Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Wed., Oct.29

Today's Cryptic clues include anagram, charade, homophone, etc.

Three from LAT:


Afterthought and queues sound polite (2,3,2)

Place for cow's short front limb (4)

Relative of dog-flower does it uphill (4)

Two from ST:

Moving loader around is troublesome (6)

Fertilization may come from survey of one country (11)

Solutions to these clues are in the grids below.
 

LAT

             
Seattle Times
(NYT 9/17/14)

Here are the solutions to yesterday's clues:

Plastic airplanes, plastic women (6)
[MODELS] = [MODELS]

Near-imperceptible, shade-shrouded world circled by Pluto (5)
[hidden] [sHADE Shrouded] = [HADES]
Where the god of the underworld walked around.

Drunkenly talked about shaking A.M. remedy (8)
[YAMMERED] = [anagram] [A M REMEDY]

I'd heard, and seen for myself (4)
[I'D] [homophone] [=] [EYED]

Low-pressure cable (4)
[COAX] = [COAX{ial cable}]


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