Friday, October 24, 2014

Fri., Oct.24

Today's Cryptic clues include anagram, charade, double definition, subtraction, etc.

Three from LAT:


I leave Mexican farewell with a lot of fuss (4)

Quebec agrees to amended I.O.U. (3)

From Orange County, Alabama, to central Florida (5)

Two from ST:

Pilot's pamphlet (5)

Charming lies issue out from first Muse of history (4)

Solutions to these clues are in the grids below.  


LAT
 
             
Seattle Times
(NYT 9/12/14)
 
Here are the solutions to yesterday's clues:

Tarzan of the Apes | animated in 1967 by Disney (6,4)
[JUNGLE BOOK {as a description}] = [JUNGLE BOOK {as a title}]
Disney didn't get around to animating E.R. Burroughs's character until 1999.

Two constants | and a function | at the end (6)
[E {base of natural logarithms} + PI] [LOG] = [EPILOG]

Humor eludes | reticent | fungi (5)
[huMOR ELudes] [hidden] = [MOREL]

How daredevils perform | for | baseball teams (5)
[NO NET] [=] [NONET]

Delivery, service | annex | are seeing | improvement (2,5)
[U.P.S.] [WING] [=] [UP-SWING]
 

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