Answers to Bellamy's 500 charades.

Word Ways | February 1, 2006| | Copyright

For those fortunate enough to own one or more of the Bellamy books, here are the solutions to his puzzles. The answers to A Century of Charades are contained in Harland Ballard's Open Sesame, and the answers to A Second Century of Charades are contained in Re-Open Sesame. I am indebted to Will Shortz for supplying the answers to More Charades.

A charade is created by partitioning a word into a set of shorter words. The divisions between the shorter words need not match the divisions between the syllables, and in fact more interesting charades result if they do not: ...

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