THE GREEK INTERPRETERS
Spring Meeting: May 1st, 2013, Country Club of Lansing
The Golden Pince-Nez
An Acrostic prepared by The Chemist
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Spring Meeting: May 1st, 2013, Country Club of LansingThe Golden Pince-Nez
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The first letter of each correct answer, read vertically, will form a phrase. |
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1. Nature's grip on London: _______ (1
wrd, 4 ltrs)
2. The maid's surname was: _______ (1 wrd, 7 ltrs)
3. In addition to being long, the trip to Chatham was: ______ (1 wrd, 5 ltrs)
4. Prof. Coram smoked cigarettes from: ______
(1 wrd, 10 ltrs)
5. The famous succession case investigated by Holmes: ______ (2 wrd, 5, 8 ltrs)
6. Anna's "friend of my heart" was: ______ (1 wrd, 6 ltrs)
7. Prof. Coram's key was on his: ______ (2 wrd, 5 ltrs each).
8. The supplier of cigarettes to Prof. Coram: ______ (1 wrd, 7
ltrs)
9. It was both repulsive and red (not black): ______ (1 wrd, 5 ltrs)
10. It might have swept away shreds of varnish: ______ (1
wrd, 6 ltrs)
11. Anna's age when she married: ______ (1 wrd, 6 ltrs)
12. A source of the Coptic manuscripts studied by Prof. Coram: ______
(1 wrd, 5 ltrs)
13. He wheeled the Bath chair: ______ (1 wrd, 8 ltrs)
14. The object of Holmes' deciphering effort: ______ (1
wrd, 10 ltrs)
15. The nature of Hopkins' admiration for Holmes: ______ (1 wrd, 7 ltrs)
(not a designer drug)
16. The familiar name Anna called Prof. Coram: ______ (1 wrd, 7 ltrs)
17. The time at which Holmes paid his second visit to Prof. Coram: ______ (1 wrd, 3 ltrs)
18. Where Willoughby Smith lived as a boy: ______ (1 wrd, 9 ltrs)
19. Holmes deduced Anna had visited one twice: ______ (1 wrd, 8 ltrs)
20. The third secretary came straight from: ______ (1 wrd, 10 ltrs)
21. Before Hopkin's arrival, Watson had been reading a treatise on: ______ (1 wrd, 7 ltrs)
22. The month in which this story takes place: ______ (1 wrd, 8
ltrs)
23. Prof. Coram's laughter was: ______ (1 wrd, 9 ltrs)
24. An item of wet weather gear referred to by Holmes: ______ (1
wrd, 8 ltrs)
25. The Boulevard assassin: ______ (1 wrd, 5 ltrs)
26 The number of manuscript volumes for 1894: ______
(1 wrd, 5 ltrs)
