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Title: The cross word puzzle book: Second series

Editor: Prosper Buranelli

Margaret Petherbridge Farrar

F. Gregory Hartswick

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Original Front Cover.

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THE CROSS WORD
PUZZLE BOOK

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Original Title Page.

THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK
Second Series
A Second Anthology of Fifty New Cross Word Puzzles Selected as the Best of the Thousands Submitted to the New York World Published Here Exclusively for the First Time, and Edited
By
PROSPER BURANELLI
F. GREGORY HARTSWICK
MARGARET PETHERBRIDGE
Preface by
WILLIAM A. STERN II
CROSS WORD PUZZLE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD
SIMON AND SCHUSTER, INC.
THE PLAZA PUBLISHING COMPANY
New York :: 1924

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If you wish a copy of The Book of the Correct Answers for The Cross Word Puzzle Book—Second Series, sent with our compliments, use the enclosed postal.

Should you lose the postal, ten cents in stamps, sent to The Plaza Publishing Company, 37 West 57th Street, New York City, will bring a copy of the answers by return mail.

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Copyright, 1924, by
SIMON AND SCHUSTER, INC.
THE PLAZA PUBLISHING COMPANY
37 West 57th Street
New York, N. Y.

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FOREWORD BY THE PUBLISHERS

One Cross Word Puzzle Book leads to another.

Now that the second volume, containing a new series of fifty more Cross Word Puzzles, is available, it seems fitting to take the reader behind the scenes and give him a short history of this cross word business.

The first Cross Word Puzzle Book was published on April 10th, 1924. In New York it sprang into immediate popularity, becoming there a best seller within a fortnight. A small but ardent group of cross word puzzle devotees gave the fad a running start. Among these pioneers may be mentioned F. P. A., Montague Glass, Neysa McMein, Emily Price Post, Baird Leonard, Ruth Hale, Gelett Burgess, Robert C. Benchley, Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Kathleen and Charles G. Norris, Mary Roberts Rinehart, and Carolyn Wells.

Cross word puzzling became the thing to do, the raging topic of conversation, supplanting Coué, Mah Jong, and Bananas (first a slogan—now a fact!). With this impetus, the pastime’s popularity radiated to other cities, and within a month the Cross Word Puzzle Book was ranked No. 4 on the national list of non-fiction best sellers. Three weeks later it advanced to third place, and the following month jumped into the lead, where it appears to remain indefinitely.

First a fad, then a best seller, the Cross Word Puzzle Book became an American institution, immortalized in cartoons by Briggs, prose-epics by Bob Benchley, and ballads by F. P. A. [2]

Ordinary books are meant to be read. Here is a book in which one writes—more than that, a book in which one has the supreme satisfaction of unravelling a real mystery, tracking down clue after clue. This, no doubt, is the secret of the irresistible fascination of Cross Word Puzzling. Every one enjoys being an amateur Sherlock Holmes—and the tantalizing black-and-white word patterns provide an ideal battle-ground for one’s detective instincts.

This deep-rooted appeal explains the extraordinary popularity of the book. When we announced in one of our early advertisements that “people do not want this book—they crave it!” we had actual proof to support this statement—frenzied fans storming the publishers’ office to get extra copies in order “to keep peace in the house.”

Six weeks after the publication of the first Cross Word Puzzle Book—May 18th, to be precise—the Cross Word Puzzle Association of America was formed at a convention at the Hotel Ambassador, New York. At this congress the rules and regulations of Cross Word Puzzling were formulated. A contest for the cross word puzzle championship of the world was held, and William A. Stern II won first honors, solving a standard eleven-square formation in 10 minutes, 10 and two-fifths seconds. Mr. Stern has written a preface for this book, explaining the delights of cross word puzzling, for both novice and veteran.

Thus, in the words of Neal O’Hara, America began to gasp for words. The Cross Word Puzzle became the Great Escape from Boredom—the most powerful enemy of ennui.…

Not only entertainment and thrills, but sound instruction [3]reward the true Cross Word Puzzler. Here is the most delightful and the most effective way of building up one’s vocabulary and enriching one’s general fund of information. Dictionaries and synonym books joined the best seller list, right behind The Cross Word Puzzle Book itself, for every one, to obtain the maximum benefit and fun, must have a dictionary or a word book handy.

The pencil and eraser provided with The Cross Word Puzzle Book proved to be a most popular feature. Post cards for applying for the correct answers to the puzzles also pleased the followers of the pastime. This equipment, therefore, is retained in the Second Series. The suggestion has been made that future editions of the book be equipped with shock-absorbers and four-wheel brakes.

Thousands of puzzle enthusiasts have indicated their eagerness for this second series of cross words. This book, like the first volume, is edited and compiled by the Cross Word Puzzle Editors of the New York World, the undisputed leaders of the gentle art. Every effort has been made to safeguard the technical perfection of the puzzles. This time they are arranged in the order of their difficulty, beginning with fairly easy ones, and ranging to the most intricate formations, calculated to baffle Houdini himself. Beauty of design, accuracy of definition, complete interlock, and the minimum number of unkeyed letters—these elements have all been considered in selecting the puzzles. We are confident that they will prove as absorbing, as entertaining,—yes, as exciting,—as the first fifty.

The Publishers. [5]

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PREFACE

By William A. Stern, 2nd Cross Word Puzzle Champion of the World

Two years ago I saw a friend of mine earnestly studying a checkered diagram in the magazine section of a Sunday newspaper. Curiosity impelled me to ask him whether he had taken up cross-stitching, because the pattern he so zealously pored over resembled closely that of an old-fashioned sampler. When he explained that he was attempting to solve a puzzle I laughed, because in my ignorance I believed that puzzles were childish time-wasters. I snorted my disdain at this sort of balderdash and, angered, he challenged me to try my hand at it.

I confidently predicted that I would easily solve the foolish enigma and after he had explained the manner of solution I set to work. A few minutes later I started asking questions. What was one supposed to do? My friend explained a second time and I was all at sea. Finally I understood what to do, but was shaky on how to do it. I finished that puzzle the next day. I gave little thought to food and rest; in the end I triumphed.

Since that time I have solved many cross word puzzles but on none have I consumed as much time as on that first heart-breaker. I used to blame my slowness on the fact that the method was never properly explained, but I now believe that my friend who gave me my first cross word baptism was an adequate instructor. The chief difficulty which the uninitiate [6]meets lies in the struggle to concentrate on the explanation. In their simplest terms here are the rules and technique of cross word puzzling:

The primary object of the game is to fill up the blank spaces in a cross word design with letters which spell out words. The solver guesses the words from their definitions. By looking at a pattern we can tell how many letters are in a word to be guessed. Suppose, for example, you were asked for a six letter word meaning unsteady. You would go through all the synonyms for unsteady that you could recall. You would discard unstable, shaky, tipsy, tottering and rocky because none of these words has the proper number of letters. You would accept groggy or fickle. Now apply this system to the solution of a puzzle.

The definitions of the words are shown in two divisions: one division is captioned Horizontal, the other Vertical. Before each definition is a number which indicates that the word defined has its first letter in the square of the same number on the pattern. For example, in the puzzle on the jacket of this book (which is Number 1 in the book itself), we see under Horizontal, “1. stout.” This means that the word is read horizontally and starts in the space numbered “1” on the pattern. The answer is “plump.”

A word always runs from its first letter to a black square or to the end of the diagram. Having the word “plump” written in, we now have hints of a certain letter in each of four other words, because each of the letters in this word, except the letter “L,” is used to form a word which is read downwards. Under the heading Vertical may be found the definitions of the words which read downwards. So we see that the letters in plump are used in the words prove, up, map, and plant. The letter “L” is called in cross word parlance [7]an unkeyed letter because it does not give the solver a key to another word. Well constructed puzzles have few unkeyed letters. You will notice also that all the words in the puzzle are joined together or interlocked so that after guessing the first word the solver may decode the entire puzzle without once being minus a hint of some sort.

I do not mean to infer that these puzzles must be so constructed that the solver has a simple task. An object of crosswording is to puzzle, but fairness to a hard working puzzler dictates certain laws for the designer to follow. The first of these laws is the all-over interlock. The second is that in obsolete, rare, and unfamiliar words no letter should be unkeyed.

And now a few words as to technique. Of course I prefer my own method to any other, but I do not claim for it greater merit than the systems I will tell you about. When I get a puzzle to solve, my first move is to read all the definitions. Among these I am sure to find some familiar and overworked words which I can set into place and be off to a flying start. Certain simple three letter words such as bog, fen, pen, boa, emu, and roc, and other words in which vowels pre-dominate such as opera and arena are used in hundreds of puzzles. I get these out of the way in short order. My next move is to start working on that part of the puzzle where I have filled in the largest number of words, because it is there that I have the greatest number of hints. If I strike a snag I immediately take up my work in some other place. And so I work my way around to completion.

Some people obtain excellent results by another method. They first do all the horizontal words which quickly come to [8]mind. And then all the vertical. Thus they get an excellent start from which to work. Some solvers use the system of building up from the first word which they can guess.

Just a few words of warning:

First—Beware of putting in certain words whose definitions do not accurately define. Parts of the verb “to be,” personal pronouns, exclamations, notes of the scale, prefixes, suffixes and prepositions should not be filled in unless an interlocking word gives you a hint as to what they are. They are so numerous that without a hint it is futile to attempt to guess them.

Second—Beware of homonyms. A homonym is two words which have the same sound, but have different meanings. The best illustration of a homonym appeared in F. P. A.’s column, the Conning Tower, a few years ago. According to my feeble memory the sentence ran, “If I should say that you are prone to carp, I would not mean that you are lying face downward to a deep sea fish.” How often does the solver struggle over such a definition as “light,” believing all the while that he must find a word meaning an illuminant, when the correct word is “airy”!

Third—Beware of sloppy printing and careless erasing. When you write in a word, letter neatly. Do not make a P look like an R. And when you find it necessary to erase be sure to obliterate every letter. Dangling characters which rubber crumbs have failed to pick up have cost so many wasted hours that experts in efficiency have taken up the matter in executive session.

Whatever method you employ or whatever mistakes you make, you will reap pleasure and profit for your time. You [9]will increase your vocabulary, give yourself mental discipline, and, above all, you’ll have fun.

I want to thank the Plaza Publishing Company, whose real name is Simon and Schuster, for its work in getting out these Cross Word Puzzle Books. Most of the puzzles are of the first rank and the variety of design is amazing. In fact I feel so kindly toward the publishers that I do not upbraid them for the time they made me lose by a few errata in the first edition, which they promptly corrected in the later editions. I can heartily congratulate any owner of this Cross Word Puzzle Book and all the Cross Word Puzzle Books to follow on the days of real pleasure that lie before him.

William A. Stern, 2nd.

New York City, June, 1924. [10]

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HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS WORD PUZZLE

EXAMPLE

1 2 3 4 5
6
7 8 9
10 11
12 13 14
15 16
17

Fig. 1

DEFINITIONS

Horizontal

  • 1 Disparage
  • 6 Cereal grass
  • 7 Abbr. Vice Admiral
  • 9 An edge-tool
  • 10 Urge
  • 11 Skill
  • 12 Behold
  • 14 Prefix: good
  • 15 Impair
  • 17 Agreement

Vertical

  • 1 Evolve
  • 2 Toward
  • 3 A rodent
  • 4 Near
  • 5 A web
  • 8 Gone by
  • 9 A land measure
  • 13 A male sheep
  • 15 Indeed
  • 16 Disordered type

There are two essential points that must be remembered by initiates into the cross word puzzlers’ fraternity. First, the numbers in the squares refer to the definitions; secondly, there should be but one letter to each white square.

Figure 1 shows a cross word puzzle challenging each and every one of us to solve it. Looking the puzzle over we find that 1 horizontal calls for a seven letter word meaning “disparage.” That is not so easy, so we leave it temporarily. We go on to the next one, which is a three letter word meaning “a cereal grass.” What else could it be but OAT? Therefore we ink in OAT in the proper squares. “Vice Admiral.” That most assuredly must be VA. We place that into position. The ninth, tenth and eleventh do not come to our minds immediately, so we pass them up. We will catch them on the cross check. Twelve is familiar, however, and with a little thought we place LO in the vacant squares. The rest do not come to us, so we leave them also, and turn to the verticals. [11]

1 2 3 4 5
6 O A T
7 V 8 A 9
10 11
12 L O 13 14
15 16
17

Fig. 2

Looking over the diagram (See Figure 2) we find that one vertical calls for a seven letter word whose third and fifth letters are V and L respectively and which is defined as “evolve.” The V and the L give us the clue. The word is DEVELOP. We place it in the diagram. Two, three and four are easy, for we have three clues to work on and we find the proper words without much difficulty. The next one is beyond us, so we go on to the one numbered 8. We find that a three letter word—starting with A—meaning “gone by,” is needed. The clues of A and O enable us to get that without much trouble, and we place AGO in the square. We pass by nine, but thirteen is easy. “A male sheep?” Why, of course, the word is RAM.

1 D 2 T 3 R 4 A 5
E 6 O A T
7 V 8 A T 9
10 E G 11
12 L O 13 R 14
O 15 A 16
17 P M

Fig. 3

From now on the going is easy. We have plenty of clues to the words that we do not know. (See Figure 3.) Rechecking the horizontals, we find that we have the first, third, fourth and fifth letters of “disparage,” and with their aid we easily see that the word is DETRACT. Looking for a two letter word meaning “an edge-tool,” we soon find that there is but one word that will fit. We place AX in position. With nine vertical beginning with an A it is easy to find that ARE is the proper word. Ten horizontal [12]proves to be EGG and eleven becomes ART. We say to ourselves that if we could only get five vertical we would have the puzzle solved. Well, why not? Is the second letter an a, e, i, o, or u? The definition gives it as “a web.” What word will fit but TEXTURE? We place that into position. Now, we find that we have the puzzle almost completed. Fifteen horizontal needs a three letter word meaning “impair.” Its middle letter must be an A. With the A to guide us that is simple. The word is “SAP.” Fifteen and sixteen being two letter words are easily found, and we place SO and PI into position. We now find that we have the puzzle completed with one exception. Seventeen horizontal has to be found. Its first, third, fourth, fifth and seventh letters are P OMI E. A consonant is needed for the second letter, and R seems to be the most logical choice. That gives us the word, which is defined as “agreement.” (See Figure 4.)

1 D E 2 T 3 R 4 A C 5 T
E 6 O A T E
7 V 8 A T 9 A X
10 E G G 11 A R T
12 L O 13 R 14 E U
O 15 S A 16 P R
17 P R O M I S E

Fig. 4

We settle back into our chair with a sigh of content at the thought of a job well done. But that is not the finish. Rather it is but the start. Now that we have tasted the pleasures of cross word puzzling, we are loath to give our time to anything else. What other amusement offers the pleasure, instruction and satisfaction that is to be found in Cross Word Puzzles? There is but one answer to that question, and—foregoing the movies—we settle down to the elusive task of tracking words to their lairs. [13]

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DO’S AND DON’T’S FOR SOLVERS

Don’t get scared if you can’t guess the first horizontal word. Go through the list till you find a definition that you’re sure of. That is the simplest method of beginning the solution. When you have written in all the words you are sure of, you will have plenty of clues for the unknowns.

Don’t spent too much time with the long words unless you are sure of them. They will appear when the short ones have been solved. Of course, not all the short ones are easy, but they are generally more readily attended to than the long ones. Also, there are more of them, increasing the chances of finding familiar faces among the definitions.

If you think a word is right, pencil it in lightly till you are sure. This saves erosion of paper and temper. But never hesitate to try a word that may be right. The trial and error method holds in puzzling as it does in life.

Remember that the horizontals furnish a sure check on the verticals, and vice versa.

