My first, when skilfully performed(Its doer by applauses warmed),Bespeaks both skill and vigour.When with my whole, so soft and light,I saw my second gay bedight,She made a splendid figure.
My first, when skilfully performed(Its doer by applauses warmed),Bespeaks both skill and vigour.When with my whole, so soft and light,I saw my second gay bedight,She made a splendid figure.
My first, when skilfully performed(Its doer by applauses warmed),Bespeaks both skill and vigour.When with my whole, so soft and light,I saw my second gay bedight,She made a splendid figure.
is solved byFeather.
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The man whoratesthe commontaresAbove theasterchaste.Stareas he may, the world declaresIs not a man of taste.And, though my sympathy he shares,Notearson him I’ll waste.
The man whoratesthe commontaresAbove theasterchaste.Stareas he may, the world declaresIs not a man of taste.And, though my sympathy he shares,Notearson him I’ll waste.
The man whoratesthe commontaresAbove theasterchaste.Stareas he may, the world declaresIs not a man of taste.And, though my sympathy he shares,Notearson him I’ll waste.
The words in italics have the same letters.
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When a monk in old times, unexpectedly heated,Endangered the peace of his soul,To atone for my second my first he repeatedQuite ten times a day on my whole.
When a monk in old times, unexpectedly heated,Endangered the peace of his soul,To atone for my second my first he repeatedQuite ten times a day on my whole.
When a monk in old times, unexpectedly heated,Endangered the peace of his soul,To atone for my second my first he repeatedQuite ten times a day on my whole.
is solved byAverage.
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An insect small and fellMakes a weird sound,If, as its name you spell,You turn it round.One letter cast, and stillShift what remains,Another insect willReward your pains.
An insect small and fellMakes a weird sound,If, as its name you spell,You turn it round.One letter cast, and stillShift what remains,Another insect willReward your pains.
An insect small and fellMakes a weird sound,If, as its name you spell,You turn it round.
One letter cast, and stillShift what remains,Another insect willReward your pains.
is solved byGnat,tang,ant.
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Where head and body duly meetI am as slender as a bee;Whether I stand on head or feetMy figure shows its symmetry.But when my head is cut awayThe metamorphosis is strange;Though both of them unaltered stay,Body and head to nothing change.
Where head and body duly meetI am as slender as a bee;Whether I stand on head or feetMy figure shows its symmetry.But when my head is cut awayThe metamorphosis is strange;Though both of them unaltered stay,Body and head to nothing change.
Where head and body duly meetI am as slender as a bee;Whether I stand on head or feetMy figure shows its symmetry.
But when my head is cut awayThe metamorphosis is strange;Though both of them unaltered stay,Body and head to nothing change.
is solved byThe figure8.
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First is in coast, second in ghost,Third must be reckoned part of second;Fourth in boat, fifth in float,Sixth you will find within your mind.Seventh in blue, eighth in true,These letters tell a fruit that they spell.
First is in coast, second in ghost,Third must be reckoned part of second;Fourth in boat, fifth in float,Sixth you will find within your mind.Seventh in blue, eighth in true,These letters tell a fruit that they spell.
First is in coast, second in ghost,Third must be reckoned part of second;Fourth in boat, fifth in float,Sixth you will find within your mind.Seventh in blue, eighth in true,These letters tell a fruit that they spell.
is solved byCocoanut.
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The hunter and his steed are knownMy first to see.Though men may call my next a stone,Wood it may be.My whole, an exile from his home,Is doomed from place to place to roam.
The hunter and his steed are knownMy first to see.Though men may call my next a stone,Wood it may be.My whole, an exile from his home,Is doomed from place to place to roam.
The hunter and his steed are knownMy first to see.Though men may call my next a stone,Wood it may be.My whole, an exile from his home,Is doomed from place to place to roam.
is solved byRunagate.
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My first expresses power to do,My next that it is done.To be my whole belongs to few,And perfectly to none.
