The empty squares and diagonal setting are necessary for this particular puzzle, as the words would not form a word square if their letters were placed below one another in the usual way.
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No. XXXIX
The sentence formed with the ten letters above the line, which is the key to this sum, is—Add these up. If these letters are numbered consecutively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, and the corresponding figures are substituted for the numbers, the sum works out as is shown below.
| D | U | 2 | 9 | |||
| E | H | 6 | 5 | |||
| E | D | 8 | 3 | |||
| A | P | 1 | 0 | |||
| S | T | 7 | 4 | |||
| D | E | A | 2 | 6 | 1 |
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No. XL
The four words, seek, slab, leek, moan, which were placed on the white squares when recast form the following combination:—