THE GREEK INTERPRETERS

   Fall Meeting: October 8th, 2013, Country Club of Lansing


The Noble Bachelor



An Acrostic prepared by The Chemist


The first letter of each correct answer, read vertically, will form a phrase.
 

1. Where Watson spent most of the day: _______   (1 wrd, 7 ltrs)

2. One of the morning's letters was from a: _______   (2 wrd, 4, 6 ltrs)

3. Which friends were invited to the wedding: ______   (1 wrd, 8 ltrs)

4. The king who was Holmes' last client: ______   (1 wrd, 11 ltrs)

5. Where Flora was a danseuse: ______   (1 wrd, 7 ltrs)

6. Where the Dornan house was located: ______ (2 wrd, 9, 4 ltrs)

7. Where Hatty attracted attention: ______   (2 wrd, 8. 5 ltrs each).

8. Mr. Dornan's first name: ______   (1 wrd, 8 ltrs)

9. The color of Lord St. Simon's gloves: ______   (1 wrd, 6 ltrs)

10. Lestrade dragged for a body here: ______   (1 wrd, 10 ltrs)

11. Hatty's maid: ______  (1 wrd, 5 ltrs)

12. A strange transformer of characters: ______  (1 wrd, 8 ltrs)

13. From the first, how Holmes regarded two facts: ______   (1 wrd, 7 ltrs)

14. Holmes demeanor when asking, "Anything else?": ______  (1 wrd, 7 ltrs)

15. St. Simon's distaff blood inheritance: ______  (1 wrd, 5 ltrs)

16. Hetty's husband Frank was all for:______  (1 wrd, 8 ltrs)

17. A state where Frank tried a comeback: ______   (1 wrd, 7 ltrs)

18. The nature of the police inquiries: ______   (1 wrd, 9 ltrs)

19. What fresh scandals have done to this one: ______  (1 wrd, 8 ltrs)

20. What Thoreau found in the milk: ______  (1 wrd, 5 ltrs)

21. Where a parallel instance had occurred: ______   (1 wrd, 8 ltrs)

22. Where Hatty received her education: ______   (1 wrd, 6ltrs)

23. Lord St. Simon's features: ______  (1 wrd, 12 ltrs)

24. Frank's family name: ______   (1 wrd, 7 ltrs)

25. A description of the cold supper ordered by Holmes: ______   (1 wrd, 9 ltrs)

26. The noble bachelor's first name: ______   (1 wrd, 6 ltrs)

27. The material used for the locket miniature:______  (1 wrd, 5 ltrs)

28. Lord St. Simon's younger sister: ______   (1 wrd, 5 ltrs)

29. The indians that attacked a mining camp: ______   (1 wrd, 6 ltrs)

30. The location of the hotel Frank where stayed: ______   (1 wrd, 13 ltrs)

View Answers



The first letter of each correct answer, read vertically, will form a phrase. (at bottom)

1. indoors
2. tide-waiter
3. intimate
4. Scandinavia
5. Allegro
6. Lancaster Gate
7. Westbury House
8. Aloysius
9. yellow
10. Serpentine
11. Alice
12. jealousy
13. obvious
14. yawning
15. Tudor
16. openness
17. Montana
18. energetic
19. eclipsed
20. trout
21. Aberdeen
22. nature
23. aristocratic
24. Moulton
25. epicurean
26. Robert
27. ivory
28. Clara
29. Apache
30. Northumberland

It is always a joy to meet an American.