over. 4.
Clove, love. 5. Lover, lore. 6. Cover, over. 7. Cover, core. 8. Over,
rove. 9. Rove, roe.

EASY CLASSICAL ACROSTIC.--Demosthenes.

ENIGMA.--"A stitch in time saves nine."

EASY DIAMOND PUZZLE.--

A
E L F
A L T E R
F E W
R

CHARADE.--Catacomb; cat, a, comb.

NUMERICAL PUZZLE.--Levi Nathan; leviathan.

FOUR-LETTER SQUARE-WORD.--

K I N G
I D O L
N O T E
G L E E

EASY CROSS-WORD ENIGMA.--Ohio.

METAGRAM.--1. Batter. 2. Fatter. 3. Latter. 4. Matter. 5. Patter.
6. Tatter. 7. Ratter.

EASY ACROSTIC.--Constantinople.

BLANK WORD SYNCOPATIONS.--1. Staging--tag, sing. 2. Sporting--port,
sing. 3. Roulette--let, route.

CHARADE.--Woman; wo, man.

TRANSPOSITIONS OF PROPER NAMES--1. Pensacola, clean soap. 2. Taxes,
Texas. 3. Carolina, an oil-car. 4. Colorado, cool road, 5. Washington;
saw nothing, thin wagons, 6. Load fir, Florida. 7. New York, worn key.
8. Baltimore, broil meat. 9. Daniel; nailed, denial. 10. Catherine, in
the acre.

SQUARE-WORD.--

L I M E S
I D E A L
M E R G E
E A G L E
S L E E P

ADDITIONS.--1. Imp, ale; impale. 2. Bulls, eye; bull's-eye. 3. Nan,
keen; Nankin. 4. P, age; page. 5. Den, Mark; Denmark. 6. Asp, ire;
aspire.

ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE MAY NUMBER were received, before May 18, from
"Pansy," Ben Merrill, Arnold Guyot Cameron; May and Charlie Pray; Bessie
Hard, Harry H. Wolbert, "Bessie and her Cousin," Nessie E. Stevens,
Allie Bertram, Nettie A. Ives, L.E.B., Alice Lanigan, M.E. Bagley, Katie
Burnett, Bessie Dorsey, "Hard and Tough," E.L.S., Stella N. Stone, Clara
S. Gardiner, "Winnie;" X.Y.Z., and Bob White; Arthur Stowe, R.T. French,
Lizzie Folsom, Lizzie C. Lawrence, Bessie Taylor, Laura Randolph; John
D. Cress, M.R. Cress, and W.S. Eichelberger; Carrie J. Willcox; Frank
and Ralph Bowman; Nellie Emerson, "Black Prince," Neils E. Hansen;
Bessie and Charlie Wheeler; "Daisy," S.V. Gilbert, Rufus B. Clark, W.H.
McGee, Eva Doeblin, Edith Louise Jones, Harold S. MacKaye; Alice B.
MacNary and Mary C. Taylor; Florence L. Turrill, "Dottie and Daisie,"
Nellie C. Graham, S. Norris Knapp, Carrie L. Bigelow, George C. Harris,
Jr., Eddie F. Worcester, Charles H. Stout, Frank H. Nichols, Susie
Hermance, "Birdie and Allie;" Allen Bigelow Hathaway and Harold Gray
Hathaway; Anna E. Matthewson, H.B. Ayers, Austin D. Mabie, "Kaween,"
Lewis G. Davis, "Beech-Nut," E.M. Fergusson, Julie Baker, Mary H.
Bradley, Alfred C. Beebe, Charles N