Anagram the clue words to find the best match to one of the numbered clues below. A question mark after a clue denotes word play or trickery is afoot. After all of the numbered clues are solved the first letters of the anagram solutions, when read from top to bottom will reveal the puzzle's Anagram Advice...



Starting Clue Words: ADHERE MAPLE CATHY WAITS RAREST NORMA IDOLS ROUTES DOTES WROTE STREW YEATS PUREST MANGO NEIGHS AIDES SCARED TRUEST RODNEY MESON OPTIONS POINT TRANCE SPICE

Anagram Advice: ?

= 1. Obtain
= 2. Thoughts
= 3. Holy
= 4. Opposite of footer?
= 5. Distant
= 6. Portents
= 7. Speaks
8. In a group
= 9. Door openers
= 10. Plenty
= 11. Elixirs
= 12. Car model
= 13. Used for racing or transportation
= 14. Food of the gods
= 15. Long narrative poems
= 16. Ribs and hips connector
= 17. Bread starter
= 18. Starts abruptly
= 19. Stop
= 20. Resident of modern Rome
= 21. Three-dimensional shape
22. Eject
= 23. U.S. playwright
24. Airport facility

4. header (adhere)

14. nectar (trance)

6. omens/meson

10. ample/maple

Hi Dan.

15. Epics/Spice

Hi Remi ... you Marian and Mad are all spot on

11. Potions (options) Have a great weekend Soot and

Bernie

2 - ideas (AIDES)

9 - hinges (NEIGHS)

3. Sacred/Scared

7. utters (truest)

18. erupts (purest)

5. yonder (rodney)

21. solid (idols)

Thank you Bernie ... wishing you a great weekend too!

Good solves everyone.

Happy New Year's eve!

13 - yacht (CATHY)

23 - Odets (DOTES)

16. waist (waits)

17. yeast (yeats)

19. arrest (rarest)

20. Roman (norma)

Bernie

1. wrest (strew)

12. pinto (point)

17. yeast (yeats)

20. Roman (norma)

Most excellent solves everyone

24. tower (wrote)

8. Among (mango)

Bernie

22. ouster/routes

Wish you a happy new year. soot.

Nice finish OldBroad, Bernie and Remi