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Charade A consonant letter; the cry of a beast; Combine; that is,if you can. An island they ‘ll name which once proved too small To hold an illustrious man. Florence R. Faxon.
King’s Move Puzzle The eighty-one squares in this puzzle contain the names of forty-two animals. They may be spelled out by what is known in chess as the “king’s move,” namely, one square at a time in any direction. Thus, from the first O on the second line, one could move to X, N, Y, L, F, U, I or S. In sending answers, indicate the moves by the numbers in the squares, Thus, dog would be indicated by 75, 65, 56.
Elsie Locke.
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Double Beheadings and Curtailings. (Gold Badge, St. Nicholas League Competition.) Example: Doubly behead and curtail window drapery, rearrange the remaining letters, and make a sailor. Answer, cu-rta~in, tar. 1. Doubly behead and curtail to go astray, and make railroad vehicles. 2. Doubly behead and curtail consumption, and make an exclamation commanding silence. 3. Doubly behead and curtail knowledge, and make to shower. 4. Doubly behead and curtail strife, and make purpose. 5. Doubly behead and curtail a gift, and make to perceive. 6. Doubly behead and curtail promptness, and make strikes gently. 7. Doubly behead and curtail a healing lotion, and make belonging to me. 8. Doubly behead and curtail servitude, and make a conjunction. 9, Doubly behead and curtail one who thirsts, and make to move slightly. When rightly guessed, the initials of the nine new words will spell a joyful season of the year.
Katharine King.
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Acrostic. All the words described do not contain the same number of letters, When nightly guessed and written one below another, one of the rows of letters (reading downward) will spell the name of a character in one of Dickens's books. Cross-words: 1. One of the grand divisions of the world. 2. An autumn fruit. 3. A color. 4. A light-producing apparatus. 5. A celebrated Greek sculptor. 6. To take a picture. 7. An elongated fish, 8. A vegetable. 9. A dealer in drugs.
Miriam L. Ware
(League Member).
Double Diagonal.
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Cross-words: 1. A plant whose stem bears stout prickles. 2. A governor. 3. A missile weapon. 4. Overthrows. 5. Waste matter. From 1 to 2, 4 noted Scotch poet; from 3 to 4, a noted German painter.
William Ellis Keysor
(League Member).
An Obelisk. (Silver Badge, St. Nicholas League Competition.)
Cross-words: I. In January, 2. To flee. 3. The outer covering of a flower. 4. To dwell. 5. A musical instrument. 6. A builder. 7. A pleasure-boat. 8. A fruit. 9. To swindle. 10. Quick. 11. A rogue. 12. A tree. Centrals, from 1 to 2, a famous general.
Harry W. Hazard, Jr.
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