THE GREEK INTERPRETERS | |
Spring Meeting: May 9th, 2012, Country Club of LansingThe Red-Headed LeagueAn Acrostic prepared by The Chemist |
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The first letter of each correct answer, read vertically, will form a phrase. |
1. The lower age limit for eligibility in the Red Headed League: _______ (2 wrd, 6, 3 ltrs)
2. Inspector Jones to Watson, "We're _______ in couples again, Doctor. " (1 wrd, 7 ltrs)
3. The age appearance of Holmes' fiery-haired guest: ______ (1 wrd, 7 ltrs).
4. Jabez Wilson's eyes were small and ______ . (2 wrd 3, 9 ltrs).
5. Jabez Wilson's was heavy and brassy ______ : (2 wrd 6, 5 ltrs).
6. John Clay's Bank target: ______: (3 wrd, 4, 3, 8 ltrs).
7. John Clay is a murderer, forger, smasher and ______ : (1 wrd 5 ltrs).
8. ______ was playing at St. James Hall. (1 wrd 8 ltrs).
9. Not a comic or a homophone cockroach, the other bank robber was ______ : (1 wrd, 6 ltrs).
10. What Holmes asked Watson to put in his pocket: ______ : (1 wrd 8 ltrs).
11. What this case saved Holmes from: ______ (1 wrd 5 ltrs).
12. The number of gold napoleons borrowed from the Bank of France: ______ (2 wrd 6, 8 ltrs).
13. "This is a time for ______ , not for talk." (1 wrd 11 ltrs).
14. Jones' opinion of Holmes' methods: "a little too ______ and fantastic." (1 wrd, 11 ltrs).
15. What Holmes took from the rack in his room
;______ : (3 wrd 5, 7, 4 ltrs).
16. John Clay spent some of his early years here: ______ (1 wrd 4 ltrs).
17. Holmes lounged in an armchair with his ______. (3 wrd 5, 6, 8 ltrs).
18. A Wealthy but peculiar American: ______ (2 wrd 7 ltrs each).
19. Not Groucho's captain, but the pawnbroker's assiatant: ______ (1 wrd 9 ltrs).
20. The end of a Flaubert quote: "...l'oeuvre c'est ______ " (1 wrd 4 ltrs).
21. The nature of the words with which Holmes parted from Watson: ______ (1 wrd 7 ltrs).
22. Jabez Wilson's breastpin showed him to be a ______ . (1 wrd, 9 ltrs).
23. William ______, the solicitor at 17 King Edward St. near St. Paul, not the agency. (1 wrd 6 ltrs).
24. Jabez Wilson ______ with pain when his hair was pulled. (1 wrd, 6 ltrs).
25. Duncan Ross thought it unfortunate that Jabez Wilson was a ______ . (1 wrd, 8 ltrs).
26 The source from which Jabez Wilson spent weeks copying: ______ (2 wrd, 12, 10 ltrs).
27. Where we must go for "strange effects and extraordinary combinations": ______: (2 wrd, 4, 6 ltrs).
28. "You must find your own ______ , pen and blotting paper." (1 wrd, 3 ltrs).
29. John Clay's were pierced: ______ (1 wrd, 4 ltrs).
30. Jabez Wilson's was not "over clean": ______ (1 wrd, 9 ltrs) or (2 wrd, 5, 4 ltrs).
31. Holmes and Watson traveled by ______ as far as Aldersgate. (1 wrd 11 ltrs).
32. Watson left home for Baker Street at quarter past ______ : (1 wrd 4 ltrs).
33. Holmes regarded Jones as an "absolute ______ in his profession." (1 wrd, 8 ltrs).
34. The type of pen purchased by Jabez Wilson: ______ (1 wrd 5 ltrs).
35. "You reasoned it out beautifully", Watson exclaimed in ______ admiration. (1 wrd 9 ltrs).
36. It is Holmes' hobby to have an ______ knowledge of London. (1 wrd, 5).