ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN JUNE NUMBER.
Easy Beheadings.—Heart, tear, ear, a.
Labyrinth.—The dotted line and arrows show the route to the center:
Accidental Hidings.—Metrical Compositions: Pean (hope and); glee (eagle eye); ode (good enough). Portions of Time: Hour (thou rove); eon (June one); era (tower and).
Anagrams.—1. Rhapsody. 2. Numerical. 3. Depredation. 4. Exonerates. 5. Deranging.
Pictorial Puzzle.—An ox. Turn the picture so that the right-hand edge becomes the bottom.
Melange.—1. Clover, lover. 2. Clover, clove. 3. Clover, cover. 4. Clove, love. 5. Lover, lore. 6. Cover, over. 7. Cover, core. 8. Over, rove. 9. Rove, roe.
Easy Classical Acrostic.—Demosthenes.
Enigma.—"A stitch in time saves nine."
Easy Diamond Puzzle.—
A
E L F
A L T E R
F E W
R
Charade.—Catacomb; cat, a, comb.
Numerical Puzzle.—Levi Nathan; leviathan.
Four-Letter Square-Word.—
K I N G
I D O L
N O T E
G L E E
Easy Cross-Word Enigma.—Ohio.
Metagram.—1. Batter. 2. Fatter. 3. Latter. 4. Matter. 5. Patter. 6. Tatter. 7. Ratter.
Easy Acrostic.—Constantinople.
Blank Word Syncopations.—1. Staging—tag, sing. 2. Sporting—port, sing. 3. Roulette—let, route.
Charade.—Woman; wo, man.
Transpositions of Proper Names—1. Pensacola, clean soap. 2. Taxes, Texas. 3. Carolina, an oil-car. 4. Colorado, cool road, 5. Washington; saw nothing, thin wagons, 6. Load fir, Florida. 7. New York, worn key. 8. Baltimore, broil meat. 9. Daniel; nailed, denial. 10. Catherine, in the acre.
Square-Word.—
L I M E S
I D E A L
M E R G E
E A G L E
S L E E P
Additions.—1. Imp, ale; impale. 2. Bulls, eye; bull's-eye. 3. Nan, keen; Nankin. 4. P, age; page. 5. Den, Mark; Denmark. 6. Asp, ire; aspire.
Answers to Puzzles in the May Number were received, before May 18, from "Pansy," Ben Merrill, Arnold Guyot Cameron; May and Charlie Pray; Bessie Hard, Harry H. Wolbert, "Bessie and her Cousin," Nessie E. Stevens, Allie Bertram, Nettie A. Ives, L.E.B., Alice Lanigan, M.E. Bagley, Katie Burnett, Bessie Dorsey, "Hard and Tough," E.L.S., Stella N. Stone, Clara S. Gardiner, "Winnie;" X.Y.Z., and Bob White; Arthur Stowe, R.T. French, Lizzie Folsom, Lizzie C. Lawrence, Bessie Taylor, Laura Randolph; John D. Cress, M.R. Cress, and W.S. Eichelberger; Carrie J. Willcox; Frank and Ralph Bowman; Nellie Emerson, "Black Prince," Neils E. Hansen; Bessie and Charlie Wheeler; "Daisy," S.V. Gilbert, Rufus B. Clark, W.H. McGee, Eva Doeblin, Edith Louise Jones, Harold S. MacKaye; Alice B. MacNary and Mary C. Taylor; Florence L. Turrill, "Dottie and Daisie," Nellie C. Graham, S. Norris Knapp, Carrie L. Bigelow, George C. Harris, Jr., Eddie F. Worcester, Charles H. Stout, Frank H. Nichols, Susie Hermance, "Birdie and Allie;" Allen Bigelow Hathaway and Harold Gray Hathaway; Anna E. Matthewson, H.B. Ayers, Austin D. Mabie, "Kaween," Lewis G. Davis, "Beech-Nut," E.M. Fergusson, Julie Baker, Mary H. Bradley, Alfred C. Beebe, Charles N. Cogswell; C.M. Hunter and Frances Hunter; "Prebo and Prebo's Uncle," "Cosy Club," Georgine C. Schnitzspahn; V. and G.S.; Floy and Lillie Brown; Austin M. Poote, Georgie B., Eddie Vultee, Bessie L. Barnes, Louisa K. Riedel; and Gladys H. Wilkinson, of Manchester, England.