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 |
