Cryptic Puzzle 3
"My brain is dead," Tom said cryptically
Here's another puzzle of cryptic puns for the language-obsessed.  (Okay, for myself.)  Each question/statement has two solutions which sound or look alike.  Example: Q. One who attacks during a moment of silence?  A. preyer/prayer.

1. Supervision of a mistake?
2. One's totally of no value, the other's not as valuable as it was.
3. A poem about a battery terminal?
4. A consumer crusader hits rock bottom?
5. Being pursued but remaining pure?
6. Angrily opposed to a cheap place for travelers to stay in?
7. Make a pleased sound as a military junta takes over a government?
8. An inflamed gingiva aching after you eat a certain cereal grass?
9. A burden on you and me?
10. One drug becoming another?
11. A portal that can mesmerize you?
12. Pull a weapon on an ancient Japanese leader?
13. Attacks on stringed instruments?
14. Take up again a summary of your work experience?
15. Maternal figures sending electronic mail to Muslim religious leaders?
16. Your other self joins you in marriage?
17. A scoundrel found in the main aisle of a church?
18. Burping after eating a certain kind of waffle?
19. Out in the country in a type of valley in Germany?
20. A variety of people going underwater?
21. A cry you emit when you suddenly discover that you smell?
22. Items to be discussed at a New England meeting dealing with a particular sex?
23. Not permitting one opponent to speak and getting physical with another?

Answers: 1. oversight/oversight     2. worthless/worth less     3. an ode/anode     4. Nader/nadir     5. chased/chaste     6. hostile/hostel     7.coo/coup     8. sore gum/sorghum     9. onus/on us     10. morphine/morphing     11. entrance/entrance     12. show gun/shogun     13. violence/violins     14. resume/resume     15. e-moms/imams     16. alter ego/altar ego     17. knave/nave     18. belchin'/Belgian     19. rural/Ruhral     20. divers/divers     21.agender/a gender     22. muzzling/muscling

Latest comments

29.03 | 17:31

Hi Bruce,
I smiled a lot as I looked! Sometimes I didn't quite understand, other times I did! Keep doing this! You are a fun thinker!

05.07 | 23:04

hi! your blog is really fantastic! you are really lucky to have it. I have one but i did not have a single like apart from me

11.10 | 23:42

No longer pray for an outcome. Just do the footwork, if I can see any. I just pray for the grace to willing accept what the outcome will be.

30.06 | 02:37

yo that is so cool