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 | X | X | Y | X | X | X | X | X | X | What made him famous? His using so many words to tell the neighbours that no man had blinded his single eye? |
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| 2. | U | X | X | X | X | X | X | If you listen well, you'll hear at once for whom the epic of the Trojan horse was sung in Scheria's brazen hall |
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| 3. | X | X | L | X | X | X | X | Dancing to her namesake Caribbean rhythm was furthest from her when she had to let go her beloved from her isle |
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| 4. | X | I | X | X | X | X | When these sea-nymphs raised their voices, a roll-call was the thing to do, provided there was anyone left aboard |
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| 5. | C | X | X | X | X | Caught in a jam in Piccadilly, she observed the conditions which would turn men into swine |
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| 6. | X | X | U | X | X | X | X | X | While the C.I.A. man was taking a sauna, in strolled this brave little princess with a wagonload of laundry |
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| 7. | X | O | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | A tribe named by its sustenance, while it kept the lot of them on a vague plane of subsistence |
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| 8. | P | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | Resolve to withstand her suitors' pleas sailed her weavingly through the score of years her husband roamed the seas |
Did you find the solution? The full name in the marked column?
Great !!!
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