The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 1992 Page: 23 of 24
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THE RICE THRESHER FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1992 23
You are about to embark on an exciting
journey into the realm of Cryptic (or some-
times called British-style) Crossword Puzzle
solving! The challenge of this style of cross-
word is in deciphering the clues, which are
governed by these rules:
1. Each clue consists of two (or more)
separate clues placed side by side and dis-
guised to read like a sentence so that it is
difficult to determine where one clue ends
and the next begins. Each such clue defines
the solution although not always in the usual
manner of crossword clues.
2. No words have been added to the clues
to make the sentence's surface sense read
better, except an occasional equating type
word placed between the clues.
3. One of the clues is usually a straightfor-
ward definition type of clue. Additional dues
may be ofvarious types ofword-gaming such
as anagrams, reversals, rebuses, ambiguous
definitions, puns, charades, etc.
4. All clues of Oie word-gaming type have
an appropriate indicator word that hints at
the type of deception being committed.
Example:
Clue: Warrior sounds happy he consumed
female (9).
Solution: GLADIATOR
Explanation: "Warrior" - gladiator; the in-
dicator word "sounds" is a hint to sound out
the words 'glad he ate her" (happy he con-
sumed female) which - gladiator (9 letters).
Typical Indicator Words
ANAGRAMS: stirred, shaken, mixed up,
ACROSS
1 Anguished about a radical haircut (10)
7 Leaders of Secret Police adore sauna. (3)
10 Turn around Dmitri, I'm out of soO. (4)
11 Made a verbal rental agreement with a
minimal term. (5)
12 Somewhere, in a dream, a zebra's in a
labyrinth. (4)
13 Louse up a sound weave. (3)
14 Cherokee, Navajo, Mohican & Erie chiefs,
by the noises they make, spot the foe. (4
*3,5)
16 Repeated an advance. (5)
18 Sings Christmas tunes belonging to Ms.
Lombard. (6)
20 Picked up pins that were left standing
around saved someone from a painful expe-
rience. (6)
22 Noah built and stocked a box. (3)
23 Missing our letters throughout mix-up is
a result of productive thinking. (7)
24 Net left equals x. (3)
25Suntannerliesoutfrontofone of Sherlock
Holme's Villes. (6)
28 Desire to climb up a church steeple (6)
29 Write twisted poems concerning salt (5)
30 Mi's. Howard and Reagan hidden inside
iron shed. (4)
34. A land of anger. (3)
35 A weird itch comes before a chat (4)
37 Ollie generously imprisons a feudal lord.
(5)
38 Sent back from head of nail to arboreal
avian abode. (4)
39 Secured on tog backwards. (3)
40 Putting squeeze on to recompose, spur
singer. (10)
DOWN
2 Lies deranged on tropical property. (4)
3 Catch abent part. (4)
4 Sex art scandalized newspaper editions.
(6)
5 Add up a few things aloud. (3)
6 Nutty Don sez things 24,36,72 times. (6)
7 On audible, he hikes the ball for troubled
*Ninen and breaks the rules. (6)
8 Precise meat cut, with no butt (4)
9 Exchange neat, neat CD for record of
"Students In Class." (10)
15 Travel to the right of a famous star. (4)
17 Upsetting, just sad, what a baseball pitcher
does with his balls. (7)
18 Have difficulty climbing over shellfish
beside a northern sea. (10)
19 His head jumps in late to build a spinning
machine. (5)
21 The phrenologist feels these tapes are
garbled. (5)
24 Go on vacation journey in fall (4)
26 Keeps an estate holding one with the
most sound mental condition. (6)
27 Get back on board ocean liner amongst
whores, hippies. (6)
28 Moseys to Crazy Mabel's. (6)
31 Tasty cookie hidden inside store office.
(4) .
32 Inheritor confused without it, Ron. (4)
33 Control some deer before force of noisy
shower. (4)
36 Peg is driving Spot to a bar. (3)
strangely, bananas, etc.
REVERSALS: back, over, left, in retrospect,
etc.
CONTAINERS: words "holding*otherwords
and words "being held" by other words-
grabs, includes, bites, owns, sandwiches,
etc.; lives in, interrupts, parts, divides, inside,
cuts through, etc.
HOMOPHONES: sounds like, heard, ut-
tered, states, etc
HIDDEN WORDS: in, part of, masks, con-
ceals, covers, etc.
LETTERS: first letter of a word—head, capi-
tal, initially, etc.; last letter of a word- tail,
back, closer, finally, etc.; center letters of a
word—center, heat, middle, interior, etc.;
adding or subtracting letters—out o£ added
to, pieced, snipped, inserted, into, etc
year toe mean business!
GRADUATE
STUDENT
MEN AND
WOMEN!
IF YOU CAN RIDE, WE WANT YOU.
IF YOU CAN CHUG, WE WANT YOU.
IF YOU WANT TO WIN, WE WANT YOU.
If you are a graduate student, and you think that you can help the GSAteam win this year's Beer-Bike race
as a biker, a chugger, an alternate, or even as pit crew — contact one of our Team Captains, or come to
one of our Chug practices (Fridays. 5:00 pm at Valhalla). If you bike competitively, come compete for the
glory of all graduate students. If you're a Rice Alum, don't bike for your college's alumni team come ride
with the best. If you're not sure you're good enough, come to us — we'll make you good enough.
Make this year the second-proudest moment In GSA history.
Chug Captains: Purvez Captain (ECON, 667-8959 or x2304)
Bill Viereck (REU, 668-3659)
Bike Captain: Reinhard von Hanxleden (COMP, 520-0536 or e-mail
reinhard@rice.edu)
GSA BEER-BIKE T-SHIRT DESIGN COMPETITION
At the Thursday, February 20 GSA meeting, the GSA Council will select a design for the 1992 Beer-Bike shirt.
The winning design will receive $50 and will be proudly displayed by all GSA team members and fans.
Designs should be done in black ink on good-quality paper — the design must be single-color. Designs may
be submitted through GSA council representatives or brought to the meeting. Only completed designs will
be considered, and the design must be present at the meeting on the 20th. For more information, contact
DirkValk (SPAC, X2653).
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Zitterkopf, Ann & Howe, Harlan. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 1992, newspaper, February 7, 1992; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245804/m1/23/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.