The best thing about sunday crossword puzzles is discovering the theme and working out the clever wordplay or the quote. I just finished the sunday Boston Globe puzzle that appears in a local weekly rag, and it had a very interesting and challenging theme.
The puzzle was titled Playing Charades and the tricky words went something like this (I just made up this example):
clue: bunny + morning moisture = coiff
answer: haredew
Just 'cuz it was alot of fun I'm a-gonna give you the clues. See if you can figure out the answers. Some are pretty hard (and one's a gimme), so I included -- in parentheses -- the number of letters in each answer.
1. Ranch + aides = druggists (11)
2. European + communist = ticks (9)
3. Fish + worry = SRO (8)
4. Composer + guru's deciple = kids' game (9)
5. Salmon + legends = key people? (8)
6. Wed + Funicello = puppet (12)
7. Usual + spuds = announcers (12)
8. Phoney + glass = bubbly (8)
9. Peon + drilled = wave rider (9)
10. House part + house part = kind of fever (9)
11. Springtime + pranks = network (9)
12. European + octet = sprout (11)
Answers are in the extended entry.
Good luck!
1. farmassists
2. CzechMarx
3. soledoubt
4. Haydnsikh
5. loxmyths
6. marryAnnette
7. commontaters
8. shampane
9. serfbored
10. roomattic
11. maytricks
12. Germaneight
Posted by Tuning Spork at November 9, 2005 10:32 PM | TrackBackhah. serfbored. maybe I could do some of these. Not very good at crosswords.
Posted by: Edith at November 12, 2005 12:25 PM