BRIDGE CROSSINGS The easiest way to explain these thirteen puzzles is with an example: Suppose you see a puzzle with the four clues Mariachi Orchestra Sharp Coloratura If you match up "Mariachi" with "Coloratura" and "Sharp" with "Orchestra" and then look for hidden words (as in cryptic crosswords), you get MariachiColoratura and SharpOrchestra The missing member of the trio is GROUCHO. In general, the data to a puzzle will be two equal-length columns of words or phrases. If you match up the left-clues with the right-clues in the proper way, you will be able to find hidden words, each of which is composed of terminal letters of a left-clue and initial letters of the matching right-clue. These hidden words will in some sense form a set from which something is missing. Even when there is more than one answer ("What about Gummo and Zeppo?"), there should be a clear best answer. In the above example, Chico and Harpo were two members of a natural threesome. But there are many ways in which there can be "one thing missing". The hidden words, when properly arranged, could form an excerpt from a sequence in which an intervening term has been omitted. The hidden words could consist of pairs together with one unpaired item that admits a natural mate (based on the pattern governing the pairs that are present). The hidden words may point to some single word, as "fast," "health," junk," and "soul" all point towards "food". And so on. The clues themselves may appear to obey some superficial logic; for instance, all the clues in the example above pertained to music. Such patterns are merely decorative, and designed to distract and amuse. Capitalization and punctuation of clues are to be ignored. As you solve the twelve puzzles, enter the solutions in the spaces below: 1 ____________ ____________ 2 3 ____________ ____________ 4 5 ____________ ____________ 6 7 ____________ ____________ 8 9 ____________ ____________ 10 11 ____________ ____________ 12 When you have found all twelve answers, you will see before you the thirteenth and final puzzle.