If you are hopelessly stuck, try another puzzle. Inspiration sometimes waits for a return engagement.

A pleasant feeling of something attempted, something done, accompanies the solution of a cross word puzzle. It’s good for the inferiority complex. [15]

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Puzzle No. 51

MADE IN A RATHSKELLER

A Duet

Two of the editors went out to lunch one hot day, with this result. By the way, this pattern is the same on which the puzzle for the World’s Championship was made up. Can you do it in ten minutes, ten and two-fifths seconds? That was the time it took William A. Stern II to win the championship.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10
11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22
23 24
25 26 27 28
29 30 31 32
33 34 35 36
37 38
39 40

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Stout
  • 5 Rapid
  • 9 Roofs of mouths
  • 11 Belonging to
  • 13 Called
  • 14 Adverb (degree)
  • 15 Vessel
  • 17 Presently
  • 18 Perform
  • 19 Happening
  • 21 Weapon
  • 23 Unclose
  • 24 Also
  • 25 Sorrow
  • 27 Parts of speech
  • 29 Conducted
  • 30 Japanese sash
  • 32 Provide outlet for
  • 33 Alleged force
  • 34 Obliterate
  • 36 Preposition
  • 37 Small herring
  • 39 Cut out
  • 40 Smells strong

VERTICAL

  • 1 Demonstrate
  • 2 Above
  • 3 Plan
  • 4 Sow
  • 5 Cooks
  • 6 United
  • 7 Exists
  • 8 Sense
  • 10 Past
  • 12 Was partial to
  • 14 Circus performer
  • 16 Lukewarm
  • 18 To check in development
  • 20 Born
  • 22 Corroded
  • 25 Article of clothing
  • 26 Natural phenomenon
  • 27 Guard
  • 28 Stains
  • 31 Interjection of disgust
  • 34 Conclude
  • 35 End of day
  • 37 Three-toed sloth
  • 38 You

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Puzzle No. 52

A TRIAL BOUT

By Joseph A. Margolies

When four eleven-letter words meet each other at right angles, something is bound to happen. This only goes to show that Mr. Margolies of Brentano’s is one of our most confirmed addicts.

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9 10
11 12 13
14 15 16
17 18
19
20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28
29 30
31 32 33 34
35 36

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Groundwork
  • 5 Exhausted
  • 9 High explosive
  • 10 Small seed
  • 11 Tropical chestnut
  • 12 First son
  • 14 Exercisings of authority
  • 17 A prophetic sign
  • 18 Russian carnival
  • 19 Melodies
  • 20 Opposed to
  • 23 Twirl
  • 26 Refactory
  • 29 Narrow street
  • 30 Expression of hearty assent
  • 32 Moved swiftly
  • 33 A common toy
  • 35 A passageway in a theater
  • 36 Brief treatise

VERTICAL

  • 1 Exist
  • 2 A stick
  • 3 Designed
  • 4 Chief actor in a play
  • 5 A humanitarian society (abbr.)
  • 6 ppp. (pl.)
  • 7 Narrative poems
  • 8 Preposition
  • 11 A Gypsy
  • 13 Point
  • 14 Become insane (two words)
  • 15 Present time
  • 16 Holy person
  • 21 Nothing
  • 22 Extinct rulers
  • 24 Looks furtively
  • 25 Small hotel
  • 26 New Testament (abbr.)
  • 27 A prayer
  • 28 Fruit of certain palm trees
  • 31 Exclamation
  • 34 Near

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Puzzle No. 53

AS YOU LIKE IT

By Mrs. J. Meissner

All the words in this pattern should be in your every-day vocabulary. For instance, the first word means a lot to golfers, and there are several that will please the housewives.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31
32 33 34 35
36 37 38 39 40
41 42
43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
51 52 53 54
55 56 57 58
59 60 61 62 63 64
65 66 67 68 69
70 71 72 73 74
75 76 77

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Cavity
  • 5 Morning prayer
  • 9 Down with
  • 13 Form of “to be”
  • 14 Condiment made from bean
  • 15 A number
  • 17 Short song
  • 18 A seed vessel
  • 21 To sift
  • 23 Sooner than
  • 24 A purpose
  • 26 Point
  • 27 Chronicles
  • 29 Mexican cat
  • 32 Terminate
  • 33 Affinity
  • 34 To be drowsy
  • 36 By
  • 37 Doctrines
  • 38 Baubles
  • 40 Parent
  • 41 Spanish for “the”
  • 42 Id est
  • 43 Towards
  • 45 Part of the eye
  • 48 Petition
  • 50 Indef. article
  • 51 Haunch
  • 53 Greetings
  • 54 Skill
  • 55 Splendor
  • 57 Kind of type
  • 60 A poet
  • 61 Armed conflict
  • 63 Aeriform fluid
  • 65 Tilted
  • 68 A tree
  • 70 To lengthen
  • 71 Witty saying
  • 73 Male adult
  • 74 Before time
  • 75 Measure
  • 76 The whole
  • 77 Inquiries

VERTICAL

  • 1 Hearty
  • 2 Mineral
  • 3 Motto
  • 5 Man’s name
  • 6 Yes
  • 7 That thing
  • 8 Modern
  • 10 Candy
  • 11 Commotion
  • 12 Unites with thread
  • 14 Daubs
  • 16 Four score and ten
  • 19 Vessel for ashes
  • 20 Jumbled type
  • 22 Nothing
  • 24 Vipers
  • 25 Open for debate
  • 27 Insect
  • 28 Composed of thin plates
  • 30 Game
  • 31 Child’s plaything
  • 32 Ground
  • 35 Make afraid
  • 37 Ailing
  • 39 Perch
  • 44 Lubricant
  • 46 Respect
  • 47 Killed
  • 48 Rouse
  • 49 Figure with equal angles
  • 50 Part of circle
  • 52 Doll
  • 54 Passages
  • 56 Soak
  • 58 Lick up
  • 59 Forepart of vessel
  • 62 Since
  • 64 Metal bearing rocks
  • 66 Short for Isaac
  • 67 Small speck
  • 68 Comrade
  • 69 Noah’s vessel
  • 71 Towards
  • 72 Preposition
  • 73 Mother

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Puzzle No. 54

TINY TIM

By W. S. Boyd

Sixteen black squares to one hundred and fifteen white is a pretty fine average. A too black pattern means the constructor was a bit lazy. This is small, but the words are not ordinary by any means.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10
11 12 13 14
15 16 17
18 19 20
21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
32 33 34
35 36
37

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Stocks and bonds
  • 9 Hail
  • 10 Anger
  • 11 More exact
  • 13 Paris subway
  • 15 Roulade
  • 16 Builder
  • 18 Harmonize
  • 20 Discretion
  • 21 Expletive
  • 23 Hits lightly
  • 26 Famous Irish chalice of 10th century
  • 29 Stir
  • 31 Snake
  • 32 Make fast
  • 33 Shellfish
  • 35 Period
  • 36 Members of hill tribe, British India
  • 37 Baked clay

VERTICAL

  • 1 Refractory
  • 2 Boast
  • 3 First lady
  • 4 Tranquil
  • 5 Act
  • 6 Built
  • 7 Girl’s name
  • 8 To gyp
  • 12 Beaten track
  • 14 Bird of fable
  • 17 Reposed again
  • 19 Arrogant person
  • 22 Surgeon’s cylindrical saw
  • 24 Years
  • 25 One who heaps
  • 27 Town of Gold Coast
  • 28 Gull (Scotch)
  • 30 Nurse
  • 34 Quarrel

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Puzzle No. 55

A SPOTTED SPECTER

By J. T. Rich

In spite of an abbreviation here and there, this puzzle is one which is high in its rating. There aren’t so many difficult words in it; but the few that do exist will keep you searching, or we miss our guess.

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12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29
30 31 32 33 34 35
36 37 38 39 40 41
42 43 44
45 46 47
48 49 50 51 52
53 54 55 56 57 58 59
60 61 62 63 64 65
66 67 68
69 70 71 72 73 74
75 76 77 78 79 80 81
82 83 84
85 86

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Consumptive
  • 7 Part of a whole
  • 12 Wings
  • 13 Carrion
  • 14 Member of Japanese race
  • 15 A fragmentary thing
  • 17 Disciple
  • 20 Eastern state
  • 21 Flying insect
  • 23 Small bottle
  • 24 Note of the scale
  • 25 Three-toed sloth
  • 27 Anchor
  • 28 For example
  • 30 Nobleman
  • 32 Girl’s name
  • 33 Body of water
  • 34 Matron
  • 36 Noble
  • 38 Before
  • 40 Small mug
  • 42 Girdle
  • 44 To catch sight of
  • 45 Unite
  • 46 One holding extreme opinions
  • 47 Epoch
  • 48 Part of a hammer
  • 50 Coarse
  • 53 Snugly
  • 55 Mineral spring
  • 57 Required
  • 60 Soon
  • 61 And so forth
  • 63 Human being
  • 65 Anxiety
  • 66 Exist
  • 67 Treat as a celebrity
  • 68 Southern state
  • 69 Like
  • 71 Small aperture
  • 72 Mild expletive
  • 74 Post graduate (abbr.)
  • 75 Short poems
  • 79 Character in “Arabian Nights”
  • 82 Booty
  • 83 Bird
  • 84 Inland body of water
  • 85 Ensnare
  • 86 Compartment

VERTICAL

  • 1 Pilgrimage to Mecca
  • 2 Old age
  • 3 Part of machinery
  • 4 To be prolific
  • 5 Fibrous substance
  • 6 Astern
  • 7 Heroine of famous poem
  • 8 Prison
  • 9 Belonging to him
  • 10 Explosive
  • 11 Part of boat
  • 15 Attack
  • 16 Wanderers
  • 18 Heathens
  • 19 Consumed
  • 22 Whetstone
  • 23 Official endorsement
  • 25 Dexterity
  • 26 Evils
  • 28 Sharp
  • 29 Joke
  • 31 Accessory of a plane
  • 35 Mixer
  • 37 A stand
  • 39 To fee again
  • 41 To suppose
  • 43 Barbarian
  • 44 Organ of the body
  • 48 To languish
  • 49 Small hole
  • 51 To heat to fix colors
  • 52 To retch
  • 53 Flat basket
  • 54 Sough
  • 55 Scotchman
  • 56 In the midst of
  • 58 The time of light
  • 59 To vouchsafe
  • 62 Metallic material
  • 64 The angel of death
  • 70 Single
  • 71 Interdiction
  • 73 Magnesium silicate
  • 74 Breakwater
  • 76 Not (prefix)
  • 77 Negative particle
  • 78 Past
  • 80 Transport by relays of men and horses
  • 81 College fraternity

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Puzzle No. 56

LITTLE BUT NEAT

By Isidore Edelstein

A pretty construction by an old-timer at the game. And don’t run away with the idea that its size has anything to do with ease of solution! Tackle it, and you’ll get what we mean.

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54 55 56 57 58 59 60
61 62 63 64 65 66
67 68 69 70 71
72 73 74
75 76 77

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Carouse
  • 5 Question
  • 7 Burdened
  • 11 Part of “to be”
  • 12 Beverage
  • 13 Possessive pronoun
  • 14 Perform
  • 15 Guide
  • 17 Total
  • 19 Fossil gum
  • 21 Wrath
  • 22 Atrocious
  • 25 Insect
  • 26 Vision
  • 28 Gloomy
  • 30 Period of time
  • 31 Come to fruition
  • 33 Encountered
  • 35 Requires
  • 37 Fool
  • 38 Attack
  • 40 Part of “to be”
  • 41 Precipitation
  • 42 Weed
  • 43 Negative
  • 44 Struck an attitude
  • 46 Speak
  • 48 Town in Germany
  • 50 Matter
  • 53 High explosive
  • 55 Having islands
  • 58 Color again
  • 61 Rodent
  • 63 Seaport in Sicily
  • 65 Period of time
  • 67 Watchful
  • 69 Mohammed’s adopted son
  • 70 Subnormal person
  • 72 Thus
  • 73 Absorbing of gases
  • 74 Preposition
  • 75 Support
  • 76 Observe
  • 77 At no time

VERTICAL

  • 1 Swift
  • 2 Prince
  • 3 Self
  • 4 Graceful
  • 6 Rotated rapidly
  • 7 Legal document
  • 8 Weapon
  • 9 Paradise
  • 10 Point of compass
  • 16 Projection
  • 17 Anthropoids
  • 18 Shyness
  • 20 Exposes
  • 23 Organ
  • 24 Vase
  • 27 Reparation
  • 29 Governmental act of pardon
  • 30 Fabulist of note
  • 32 Postscript
  • 34 Belief
  • 35 Bite
  • 36 Mournful
  • 38 Metallic rock
  • 39 Unit of weight
  • 45 Connected rooms
  • 47 Conjunction
  • 49 Grimace
  • 51 State of U. S. (abbr.)
  • 52 House animal
  • 54 Clutch
  • 56 Fasten
  • 57 Clock faces
  • 58 Elevate
  • 59 Legendary character
  • 60 House and land
  • 62 Genus of plants
  • 64 Thread
  • 66 Repetition as a means of learning
  • 68 Huge mythical bird
  • 71 Single

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Puzzle No. 57

SEVEN GREEK CROSSES

By John B. Sirich, Jr.

We counted the half-crosses to make up Mr. Sirich’s grand total. Please note: no unkeyed letters, no abbreviations or contractions, and comparatively few two- and three-letter words. Also double interlock throughout. Io triumphe!

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9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16
17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28
29 30
31 32 33 34
35 36 37 38 39
40 41 42
43 44 45 46 47
48 49 50 51
52 53

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Domestic animal (female)
  • 5 Interlaced
  • 9 Spanish dance
  • 11 Charge with gas
  • 13 Devoured
  • 14 Bitter
  • 16 Monastic female
  • 17 Exclamation
  • 18 Pile loosely
  • 19 Perform
  • 20 Civil War general
  • 22 Long hair of lions (pl.)
  • 24 Stitch
  • 25 Ran rapidly
  • 27 Foundation
  • 29 Procured
  • 30 Member
  • 31 Gave formally
  • 33 Begins
  • 35 Vehicle
  • 36 Dried fruit (bot.)
  • 38 Term of address
  • 40 Article
  • 41 Large snake
  • 42 Note of musical scale
  • 43 Contest
  • 45 Impost
  • 47 Rear
  • 48 Become planted deeply
  • 50 Celestials
  • 52 Facile
  • 53 Portion

VERTICAL

  • 1 Nurturer
  • 2 Beverage
  • 3 Regarding
  • 4 Age
  • 5 Interlacement
  • 6 Conjunction
  • 7 Large vehicle
  • 8 Studies
  • 9 Syrian god
  • 10 Group of eight
  • 11 Oriental measure
  • 12 Sufficient (poet)
  • 15 End of day (poet)
  • 21 Avid
  • 22 Unit of measure
  • 23 An ascidian
  • 24 Indications
  • 26 Fish
  • 28 Perceive
  • 31 Dog
  • 32 Charge
  • 33 City in Nebraska
  • 34 Sibilant rale
  • 35 Hollow
  • 37 Procured
  • 39 Rodents
  • 44 Age
  • 45 Plaything
  • 46 Finish
  • 47 Bronze
  • 49 Bone
  • 51 Proceed

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Puzzle No. 58

BOOLA BOOLA

By Hassler Whitney

Considering how often the convenient “eli” finds its way into Cross Words, it is quite right to include this puzzle from New Haven. It is undoubtedly meant for freshmen, for despite a loose center and several unkeyed letters it shouldn’t be too difficult.

