Great job Samantha
! That's it.
I think I drove myself crazy back then trying to figure it out. They had a lot of these riddles in those books but this is the only one I still remember.
It's not quite the same thing but I bought myself a Jumbles puzzle book (like what they have in the newspaper). When I feel like banging my head against the wall, I try to work a page in that book. One of these days I'm going to have a finished puzzle that does not have the word "cheated" written on it (from where I had to get help from the answer section).