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.