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20 21 22 23 24
25 26
27 28 29 30
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37 38
39 40 41
42 43 44 45 46
47 48 49
50 51 52 53 54
55 56 57 58 59
60 61 62 63 64
65 66 67

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Adore
  • 4 Suggests
  • 7 Prepare for publication
  • 10 Article
  • 11 Fish eggs
  • 13 Ovum
  • 15 Preposition
  • 16 End
  • 20 Consumed
  • 22 Snare
  • 23 Look at
  • 25 Demons
  • 26 Recent
  • 27 Serpent
  • 28 Edge
  • 29 Thigh
  • 31 Decay
  • 34 Condition
  • 37 Egg-shaped
  • 38 Periods
  • 39 Examinations
  • 41 Punitive
  • 42 Japanese fish
  • 44 Exist
  • 45 Fool
  • 47 Utensils
  • 49 Quality
  • 50 Numeral
  • 51 Female deer
  • 53 Lair
  • 55 Shorthand memoranda
  • 60 Parent
  • 62 Disturbance
  • 63 Vegetable
  • 64 Exists
  • 65 Excitement
  • 66 Wrench
  • 67 Depression

VERTICAL

  • 1 Molten rock
  • 2 Upon
  • 3 Before
  • 4 A fold in cloth
  • 5 Not any
  • 6 Outfit
  • 7 Self
  • 8 Pronoun
  • 9 Ripped
  • 12 Metallic earths
  • 14 Young person
  • 16 Enticements
  • 17 Motionless
  • 18 Small particles
  • 19 European country
  • 21 It exists (contr.)
  • 24 Affirmative
  • 27 Take
  • 30 Poles
  • 32 Beverage
  • 33 Negative
  • 35 Small mound
  • 36 Beverage
  • 40 Spanish game
  • 41 Diminish
  • 43 Imitate
  • 46 Observe
  • 48 Hurried
  • 49 Flat cord
  • 50 Ends
  • 52 Monster
  • 54 Refuge
  • 56 Sailor
  • 57 At once
  • 58 Adept
  • 59 Possessed
  • 61 Preposition
  • 64 Not out

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Puzzle No. 59

AT EASE

By John Fasel

If you are angry and want something to fight with, don’t try this one. It won’t give you much of a wrestle—that is, if you are one of those hard-boiled solvers. But if you haven’t reached the state of complete addiction, or if you merely want a fillip, Mr. Fasel’s construction will please you.

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9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21
22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30
31 32
33 34 35 36 37
38 39 40
41 42 43 44 45 46
47 48 49 50
51 52 53 54
55 56

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Large drinking bowl
  • 5 Ruin
  • 9 Geometrical figure
  • 10 Unlimited quantity
  • 12 Fine particles of stone
  • 14 Is situated
  • 15 Footprint
  • 17 Serpent of S. Amer.
  • 18 Near
  • 19 Plots of ground
  • 21 Jumbled type
  • 22 Projecting part of wheel
  • 23 Alkaline solution
  • 25 Composed of the number two
  • 27 To earn
  • 29 Whirl
  • 31 Serious
  • 32 Listlessness
  • 33 Diffuse
  • 34 Point of compass
  • 36 Frosted
  • 38 Small horse
  • 40 Penetrated
  • 41 Pronoun
  • 43 Plain
  • 46 Prefix, equal
  • 47 Jurisprudence
  • 49 Affray
  • 50 Clear from weeds
  • 51 To repeat the sound of
  • 53 Vicious
  • 54 Fondles
  • 55 Hourly
  • 56 S. A. quadruped

VERTICAL

  • 1 To adhere
  • 2 Individual
  • 3 Concerning
  • 4 Market
  • 5 Brine pit
  • 6 Roman weight
  • 7 Vehicle
  • 8 Button
  • 9 A multitude
  • 11 Mother-of-pearl
  • 13 Flower
  • 15 Covering
  • 16 A fish
  • 19 Knight errant
  • 20 Granitic rock
  • 22 Mark used in writing
  • 24 Evolve
  • 26 Exclamation of disgust
  • 27 Fix
  • 28 Mark aimed at
  • 30 Wither
  • 33 To designate
  • 35 Division of stable
  • 37 Quantities
  • 39 Boy’s name
  • 40 Beverage
  • 42 Every one
  • 44 The linden
  • 45 To be in flower
  • 46 Jot
  • 48 Pronoun
  • 50 Ejaculatory sound
  • 52 Conjunction
  • 54 Father

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Puzzle No. 60

NOT TOO HARD

By Saul Berman

This constructor built a form that gave himself a lot of two-letter words. Are two-letter words permitted in English? They are. But there are only a few of them in existence and, consequently, they are repeated often.

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39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48
49 50 51 52
53 54 55 56 57 58
59 60 61 62
63 64 65 66 67
68 69 70
71 72

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Signify
  • 5 Appointments
  • 10 Nimbus
  • 12 Mexican dollar
  • 13 Negation
  • 15 Timid
  • 18 Exclam. of surprise
  • 20 Above
  • 22 Moderates
  • 23 White
  • 25 Legendary character
  • 27 Chill
  • 28 Violent strains
  • 29 By
  • 30 Salutations
  • 32 Prescribed regimen
  • 34 Exclamation
  • 35 French article
  • 36 Passage out
  • 37 Certain quantity
  • 38 Printers’ measure
  • 39 Parent
  • 41 Deposited
  • 44 Holds a session
  • 47 Another parent
  • 49 One or any
  • 50 On the top
  • 51 Imitate
  • 52 A reëntrant angle
  • 53 Primeval deity
  • 55 Rent
  • 57 Wear away
  • 59 Musical character
  • 60 Acts involving civil action
  • 62 By word of mouth
  • 63 The man or person
  • 64 Head hunters of Luzon
  • 67 Selenium (symbol)
  • 68 Break
  • 69 Rate of exchange
  • 71 City in Utah
  • 72 Angry

VERTICAL

  • 1 Hush (exclam.)
  • 2 Master
  • 3 Man’s name
  • 4 Floor in a warehouse
  • 6 Mimics
  • 7 Cardinal number
  • 8 One sensible of the beautiful
  • 9 Consequently
  • 11 Galvanize
  • 13 Pert. to knots
  • 14 Egg shaped
  • 16 Impose
  • 17 Exploits
  • 18 Turning machine
  • 19 Flagrant crime
  • 21 Unit of measure
  • 24 Relating to
  • 26 Goddess of night
  • 28 Enclose
  • 31 Toe or finger
  • 33 Style of capital
  • 39 Repair
  • 40 Imbecile
  • 41 Lounging
  • 42 Cape on Atlantic Coast
  • 43 Distress
  • 44 Vigorous argument
  • 45 Definite article
  • 46 Woman’s club
  • 47 Greedy king (myth.)
  • 48 Anoint
  • 54 Symbol for tellurium
  • 56 Misses
  • 58 Marking an alternative
  • 60 Drink
  • 61 Asterisk
  • 65 To go about idly
  • 66 Self
  • 68 Thus
  • 70 Bone

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Puzzle No. 61

THE EASIEST WAY

By Mildred M. Sanders

Here are all your favorite three-letter words in neat array. With such practice as this one, you’ll soon get to know every three-letter word in the dictionary.

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17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31 32
33 34 35 36 37
38 39 40
41 42 43 44 45 46 47
48 49 50 51 52
53 54 55 56 57 58
59 60 61 62 63
64 65 66 67 68 69
70 71

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Intervals of time
  • 7 Ordain
  • 13 Bad, soft coal
  • 14 African animal
  • 16 Creeks
  • 17 A fish
  • 19 Wrath
  • 20 Flowed
  • 21 Behold
  • 23 Males
  • 25 To feel pain
  • 26 Pronoun
  • 27 Associate
  • 29 Projection
  • 31 Spanish epic
  • 32 Spanish particle
  • 33 Vehicle mounted on runners
  • 35 Hang down
  • 37 A tree
  • 38 Lad
  • 39 Trap
  • 40 Vessel
  • 41 Annoy
  • 43 Flambeau
  • 45 No more than
  • 48 A large fabulous bird
  • 49 To decay
  • 50 Possessive pronoun
  • 52 Hasten
  • 53 Preposition
  • 54 To undermine
  • 56 A viscous substance
  • 58 A parent
  • 59 To plan
  • 60 To interdict
  • 62 To bore into
  • 64 Indigo plant
  • 66 Fertile spot
  • 68 Bobbin
  • 70 Infatuated
  • 71 A sweetmeat

VERTICAL

  • 1 Sacred songs
  • 2 Unit of measure in printing
  • 3 To repent of
  • 4 Article
  • 5 To cheat
  • 6 Snow shoe
  • 7 To imitate
  • 8 Jumbled type
  • 9 Elliptical
  • 10 Substance resulting from the decomposition of a body by electrolysis
  • 11 New England
  • 12 African fly
  • 15 Exist
  • 18 To lease
  • 20 Free
  • 22 Highly inflammable liquid
  • 24 Negative
  • 25 To be ill
  • 26 Product of dissociation
  • 28 Small three masted vessel
  • 30 Fungus of rye
  • 31 Sure hold
  • 32 Measure
  • 34 Diminutive child
  • 36 Melody
  • 37 Dog
  • 41 Noisy quarrel
  • 42 Nonsense
  • 43 Child’s toy
  • 44 Stroke
  • 46 Odd
  • 47 Empower
  • 49 Sharp blow
  • 51 Rested
  • 54 Sailor
  • 55 Possesses
  • 57 Uncommon
  • 59 Glove
  • 60 Exclamation expressing disgust
  • 61 Nothing
  • 63 Coop
  • 65 None
  • 66 Bone
  • 67 Therefore
  • 69 For example

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Puzzle No. 62

PLAN OF CAMPAIGN

By Mordecai M. Richter

This looks like the plan of a fortress. Like a fortress of the true medieval type it has four massive corner ramparts, towers, battlements. The enemy might be tempted to pierce those thin side indentations, but remember the military strategy about the danger of getting into pockets and being trapped.

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24 25 26 27
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31 32
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44 45 46 47 48
49 50 51
52 53 54 55
56 57
58 59

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Lead
  • 6 Coronet
  • 11 Rescinds
  • 13 One who dissolves
  • 14 Kitchen implement
  • 16 Bank clerks
  • 17 Immerse
  • 18 Primary
  • 20 Card game
  • 21 Still
  • 22 Self-lovers
  • 23 Product of dissociation
  • 24 Crafty
  • 26 Record
  • 27 Anti-prohibitionist
  • 28 Veer
  • 30 Hill
  • 31 Small house
  • 32 The sun
  • 33 The woman
  • 36 Away
  • 38 Do
  • 39 City in Italy
  • 42 Sprite
  • 44 Prefix, three
  • 45 Lamentations
  • 47 High (music)
  • 49 Corroded
  • 50 Estate of a nobleman
  • 51 Mound
  • 52 Stays
  • 54 Furnace for melting ore
  • 56 Get away
  • 57 Precipitates frozen rain
  • 58 Paces
  • 59 Tight

VERTICAL

  • 1 Showy
  • 2 Looses
  • 3 Awkwardly
  • 4 Press for payment
  • 5 Heroine of series of stories
  • 6 Relates
  • 7 Badly
  • 8 Workshop
  • 9 Plant again
  • 10 Flagrant crime
  • 12 Scorch
  • 13 Fleshy
  • 15 Wild beasts
  • 16 Hebrew month
  • 19 Small bird
  • 25 Sailing vessel
  • 27 General commanding at the battle of Quebec
  • 29 Sorrow
  • 30 Also
  • 33 Knowledge of truths
  • 34 Dreads
  • 35 Ties
  • 37 Level
  • 38 Painter
  • 39 Brilliant reflection
  • 40 Nothing
  • 41 Minute particles
  • 43 Groups of vessels
  • 44 Legends
  • 45 Looks secretly
  • 46 Noticed by means of a sense
  • 48 Brief
  • 53 Opening
  • 55 Sheltered

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Puzzle No. 63

GOOD AS GOLD

By B. Eisner and A. B. Leavitt

All these words, from Cosmetic to Indian Tent, from Fish to Tinge, are good Rotarians. Mr. Babbitt knows and uses them all. Do you? If not, why not?

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20
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31 32 33 34 35 36
37 38 39
40 41 42 43 44
45 46 47 48
49 50 51 52 53 54
55
56 57 58 59 60 61 62
63 64 65
66 67 68

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Cosmetic
  • 5 Instrument for writing
  • 8 Blaze
  • 12 Propeller
  • 13 Wind-flower
  • 14 Girl’s hat
  • 15 Exhaust
  • 17 Sink
  • 18 Many days
  • 20 Shell-fish
  • 21 Cut
  • 24 Artful
  • 25 Delight
  • 28 Rawhide
  • 30 Water fowl
  • 31 Exclamation
  • 33 Clamor
  • 35 Household utensils
  • 36 Either
  • 37 Consecrate
  • 38 People who talk foolishly
  • 39 Glass vessel
  • 40 After Christ
  • 41 Pert. to air
  • 42 Tumult
  • 44 Toward
  • 45 Nimble
  • 47 Forehead
  • 49 Dens
  • 51 Possesses
  • 53 Ringlet
  • 55 Mixture of herbs
  • 56 Stop
  • 59 Furnish with side supports
  • 60 Annoyed
  • 63 Organ of hearing
  • 64 Result
  • 65 One
  • 66 Manage
  • 67 Stationary
  • 68 Indian tent

VERTICAL

  • 1 Fish
  • 2 Scarcer
  • 3 Epoch
  • 4 Human being
  • 5 Equals
  • 6 Perfume
  • 7 Stylish
  • 8 Small in number
  • 9 Consumed
  • 10 One who creates
  • 11 Watering place
  • 16 Internal
  • 19 Spirit actuating manners and customs
  • 21 Overcome
  • 22 Aloft
  • 23 People who run away secretly
  • 25 Companion
  • 26 By, near
  • 27 Soft tissues
  • 29 Loiter
  • 30 Native American race
  • 32 Bricklayers’ box for mortar
  • 34 To shoot forth
  • 35 By
  • 36 Cereal
  • 41 Part of dress
  • 43 Trunk
  • 45 Note of scale
  • 46 Hate
  • 48 Ourselves
  • 50 Sweet flower extract
  • 51 Stags
  • 52 Wooden shoe
  • 54 Place
  • 56 Fixed
  • 57 Part of “to be”
  • 58 Period
  • 60 Wager
  • 61 Knock
  • 62 Tinge

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Puzzle No. 64

LULLABY

By Hugh P. Evans

Just a song at evening. This one should be a mere pleasant moment. If you love ease, here it is. However, “easy to solve and hard to construct,” is the way the song sometimes should go. It is hard to keep inside a small dictionary.

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26 27 28 29
30 31 32 33
34 35 36 37 38
39
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45 46 47 48
49 50 51 52 53 54
55 56 57 58
59 60 61 62 63
64 65 66 67 68
69 70

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Shrubs
  • 6 Ripe
  • 11 Match
  • 12 S. Am. tuber
  • 13 Famous poem
  • 15 Otherwise
  • 16 Double
  • 18 Knob
  • 20 Towards
  • 21 Weary
  • 23 Height
  • 25 Came together
  • 26 A cleanser
  • 28 A measure
  • 29 Harmonize
  • 30 Lick up
  • 32 Beverage
  • 33 Club
  • 34 Spectacles
  • 37 Refuges
  • 39 A high Moslem office
  • 40 Describes the crowned head
  • 42 Crowd
  • 45 Augment
  • 46 On behalf of
  • 48 Finish
  • 49 Character
  • 51 Strengthening
  • 53 Couch
  • 55 Sounds of sudden pain
  • 56 Tedium
  • 58 Hurried
  • 59 Forward
  • 60 Loathe
  • 61 Short paragraph
  • 63 That thing
  • 64 Tendency
  • 66 Japanese coin
  • 67 Vexes
  • 69 A gnawer
  • 70 Arenas for putters

VERTICAL

  • 1 Mexican donkey
  • 2 You and me
  • 3 Place
  • 4 Cuts
  • 5 Musical composition
  • 6 Fertilizer
  • 7 A bad waiter
  • 8 Mexican gum tree
  • 9 N. E. State (abbr.)
  • 10 Consumed
  • 11 Palms off
  • 14 Fond lovers
  • 17 That thing’s
  • 19 Natural metal
  • 22 Cabbage
  • 24 Ring up
  • 25 Silent
  • 27 Flapjack
  • 29 Houses of call
  • 31 Peas “en masse”
  • 33 Wash
  • 35 Memorize
  • 36 Crafty
  • 37 Head gear
  • 38 Sister of mercy
  • 40 Pull up
  • 41 Elongated fishes
  • 43 Effluvium
  • 44 Titans
  • 46 Large wood
  • 47 A form of exercise
  • 50 Possessor
  • 51 Add
  • 52 Small bed
  • 54 Does not succeed
  • 56 Barren
  • 57 Lake
  • 60 Coal scuttle
  • 62 More (Shakespeare)
  • 65 Not any
  • 68 Within

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Puzzle No. 65

QUIET COMFORT

By Marcam

This one stays close to the amenities of English. There are few words you don’t use, if your vocabulary is as ample as a cross word puzzler’s should be. By the way, has your vocabulary expanded since you’ve started puzzling?

