DOUBLE PUZZLE.--Central Syncopations: Rabid, raid; stair, stir; haste, hate; steep, step; Tiber, tier; grain, grin; holes, hoes; tiles, ties. The syncopated letters, B, A, S, E, B, A, L, L, form the answer to the Cross-word Enigma. GEOGRAPHICAL TRANSPOSITIONS.--I held, Delhi; panels, Naples; I turn, Turin; pains, Spain; pure, Peru; erect, Crete; more, Rome. OMNIBUS WORD.--Crate: I. Hour-Glass Puzzle.--Central, re-act: horizontals, caret, tea, a, act, cater. II. Square-Word.--Ace, car, era. III. Prefix Puzzle.--At, cat; are, tare; art, cart; ear, tear. IV. Another Prefix Puzzle.--Ace, race, trace; ate, rate, crate. ACCIDENTAL HIDINGS.--Esther, molEST HER; Theresa, THERE SAt; Ada, A DAmsel; Nora, NO RAy; Ernesta, stERNEST Age. PERSPECTIVE CROSS PUZZLE.--_Horizontals:_ 1, Grand; 2, plate; 3, ditch; 4, event; 5, prism; 6, eel; 7, great; 8, court; 9, terse. _Perpendiculars:_ 10, Glove; 11, dread; 12, yet; 13, prove; 14, harem; 15, plant; 16, telegmatic; 17, preferment; 18, governable. _Diagonals:_ 19, dry; 20, hop; 21, met; 22, peg; 23, toe; 24, cot; 25, Eve. EASY SQUARE-WORD.--Dial, inca, acid, lade. NUMERICAL ENIGMA.--Forest all, forestall. FRAME PUZZLE.--Stock-dove, broom-corn, anonymous, inodorous. CHARADE.--Cat. WORDS ENIGMATICALLY EXPRESSED.--Pot-a-toe, potato; Mo-lasses, molasses; whisky; guinea-pig; false-hood, falsehood; toe-martyrs, tomatoes; pike-rust, pie crust; captive-atin', captivating; barber-us, barbarous; turn-pike; butter; IV, ivy. PICTORIAL CHRISTMAS PUZZLE.--At Christmas play and make good cheer. ANSWERS TO THE CHESS PUZZLE in the December number were received, before December 18, from "Frederica," P. Hill, J.E.N. James T. White, Laura Randolph, S.J.B., "Bessie and her Cousin," Alice Mason, and M.W. Collet. ANSWERS TO THE MAGIC DOMINO-SQUARE PUZZLE in the December number were received, before December 18, from Alice Louise, William Lewis Lockwood, James Buckelew, Howard G. Myers, Jas. Forsyth, E.C. Rowse, Bertie Pierson, Walter Sanger, Kenneth Hartley, Hattie Coons, Margaret B. Dodge, Alice Downing, Anna A. Hays, Emma A. Gill, "Georgie," D.C. Robertson, Willie T. Sheffield, Samuel Herbert Fisher, George D. Mitchell, Carrie Welles, G.L., Emma Elliott, K.C.R., A.H., John Hancock, Jr., Harry Hartshorn, Carrie Doane, Carrie Heller, Eddie F. Worcester, H.S., Fred B. Appleget, "Three of Them" (?), C. Kittinger, "Bessie and her Cousin," and P. Hill, whose criticism we find just. Helen L. Gilbert sends the solution of a puzzle in which 18 (not 16) is the sum of the dots in each row of half-dominoes.