I am composed of twelve letters.  My 2 11 3 is a fish.  My 1 4 3 2 5 is a girl’s name.  My 7 3 8 10 5 is an American politician.  My 12 8 6 1 is pretty for a child’s wear.  My 9 8 12 10 5 is a necessary domestic utensil.  My 4 8 6 2 is very pleasant.  My whole is the title of a popular book.

D.C.R.

SQUARE-WORD.

1.  An emperor’s title. 2.  Nothing. 3.  Weapons. 4.  A flower.

B.

ANAGRAM DOUBLE DIAMOND AND CONCEALED DOUBLE SQUARE.

From the sentence “Seer eats a pear” form a double diamond, the center of which will be a double word-square.

CYRIL DEANE.

PICTORIAL PROVERB PUZZLE.

The answer is a well-known couplet.

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ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN JANUARY NUMBER.

DOUBLE ACROSTIC.—­Initials, Russia; finals, Turkey; across,

  R—­a——­Y
  U—­nit—­E
  S—­ac—–­K
  S—­uga—­R
  I—­O——­U
  A—­n——­T

HOUR-GLASS PUZZLE.—­Diagonals, hones, sends; central, inner; horizontals,

  H A I L S
    O N E
      N
    D E E
  S O R E S

DECAPITATIONS.—­Acorn, corn; brook, rook; drake, rake; flute, lute; pearl, earl; plane, lane; wheel, heel; spine, pine; trout, rout; prune, rune.

DIAGONAL PUZZLE.—­Diagonal, January; horizontals, Jollity, sAdness, kiNdles, ensUing, compAny, appeaRs, holidaY.

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: 

  I. Hour-Glass Puzzle.—­Central, re-act:  horizontals, caret, tea, a,
     act, cater.

 II.  Square-Word.—­Ace, car, era.

III.  Prefix Puzzle.—­At, cat; are, tare; art, cart; ear, tear.

 IV.  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.