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36 37 38 39
40 41 42 43
44 45 46 47 48 49 50
51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58
59 60 61
62 63 64 65 66 67
68 69 70 71 72 73 74
75 76 77 78
79 80 81 82 83 84 85
86 87 88 89 90 91
92 93 94 95 96
97 98 99 100 101 102 103
104 105 106
107 108 109

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 To testify under oath
  • 5 Criminal
  • 9 Exceeded
  • 14 Tool
  • 15 Knock
  • 16 Caprice
  • 17 A grain for making malt
  • 20 Allayed
  • 22 Polly wants a cracker
  • 24 Beast of burden
  • 25 To reconcile to a loss
  • 27 Glacial ridges
  • 29 Belonging to us
  • 30 Explain
  • 32 Laboriously
  • 35 To the inside of
  • 36 Closest
  • 38 Specious
  • 40 Hostelries
  • 41 First woman
  • 43 To dress
  • 45 Eagle
  • 46 Privately
  • 48 Nidus
  • 51 To deface
  • 53 Norse deity
  • 55 A weight of Turkey
  • 57 King
  • 59 Feathery
  • 60 Having ten legs
  • 61 Substitute
  • 62 Loose part of coat
  • 63 At another time
  • 65 A presiding officer
  • 67 Bustle
  • 68 Healthy physical state
  • 70 At that place
  • 73 Prepare for publication
  • 75 Culmination
  • 77 Greek mountain
  • 78 Worry
  • 80 Guided
  • 82 Tracked
  • 86 Gratuities
  • 88 A certain unknown quantity
  • 90 To shut up
  • 92 Hastened
  • 93 Way of acting
  • 94 Bag
  • 96 Caustic alkaline solution
  • 97 Presents itself
  • 99 Single things
  • 102 More stately
  • 104 Shelter
  • 105 Individual
  • 106 Article of clothing
  • 107 Fears greatly
  • 108 Mist of condensed vapor
  • 109 Stuffed

VERTICAL

  • 1 To humiliate
  • 2 Clergyman
  • 3 Night bird
  • 4 Killed
  • 6 Period of time
  • 7 Used by cowboys
  • 8 Open
  • 10 From a great distance
  • 11 Title of address
  • 12 Hardy
  • 13 In the way
  • 18 Kind of tree
  • 19 Longed for
  • 20 Terminates
  • 21 Specified quantity
  • 22 Return
  • 23 Away
  • 26 Greek God of War
  • 28 Vehicle on runners
  • 31 Dam in a river
  • 33 Indians of Utah
  • 34 Employed
  • 35 Writing fluids
  • 37 Vexation
  • 39 Inhabitant of northern region
  • 42 Having such a face
  • 44 To infer
  • 45 To eject
  • 46 Concerning
  • 47 Wear away
  • 49 To discourse on
  • 50 Praise
  • 52 Southern state (abbr.)
  • 54 Artificial language
  • 56 Poem
  • 58 Finis
  • 64 Goddess of retributive justice
  • 66 Weapon for airplane
  • 69 Horse food
  • 71 Mask
  • 72 Precipitate
  • 74 Short paragraph
  • 76 Cupid
  • 78 Spring
  • 79 Fearful
  • 80 Aged
  • 81 The emu
  • 83 Pastries
  • 84 Less interesting
  • 85 Looked askance
  • 87 Organ of hearing
  • 89 Belonging to thee
  • 91 Grain
  • 93 Useless plant
  • 95 Jot
  • 98 Body of water
  • 100 Negative
  • 101 Beverage
  • 103 Invitation

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Puzzle No. 66

DIAMONDS WITHIN DIAMONDS

By Isis

Plenty of trouble ahead here for the unwary solver. The four-letter word border is a tricky thing to monkey with, for often the wrong word contains the same number of letters and answers the definition perfectly. A good many unkeyed letters, but none in critical places.

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Mountain range between Italy and Switzerland
  • 4 Minute particle
  • 8 Affirmative votes
  • 12 Steep eminence
  • 16 Evergreen
  • 17 Skill
  • 20 Since
  • 21 Substitute
  • 23 Correlative of neither
  • 24 Net to be drawn along bottom
  • 26 To mock
  • 27 Rough cloth
  • 29 Issue forth
  • 30 Kind of muffin
  • 31 Close by
  • 32 Not anything
  • 33 Mournful
  • 35 Fairly good
  • 37 A modern dance
  • 39 Speckled
  • 42 Industrious insect
  • 43 Musical instrument
  • 45 Orang-outang
  • 46 The thing
  • 47 Equipped
  • 49 To deprive
  • 52 Similar to
  • 53 To calumniate
  • 55 Sick
  • 57 A bird
  • 59 Evening
  • 60 Regained
  • 61 A decree
  • 62 Feeble-mindedness
  • 64 Source
  • 65 Crested Brazilian bird
  • 68 Sun God
  • 69 A right
  • 71 A brace
  • 72 Square of type
  • 73 Incorporated (abbr.)
  • 75 Married male Indian
  • 78 Literary collection
  • 79 Joins
  • 82 A drop
  • 83 Scarcity
  • 85 Ox-like animal
  • 86 Lake
  • 87 Row
  • 88 Owns
  • 90 Girl’s name
  • 92 Consumed
  • 94 Hebrew measure of capacity
  • 97 To originate
  • 100 Sailor
  • 101 In style (Fr.)
  • 103 Transgress
  • 104 For all time
  • 107 Requested
  • 108 Branches of learning
  • 109 Look for
  • 110 Female deer
  • 111 Arrived

VERTICAL

  • 1 Distant
  • 2 Brim
  • 3 Hurl
  • 4 Silvery
  • 5 To play with
  • 6 Belonging to
  • 7 Inorganic natural substance
  • 8 Constitutionals
  • 9 You
  • 10 Termination
  • 11 Writing
  • 13 Musical composition
  • 14 Affirmative
  • 15 Rule
  • 17 Soft drink
  • 18 Study
  • 19 Sweet potato
  • 22 Halting
  • 25 Essence
  • 27 Fixed as to time
  • 28 Argues
  • 30 Polite
  • 34 Branches
  • 35 Raised platform
  • 36 Ointment
  • 38 Remiss
  • 40 Leave out
  • 41 Article of furniture
  • 43 Grains
  • 44 Witnesses
  • 47 Concerning
  • 48 Deserve
  • 50 Addition to a document
  • 51 Weave
  • 54 Hail
  • 55 Wrath
  • 56 Support
  • 58 Playing card
  • 62 Song
  • 63 Opportunity
  • 66 Rough
  • 67 Indian servant
  • 70 Anxious (alternate spelling)
  • 71 Country in Europe
  • 74 Crying earnestly
  • 76 Crag rising above glacier
  • 77 Said
  • 78 Compound yielding chrysphanic acid
  • 80 Sacred image
  • 81 Says
  • 83 Clowns
  • 84 Interjection
  • 89 Plateau
  • 91 Surface of fibers
  • 93 Harden
  • 95 Springtime of life
  • 96 Yield
  • 98 Russian village
  • 99 Before
  • 101 Consumed
  • 102 Dull
  • 105 Myself
  • 106 Negative

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Puzzle No. 67

A STAID FORM

By Charles Erlenkotter

This plot of crosses and dots looks safe and conservative. There are, however, several perfectly good English words that will give you a thrill. By strange coincidence, this odd pattern was used by another contributor and will be found elsewhere in the book. A comparison of the two puzzles will be interesting.

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58 59

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Visionary
  • 7 Entangled
  • 13 Number
  • 14 Cleanse
  • 15 Mere
  • 16 Sluggishness
  • 17 Calvinist
  • 18 Assuredly (slang)
  • 19 Scoff
  • 21 Try
  • 22 Whelp
  • 23 Debtor
  • 26 Part of glacier
  • 28 Opposed
  • 30 Point at root of nose
  • 32 Not accustomed
  • 34 Whirlpool
  • 35 Layers
  • 37 One who conducts magazine
  • 40 Carbonize
  • 41 Braids
  • 44 Musical instrument
  • 45 Single (Scotch)
  • 46 Serpents
  • 49 Attack
  • 51 Mineral
  • 53 Braided
  • 54 Local
  • 55 Nobleman—A. S.
  • 56 Privilege of taking toll
  • 57 Darnel
  • 58 Newcomer on land
  • 59 Made merry

VERTICAL

  • 1 A fabled animal
  • 2 Prong
  • 3 Burdensome
  • 4 Forward
  • 5 A genus of bees
  • 6 A shade of difference
  • 7 African weight
  • 8 Not at any time
  • 9 Aid
  • 10 Grottos
  • 11 Periods
  • 12 Tooth-shaped
  • 20 Offspring of Hindoos and Europeans
  • 24 Soil
  • 25 A light robe
  • 26 A reprimand
  • 27 Heals
  • 28 A revenue collector
  • 29 A settled course
  • 31 Grain
  • 33 Bend forward
  • 35 Abrades
  • 36 Fortification
  • 38 Characteristic
  • 39 Fared sumptuously
  • 42 British author
  • 43 Seesaw
  • 47 Berry
  • 48 Alluvial deposit
  • 49 Looped wire
  • 50 Mitigate
  • 51 Small coin
  • 52 Anxiety

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Puzzle No. 68

A FLOCK OF TWO-SPOTS

By Persephone

An eye for efficiency as well as beauty constructed this one. Trust the ladies to see the possibilities in simple effects! And the words are very much present, too. A good one to try your hand on if you think you’re good.

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 One who guards
  • 8 Of or pertaining to wisdom or learning
  • 15 Fleet of ships
  • 16 Malefactor
  • 18 Exclamation of sorrow
  • 19 Included
  • 21 To pick
  • 23 Obtained
  • 24 Snakes
  • 25 Look!
  • 26 The stem of a ship
  • 28 Official residences of ministers
  • 31 To greet
  • 33 Murmur lovingly
  • 34 Serf
  • 35 Perfume
  • 37 Court
  • 38 Accustom
  • 40 Official documents conferring rights or privileges
  • 42 Anthropoidal ape
  • 44 Guide
  • 46 Slight deviation from accuracy
  • 47 Heed
  • 48 In, on, near or by
  • 50 Indians of an Algonquin tribe in Canada
  • 52 Rages
  • 54 Like
  • 55 That which restricts
  • 57 Turmoil
  • 59 Expatiate
  • 61 Hiatus
  • 62 Traveler by boat or train
  • 63 Disencumber
  • 64 Retreats
  • 66 Exist
  • 67 Checkered
  • 70 Otherwise
  • 71 Relieves
  • 73 To fix deeply or indelibly
  • 74 Thus
  • 75 One thing
  • 76 A form, the faces of which are parallel to one axis
  • 79 Utensils
  • 81 Individual pies
  • 83 Certain hardwood trees bearing edible nuts
  • 85 Custom
  • 87 Mountain near ancient Troy
  • 88 Makes equal
  • 90 Place of worship
  • 92 Invisible fluid
  • 93 A long river
  • 95 Entwined
  • 97 Superlatively good
  • 98 The thing
  • 99 Old
  • 101 Skill
  • 102 Silent
  • 104 Confusion
  • 105 Mountain in Thessaly
  • 106 Visionary creation of the imagination
  • 108 Dry
  • 110 Dominion
  • 111 Rapid, involuntary oscillation of the eyeballs

VERTICAL

  • 1 Chief
  • 2 Above and in contact with
  • 3 Narrow strip
  • 4 Alleged source of all human curiosity
  • 5 Imaginary circle in the heavens
  • 6 From
  • 7 Sailing races
  • 8 Doses: drafts
  • 9 One
  • 10 Sacred city of Tibet
  • 11 A mountain
  • 12 To shatter; crush
  • 13 Exists
  • 14 One who makes a practice of using new words, or new meanings
  • 17 Destiny
  • 20 Midday
  • 22 Seaweed
  • 24 Small insects
  • 25 Savage wild beast
  • 27 Spirit
  • 29 Ends; aims
  • 30 Fur-bearing animal
  • 32 Absent
  • 34 Center
  • 36 Apparel
  • 39 Receiver
  • 41 Pert. to the skin
  • 43 Any official orders or decrees
  • 45 Least shallow
  • 47 To lie over and upon
  • 49 Another wild beast
  • 51 Efface
  • 53 Expert
  • 54 Range of very high mountains
  • 56 Small rug
  • 57 A king of Judah
  • 58 Unit
  • 60 Assist
  • 64 Adherence to regular and habitual course of action
  • 65 Lift
  • 68 Love affair
  • 69 Household servants
  • 72 Exhausted in using
  • 73 A small fish
  • 75 Range of mountains between Europe and Asia
  • 77 To gather thickly again
  • 78 Comanchean
  • 80 A wise man
  • 82 Entrance
  • 83 Curve
  • 84 Stalk
  • 86 Pant
  • 89 Pert. to the palate
  • 91 Atrabilious
  • 94 Orient
  • 96 Wrath
  • 97 Floating fragment of a glacier
  • 100 Employ
  • 103 A drink
  • 105 Bone
  • 106 Accomplish
  • 107 Belonging to me
  • 109 A measure

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Puzzle No. 69

LOOSELY WOVEN

By John Boyajy

The warp and weft of this one are not drawn too tightly together. If the puzzle has a fault, it is in the abundance of black squares, but the neat interlock saves it. Rather easy for the adept, and not an undue tax on the novice.

