From MOLE to HILL

Mon, October 13, 2025
MOLE
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Clues, out of order

Add a letter to the front of MOLE to get something sweet
Chain restaurant ________ MOLE
Change one letter in MOLE to get a monarch
Change one letter in MOLE to get a structure
Comedian ________ MOLE
Flying creature associated with MOLE
Holiday where you get lots of MOLE
Natural phenomenon that rhymes, appropriately, with MOLE
"MOLE of the ________"
Scale used to measure MOLEs
The MOLE________, fictional aircraft
Troublesome situation named after an arcade game: ________-a-MOLE

About this Raddle

Settlers of Catan was my first foray into strategic board games. It was the game that launched an unreasonable board game collection. The game is played on a game board made up of 19 tiles. Each tile is one of 6 different terrains: hill, forest, field, mountain, pasture, or desert. This week's Raddles each use one of those terrains. A mole hill is a small mound of earth created by a mole. Or, in an common expression, a small problem that shouldn't be turned into a mountain.