Word Games


Complete the poem by thinking of the one word whose letters, when rearranged, will yield the appropriate word for each series of blanks. Each dash corresponds to a letter of the word.



The night's storm passed; the compass lay destroyed.

Old navigation _ _ _ _ must be employed.

To Captain's "Bear on yonder _ _ _ _ for now!"

The _ _ _ _ braced sea legs with the heeling bow.






Answer to October 10, 2011 puzzle:

Shut apart, secure through custom's power,
The manor lord stood gazing from his tower
At serfs' poor huts, then meditatively
Mused, "Thus it's been and evermore shall be."




Have fun with these, and please keep those comments coming.
They're like _ _ _ _ _ to my ears.

I'm considering posting these on Sunday mornings, because there's a Sunday spike in the visits to The Red Q. Please give me your thoughts on that. Thanks.

Till next Monday.

Norm Ledgin



© Norman M. Ledgin, 1982, 1983, 1984, 2011