foot needs)