The Word Detective
Puzzle
By: Countess Theta Lugosi


I'm offering the herewith word-search puzzle. It's a rather difficult, lengthy and complex puzzle. I didn't design it for cops, guards or other dullards. The puzzle relates to prison and prisoners, but it has a little "twist." The "twist" is that in this puzzle you don't get the list of hidden words. You have to be a "detective" and figure out the words for yourself from clues. The solution for each clue is a word which is found in the letter matrix which appears below. The word may be spelled forward, backward or diagonally as in any word-search puzzle.

To make it a little easier, each clue contains a statement of the number of letters in the solution. The letter count is expressed inside parentheses. The clue for a seven letter word will contain "(7)" to indicate the number of letters.

To make it even easier, each clue tells you in which of the puzzle's 15 sections the solution word begins. If a clue contains the expression "S/C," for example, the solution word starts in the far lower right hand section of the puzzle.

Where the solution is composed of more that one word, such as "LAUREL HIGHLANDS," the solution runs together without any spaces like "LAURELHIGHLANDS." All solutions contain at least four letters, but be warned that there are dozens of words in the puzzle such as GLOSS, SANDRA, LARDER, LOCK and so forth which are pure red herring. They have nothing to do with the solution. They have been included to mislead the unwary detective.

If you need help (which will likely be the case, donate a dollar to the website and I'll send you the list of words, or send two bucks and I'll send you the solution.

If you're able to solve the puzzle without assistance, send your answer to me. I'll send you your award.

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Word Detective Clues
Clue - (Number of Letters in Answer) - Starting/Place

  1. Example: What Pennsylvania prisoners wear (6) [BROWNS]

  2. The most snowy prison (6) 3/A
  3. What Pennsylvania prison food is (5) 4/C
  4. A serious crime (7) 4/B
  5. What a Pennsylvania lifer does in prison (4) 5/B
  6. What many a thug guard is (10) 4/B
  7. Those who keep the prisons functioning (9) 1/B
  8. What most prison administrators suffer (8) 1/A
  9. One of Pennsylvania's prisons (10) 5/C
  10. What the system pretends defendants get (7) 1/A
  11. What the system really gives to defendants (6) 5/C
  12. What imprisonment is to society (6) 3/C
  13. Pennsylvania's worst Corrections Secretary (4) 1/A
  14. A quality of Pennsylvania laws (7) 1/B
  15. What a prison guard may be called (5) 3/A
  16. The firetrap prison (10) 4/A
  17. Where a convict exists (4) 3/A
  18. Who inhabit correctional institutions (9) 1/B
  19. What Pennsylvania lifers lack (4) 1/B
  20. What Pennsylvania society likes to do (4) 4/B
  21. What a guard often is (5) 4/C
  22. A prisoner is one (6) 2/C
  23. Fastest growing part of prison population (7) 2/C
  24. One of the worst run state prisons (9) 5/B
  25. The reason for prisons (5) 2/C
  26. A second reason for prisons (4) 2/A
  27. Heartbreak hotel (8) 1/B
  28. A major motivation for crime (9) 5/A
  29. What drives the court system (10) 5/C
  30. What defendants try to prove (9) 5/C
  31. The reaction of a prison administrator (10) 2/A
  32. The most vast state prison (8) 2/A
  33. The art of revenge (7) 4/C
  34. The majority of prisoners (6) 3/A
  35. What prosecutors do a lot (5) 3/B
  36. Prison's effect on the nation (4) 5/B
  37. The most filthy state prison (10) 4/A
  38. The most deadly gang (4) 1/C
  39. What a prosecutor becomes (5) 5/B
  40. What the taxpayers foot (7) 5/A
  41. What a defendant with a public defender becomes (7) 5/C
  42. The thing that most lawmakers are (6) 2/A
  43. The prison for pussies (10) 3/B
  44. What would aid many prisoners (9) 3/C
  45. What fails to correct crime (10) 2/B
  46. What the police are as witnesses (5) 1/A
  47. What a prisoner learns in prison (11 ) 5/C
  48. The convict's newsletter (13) 4/B
  49. Who an accused must not trust (6) 5/C
  50. What all prisoners deserve to do (4) 1/B
  51. The task of the prison counselor (10) 3/C
  52. What suffers the most due to prisons (6) 1/C
  53. Who make the worst prison guards (5) 5/C
  54. What a parolee needs (4) 1/A
  55. The mental effect of prison (8) 5/C
  56. The prison with the most progressive population (6) 2/A
  57. What a witness will do (7) 1/C
  58. Who never to trust (6) 3/A
  59. The prison for children (9) 1/A
  60. What prison generates (5) 4/B
  61. What to demand at any trial (4) 5/A
  62. What justice really is (7) 2/A
  63. A demon which should be legalized (5) 2/B
  64. Pennsylvania's false hope (6) 1/A
  65. A sewer prison (8) 2/B
  66. Prisons' weakest link (6) 3/A
  67. What sex therapy strives to do (5) 4/C
  68. The prison within the prison (4) 3/A
  69. A woman's prison (5) 2/C
  70. What prison gives to local yokels (10) 2/B
  71. Quality of prison law libraries (5) 2/C
  72. An emotion of imprisonment (10) 3/C
  73. The savages' favorite punishment (7) 3/C
  74. A lifer's supposed offense (6) 3/A
  75. What each state prisoner must be (5) 3/B
  76. What imprisonment causes a young prisoner (4) 5/A
  77. How a prisoner feels upon release (5) 1/A
  78. The worst state prison (4) 4/A
  79. A goal of Pennsylvania prisons (11) 5/B
  80. An aim of many prison guards (7) 3/B
  81. An aim of some prison guards (7) 3/C
  82. How a suspect should always remain (6) 3/A
  83. What imprisonment really is (4) 5/B
  84. Who is most likely to be imprisoned (8) 1/A
  85. A prison for the troubled (7) 4/C
  86. Prison's lowest ranking class (8) 4/C
  87. A prison obsession (8) 5/C
  88. What corrections' priorities are (5) 1/C
  89. What substitutes for love in prison (4) 3/A
  90. A common crime for guards (5) 1/C
  91. A common crime for some guards (9) 5/A
  92. How sex is in prison (8) 5/C
  93. What prison medicine causes (5) 3/C
  94. The worst prison superintendent (5) 1/A
  95. How prison visitors are treated (5) 4/B
  96. The drunks' prison (7) 2/B
  97. What guards do, but prisoners can't (6) 3/B
  98. The Pennsylvania prison obsession (9) 3/B
  99. What prisoners do in solitary (6) 4/B
  100. Jailhouse money (5) 4/A
  101. What young blacks do in prison (10) 4/C
  102. What helps to keep prisoners docile (4) 2/B
  103. What corrections officers crave (5) 1/A
  104. What prisoners can earn (7) 3/C
  105. The most badly managed state prison (8) 4/A
  106. What double celling causes (6) 3/C
  107. The cancer prison (10) 3/B
  108. What homosexuals share in prison (4) 5/B
  109. What most persons are to some extent (8) 4/B
  110. The most popular prison word (12) 2/A
  111. A solitary confinement activity (7) 5/A
  112. One of the most abusive prisons (6) 3/B

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