—O. T. M.
DIAMOND
1. a letter; 2. a bank; 3. women; 4. specimens; 5. a quarrel; 6. to discern; 7. a letter.
—Ruth.
SUBSTITUTION
Supply the objects described in the parentheses and read by sound:
If a great storm were (a body of water north-west of North America) down on the British Isles, do you suppose you could ring a (city in Ireland) and make the (body of water west of England) the (a watch manufacturing town of the United States) the city of (the bark of a kind of oak)?
—Sidney M.
CHARADE
The first use sparingly.