The primals, read downward, name a bird; the centrals, an animal; the finals, an insect.
1. Disentangling. 2. Echo. 3. A city in a Western State. 4. Can't be worse.
ESOR.
FRAME PUZZLE.
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Make the frame of four words of eight letters each, so that the letter A shall come at each of the four corners where the words intersect. The words mean: Sweet-smelling, to make a scale, a fillet, an ecclesiastic.
BESSIE AND HER COUSIN.
HIDDEN FRENCH SENTENCE.
Find in the following sentence the French words with which the Emperor Alexander of Russia once described St. Petersburg:
Give him a good anvil, let him deal sound blows on the irons for the pier, repeated and strong, and the work will last.