Literary Conundrums
Margaret included this section of what she calls “Literary Conundrums”—puns made using the last names of authors.
1. What author made things safe? | Locke |
2. What author represents smoked meat? | Bacon |
3. What author is a ( ) mechanic? | Cooper |
4. We cannot live without it | Hart |
5. Something found on feet | Bunyan |
6. Put it away for future use | Stowe |
7. What author represents a ( ) mechanic? | Cooper |
8. What author represents wearing apparel? | Hood |
9. Not quite South | Southard |
10. A kind of hedge | Hawthorne |
11. Made of iron | Steele |
12. A sweeping translator | Broome |
13. A common salutation of tobacco users | Chaucer |
14. A rough crowd | Motley |
15. A refined workman | Goldsmith |
16. What all need but do not always have | Holmes |
17. A small black mountain | Coleridge |
18.The thread of argument | |
19. The nuisance of a neighborhood | Burroughs |
20. To move towards the right | |
21. What is generally found in a cornfield | Rowe |
22. Too fast for anything | Swift |