2019-06-01_Games_World_of_Puzzles

26 GAMES WORLD^ OF PUZZLES | june 2019

WORDPLAY

GIMME AN “A”

Each GPYISRXLIPIJXƁ

GERFIERW[IVIHF]E[SVHXLEX[LIRXLIPIXXIVƈEƉ

MWEHHIHXSXLIIRH]MIPHWERI[[SVHXLEXMWGPYIHWSQI[LIVIMRXLIVMKLXLERH

GSPYQREƁT

*SVI\EQTPIEGPYISRXLIPIJXQMKLXVIEHƈ'LMGEKSFEWIFEPPTVSƉ

(CUB), which would be matched with “Caribbean nation” (CUBA) on the right.

Can you answer the clues and pair up the words?

1. Small measure


2. Droop


3. Beer ingredient


4. Spear


5. Phone


6. Atlantic fish


7. Part of YMCA


8. Turf


9. Dress (up)


10. Libel or slander, e.g.


11. Cleaning cloth


12. Encountered


13. Pop


14. Karaoke need, for short


15. Joke


16. Russian physiologist

a. Piglike mammal

b. Trattoria dessert

c. Wildly enthusiastic

HFlaky mineral

e. Musical finale

f. Adventure story

KGarb for Antonius

LBaking ___

i. 1IVMRKYIFEWIHHIWWIVX

j. Movie genre

k. 7IPJVIJIVIRXMEP

PSitar piece

QSmart set

n. Lily type

o. WEVXQSZIQIRX

T -WPERHREXMSR

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MISSING NOTES

No passing notes in C_ _ SS, _ _ DS and _ _ SSES! The answers to the clues

below have had all notes from the musical scale removed, as in the previous

WIRXIRGI-XƅW]SYVNSFXSVITPEGIXLIQMRXLIFPEROWTVSZMHIH-J]SYƅZIRIZIV

seen The Sound of Music, they go something like this:

(36)1-*%730%8-

1. Home of the Dolphins A


2. Dead language N


3. Stop working


4. Half of “R&R” X A O N


5. Actress Kunis


6. Bashful D


7. First showing P E


8. Ape C


9. Kind of battery or panel R


10. )\XMRGXFMVHCCCCCCCC


11. Polyethylene, e.g. P S C


12. Couch


13. 7SPMXEV]GSRJMRIQIRX-CCCCCCCCCCCC32


14. Sister or cousin V E


15. Great Venetian painter A N


16. 8I\EWFSVHIVGMX]CCCCCCCCCCCC


17. Tile with pips N O


18. Beloved A D


19. 2IXSV[IFPMOICCCCCCCC'9CCCC6


20. JMPQ[MXL3WGEVRSQMREXMSRWCCCCCCCCCCCC2(

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TWO-BY-FOURS

The [SVH,374-8%0MWVIQEVOEFPIMR

that its eight letters can be rearranged

to form at least 36 different pairs of

JSYVPIXXIV[SVHW1SWXSJXLIWI

words are very common, as in the

TEMV,3784%-0ERHXLIJI[XLEXEVI

unusual can be found in The Official

Scrabble Players Dictionary. How

many can you find?

—R.H. ;Ȩǣ

TEASERS

ANAGRAM CRYPTOGRAMS

Words found in The Official Scrabble

Players Dictionary MRGPYHIJMZIXLVII

letter words that are anagrams of

SRIERSXLIVX[SWIXWSJJSYVXLVII

letter anagrams, and one set of nine

WIZIRPIXXIVEREKVEQW2SXEPPXLI

words on these lists are common.

We’ve replaced each letter in these

words with a single digit, which

stands for the same letter of the

alphabet throughout all four lists.

Can you decipher the code to reveal

all the anagrams?













































—R.H. ;Ȩǣ

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