No. 18.—A Dinner Party.

Some time ago, no matter when, a grand dinner party was given, at which were guests who assumed the following names, in order to make the feast a celebration, by famous Americans, of a great American event. The assumed names were:

1, Common, a county, a human being.
2, Government appropriation.
3, Good advice, to cease from.
4, Casual, worn out, a slip.
5, A fish, a city in Oregon, to pursue.
6, A vegetable, a drink, a hinderance, torpid.
7, An Irish nickname, a stack, a fowl, grain.
8, An animal's cry, meat, a torch, to peruse.
9, To agree, cleansing, a weight.
10, Two Bible characters, a meadow.
11, A patriarch, a beverage.
12, To satisfy, a wine, a cave.
13, A small truck, a cry, a film, a heavenly body.
14, A past participle, a sweetmeat, a tavern, hirsute, a relation.
15, A fowl, to recompense, the strand, to wander.
16, A plant, a verb, two letters, residences.
17, A nickname, an animal, a whirlpool, a luminary.
18, A bird, a Russian, a small room, to sink, to flow.
19, An outfit, a chariot, a relation.
20, Headgear, a weight, an animal.

Answers to Kinks.

No. 9.

Central letters.—Meleager. Cross-words.—1, Plummet. 2, Bisects. 3, Mallard. 4, Foreman. 5, Durance. 6, Leggins. 7, Creeper. 8, Starred.