PUZZLERS FOR WISE HEADS.
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12.—Curtailments.
Curtail stiff and strict, and leave a Swiss mountain.
Curtail a large country in Asia, and leave the point of the under jaw.
Curtail a scooping instrument, and leave to push.
Curtail acute and discerning, and leave a kind of mouse.
Curtail a raised floor or platform, and leave a horned animal.
Curtail an island on the Kentish coast, and leave a Saxon nobleman.
C. J. B.
13.—Conical Puzzle.
The middle letters of each word read downwards give the name of a well-known English poet.
A consonant.
A price fixed after all deductions have been made.
To gaze, to look with fixed eyes.
To disperse, to throw loosely about.
Kindnesses, good wishes, benefits, favours.
C. J. B.
[Answers on page 290.]
Answers to Puzzles on Page 230.
10.—Valparaiso.
V eneration.
A nimosity.
L inoleum.
P aragon.
A melia.
R azor.
A rch.
I ce.
S o.
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11.—Tar-tar.