DOUBLE PUZZLE.—Central Syncopations: Rabid, raid; stair, stir; haste, hate; steep, step; Tiber, tier; grain, grin; holes, hoes; tiles, ties. The syncopated letters, B, A, S, E, B, A, L, L, form the answer to the Cross-word Enigma.
GEOGRAPHICAL TRANSPOSITIONS.—I held, Delhi; panels, Naples; I turn, Turin; pains, Spain; pure, Peru; erect, Crete; more, Rome.
OMNIBUS WORD.—Crate:
- Hour-Glass Puzzle.—Central, re-act: horizontals, caret, tea, a, act, cater.
- Square-Word.—Ace, car, era.
- Prefix Puzzle.—At, cat; are, tare; art, cart; ear, tear.
- Another Prefix Puzzle.—Ace, race, trace; ate, rate, crate.
ACCIDENTAL HIDINGS.—Esther, molEST HER; Theresa, THERE SAt; Ada, A DAmsel; Nora, NO RAy; Ernesta, stERNEST Age.
PERSPECTIVE CROSS PUZZLE.—Horizontals: 1, Grand; 2, plate; 3, ditch; 4, event; 5, prism; 6, eel; 7, great; 8, court; 9, terse. Perpendiculars: 10, Glove; 11, dread; 12, yet; 13, prove; 14, harem; 15, plant; 16, telegmatic; 17, preferment; 18, governable. Diagonals: 19, dry; 20, hop; 21, met; 22, peg; 23, toe; 24, cot; 25, Eve.
EASY SQUARE-WORD.—Dial, inca, acid, lade.
NUMERICAL ENIGMA.—Forest all, forestall.
FRAME PUZZLE.—Stock-dove, broom-corn, anonymous, inodorous.
CHARADE.—Cat.