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Wild
  • 6 Pieces of window glass
  • 10 One who is familiar with all the details of an art
  • 15 Article
  • 16 One who annoys
  • 17 Make fast
  • 18 Pronoun
  • 19 Closely mown grass plot
  • 20 Make amends for
  • 22 Drop of saline liquid secreted by the lacrimal glands
  • 24 That on which the affections are passionately set
  • 26 All correct
  • 27 Father
  • 29 Masses
  • 31 Group
  • 32 Gradually enervate
  • 34 Marsh
  • 36 Infold
  • 39 A duet
  • 40 Possesses
  • 41 Raise the spirits of
  • 42 Obliterate
  • 43 Disregard the divine law
  • 44 Tocsin
  • 45 Near the stern
  • 47 Situation
  • 49 Quality
  • 51 Worthless matter
  • 53 Bends forwards
  • 56 Single
  • 57 Circuit or journey
  • 59 Manlike monkeys
  • 62 A tree
  • 63 To provoke
  • 64 Sidewise
  • 65 In error
  • 66 Reverential fear
  • 68 Shelter
  • 70 Nautical mile
  • 72 Objective of “she”
  • 74 Erudition
  • 76 Small shears
  • 79 Island
  • 80 Shabby clothing
  • 83 Military aviator
  • 84 Used to express comparison
  • 86 Poem
  • 88 Diminish
  • 89 Frozen rain
  • 90 Freeze or chill
  • 92 Anarchist
  • 93 Before
  • 94 Heretofore
  • 96 Exist
  • 97 Immerse and withdraw
  • 98 Fall in drops
  • 100 Physician (abbr.)
  • 102 Conjunction
  • 103 A range of the voice
  • 104 Bind to secrecy
  • 107 Decorate
  • 110 Subjugated
  • 112 The thing
  • 114 Rigorous
  • 115 Inveigle
  • 116 Exclamation
  • 117 The period of minority
  • 118 Antagonist
  • 119 Talent

VERTICAL

  • 1 Starve
  • 2 Upon
  • 3 And others
  • 4 Stitch
  • 5 Bronze
  • 6 Summit
  • 7 Skill
  • 8 Bring forth young
  • 9 Gait
  • 10 A dull surface
  • 11 A single spot
  • 12 False pretence
  • 13 Printer’s measure
  • 14 Object
  • 19 Quantities
  • 21 Metal-bearing rock
  • 23 Bars
  • 25 Church officer
  • 26 Precious stone
  • 28 Exclamation
  • 30 Constructs
  • 32 Perceive
  • 33 Mitigate
  • 34 Dread
  • 35 Catches
  • 37 Apart
  • 38 Pamper
  • 44 Exist
  • 46 Zealot
  • 48 Printer’s measure
  • 49 The whole
  • 50 Not at all
  • 51 Tries
  • 52 Cuts
  • 54 Vows
  • 55 Beach
  • 57 Extension (abbr.)
  • 58 Dashed
  • 60 Enclosure
  • 61 Toper
  • 67 Marvel
  • 69 Ardent
  • 71 Not the same
  • 73 Draw out
  • 75 Hesitant interjection
  • 77 None (colloq.)
  • 78 Annoyance
  • 79 Preposition
  • 81 Mimic
  • 82 Hold back
  • 84 Rip
  • 85 Consumed
  • 86 Institute
  • 87 Conduct a periodical
  • 90 Inactive
  • 91 Eras
  • 95 Self
  • 99 City in Italy
  • 101 Venture
  • 102 Without another
  • 103 So be it
  • 105 Limb
  • 106 Time immediately preceding
  • 108 A low haunt
  • 109 Batter
  • 110 Pull
  • 111 Part of “to be”
  • 113 Preposition
  • 116 Gold (chem.)

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Puzzle No. 70

A STUDY IN CROSSES

By Daniel O’Leary

Funny how often you find crosses in cross word puzzles. There are several meanings to that. You will observe Maltese crosses in Mr. O’Leary’s construction, and it isn’t hard enough to make you cross.

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65 66 67 68
69 70

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Responds
  • 7 Articles of Scotch costume
  • 14 Way
  • 15 Ordered thought
  • 16 Hoarder
  • 18 French river
  • 19 Relating to
  • 21 Signs
  • 23 A conjunctive
  • 24 Vase
  • 26 Contend
  • 27 Make lace
  • 28 Midday
  • 30 Noblemen
  • 32 Peel
  • 33 Pert. to birth
  • 35 Tardier
  • 37 Container
  • 38 Product of decomposition
  • 40 Withers
  • 42 Steal
  • 45 Termites
  • 47 Darkness
  • 49 Alkali
  • 51 Plaything
  • 53 Infant’s utterance
  • 55 Point
  • 56 That man
  • 57 Maligned
  • 61 Exclamation
  • 62 Boxes
  • 63 Sweet fluid
  • 65 A widow
  • 67 Member of Ancient Christian cult
  • 69 Timidity
  • 70 Serious

VERTICAL

  • 1 Reckoning
  • 2 Negative
  • 3 Addition
  • 4 Thing inscribed
  • 5 A literary form
  • 6 Wind
  • 8 Space
  • 9 Controls
  • 10 Browns
  • 11 Peer Gynt’s mother
  • 12 On the contrary
  • 13 Made a nasal sound
  • 17 Opponent
  • 18 Sense
  • 20 Away
  • 22 Title
  • 23 Paddle
  • 25 Negative
  • 27 Substance from pine
  • 29 Bodies of churches
  • 30 Devoured
  • 31 Holy one
  • 32 Pert. to punishment
  • 34 Roofing substance
  • 36 Digit
  • 39 Parents
  • 40 Abode of pigs
  • 41 Appearances
  • 42 Footwear
  • 43 Young goat
  • 44 Organic chemical
  • 46 Luke iii, 36
  • 48 Chief ruler
  • 50 Extinct bird
  • 52 Site
  • 54 French cap
  • 57 Turn rapidly
  • 58 Modes of skill
  • 59 Famous opponent of John L. Sullivan
  • 60 Sustain
  • 62 Crafty
  • 64 Fasten
  • 66 Exclamation
  • 68 Like

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Puzzle No. 71

WATCH THE LOWER LEFT HAND CORNER

By Marcam

One of the editors, being tempted to solve this one in the proof, found it smooth, consistent sailing throughout, save in the lower left hand corner. This section probably isn’t hard at all. Wonder how you will find it. You know how a pair of absurdly easy words will stump you now and then.

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87 88 89 90 91 92
93 94 95

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Fury
  • 5 Hopes for; endeavors to attain
  • 11 Particle
  • 15 Worship
  • 17 Mexican dollars
  • 18 Mistake
  • 19 Myself
  • 20 Stand for picture
  • 22 Expiate
  • 24 You and I
  • 25 Appropriate
  • 27 Sentries
  • 29 Beverage
  • 30 Experienced
  • 32 Literary director
  • 35 American poet
  • 36 A wicked city
  • 39 A liquor
  • 41 Cutting instrument
  • 44 Moisture
  • 45 Uninjured
  • 47 Musical instrument
  • 48 From
  • 50 Upon
  • 51 Badly
  • 52 Exist
  • 53 Occurring twice daily
  • 54 A land measure
  • 55 Upright pole
  • 57 In, on, near or by
  • 58 Have existence
  • 59 Decoy
  • 61 Ensnare
  • 63 Belonging to us
  • 65 Sanity
  • 67 Insect
  • 68 Young hog
  • 70 Member of Algonquin tribe
  • 71 Gratify
  • 73 Fast horses
  • 76 Hasten
  • 77 One who mends locks
  • 80 Rested upon
  • 82 One
  • 83 Cloth made from flax
  • 84 Open; evident
  • 86 Not any
  • 87 Showing indifference to pain or pleasure
  • 89 Wireless
  • 91 Loosened
  • 93 To puzzle; nonplus
  • 94 Hostile incursions
  • 95 Bloody

VERTICAL

  • 1 An incarnation of Vishnu
  • 2 Expert
  • 3 Proceed
  • 4 Before
  • 6 Expends
  • 7 To strike repeatedly with small missiles
  • 8 Exists
  • 9 Bay or chestnut mixed with white
  • 10 Regard
  • 11 Wrath
  • 12 Otherwise
  • 13 Tall slender building
  • 14 Plane surface
  • 16 Church holiday
  • 18 Flag
  • 21 Observe
  • 23 Aged
  • 26 Narrow toward a point
  • 28 Evergreen
  • 29 Pert. to tone
  • 31 A certain soft stone
  • 33 Tickle pleasantly
  • 34 Remorseful; feeling shame
  • 37 An alleged natural force or power supposed to produce the phenomena of hypnotism
  • 38 Exclamation of pain
  • 40 Unsaturated hydrocarbon
  • 42 Son of Hammedatha the Agagite
  • 43 One of a Hamitic race of Africa
  • 45 Interior
  • 46 Light colored cigar
  • 49 Suit
  • 50 Eye
  • 56 Old; spoiled
  • 60 Those who employ an article or a device
  • 62 Kind of type face
  • 63 Exclamation
  • 64 God of the sun
  • 66 Game of cards
  • 68 To separate; distinguish
  • 69 Three-legged stand
  • 71 Spotted horse
  • 72 Male offspring
  • 74 Corroded
  • 75 More reasonable
  • 76 Fastening
  • 78 Knot in wood
  • 79 A daughter of Atlas
  • 81 Small, bright-colored, insectivorous bird
  • 83 Prevaricate
  • 85 Loose end
  • 88 Bone
  • 90 Accomplish
  • 92 Therefore

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Puzzle No. 72

ROUND AND ROUND

By Persephone

The double round of blacks outlines four good corners and a center which, while bearing an unenviable five-spot, would have been virtually impossible of construction without it. The unkeyed letters should not cause any trouble.

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96 97 98 99
100 101

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Unremittingly
  • 7 Teach
  • 13 Smirch
  • 14 Forth
  • 16 By word of mouth
  • 17 Examine thoroughly
  • 19 Private instructor
  • 21 Active being or quality
  • 23 A writer’s style
  • 24 Crafty
  • 26 A tuberous root
  • 28 A dull finish
  • 29 Deposits
  • 31 Commanded
  • 34 Gambling game
  • 35 Exist
  • 36 Long, fixed bench
  • 38 Wrath
  • 39 Unclose
  • 41 Accomplish
  • 42 Ancient goddess, personifying night
  • 43 Single performances
  • 45 Pointed instrument
  • 47 End
  • 49 Animal
  • 51 Appropriate
  • 53 Terminal
  • 55 Erases
  • 56 Mean proportion
  • 57 Augment
  • 58 Fish without pelvic fins
  • 60 The entire men
  • 61 To move to deep reverence
  • 63 Turf
  • 65 Official garment of Jewish high priest
  • 68 Said to be a wise bird
  • 70 In the direction of
  • 72 A distinctive doctrine or theory
  • 74 Pole having a flat end
  • 75 Personification of Truth in “Faerie Queen”
  • 76 The man
  • 77 Worshiped image
  • 79 To speak to
  • 82 Close
  • 84 Dandy
  • 85 Arid
  • 86 Bronze or copper
  • 88 Equipage
  • 89 Angry
  • 91 One chosen, or set apart
  • 94 Worship
  • 96 Fluid rock
  • 98 Period
  • 99 In the midst of
  • 100 To bind with a bandage
  • 101 Abode; habitation

VERTICAL

  • 1 Supersede
  • 2 Black
  • 3 A white linen vestment
  • 4 Performs
  • 5 That thing
  • 6 Yourself
  • 7 Jewish territorial organization
  • 8 Thus
  • 9 Street car
  • 10 Tattered fragment
  • 11 A Mohammedan college, or body composed of imams, muftis and cadis
  • 12 Marked by indelible coloring matter, pricked in
  • 15 Wholly
  • 18 A measure of paper
  • 19 Teutonic war god
  • 20 A grain
  • 22 Spikenard
  • 25 Inferior
  • 27 Fuss
  • 30 To discover by close search
  • 32 God (Ital.)
  • 33 Make of automobile
  • 37 Goes beyond the limit of
  • 40 A proprietor under old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey
  • 42 Requires
  • 43 Tablet
  • 44 Rescued
  • 46 Lawful
  • 48 Singular
  • 50 Consumed
  • 52 A pin of wood or metal
  • 54 Of recent origin
  • 57 Crafty device
  • 59 Keener
  • 62 Arising unexpectedly
  • 64 Lubricant
  • 66 A legume
  • 67 Natural combination of metals
  • 69 Pale
  • 71 Smell
  • 73 To deface
  • 75 Employ
  • 76 Hairbreadth
  • 78 Gems
  • 80 Color
  • 81 Rested
  • 83 To destroy by slow disintegration
  • 85 A god
  • 87 Identical
  • 90 Marble
  • 92 Shelter
  • 93 Carnivorous domesticated quadruped
  • 95 Dull
  • 97 In, on, near or by
  • 99 One or any

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Puzzle No. 73

MY SECOND AND LAST

By Joseph A. Margolies

“This is my second and last,” writes J. A. M. “Too absorbing. Leaves no time to read.” We don’t believe J. A. M. He underestimates the frailty of the human soul where cross word puzzles are concerned. He’ll be at it with ruled paper and pencil again, and then he’ll swear off again.

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84 85 86
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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Napkins
  • 4 Director
  • 10 Beach
  • 13 Photographic instrument
  • 15 Idle
  • 17 Pronoun
  • 19 Mushrooms
  • 20 Mental images
  • 21 Pronoun
  • 22 Belief
  • 24 Wailing
  • 26 Tyrolian singing
  • 28 Atmosphere
  • 29 Genus of lily family
  • 31 Between
  • 32 Poisonous snake
  • 33 Dejected
  • 34 Reckoning of years
  • 36 American humorist
  • 38 A condiment
  • 40 Vulgar fellow
  • 42 Rings
  • 44 Careful observer
  • 45 Stored for future reference
  • 47 Implant
  • 48 Prepared for combat
  • 49 Leading part (musical)
  • 50 Music drama
  • 53 Lure into danger
  • 55 Cichlid fish
  • 58 Leaps over
  • 60 Rodent
  • 61 Supreme deity of ancient Minæans
  • 62 Do wrong
  • 63 Goddess of dawn
  • 65 Before
  • 66 Attempt
  • 67 Frogs’ spawn
  • 69 Weight for vessels
  • 72 Unite
  • 73 Minor prophet
  • 75 Skins
  • 76 Round of years
  • 78 Pronoun
  • 79 Ornamental tape
  • 81 Uncover
  • 83 Pronoun
  • 84 Fraud
  • 85 Trains
  • 87 So
  • 88 Bedaubed
  • 89 Pigs

VERTICAL

  • 1 Lure
  • 2 Before 11 Vertical
  • 3 Less hazardous
  • 4 Males
  • 5 Debated
  • 6 Brads
  • 7 Deceit
  • 8 Bear
  • 9 Regret
  • 10 Broom
  • 11 After 2 Vertical
  • 12 German city
  • 14 Egyptian goddess
  • 16 Speak
  • 18 Annoyer
  • 21 Interfere
  • 23 Biting
  • 25 Ordinary
  • 27 Old fashioned clocks
  • 29 Obstruct
  • 30 Wooden ship
  • 32 Confirm
  • 33 Notch
  • 35 Enliven
  • 37 Where the tide meets a river current
  • 39 Gem
  • 40 Soft drink that is sometimes hard
  • 41 Station
  • 43 Father of Methuselah
  • 45 Nourished
  • 46 Arid
  • 51 Talking bird
  • 52 East or southeast wind
  • 54 Heavy rope
  • 56 Garret
  • 57 Not frequently
  • 59 Sigh with sudden heaving of breast
  • 61 Skill
  • 64 Specie of poisonous tree
  • 65 Ancient Monastic Order
  • 68 First appearance
  • 70 Shelf
  • 71 Kind of tree
  • 72 Characteristic of groups
  • 73 Intimate
  • 74 Part of body
  • 76 Vehicle
  • 77 Long fish (pl.)
  • 80 Jewish month (pl.)
  • 82 What the cow chews
  • 84 Exclamation
  • 86 Thus

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Puzzle No. 74

QUADRICRUCIFEROUS

By A. C. R.

Twenty-four unkeyed letters—but no two, and only four three-letter words and a splendid all-over interlock. Not more than average difficult, but not more than medium easy. The long words form splendid spinal clews—if you get them.

