Behave
The following message, encoded using a Playfair cipher, must be decrypted.
GIMPVQDYROVT
Unfortunately, you’ve lost the key. Fortunately, the following clues point to four categories of six words each that will help you rebuild it.
- Nearly (6)
- Brokeback scribe (5, 6)
- Marginal comment in a copy of Hamlet, maybe (10)
- Like some intelligence (10)
- Gave up a base without pitching, maybe (6)
- Elongated drink-stirring utensil (3, 5)
- It’s taken before an important test (6)
- Caesar or Bonzo, for example (5)
- Unlike the cross product (11)
- Montgomery Scott’s workplace (6, 4)
- The answers to the next two clues, for example (5)
- Word before story or writer (5)
- Time for a Western showdown (4, 4)
- Smith and V portrayer (4, 7)
- Part of IRA (10)
- Like a maladroit fellow (6)
- Pepsi relative (8, 3)
- Y-shaped African country (10)
- Like pigs, crows, and bears (10)
- Where Woody Allen usually shoots (2, 8)
- Leo’s birthstone (4)
- Displayed, like a cast list (6)
- Huge tree or vehicle (7)
- Informal word for formal wear (3)