IX NINE (the two nines.)
IX NINES = 54.
(S is a third of six) S
34. To bridge the moat, or space between the two squares which one match cannot span, place one match across one of the corners of the outer square, and the other from this to the inner square.
35.
We start when the ninth hour is past,
Then there’s an end of you.
A vengeful goddess shows at last
What Antifat will do—
is solved by attenuate (at ten-u-Ate, goddess of vengeance).