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58 59

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Penetrated
  • 7 A fruit
  • 13 Part of the day
  • 14 A long spear
  • 15 A fleet of ships
  • 16 Finical
  • 17 A war horse
  • 18 Tight fitting caps
  • 19 Foreign
  • 21 Soup herb
  • 22 India
  • 23 Celtic hero
  • 26 Establishes
  • 28 Paradise
  • 30 A roundabout way
  • 32 Plain
  • 34 Metamorphose
  • 35 Rely upon
  • 37 Wearing apparel
  • 40 Length measures
  • 41 Carried away
  • 44 Sound of voice
  • 45 One (Scot.)
  • 46 Girl’s name
  • 49 A natural right
  • 51 Run away
  • 53 Steppers
  • 54 Marks of distinction
  • 55 Always
  • 56 A liquid compound
  • 57 Formerly
  • 58 Allures
  • 59 Poisonous insects

VERTICAL

  • 1 Disposed of contents
  • 2 Girl’s name
  • 3 Musical instrument
  • 4 Purposes
  • 5 Lohengrin’s bride
  • 6 Flower
  • 7 Concur
  • 8 Laborer
  • 9 Japanese ornaments
  • 10 Waterfall
  • 11 Above
  • 12 Despotism
  • 20 Urgent
  • 24 Inclination
  • 25 Rules
  • 26 Glaziers’ tacks
  • 27 Brief
  • 28 Irish hero
  • 29 Heroine in Scott
  • 31 Vase
  • 33 Metallic mineral
  • 35 Groups of ten
  • 36 Contrived
  • 38 Balkers
  • 39 Clothes again
  • 42 Upper garments
  • 43 A very small pill
  • 47 Architectural term
  • 48 A color
  • 49 A large woody plant
  • 50 Lugs
  • 51 State of vexation
  • 52 Other

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Puzzle No. 75

LOCKED UP TIGHT

By Gregorian

An all-over double interlock with a triply-locked center and corners. Probably considerably easier to solve than to construct. The words are weak in spots, but the construction passes the few obsoletes.

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65 66

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Alternate passage
  • 6 Incomplete
  • 11 Fruity nut
  • 12 Those who dry by wind
  • 14 Cheerfulness
  • 15 Capable
  • 17 Midday
  • 19 Man’s name
  • 21 Mountain in Greece
  • 22 Passage-way
  • 23 Negative
  • 24 Shaped like a bull
  • 27 Prefix, of
  • 28 Character in Peer Gynt
  • 30 Pits
  • 31 Prefix, footed
  • 32 Pert. to month
  • 34 Settings
  • 36 Plaything
  • 37 Chemical compound
  • 38 Imbecility
  • 41 Sharpshooters
  • 44 Annual Scottish festival
  • 45 Adjusted
  • 47 Consume
  • 48 Ounce (abbr.)
  • 49 Salts of stearic acid
  • 51 Toward
  • 52 Chinese tree
  • 54 Hobo (slang)
  • 55 Pert. to Asian people
  • 57 Jog
  • 58 Flat part of boat’s bottom
  • 60 Color
  • 61 Taxes
  • 63 Mistaken
  • 65 Cook by air and heat
  • 66 Awe-inspiring

VERTICAL

  • 1 Oil
  • 2 Fuse
  • 3 Thus
  • 4 Those in power
  • 5 Naval officer
  • 6 Decanters
  • 7 Furrow
  • 8 Abraham’s birthplace
  • 9 A form of colored cotton
  • 10 God of Love
  • 11 Form of sugar
  • 13 Fuse
  • 14 Ash kokos
  • 16 Entrance
  • 18 In want
  • 20 Empower
  • 22 Compounds of arsenic
  • 25 Mineral
  • 26 Dye
  • 29 Finished
  • 31 Active volcano of West Indies
  • 33 Male descendant
  • 35 Pinch
  • 38 Dejected
  • 39 Famous composer
  • 40 Throw back
  • 41 Knotty
  • 42 Classification
  • 43 Lay in a supply
  • 46 European mountain range
  • 49 Encounter
  • 50 Brown pigment
  • 53 Famous Scot
  • 56 Outer coat
  • 58 Egyptian god
  • 59 To make a mistake
  • 62 Exclamation
  • 64 Concerning

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Puzzle No. 76

BIG BEAUTY

By W. J. Bowman

This giant may puzzle you in several ways. At the first glance it looks as much like a maze as a cross word puzzle. You’ll find it a cross word puzzle all right.

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157 158 159 160 161 162
163 164 165

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Others
  • 5 Device to carry a gun
  • 10 Call loudly
  • 14 Bends
  • 16 Possessive pronoun
  • 17 Press for payment
  • 19 Box
  • 20 Abraham’s birthplace
  • 22 Small davenport
  • 24 Sing in a low undertone
  • 26 Average
  • 28 Sun god
  • 29 Female rabbit
  • 31 Close
  • 32 Shrub
  • 34 Change direction
  • 35 Automobile
  • 36 Deliver
  • 38 Geometric ratio
  • 39 Consumed
  • 40 Touch gently
  • 42 Pronoun
  • 43 Paper containers
  • 44 Cut feloniously
  • 46 Den
  • 48 Spank
  • 50 Finished
  • 51 Curves
  • 53 Affectedly precise
  • 55 Render senseless
  • 56 Something granted for temporary use
  • 57 Evil
  • 58 Neuter pronoun
  • 60 Barren
  • 62 Mother
  • 63 Small child
  • 65 Comrade
  • 66 Slipped
  • 68 Rock
  • 69 Printed piece of paste-board
  • 71 Catch (colloq.)
  • 73 For example
  • 74 Changes
  • 76 Prosecute at law
  • 77 Mean, vile
  • 79 Exist
  • 80 Distorted
  • 81 Falling water
  • 83 Units of electrical resistance
  • 84 Egg of insect
  • 86 Pastries
  • 87 Ardor
  • 88 Edible bivalve mollusk
  • 89 Nothing
  • 90 Bend
  • 92 Cad
  • 94 Sketched
  • 96 Past
  • 97 Negative
  • 99 Recesses in walls
  • 101 By
  • 103 Inherent power
  • 105 Mixed type
  • 106 Arid
  • 108 Jogging pace
  • 109 Tramp
  • 111 Genuine, loyal
  • 112 Obtain
  • 113 Beseech
  • 115 By
  • 116 Set free
  • 118 Unit of type
  • 119 Stout
  • 120 Native of Arabia
  • 122 Head
  • 123 Black
  • 125 Wharf
  • 127 Child
  • 128 Vehicle
  • 129 Help
  • 131 Catholic sisters
  • 133 Sinless
  • 134 Note of scale
  • 135 Snake-like fish
  • 137 Before
  • 138 Part of verb “to be”
  • 140 Small secluded valley
  • 142 One, indef.
  • 143 Earth
  • 145 Those who color cloth
  • 147 Small nail
  • 149 River (Spanish)
  • 150 Thing
  • 151 City in Mass.
  • 153 Part of head
  • 154 A boisterous preacher
  • 156 Preposition
  • 157 Mold
  • 158 Plaything
  • 160 Female chicken
  • 161 Frozen particles of vapor
  • 163 Marks
  • 164 Provoked
  • 165 Is full

VERTICAL

  • 1 Thumps
  • 2 Upon
  • 3 Wireless signal for help
  • 4 Paradise
  • 5 To hasten
  • 6 Bone
  • 7 Low district
  • 8 Edition (abbr.)
  • 9 Intoxicating liquor
  • 10 Whirled rapidly
  • 11 Cured pork
  • 12 Else
  • 13 Lachrymose exudations
  • 15 Small distance
  • 16 Fem. pronoun
  • 18 Snare
  • 19 Father
  • 21 Egg masses
  • 23 Appendage
  • 24 Color tint
  • 25 Crazy
  • 27 Unload by tilting
  • 28 Uncontrolled anger
  • 30 Necessitate
  • 32 Walks with affected dignity
  • 33 Fortress
  • 35 Implement of war
  • 37 To mend
  • 39 Desires
  • 41 A color
  • 43 Water conveyance
  • 45 Before Christ
  • 47 Like
  • 49 Indef. article
  • 50 Perform
  • 52 Alluvial detritus
  • 54 Obtains
  • 55 Without
  • 56 Grease for frying
  • 57 Bend
  • 59 Row
  • 61 Uproar
  • 62 Spoils
  • 64 Tag
  • 65 Binder stones
  • 66 Artfully cunning
  • 67 Term used when hunting a criminal
  • 69 Criticism
  • 70 Noise
  • 72 Be of service to
  • 74 Malicious firing of a building
  • 75 Places to store grain
  • 77 Portion
  • 78 Dirty
  • 80 Net
  • 82 The head (slang)
  • 83 Aged
  • 85 Also
  • 91 Humor
  • 92 Bullet
  • 93 Half (prefix)
  • 95 Part of “to be”
  • 96 Time
  • 98 Eye
  • 100 Crustacean
  • 101 A long staff
  • 102 To rage
  • 104 Buttocks
  • 105 Fondle
  • 107 Annually
  • 109 Snared
  • 110 Prevents
  • 112 Gather
  • 114 A color
  • 116 Attempt
  • 117 Loose outer garment
  • 119 A private quarrel
  • 121 By
  • 122 Father
  • 124 Point of compass
  • 126 Within
  • 127 Skeletal piece
  • 128 To incline
  • 130 Marsh
  • 132 Narrow opening
  • 133 Rodents
  • 134 Ultimate
  • 136 Caustic
  • 137 Sin
  • 139 Interweaves
  • 141 Aspects
  • 143 Diminution
  • 144 Small mark
  • 146 Not west
  • 147 Prohibit
  • 148 Depression
  • 151 To obstruct
  • 152 Negative prefix
  • 154 Color
  • 155 Fish eggs
  • 157 Note of scale
  • 159 Pronoun
  • 160 Pronoun
  • 162 Us

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Puzzle No. 77

TRY THEM OVER IN YOUR DAILY CHAT

By Irvan Neckerman

There are several dozen words in this puzzle that you can use and your best girl won’t know what you are talking about. This is not misogyny. It merely supposes that she does not follow cross word puzzling. Or maybe that is misogyny.

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68 69 70
71 72 73

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Discover
  • 4 Ordinary language
  • 9 Story
  • 13 Knot
  • 14 The nobility, collectively
  • 15 Young fish
  • 16 Character in musical notation
  • 18 Imbecile
  • 19 Agitation
  • 20 Exclamation
  • 21 Figurative
  • 24 Preposition
  • 25 Vending
  • 27 Gain superiority
  • 28 Throw with violence
  • 31 Piece of ground
  • 33 Small aperture
  • 35 Serpent
  • 37 Robbers
  • 40 Anger
  • 42 Observes
  • 44 Slacken
  • 45 Eighth of a fathom
  • 46 Dressed with ornaments
  • 48 Heed
  • 50 Peruse again
  • 52 With less delay
  • 53 Rested
  • 54 Squalid place
  • 56 Make turbid
  • 58 Sets back
  • 62 Adapts
  • 64 Elevate
  • 65 Equable
  • 68 Beverage
  • 69 Reduce
  • 70 Cool
  • 71 Merriment
  • 72 Milestone
  • 73 Boundary

VERTICAL

  • 1 Engrave
  • 2 Pits for storing fodder
  • 3 Bill of an anchor
  • 4 Loud sound
  • 5 Make over
  • 6 Pristine
  • 7 Apartment
  • 8 Scene of Wallenstein’s assassination, 1634
  • 10 Repeated
  • 11 Estuary
  • 12 Novice
  • 17 Drop
  • 19 Recite metrically
  • 22 Move swiftly
  • 23 Certain days of months
  • 26 Seems
  • 29 Compensation
  • 30 Article of food
  • 32 Jaded
  • 33 Irritates
  • 34 Guard
  • 36 Dry
  • 38 Color
  • 39 Viscous fluid
  • 41 Stock
  • 43 Weapons
  • 45 Married person
  • 47 Head
  • 49 Any
  • 51 Refresh
  • 54 Earthenware
  • 55 Pert. to one’s birth
  • 57 Brook
  • 59 Dregs
  • 60 Head (Fr.)
  • 61 School
  • 62 Tire
  • 63 Elevation
  • 66 Contend
  • 67 Born

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Puzzle No. 78

POLYANGULAR AND POLYSYLLABIC

By Harold E. Vreeland

This constructor managed to fit together a well-joined construction, central vertebrae and a neat outer shell. Decorative and full of nice words.

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38 39 40 41
42 43
44
45 46
47

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Pale
  • 5 Insignificant part
  • 7 A circle
  • 10 Brag
  • 13 A river in Italy
  • 14 Absconders
  • 15 A musical note
  • 17 A size of type
  • 19 To slip
  • 20 Furnished with a guard
  • 22 Not the same
  • 24 Refusal
  • 25 Do not (Scotch)
  • 26 Divided
  • 28 A richly laden ship
  • 29 Performing a service
  • 30 An alloy
  • 32 Wine
  • 34 Places of confinement
  • 35 Conjunction
  • 37 South American ruminant
  • 38 A shield
  • 39 Princes
  • 41 To goad
  • 42 Seed of North American plant
  • 44 Expressing surprise
  • 45 Brown
  • 46 Decay
  • 47 A president of Orange Free State

VERTICAL

  • 1 A coral island
  • 2 A native of Pacific islands
  • 3 A common given name
  • 4 Saltpeter
  • 5 A maiden loved by Jupiter
  • 6 Poem
  • 8 To talk nonsense
  • 9 A hypothetical force
  • 10 American explosive for shells
  • 11 Sacrifice of principle to circumstances
  • 12 Scientific description of races
  • 13 Marrow
  • 16 Compounds of atoms
  • 17 A Government revenue
  • 18 Collecting wives
  • 20 Beckonings
  • 21 The star of dawn
  • 23 Tears
  • 25 Bore
  • 27 (Prefix) through
  • 28 A bow
  • 31 Loiter
  • 33 Large birds
  • 35 A fabric of asbestos
  • 36 Sad
  • 39 A short sword
  • 40 A counter-irritant
  • 42 Perform
  • 43 Spot

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Puzzle No. 79

WEDDING RING

By Mil-Wal

The contributors of this construction are husband and wife. This fact is symbolized by the wedding ring you see in the middle of the form. Cross-grained cross worders may complain that the ring is not a solid mass of words. Well, is a ring ever a solid mass?

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65 66
67 68

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Slender
  • 5 Time
  • 10 Small boat
  • 11 Invades
  • 13 Healing medicine
  • 15 Quicken
  • 16 Termination
  • 17 Wrap
  • 18 Beast of burden
  • 19 To soak in water
  • 21 Preposition
  • 22 Taut
  • 24 Ourselves
  • 25 Highest point
  • 27 Personal pronoun
  • 28 Therefore
  • 30 Employ
  • 31 Garment
  • 33 Stir
  • 35 Vessel
  • 37 Classified
  • 38 Indicate
  • 39 Heavenly body
  • 40 Female deer
  • 42 Born
  • 44 Consumed
  • 45 Exclamation of pain
  • 47 Exist
  • 48 Deer
  • 50 Negative
  • 51 One who dislikes
  • 54 Note of scale
  • 55 Weight
  • 57 To gain success
  • 58 Tank
  • 60 Distant
  • 61 White, translucent
  • 63 Riddle
  • 65 Withers
  • 66 Basket
  • 67 Depressions
  • 68 Polish

VERTICAL

  • 1 Fat
  • 2 Tavern
  • 3 Work
  • 4 Tri-formed Greek goddess
  • 6 Blots out
  • 7 Large number
  • 8 Hole
  • 9 Poems
  • 10 Religious singer
  • 12 Frozen precipitates
  • 14 Anthropoid
  • 15 Possesses
  • 16 Consume
  • 20 An equal
  • 23 Bow
  • 26 The Ottoman court
  • 27 Paris subway
  • 29 Believe
  • 30 Talk
  • 32 Cry of sheep
  • 33 Calculate
  • 34 Open
  • 36 Single unit
  • 39 Crouches
  • 41 Cereal
  • 43 Page of a book
  • 44 Insect
  • 46 Conjunction
  • 47 Part
  • 49 Rubbish
  • 52 Some
  • 53 Time immediately preceding
  • 56 Require
  • 57 A small bird
  • 59 Periphery; cover
  • 60 Sign
  • 62 Part of “to be”
  • 64 A command to draft animals

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Puzzle No. 80

NOT SO DIFFICULT

By Robert S. Holzman

The beginner should have a good time with this neat construction. There are no lurking terrors in the wood here for the adventurous explorer of cross word puzzledom. Try this one against time.

