My first is thick and dark; my second is connected with the sea; my whole is an acid concrete salt, or some one keen and irritable.

C. J. B.

[Answers on page 263.]

Answer to Puzzle on [Page 195].

9.—

  1. Wellington.
  2. Marlborough.
  3. Nelson.
  4. Blake.
  5. Shakespeare.
  6. Tennyson.
  7. Scott.
  8. Dickens.
  9. Elizabeth.
  10. Victoria.

Answer to 'What am I?' on [Page 214].

Dun-dee.