Updated: Sunday, November 5th, 2000
Hello, Cryptophile!
Still possessing a vestigial knowledge of ancient myths?
Then, apply your cunning to our cryptic descriptions in the boxes below:
One letter given and each X representing one other letter.
Having reached the right conclusions you'll read an ancient name
in the column marked with red.
| 1. | X | E | X | X | X | X | He's the proverbial old sage, who's always there where the action is, and bringing hotheads to their senses |
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| 2. | X | X | X | H | X | X | X | They say his head kept singing even after the raving bunch of Maenads had torn him apart |
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| 3. | X | X | D | X | X | Another raving woman, lethal to relatives, loyal to her lover, until he deigned to leave her. Then she prepared a brew much more fiery than mead |
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| 4. | X | H | X | X | X | X | X | Being a sage he only needed to look beyond his Dutch nose to discover a Greek letter |
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| 5. | X | E | X | X | X | An old king at Iolcus-on-sea, restored to his youth by this woman his son brought home by Hellespont |
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| 6. | X | X | X | X | L | X | X | X | X | X | X | Sailing through these clashing gateposts wasn't simple, unless a dove had slipped through just in front of you [combination of 2 words, slightly altered] |
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| 7. | H | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | This club-wielding hero could afford to be careless, though he sailed into dire straits at least a dozen times |
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| 8. | X | X | X | X | X | The real first name of Beverly Hills 90210's foremost hero, though our real hero is of a rather different cast |
Did you find the solution? The full name in the marked column?
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