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Father
  • 4 Former Venetian high officials
  • 8 Gambling term
  • 12 Wrath
  • 13 Flowed
  • 14 Clash
  • 16 Be wrong
  • 17 Use
  • 20 Plant of nightshade family
  • 22 Excavation
  • 23 Vegetable
  • 25 Distracted
  • 26 Sober
  • 28 Make plump
  • 31 Distant
  • 32 Typhoon
  • 33 Beaten track
  • 35 Preposition
  • 36 Disposition
  • 37 Batters
  • 39 Sign of negation
  • 40 Perform
  • 41 Astir
  • 42 Silicon
  • 44 Disease of foot
  • 47 Iota
  • 49 Masculine pronoun
  • 50 And so forth
  • 52 Hummed
  • 53 Mien
  • 54 One who carves
  • 56 Suitable for food
  • 59 That bird
  • 60 Haul
  • 62 Lubricate
  • 64 Kind of nail
  • 67 Lower in rank
  • 69 1004
  • 70 Faucet
  • 72 Fluid used for heating
  • 73 Female sheep
  • 74 Search
  • 75 Austerity
  • 76 Plan

VERTICAL

  • 1 Mottled with various colors
  • 2 Weapon
  • 3 Condiment
  • 4 Period
  • 5 Forward
  • 6 Exclamation
  • 7 Pose
  • 9 Primer
  • 10 Skill
  • 11 Support
  • 13 Revolve
  • 15 Indian drum
  • 18 Cover
  • 19 Exist
  • 21 Border for picture
  • 23 Saucy
  • 24 Distant
  • 26 Rested upon
  • 27 Priestly sign
  • 29 Suited
  • 30 Woman devoted to religious life
  • 31 Counterfeit
  • 34 Drunkard
  • 36 Swamp
  • 38 Total
  • 43 That one’s
  • 45 Secret
  • 46 Civil offense
  • 47 Again
  • 48 Detestable
  • 49 Hurry
  • 51 Adhere
  • 53 United
  • 55 Scamp
  • 57 Receptacle
  • 58 Doctrines
  • 61 Conjunction
  • 63 Tract
  • 65 Fasten
  • 66 Organ
  • 67 Jostle
  • 68 Be indebted to
  • 71 3.14159265358979
  • 72 Depart

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Puzzle No. 81

THE EIGHT TEES

By M. B. Gillung

One more tee and Mr. Gillung could have a golf links. As it is, he has provided some neatly placed bunkers to trap the unwary. Beware the unkeyed letters that lurk along the fairway! Particularly those near the boundaries.

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57 58

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Acknowledgment of lordship
  • 5 Workmanship
  • 9 To subside
  • 11 Human family
  • 12 Derivations
  • 15 Reputations
  • 17 Young animal
  • 18 Dregs
  • 20 God of Thunder
  • 21 Slimy
  • 22 Short tail
  • 23 Salt
  • 25 Neglect of duty
  • 27 Things
  • 28 Gibe
  • 31 Hollow cylinder
  • 33 Abrupt
  • 34 Aches
  • 35 Half-breed
  • 37 Vision
  • 39 Managed
  • 40 Water
  • 42 To seize
  • 44 Islands
  • 46 Precious stones
  • 47 Skin disease
  • 48 Severe
  • 50 Corroded
  • 51 To bury
  • 52 Free joint
  • 55 Demises
  • 56 High
  • 57 Becoming
  • 58 Weak

VERTICAL

  • 1 Frequents
  • 2 To vary
  • 3 Odd figures
  • 4 A tree
  • 5 Drudgery
  • 6 Sharp
  • 7 Liquors
  • 8 Artifices
  • 10 Place
  • 11 A bird
  • 12 Softened
  • 13 Shining
  • 14 Inviolables
  • 16 Exclamations
  • 19 Providing energy
  • 24 Trick
  • 26 Steeple
  • 29 Do
  • 30 It exists
  • 31 Dolorous
  • 32 Undivided
  • 35 Strength
  • 36 Barren open country
  • 38 Long hair
  • 39 Rubbed
  • 40 Large drops
  • 41 On the look out
  • 43 Chide
  • 45 Pass along
  • 47 Imbecile
  • 49 Rested
  • 51 Island
  • 53 Soak
  • 54 A dolt

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Puzzle No. 82

THIRD-RAIL CROSSOVER

By I. S. O.

A fine double-cross study in four-letter words. The occasional abbreviation does not mar the general effect. The lateral wedge-masses key well with the central cross. Altogether a nice construction.

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 A gewgaw
  • 6 A point or beginning (obs.)
  • 9 Herself
  • 12 Bark; investing layer
  • 18 To follow after
  • 19 Stooping low
  • 22 Single; only
  • 23 Concerning
  • 24 A prefix; half
  • 26 A term in billiards
  • 27 Steeps
  • 29 Prefix; not
  • 30 The auditory organ
  • 32 A Hindu God
  • 34 To carry laboriously
  • 35 Teeth of a wheel
  • 36 Prefix; three
  • 37 Step lightly
  • 39 To plunge head-first
  • 41 A theatrical miscellany
  • 42 Space
  • 43 A short sleep
  • 45 The rudimentary leaf of the embryo in plants
  • 48 Period of years
  • 49 To consent
  • 51 A frozen confection
  • 52 An old soldier; a horse doctor
  • 53 To clutch; clench
  • 55 Upon
  • 56 Having narrow strips of cloth
  • 58 Hail
  • 60 Turf
  • 62 Since
  • 64 Mechanical device for irregular rotary motion
  • 66 To bind
  • 67 An anthropoid ape
  • 69 Belonging to him
  • 70 Gone by
  • 71 Down; below
  • 73 Pull along
  • 75 By and by
  • 77 Three in cards
  • 78 To make a speech
  • 79 Remainder
  • 80 One who flies
  • 81 Astir
  • 82 Rodents
  • 84 The Indian bull
  • 86 Wood of a South American tree
  • 88 Electric particle
  • 89 A small devil
  • 90 Vestige
  • 93 Old
  • 95 Limb
  • 96 Lanterloo
  • 97 Rasp
  • 99 Prefix; one
  • 100 Under
  • 102 Thus
  • 103 Backless chair
  • 105 Wild, insane
  • 107 A viscous liquid
  • 109 Brings forth, of lambs
  • 112 A small tumor
  • 113 Transitory
  • 116 Regret
  • 118 A flower
  • 120 A pilaster
  • 121 A pottery slab
  • 123 Wash
  • 125 Equip
  • 126 To influence
  • 127 Upper limb
  • 129 Jackdaws
  • 131 An inclosure
  • 132 Part of “to be”
  • 133 A vegetable
  • 134 Sour
  • 136 Intend
  • 138 Within
  • 139 Prevent
  • 141 Pathological distention with air
  • 144 Illustrious
  • 146 Eats away
  • 147 Die (Scotch)
  • 148 Curve of ship-spiling
  • 149 Dryest

VERTICAL

  • 1 Artists’ caps
  • 2 Opposite of afar
  • 3 Ourselves
  • 4 To sprout
  • 5 Dregs of wine
  • 6 Correlative of either
  • 7 A fabulous bird
  • 8 Two-fold
  • 9 To shake, jog
  • 10 Obj. form of he
  • 11 Measure of type
  • 13 A cereal
  • 14 Author of “Treasure Island”
  • 15 Toward
  • 16 Be available
  • 17 Pert. to hospitality
  • 19 Pert. to a city
  • 20 Pitiless
  • 21 Inguinal region
  • 25 Prefix; middle
  • 28 The self
  • 31 A circlet
  • 33 Shun
  • 35 Coagulates
  • 36 Ensnare
  • 38 Portion
  • 40 And so forth
  • 41 Lyric poem
  • 42 Dry
  • 44 Decomposed vegetable fuel
  • 46 A measure of time
  • 47 Level, uniform
  • 48 Is mistaken
  • 49 Partly corresponding
  • 50 Relating to the cuticle
  • 53 So as to profit
  • 54 Avidity
  • 55 South American plant
  • 57 Ever
  • 59 Papal palace
  • 61 Interrogative pronoun
  • 63 A Chinese bean
  • 65 Mental inferior
  • 67 Art indebted
  • 68 Very thin fabric
  • 70 Pert. to an area
  • 72 A wit
  • 74 Skill
  • 76 Born
  • 77 Until
  • 81 Be ill
  • 83 Likely
  • 85 A valuable insect
  • 87 Gone by
  • 89 A metal
  • 91 Impolite
  • 92 Summon legally
  • 94 One who does
  • 97 Proceeds
  • 98 Vacant
  • 100 Plait, interlace
  • 101 Squall, cry
  • 104 A small branch
  • 106 Exclamation
  • 108 Part of verb “to be”
  • 110 Lowest tide
  • 111 Long, vehement speech
  • 113 Growing out
  • 114 Take for wife
  • 115 South American camel
  • 117 Used to curdle milk
  • 119 One who rhymes
  • 120 Reverential fear
  • 122 Female lamb
  • 124 Hides
  • 126 Dry
  • 127 Pain
  • 128 Fail to hit
  • 130 Level-headed
  • 133 Couch
  • 134 Imitate
  • 135 Lair
  • 137 And not
  • 140 Toward
  • 142 Physician
  • 143 Possessive pronoun
  • 145 To exist

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Puzzle No. 83

ANOTHER BY A PRACTICED CONSTRUCTOR

By Marcam

Remember Marcam’s neat creations in the First Series of the Cross Word Puzzle Book? We have three by this author this time. For a pretty job, give us Marcam. Neophyte is more prolix and erudite, but Marcam has the graces with her.

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Shrew
  • 5 Interval
  • 9 Seeress
  • 13 Enemies
  • 15 Total
  • 16 Engagement
  • 17 Part of “to be”
  • 19 Insert
  • 22 Printers’ measure
  • 23 Bereft
  • 25 Probable
  • 26 Heavy
  • 27 Mud
  • 29 Before
  • 30 Estate of a prince
  • 33 Bow the head
  • 34 Catch sight of
  • 36 Closed compartments
  • 37 Grows older
  • 40 Skin
  • 42 Beam
  • 43 Clock face
  • 45 Seizes roughly
  • 48 Offers
  • 50 Part of “to be”
  • 51 Rope on sailing ship
  • 52 Obtain
  • 53 D.D.S.
  • 55 Exude
  • 57 Fop
  • 58 Distant
  • 60 Residence of David
  • 61 Girl’s name
  • 62 Noted stylist of the ’80s
  • 64 Observe
  • 66 Tumor
  • 67 Thefts
  • 70 Delay
  • 72 To scold
  • 74 Vessel
  • 75 Age
  • 76 Hindu groom
  • 77 Article
  • 78 Breathing
  • 82 That man
  • 83 Monster
  • 84 Belonging to us
  • 85 Hindrance
  • 87 Court card
  • 88 North African plant
  • 89 The after song

VERTICAL

  • 1 Old
  • 2 Belonging to
  • 3 Thigh
  • 4 Lair
  • 6 Associate
  • 7 High mountain
  • 8 Carefully
  • 9 Rested
  • 10 Newspaper article
  • 11 Exist
  • 12 Crippled
  • 14 Be prominent
  • 16 Part of wall
  • 18 Again
  • 20 Narrative poem
  • 21 Boys
  • 22 God of Love
  • 24 Shining brilliantly
  • 28 Ungracefully
  • 30 Colossal
  • 31 Fellow schoolman
  • 32 Holds
  • 35 Comrade
  • 38 Prod
  • 39 Lots (colloq.)
  • 41 Obliterate
  • 43 Believes
  • 44 Flower
  • 46 Metalliferous rock
  • 47 Pose
  • 48 Mound
  • 49 Decay
  • 54 Large vessel
  • 56 Now (Scot.)
  • 58 Party
  • 59 Approaches again
  • 61 Meager
  • 62 Support
  • 63 Revelry
  • 65 Every
  • 66 Anger
  • 68 Part of church
  • 69 Heroine in “Idylls of the King”
  • 71 Fowls
  • 73 Therefore
  • 76 Fasten
  • 79 Mistake
  • 80 Famous British University (abbr.)
  • 81 Native metal
  • 83 Upon
  • 86 Proceed

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Puzzle No. 84

DOWN THE GOLDEN STAIRS

By Konstantynopolitanczyk

We have reason to believe that the name above is a pseudonym. We wish it weren’t, for Mr. Konstantyou-finish-it has made a magnificent construction in five-letter words, with a few long ones to accomplish the interlock.

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Erase
  • 6 Procreates
  • 10 Mourn
  • 15 Regard
  • 16 Inclined
  • 18 Lemur
  • 20 Actual
  • 22 Bolt
  • 23 Nostrils
  • 24 Era
  • 25 Debauchees
  • 27 Yale students
  • 28 Savory
  • 29 Struck
  • 30 Imitation satin
  • 31 Destiny
  • 32 Storms
  • 33 In that place
  • 34 Tighten again
  • 35 Hybrid equines
  • 36 Large felines
  • 37 Pig-like mammal of S. A.
  • 38 Pertaining to schedules
  • 41 Vigilant
  • 42 Civil
  • 43 Possessive pronoun
  • 45 Revised
  • 46 Fierce look
  • 47 Celebrated sorceress
  • 48 Chums
  • 49 Uncloses
  • 50 Sufferings
  • 51 Polyp’s skeletons
  • 52 Molten rock
  • 53 Reared
  • 54 Carved gem
  • 55 Jury
  • 56 Signs of omission
  • 58 Guided
  • 59 Morning worship
  • 60 Wed
  • 61 British title
  • 62 Mature
  • 63 Flower nectar
  • 64 Revolt
  • 65 Interprets
  • 68 Writing material
  • 69 Medieval guitars
  • 70 Style
  • 72 Publisher
  • 73 Withers
  • 74 Dromedary
  • 75 Nap
  • 76 Employer
  • 77 Confines
  • 78 Aslant
  • 79 Pastoral pipe
  • 80 Deeds
  • 81 Carries
  • 82 Round-up
  • 83 Male falcon
  • 85 Even so
  • 86 Rash
  • 87 Commenced
  • 88 Genuine
  • 89 Knots or knobs
  • 90 Kind of beer
  • 91 Word of unknown meaning in the Psalms
  • 92 Maker of arms
  • 95 A murænoid eel
  • 96 Even
  • 97 Australian bird
  • 99 Longs
  • 100 Polecat
  • 101 Economical person
  • 102 Dirty street or district
  • 103 Weird
  • 104 Virtuous
  • 105 Scout
  • 106 Raise the spirits
  • 107 Decree
  • 108 As far as
  • 109 Earth
  • 110 Nothing
  • 111 Appropriate
  • 112 Water-nymph
  • 113 Slurred

VERTICAL

  • 1 Crane
  • 2 Pieces out
  • 3 Allow
  • 4 Finch-like bird
  • 5 Stockades
  • 6 Sliding vehicle
  • 7 Possessive pronoun
  • 8 Rudiment
  • 9 Deep, lethargic sleep (pl.)
  • 10 Cause of pediculosis
  • 11 Comminuted lava
  • 12 Eccentric
  • 13 More orderly
  • 14 Removed
  • 15 Fodder storage
  • 17 Rainbow
  • 19 Mechanical repetition without understanding
  • 21 Dregs
  • 22 Narrate
  • 26 Contemptuous insinuations
  • 28 Vegetables with dressing
  • 29 Prop
  • 30 Ink of the cuttlefish
  • 32 Governs
  • 33 Rows
  • 34 Disentangle
  • 35 Silenced
  • 36 Flat, treeless plain
  • 37 Pertaining to tides
  • 39 Worship
  • 40 Two-legged
  • 41 Foreign
  • 42 Sealed with wax
  • 43 Harbor
  • 44 Excite
  • 46 Street urchin
  • 47 Spondulix
  • 48 Verbal
  • 50 Top of the head (pl.)
  • 51 Provide
  • 52 Etruscan gods
  • 53 Grass leaf
  • 54 Antic
  • 55 Panels
  • 56 Junto
  • 57 Rock
  • 59 Secondary
  • 60 Is melancholy
  • 61 Asiatic shrub
  • 62 Religious ceremony
  • 63 Inferno
  • 64 Juliet’s lover
  • 66 Draw out
  • 67 Clenched hands
  • 68 Summons
  • 69 Black and shining
  • 70 Fragment
  • 71 Church officer
  • 73 Destinies
  • 74 Aromatic wood
  • 75 Roost
  • 77 Lid
  • 78 Standard golf score
  • 79 Of the kidneys
  • 80 Madagascar mammal
  • 81 Ebb and flow
  • 82 Royal
  • 83 Layer of tiles
  • 84 Bean
  • 86 Large wasps
  • 87 Impure soda
  • 88 Divers
  • 89 Water raising apparatus (pl.)
  • 90 Town in Ohio
  • 91 Harsh
  • 93 Coral barrier
  • 94 The Madonna
  • 95 Death (Fr.)
  • 96 Den
  • 97 African antelope
  • 98 Dumb
  • 100 Strip of land
  • 101 Hurried
  • 102 The black haw
  • 104 Silent
  • 105 Station (abbr.)
  • 106 Finish

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Puzzle No. 85

DIRTY WORK AT THE CROSS WORDS

By Neophyte

Perhaps you agonized over Neophyte’s creation in the First Series. Here’s its mate. Neophyte, being a hardened veteran of the cryptic art, must have heard the groans from the breasts of puzzlers poring over his brain buster. And he gloated and went at his fell work again. However, this one is a little easier than the other.

