A RIVER ENIGMATICALLY EXPRESSED.
244. Father plugs an abbreviation.
245.
I am composed of letters five,
The part of speech is adjective,
From either way I spell the same;
Pray tell me then what is my name.
246. Entire, I am capital; curtail me, I am still capital; behead and transpose, I am anything but capital.
247. A liquor, a word signifying father; another word for father, a coin, and a liquid measure. The initial and final letters are the same, and spell a title.
248. Take a syllable of two letters from a girl’s name and leave a musical instrument.