My first expresses power to do,My next that it is done.To be my whole belongs to few,And perfectly to none.
My first expresses power to do,My next that it is done.To be my whole belongs to few,And perfectly to none.
is solved byCandid.
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In my first, as in a shell,All the sweetest sounds may dwell;In my second, shells aboundThat can catch no sort of sound;In my whole securely restThose who neither jeer nor jest.
In my first, as in a shell,All the sweetest sounds may dwell;In my second, shells aboundThat can catch no sort of sound;In my whole securely restThose who neither jeer nor jest.
In my first, as in a shell,All the sweetest sounds may dwell;In my second, shells aboundThat can catch no sort of sound;In my whole securely restThose who neither jeer nor jest.
is solved byEarnest.
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My first, though of the feathered kind,Is never known to fly;My next all who improve their mindSeize as it passes by.My whole may much occasion findTo make the truthful lie.
My first, though of the feathered kind,Is never known to fly;My next all who improve their mindSeize as it passes by.My whole may much occasion findTo make the truthful lie.
My first, though of the feathered kind,Is never known to fly;My next all who improve their mindSeize as it passes by.My whole may much occasion findTo make the truthful lie.
is solved byBed-time.
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Divide a piece of beef or porkWithout the aid of knife and fork;It gives a shelf, rejoined with skill,Where you may set this if you will.Strike off instead the end, its placeIs plain as nose upon your face.Cut this asunder in your mind,And what is first put now behind;Part of our foot you thus discover,And in a measure all is over.
Divide a piece of beef or porkWithout the aid of knife and fork;It gives a shelf, rejoined with skill,Where you may set this if you will.Strike off instead the end, its placeIs plain as nose upon your face.Cut this asunder in your mind,And what is first put now behind;Part of our foot you thus discover,And in a measure all is over.
Divide a piece of beef or porkWithout the aid of knife and fork;It gives a shelf, rejoined with skill,Where you may set this if you will.Strike off instead the end, its placeIs plain as nose upon your face.Cut this asunder in your mind,And what is first put now behind;Part of our foot you thus discover,And in a measure all is over.
is solved byChine,niche,chin,inch.
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Seen as a whole, my form is nowAkin to strife and malice;Split, it may grace a princely brow,Or crown the curls of Alice.Recast my letters, and I tellThat nourishment is lacking;Stir them afresh until they spellThe needle’s help in tacking.
Seen as a whole, my form is nowAkin to strife and malice;Split, it may grace a princely brow,Or crown the curls of Alice.Recast my letters, and I tellThat nourishment is lacking;Stir them afresh until they spellThe needle’s help in tacking.
Seen as a whole, my form is nowAkin to strife and malice;Split, it may grace a princely brow,Or crown the curls of Alice.
Recast my letters, and I tellThat nourishment is lacking;Stir them afresh until they spellThe needle’s help in tacking.
is solved byHatred,hat red,dearth,thread.
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If I write with my first in my secondMy whole you can never find out;Add a letter, and all will be reckonedA patron of water devout.
If I write with my first in my secondMy whole you can never find out;Add a letter, and all will be reckonedA patron of water devout.
If I write with my first in my secondMy whole you can never find out;Add a letter, and all will be reckonedA patron of water devout.
is solved byWithin,Swithin.
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After officers’ mess, when cigars were well alight, the old conundrum was propounded,“What is most like a cornet of horse?” A sharp sub. was ready with the reply, “A hornet, of course”; it was presently capped by this variant which occurred to a married captain, “a corset of horn”; and yet another reading was suggested by the deaf old colonel, “How much did you say the ‘horse ate of corn’?”
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Loss of love between usNever can be nice;Yet we live where VenusChanges us to ice.
Loss of love between usNever can be nice;Yet we live where VenusChanges us to ice.
Loss of love between usNever can be nice;Yet we live where VenusChanges us to ice.
is solved byVenice(Venuschanges to Venice).
