12. Behead an article of food, and
leave a kind of tree. 13. Behead a table utensil, and leave a bird. 14.
Behead to frighten, and leave anxiety. 15. Behead a toilet article, and
leave to crowd.
A.D.L. AND S.W.
EASY TRIPLE ACROSTIC.
The primals, read downward, name a bird; the centrals, an animal;
the finals, an insect.
1. Disentangling. 2. Echo. 3. A city in a Western State. 4. Can't
be worse.
ESOR.
FRAME PUZZLE.
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Make the frame of four words of eight letters each, so that the letter
A shall come at each of the four corners where the words intersect. The
words mean: Sweet-smelling, to make a scale, a fillet, an ecclesiastic.
BESSIE AND HER COUSIN.
HIDDEN FRENCH SENTENCE.
Find in the following sentence the French words with which the Emperor
Alexander of Russia once described St. Petersburg:
Give him a good anvil, let him deal sound blows on the irons for the
pier, repeated and strong, and the work will last.
B.
PICTORIAL ANAGRAM PROVERB PUZZLE.
[Illustration]
The answer is a proverb of eight words. Each numeral beneath the
pictures represents a letter in that word of the proverb which is
indicated by that numeral--5 showing that the letter it designates
belongs to the fifth word of the proverb, 3 to the third word, and so
on.
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