ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN MARCH NUMBER.
Reading edition
A Common Adage.—“Well begun is half done.”
Literary Enigma.— “Sweet was the sound when oft at evening’s close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose.” Goldsmith’s “Deserted Village.” 1. Euripides. 2. Tasso. 3. Southey. 4. Hume. 5. Irving. 6. Carlyle. 7. Wordsworth. 8. Hawthorne. 9. Lyell. 10. Davy. 11. Emerson. 12. Mann.
Transpositions.—1. I pass no, passion. 2. Glare, large. 3. Let this, thistle. 4. United, untied. 5. One cadet, anecdote. 6. Towels, lowest. 7. Not impart, important. 8. Lambs cringe, clamberings.
Easy Reversals.—1. Drab, bard. 2. Reed, deer. 3. Door, rood. 4. Yard, dray. 5. Keel, leek. 6. Loop, pool. 7. Tram, mart. 8. Doom, mood. 9. Part, trap. 10. Room, moor.
Double Diamond.— Perpendicular: Ponderous. Horizontal: Gathering.
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Curtailments and Beheadings.—Poe, poet. Raven, rave. Bells, ells.
Easy Numerical Enigma.—Robinson Crusoe. Robin, cross, ounce.
Pictorial Anagram Proverb-Puzzle.—“A new broom sweeps clean.”
Easy Unions.—1. Rest-o-ring, restoring. 2. Sweet-e-ned, sweetened. 3. Inter-e-sting, interesting.
An Old Maxim.—“Light cares speak; great ones are dumb.”
Rhomboid Puzzle.— e p o d e o p e r a e a r l y n o t e d r o s e s
Double Cross-word Acrostic.—Steam, Smoke. 1. ScissorS. 2. TeaM. 3. EchO. 4. ArK. 5. MandrakE.
Easy Diamond Puzzle.—1. T. 2. Era. 3. Trout. 4. Auk. 5. T.
Maltese-Cross Puzzle.—
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Poetical Rebus.— “Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive.” Scott’s “Marmion.”
Numberical Enigma.—Nightingale. Nigh, tin, gale.
Double Acrostic.—Louisa M. Alcott, Ralph W. Emerson, 1. LumbeR. 2. OpheliA. 3. UsuaL. 4. ImP. 5. SumacH. 6. AndreW. 7. MoosE. 8. AsyluM. 9. LakE. 10. CondoR. 11. OlympuS. 12. TO. 13. TeN.
Word Syncopations.—1. La-wren-ce; wren, lace. 2. K-now-ing; now, king. 3. De-fin-ed; fin, deed. 4. Re-fine-d; fine, reed. 5. W-ant-ed; ant, wed. 6. F-urn-ish; urn, fish.
Charade—Wedgwood.
Abbreviations.—1. Beryl, bey. 2. Crown, cow. 3. Fairy, fir. 4. Grape, gap. 5. Steam, sea. 6. White, wit. 7. Halts, hat. 8. Honey, hoe. 9. Bevel, bee. 10. Pence, pen.
Answers to Puzzles in the February number were received, before February 18, from Lucian J., G.L., N.E., G.A.R.C., Mattie E. Doyle, Josie Brown, B.P. Emery, Réné L. Milhau, Willie C. Du Bois, “Dominie,” M.H.F., “Ben Zeen,” M. Alice Chase, W.L. and F.H. Amerman, Louie C.O. Haughton, Frank Haughton, Alice Stedman, Kittie Perry, Annie L. Zieber, Georgine C. Schnitzspahn, Anna M. Richardson, H.A. Warren, Constance Grand-Pierre and Sarah Duffield, W. Eichelberger, “Adelaide and Reggie,” Mason Romeyn Strong, Robert M. Webb, “L.,” “Yankee Girl,” Grace B. Latimer, Eugene L. Lockwood, “Bob White,” “Medea,” Robert Howard, Nellie J. Towle, Eddie H. Gay, Ray T. French, Gertrude C. Eager, Abbie G. Weed, Arthur C. Smith, Addie Campbell, “Bessie and her Cousin,” Lucy V. MacRill, M.W. Collet, L.C.L., Hattie M. Heath, “Little Eagle,” Edith Wilkinson, Grace Van Wagenen, Nessie E. Stevens, A.H. Babcock, Anna E. Mathewson, Clara B. Dunster, Ben Merrill, C.E. Sands, John Taylor, Jennie Taylor, Harry Durand, Nellie A. Hudson, Leonice B. Barnes, “Winnie, Brookline,” Bessie L. Barnes, Louise G. Hinsdale, Lizzie B. Clark, Lizzie M. Dow, Mabel Barrows, Miller Bowdoin & Co., R.T. McKeever, “Three Cousins,” “St. Nicholas Club,” Lizzie E.T., Anna F. Robinson, Florence E. Turrill, Ida N. Carson, Camille and Leonie Giraud, “New Friend,” George J. Fiske, Florence Wilcox, Fred M. Pease; No name, Cambridgeport; Eddie Vultee, Milly E. Adams, Perry Adams, Maude Adams, and Anna R. Stratton.