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.