CHARADES
1. Good-night (knight).
2. Grandson.
3. Oyster.
4. Stay-lace.
5. Ann—ounce.
6. VOID, OVID.
7. Disconsolate (disc—on—so—late).
8. Ginger—Nigger. (G.E.R. Great Eastern Railway).
9. Honesty (hone, below the razor).
10. Nutmeg.
11. Waterloo.
12. Whether (whet—her).
13. Mendicant (mend I can’t).
14. Campbell.
15. Foxglove.
16. Anglesea.
17. Shewed.
18. Sparrow, often a gutter percher!
19. Dishonest (dish—one—st).
20. Dogmatism.
21. Anthem.
22. Gigantic (gig—antic).
23. Toad (ad is Latin for to).
24. Cineraria (sinner—area).
25. Ignis—fatuus, or Will-o’-the-wisp (ignis, fire—fatuus, a fool).
26. Isis (sis in Latin, thou mayest be).
27. Capacity.
28. Scarcity.
29. Pardon.
30. Humbug.
31. Ramrod.
32. Dumpling.
33. Into.
34. Herring.
35. Dublin (bud—nil).
36. Peerless.
37. Beatrice.
38. Beam—be is half of the word verb, am is half of same, and be and am are similar in sense.
39. Pulpit.
40. Spare—rib.
41. Usher.
42. The ship Carmania.
43. Candid.
44. Husbandman.
45. Hamlet.
46. Handcuff.
47. Sinecure.
48. Infancy.
49. Teachest.
50. Hippodrome.
51. Invalid.
52. Woman.
53. Kensington.
54. Benjamin.
55. Stipendiary.
56. Wonder.
57. Cabin.
58. Falstaff.
59. Periwinkle.
60. Nameless.
61. Fourscore.
62. Hatred.
63. Catsup.
64. Molestation.
65. Omen.
66. Isinglass.
67. Muffin.
68. Footman.
69. Sparrow-grass.
70. Matchless.
71. Planted.
72. Toast-rack.
73. Half-and-half, if properly punctuated.