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The very prosaic reply to the daintylines—
“Tell me, my sweet,Why are your feetLike fairy-tales?”
“Tell me, my sweet,Why are your feetLike fairy-tales?”
“Tell me, my sweet,Why are your feetLike fairy-tales?”
is: Because they are leg ends (legends)!
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Our parsondetainsevery man who has leisureTo studystainedwindows, the glory of fanes;Andinsteadof devoting his income to pleasure,Oursainteddean spends his money on panes.
Our parsondetainsevery man who has leisureTo studystainedwindows, the glory of fanes;Andinsteadof devoting his income to pleasure,Oursainteddean spends his money on panes.
Our parsondetainsevery man who has leisureTo studystainedwindows, the glory of fanes;Andinsteadof devoting his income to pleasure,Oursainteddean spends his money on panes.
The words in italics have the same letters.
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Though much attached to merriment,Or crime for a variety,To prison I am never sent,But sparkle in society.
Though much attached to merriment,Or crime for a variety,To prison I am never sent,But sparkle in society.
Though much attached to merriment,Or crime for a variety,To prison I am never sent,But sparkle in society.
is solved byThe letter E.
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Without my first and second’s aidNo pudding worth its sauce is made.Take on my third, my fourth I am,My fifth includes myself and Sam.My whole describes the royal fiddler Nero,And shows him as an unheroic hero.
Without my first and second’s aidNo pudding worth its sauce is made.Take on my third, my fourth I am,My fifth includes myself and Sam.My whole describes the royal fiddler Nero,And shows him as an unheroic hero.
Without my first and second’s aidNo pudding worth its sauce is made.Take on my third, my fourth I am,My fifth includes myself and Sam.My whole describes the royal fiddler Nero,And shows him as an unheroic hero.
is solved bySuetonius.
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The geographical names buried in thesentences—
He has my R.N. as a monogram on all his paper.
I am her stupid sister.
The calmest man is sometimes madeirate—
are Smyrna; Amherst; and Madeira.
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My first’s a fruit of foreign clime,Sweet to the taste, in price not dear;My second does my first produce,And yet my whole my first doth bear.
My first’s a fruit of foreign clime,Sweet to the taste, in price not dear;My second does my first produce,And yet my whole my first doth bear.
My first’s a fruit of foreign clime,Sweet to the taste, in price not dear;My second does my first produce,And yet my whole my first doth bear.
is solved byDate-palm.
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A thing of beauty, scattered by a breath,My firm embrace is harbinger of death;Not made by hands, a work of wondrous art,Complete and perfected in every part;Crush me to-day with all-determined care,Then look to-morrow, and I shall be there!
A thing of beauty, scattered by a breath,My firm embrace is harbinger of death;Not made by hands, a work of wondrous art,Complete and perfected in every part;Crush me to-day with all-determined care,Then look to-morrow, and I shall be there!
A thing of beauty, scattered by a breath,My firm embrace is harbinger of death;Not made by hands, a work of wondrous art,Complete and perfected in every part;Crush me to-day with all-determined care,Then look to-morrow, and I shall be there!
is solved byA spider’s web.
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Six letters in my name are found.Though only three we see and sound;The shepherd by the running riverMay hear me where the rushes quiver;And should a stroke my whole divide,Leaving but half on either side,These, backward read, will surely tellWhat many a toper loves too well.
Six letters in my name are found.Though only three we see and sound;The shepherd by the running riverMay hear me where the rushes quiver;And should a stroke my whole divide,Leaving but half on either side,These, backward read, will surely tellWhat many a toper loves too well.
Six letters in my name are found.Though only three we see and sound;The shepherd by the running riverMay hear me where the rushes quiver;And should a stroke my whole divide,Leaving but half on either side,These, backward read, will surely tellWhat many a toper loves too well.
is solved byMurmur.
