THE GREEK INTERPRETERS

Fall Meeting: November 14 2007, Hershey's, E. Lansing


The Musgrave Ritual




An Acrostic prepared by The Chemist

The first letter of each correct answer, read vertically, will form a phrase.
Note that British spelling is used.


1. __ __ __ __   __ __   __ __ __   .... how often Holmes would docket his case papers. (every)

2. __ __ __ __   __ __ __  __ __ __   .... Where was the sun?

3. __ __ __ __   __ __ __  __ __ __   .... Where was the shadow?

4. __ __ __ __   __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __   .... Vanberry's profession.

5. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __   .... how Watson refers to his memoirs.

6. __ __ __ __ __ __ __   .... Musgrave's manners (and yet courtly).

7. __ __ __ __ __  .... the material of the bag recovered from the lake.

8. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __  .... a term for the maze-like structure of Hurlstone manor.

9. __ __ __   .... the tree struck by lightning.

10. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ or (__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __)   .... the crutch of the singular affair.

11. __ __   .... the patriotic symbol formed by bullet-pocks on the wall.

12. __ __ __ __ __   .... The number of maids at Hurlstone manor.

13. __ __ __ __ __ __   .... Holmes transfixed his unanswered correspondence to a wooden one.

14. __ __ __ __  .... where Holmes tied knots in a long string. (every)

15. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __   .... how Musgrave described Brunton's forehead.

16. __ __ __   by five and by five .... (a direction from the ritual.)

17. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __   .... how Holmes refers to his memento's of the Musgrave Ritual

18. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __   __ __ __ __   .... what Watson gives himself in reaction to Holmes' habits.

19. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __   .... it led to Brunton's ruin.

20. __ __ __ __   .... Holmes' papers were Watson's great one.

21. __ __ __ __ __   .... The depth of the lake in feet near the gravel path.

22. __ __ __   the kind of box in which Holmes kept his case memoirs.

23. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __   .... the shape out of which the crown was bent and twisted.

24. __ __ __ __ __ __ __   .... Brunton's was found attached to an iron ring.

25. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __  and inference   .... Holmes' methods, in which Musgrave expressed an interest.

26. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __   .... of the club-foot

27. __ __ __ __ __ __   Howells   .... (she was once engaged to Brunton.)

28. __ __ __ __   .... how Musgrave found the door to the library.

29. __ __ __ __ __   they had eaten through the wood of the hidden box.

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

1. Y Year or Two
2. O Over the Oak
3. U Under the Elm
4. W Wine Merchant
5. I Incoherent
6. L Languid
7. L Linen
8. L Labyrinth
9. E Elm
10. A Aluminum or Aluminium
11. V V R
12. E Eight
13. M Mantle
14. Y Yard
15. S Splendid
16. E East
17. R Recherche
18. V Virtuous Airs
19. I Intelligence
20. C Crux
21. E Eight
22. T Tin
23. O Original
24. M Muffler
25. O Observation
26. R Ricoletti
27. R Rachel
28. O Open
29. W Worms

You Will Leave My Service Tomorrow

Note that this expression comes from the original text published in the Strand Magazine.