Thursday, October 30, 2014

Thur., Oct.30

Today's Cryptic clues include acrostic, subtraction, etc.
Sorry this is so late today. 'Puter problems crashed my machine this morning, and I'm just now getting back on line. Still haven't even had a chance to do the Seattle Times yet.

Three from LAT:


A Hindu guru lost himself when he moved in the Ganges (4)

Some kids in Paris keep their heads and play hookey (4)

A kid in the nighttime might bowl ethically but not openly (5)

Solutions to these clues are in the grids below.




LAT

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Seattle Times
(NYT 9/18/14)

Here are the solutions to yesterday's clues:

Afterthought | and | queues | sound | polite (2,3,2)
[PS] [AND] [QUEUES] [homophone] = [P'S AND Q'S]

Place for cow| 's | short front | limb (4)
[FARM] [=] [Front] [ARM]

Relative of dog-| flower does it | uphill (4)
[WOLF] = [FLOW] [reversed]

Moving | loader | around | is | troublesome (6)
[moving around=anagram] [LOADER] [=] [ORDEAL]

Fertilization | may come from | survey of | one | country (11)
[POLLINATION] [=] [POLL] [1] [NATION]


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