Puritan Test
by Marc Spraragen
ANSWER: BOSOM
As clued by the flavor text "foremost to follow that which is entirely Puritan in character", each answer contains a single word made of only letters from "Puritan" from which the first letter of the next word is to be extracted. This spells the cryptic clue BOOMS OUT, "HESTER WORE A THERE" which gives the answer BOSOM.
- What be the correct show of devotion to the LORD?
- Hands folded at bowed head
- Rapt, oiled torso writhing
- Whispering in obscure profanities
- Which maketh the finest hair shirt?
- Stinging ant mesh
- Squash and turnip strands
- Two pair otter pelts
- Filleth the blank: "Goody Wright ____ to the Devil!"
- Art unnaturally akin
- Ain't too averse
- Doth turn her soul over
- What doth this picture suggest?
- An earthly delight
- Thanksgiving feast nap swoon
- Pain, tragedy, and giant birds
- Jabots - how poofy is TOO poofy?
- Two pleats should be apt enough
- Hills of frills! Lakes of lace! With floral print rims!
- Fanciful neckwear means ruin, whatever the style
- Be thou sinful?
- Part of me is naughty
- Is this query or trap, rather?
- Regularly as rain each April
- Thy neighbor's child is possessed. How should he be exorcised?
- Tar and feathers
- Bible raised high, rant thunderingly of the LORD's power
- Nutria hair on the abdomen - marvelous against ye olde spin-and-spew
- Hast thou ever "Smacked the flapjack?"
- My motto: do it every day for good health
- No, the spattered paint really makes a mess (I'm told)
- 'Tis difficult to train each waterfowl (I'm told)