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Upon a battle-field of learned menHundred and fifty were by none divided.“Now,” said the bishop, “add two-thirds of tenAnd so you’ll guess the riddle just as I did.”
Upon a battle-field of learned menHundred and fifty were by none divided.“Now,” said the bishop, “add two-thirds of tenAnd so you’ll guess the riddle just as I did.”
Upon a battle-field of learned menHundred and fifty were by none divided.“Now,” said the bishop, “add two-thirds of tenAnd so you’ll guess the riddle just as I did.”
is solved byColenso.
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Though the stations of mortals are manyAnd thelastis the head of his race;Yet he, just as often as any,Is won by myfirst’sfell embrace;Yet we most of us apt are to fall,When our heads cease our hearts to control,Let us hope that not one of us allMay be e’er in the state of mywhole.
Though the stations of mortals are manyAnd thelastis the head of his race;Yet he, just as often as any,Is won by myfirst’sfell embrace;Yet we most of us apt are to fall,When our heads cease our hearts to control,Let us hope that not one of us allMay be e’er in the state of mywhole.
Though the stations of mortals are manyAnd thelastis the head of his race;Yet he, just as often as any,Is won by myfirst’sfell embrace;Yet we most of us apt are to fall,When our heads cease our hearts to control,Let us hope that not one of us allMay be e’er in the state of mywhole.
is solved bySinking.
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My whole is no matter,And light as the air,Yet it is good on the platter,And excellent fare.Curtail and transpose,And a lady you see,Who will flatter and pose,And with many do me.
My whole is no matter,And light as the air,Yet it is good on the platter,And excellent fare.Curtail and transpose,And a lady you see,Who will flatter and pose,And with many do me.
My whole is no matter,And light as the air,Yet it is good on the platter,And excellent fare.
Curtail and transpose,And a lady you see,Who will flatter and pose,And with many do me.
is solved bytrifle,flirt.
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My first, for ages out of mindAll men have always worn behind,And yet alike by sea and landThey carry it upon their hand.My second, carefully matur’d,Is never ill but often cured.My whole, within unchanging lines,Black men and white alike confines.
My first, for ages out of mindAll men have always worn behind,And yet alike by sea and landThey carry it upon their hand.My second, carefully matur’d,Is never ill but often cured.My whole, within unchanging lines,Black men and white alike confines.
My first, for ages out of mindAll men have always worn behind,And yet alike by sea and landThey carry it upon their hand.My second, carefully matur’d,Is never ill but often cured.My whole, within unchanging lines,Black men and white alike confines.
is solved byBackgammon.
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The Rebus—“We westand fall,”—is solved byUnited we stand, divided we fall.
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My second is pressed tightly roundTo guard from any ill;And when preparing to engageMen find it useful still.My first against attraction setWill neutralise its power;Aided by it, with bargains, someMay spend a happy hour.You find my whole by careful search,Which must not be forsaken;It stands before what comes beyond,Which may from it be taken.
My second is pressed tightly roundTo guard from any ill;And when preparing to engageMen find it useful still.My first against attraction setWill neutralise its power;Aided by it, with bargains, someMay spend a happy hour.You find my whole by careful search,Which must not be forsaken;It stands before what comes beyond,Which may from it be taken.
My second is pressed tightly roundTo guard from any ill;And when preparing to engageMen find it useful still.My first against attraction setWill neutralise its power;Aided by it, with bargains, someMay spend a happy hour.You find my whole by careful search,Which must not be forsaken;It stands before what comes beyond,Which may from it be taken.
is solved byCounterfoil.
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Scorned by the meek and humble mind,And often by the vain possessed,Heard by the deaf, seen by the blind,I give the troubled spirit rest.
Scorned by the meek and humble mind,And often by the vain possessed,Heard by the deaf, seen by the blind,I give the troubled spirit rest.
Scorned by the meek and humble mind,And often by the vain possessed,Heard by the deaf, seen by the blind,I give the troubled spirit rest.
is solved byNothing.
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