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Ungainly
  • 7 Malayan animal
  • 9 Simpleton
  • 12 Expiate
  • 13 Fools
  • 14 Stiff mass, esp. of bread
  • 15 Most singular
  • 17 Fruit of Cola acuminata
  • 18 Look rudely
  • 19 Hero of series of books
  • 20 Abounding in ferns
  • 21 Hums
  • 25 Readjusted
  • 29 Learning
  • 32 Affection
  • 33 Ancient weapons
  • 35 Laborer
  • 37 Prevent
  • 38 Venomous serpent
  • 39 Boundary
  • 40 Thin
  • 41 Yields

VERTICAL

  • 1 Footless
  • 2 Wound but not kill
  • 3 Basket or trap for fish
  • 4 Glowing
  • 5 Unit of square measure
  • 6 Trifler
  • 7 Prick designs on skin
  • 8 Coral island
  • 10 Curl the lip
  • 11 German town
  • 14 Writes unskillfully
  • 16 Keeper of an engagement
  • 22 Openings
  • 23 Pert. to Ireland
  • 24 One who rents
  • 26 Cuts out
  • 27 Furnished with guard
  • 28 All possible
  • 30 Poplar
  • 31 Gaze earnestly
  • 34 Blood
  • 36 German river

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Puzzle No. 86

HEY, THERE!

By Neophyte

Dear Neophyte: Whaddaye mean by those two bare, indecently naked words, each with three unkeyed letters? An expert like you? However, you tried too hard to keep it down to the level of ordinary mankind and restrained yourself from so many outlandish words that you are addicted to—that, we believe, the puzzlers will forgive you.

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Outlive
  • 7 Look hard
  • 9 Pert. to ships
  • 12 Spoil
  • 13 Metric cubic unit
  • 14 Storehouse
  • 15 Shelter
  • 17 Bivalve
  • 19 Condition
  • 21 One
  • 22 Parent
  • 23 Twig, spray
  • 24 Explode
  • 25 Behold
  • 27 Conjunction
  • 28 Holy day
  • 32 One who reads
  • 36 Anger
  • 37 Moves slowly
  • 38 Come to fruition
  • 40 Musical drama
  • 42 Give pain
  • 43 Enticed
  • 44 Most profound

VERTICAL

  • 1 Godly person
  • 2 Vessel
  • 3 Come back
  • 4 Part of foot
  • 5 Vessel
  • 6 Happening
  • 7 Continue
  • 8 Sailors
  • 10 Surface
  • 11 That not
  • 14 Support
  • 16 Canopies
  • 18 American bird
  • 20 Kind of sword
  • 26 Fruit
  • 27 American bird
  • 29 Manners
  • 30 Narrow opening
  • 31 Lukewarm
  • 33 Watchful
  • 34 Defy
  • 35 Euphemism for “By God”
  • 39 Point of compass
  • 41 Matter

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Puzzle No. 87

SPOT

By Irvan Neckerman

The blacks strewn negligently over the form give it an informal look, different from those forms that are studiedly ornamental and almost forbidding in the courtly, mannered preciseness. However, Mr. Neckerman’s construction may make you knit your brows now and then.

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Lampoon
  • 6 Key
  • 11 Unit of superficial measure
  • 12 Parisian theater
  • 13 Southern constellation
  • 14 Watched
  • 16 Beetle
  • 18 Visitations
  • 20 Christmas
  • 22 Signal of distress
  • 23 Think
  • 25 Fragment
  • 27 Flowers
  • 28 Small dog
  • 29 Remedied
  • 31 Banked
  • 34 Anglo-Saxon money of account
  • 35 Sovereign
  • 38 Sooner than
  • 39 Change
  • 42 Backward
  • 44 One who escapes
  • 46 Deviate
  • 47 Decline
  • 48 Oil seeds
  • 49 Assistant foreman
  • 50 At stated periods

VERTICAL

  • 1 Silk cloth
  • 2 Part of “to be”
  • 3 Humane
  • 4 Female deer
  • 5 Scandinavian myths
  • 6 Detriment
  • 7 At one time
  • 8 Foot of an insect
  • 9 Fixed point of time
  • 10 Madness
  • 15 Enlarge
  • 17 Branch of heraldry
  • 19 Springs
  • 21 To meet the eye
  • 24 Cut
  • 26 Retailer of small wares
  • 27 Redistribution
  • 29 Magnetic metal
  • 30 Species of palm
  • 32 Preserver
  • 33 Earnestly
  • 36 Inside
  • 37 Fertile (poetic)
  • 40 Tear
  • 41 Green and white monkey
  • 43 Jurisdiction of a bishop
  • 45 Fish

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Puzzle No. 88

CENTRIFUGAL

By Minerva

Look at this with your eyes half closed and get the effect of rotary motion. Then try and solve it, and see if the rotary motion doesn’t transmit itself to your head. Plenty of short words, but not all of them easy, and the long ones—but go ahead!

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 An ancient symbol
  • 7 Fatigued
  • 12 In case
  • 14 Proceed
  • 15 Coloring
  • 17 New
  • 19 Contained
  • 21 Revolves
  • 23 Slip away from
  • 25 Suspended
  • 27 A ship’s smallboat
  • 29 School near Windsor Castle
  • 30 Rodent
  • 31 Enemies
  • 33 Inhabitants of a country
  • 35 Otherwise
  • 36 Myself
  • 37 At no time
  • 39 Maiden changed by Hera into a heifer
  • 40 Sloth
  • 41 Discolors
  • 44 Existed
  • 45 Testify under oath
  • 47 Asiatic country
  • 49 Turf
  • 50 Deity
  • 51 Augment
  • 52 Injured by a blow
  • 53 Sea eagle
  • 54 Owing
  • 55 Color
  • 56 Any plant of the amaryllis family
  • 59 Severe trial
  • 61 Pen
  • 63 Excrements
  • 65 Sun god
  • 66 Belonging to me
  • 67 Ridiculed
  • 69 One
  • 70 Affirmative
  • 71 Preposterous
  • 73 To scorch
  • 75 A long strip of wood used for gliding over snow
  • 76 Small British isle where Macbeth was buried
  • 78 Common laborer in bondage for debt
  • 80 Stiffly formal
  • 82 Beginning; first attempt
  • 84 Get up
  • 86 A fratricide
  • 87 Distorts; pulls obliquely
  • 89 Inter
  • 91 Chief Babylonian deity
  • 93 Toward
  • 94 Precipitous
  • 95 A king of Thebes, son of Œdipus

VERTICAL

  • 1 Thus
  • 2 Deputy
  • 3 Disposed of for a consideration
  • 4 The thing
  • 5 Young domestic animal
  • 6 Assyrian god of Chaos
  • 8 Reply
  • 9 Accomplish
  • 10 Made from a rib
  • 11 Promote; cause to grow
  • 13 Maddened
  • 16 Attempt
  • 18 Recent
  • 19 Center
  • 20 Protect; fight for
  • 22 Backs of the necks
  • 24 Accomplish
  • 25 Unmetrical literary composition
  • 26 Not any
  • 28 Behold
  • 32 Stitch
  • 34 Party-colored
  • 36 Intellect
  • 38 Diversity
  • 40 Soon
  • 42 Assisted
  • 43 Prophetess
  • 45 Artful device to evade or cheat
  • 46 Fearsome giants
  • 48 Exist
  • 49 Large body of water
  • 51 Invisible emanation
  • 53 Equal
  • 54 Sleeping
  • 55 Periods of time
  • 57 A mushroom
  • 58 Mohammedan title of courtesy
  • 60 Engages in any affair or business
  • 61 Perspiration
  • 62 Aye
  • 64 Seized
  • 67 Animal fat
  • 68 Abandon
  • 71 Small insects
  • 72 Above
  • 74 In, on, near or by
  • 75 Quiet
  • 77 Over and in contact with
  • 79 Point
  • 81 Secular
  • 83 Still
  • 85 Plead
  • 88 Ourselves
  • 90 You
  • 92 Exists

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Puzzle No. 89

SLENDER AS A GIRL

By John A. Shafer

This is no Falstaff of cross word puzzles, no paunchy fellow stuffed with large and grandiloquent words. It is a mite, a snack. It is an easy one, too.

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 To twist
  • 7 Financially sound
  • 13 Obligation
  • 14 Large duck
  • 16 Response
  • 17 Beat (colloq.)
  • 19 Deep ditch
  • 20 Animal of Africa
  • 21 Proceed
  • 23 To steep in water
  • 25 Infatuated
  • 26 Perform
  • 27 Measure
  • 29 Pericarp for seeds
  • 31 Doleful
  • 32 Asphyxiate
  • 33 Bobbin
  • 35 Human being
  • 36 Provisions for table
  • 37 Willingly
  • 38 Paint carelessly
  • 39 Rebel
  • 40 Coffins
  • 42 Neat
  • 44 An individual
  • 45 Obstacle
  • 46 Penetrate
  • 48 Jurisdiction of archbishop
  • 49 Come about
  • 50 Fodder
  • 52 Silence by force
  • 54 Symbol for tin
  • 55 Period of time
  • 56 Game
  • 58 To desert one’s party
  • 60 Box
  • 62 Coarse cotton
  • 64 Source
  • 66 Inking pad of lithographic printer
  • 67 Goodies

VERTICAL

  • 1 Old man
  • 2 Near
  • 3 Kind of fruit
  • 4 Former European ruler
  • 5 Regarding
  • 6 Nervous twitch
  • 7 Adjust
  • 8 Correlative
  • 9 Offer for sale
  • 10 Medieval shield
  • 11 State (abbr.)
  • 12 Uneven
  • 15 Excavated
  • 18 Catnip
  • 20 Point of a spear
  • 22 A hydrocarbon
  • 24 Coarse part of flax
  • 25 Anything closely interwoven
  • 26 Handcuffs (slang)
  • 28 Period
  • 30 Thumb or finger
  • 31 Portion
  • 32 East Indian oxen
  • 34 Wilful misstatement
  • 36 Adipose
  • 39 Strong
  • 40 Turkish title
  • 41 A bending
  • 43 Small catlike animals
  • 45 Non-professional
  • 47 Thick, oily substance
  • 50 Musical instrument
  • 51 Fish
  • 53 Outward form
  • 55 Female parent
  • 56 252 gallons
  • 57 To chatter
  • 59 Over and above
  • 61 Italian river
  • 62 In high degree
  • 63 Noting motion toward
  • 65 Adhering

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Puzzle No. 90

CORNERED

By T. J. Stephens

Look at those corners, full, compact, ample, obese. A little bit loose on the sides, but admirable for corner construction. Most constructors would run the arms of the central cross out to the next to last letter.

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Interchange of opinions
  • 7 A set of steps leading over a wall or fence
  • 11 A true copy of an original writing
  • 18 Yearly
  • 19 A unit
  • 20 Discordant
  • 21 Established
  • 23 Large body of water
  • 25 To make a circuit
  • 26 A master
  • 27 A slight sound
  • 29 Taste
  • 31 To abide
  • 32 A shrub
  • 34 Rent
  • 35 To extract
  • 36 A device for igniting an explosive charge
  • 37 Son of Vulcan (Rom. myth)
  • 39 A doglike animal
  • 41 A stream
  • 42 Clearer
  • 43 To eject
  • 45 Pertaining to understanding
  • 47 Immense
  • 48 A child
  • 50 Jeweled headdress
  • 51 Father
  • 53 Staggered
  • 55 Born
  • 56 Admire (U. S. colloq.)
  • 59 Needy
  • 61 To burst forth
  • 63 Withered (obs.)
  • 65 Presage
  • 67 To grate
  • 68 Name of an automobile
  • 69 An Indian
  • 70 Disagreeable
  • 71 A Roman highway
  • 73 A fruit (pl.)
  • 75 Horned toad
  • 77 A festival
  • 78 Ruins
  • 80 A color
  • 82 To delay
  • 84 Laborer
  • 85 Lift
  • 87 Pertaining to ferns (pl.)
  • 89 To percolate slowly
  • 90 Part of the harness of a horse (pl.)
  • 92 A Chinese wax
  • 95 A place of worship
  • 97 Artificially produced
  • 98 Daughter of Uranus
  • 100 A Greek letter
  • 102 Tidy
  • 103 A part of a shoe
  • 104 Feminine proper name
  • 106 Obsolete, timber
  • 107 Catch (colloq.)
  • 108 User of tobacco
  • 110 A vegetable (pl.)
  • 112 A prefix meaning limit (geom.)
  • 113 Number of books printed at once
  • 115 A tree
  • 117 A large seal
  • 119 To yield
  • 120 Nothing
  • 121 A fine
  • 122 Moved away furtively
  • 123 Cut of meat
  • 124 Sophoclean hero

VERTICAL

  • 1 A long outer garment
  • 2 An Indian tribe
  • 3 To loosen
  • 4 A hard-shelled fruit
  • 5 To season
  • 6 Chosen
  • 8 A small nail
  • 9 A transparent solid
  • 10 To run
  • 12 A young hog
  • 13 A large book
  • 14 Hit
  • 15 Obliteration
  • 16 To rate
  • 17 Assayers
  • 22 A lateen-rigged vessel
  • 23 An American spotted cat
  • 24 A genus of gastropods
  • 25 To harden
  • 28 An element
  • 30 Boys
  • 33 To move heavily
  • 36 A musical composition
  • 38 A person in authority
  • 40 Mock blow
  • 41 Exhausts
  • 42 Form assumed by certain insects
  • 44 A recital
  • 46 Girl’s name
  • 47 Difficult
  • 49 An area of ground (military)
  • 51 Robbers
  • 52 A part of an antenna
  • 53 Dressed
  • 54 Musical compositions for two performers
  • 56 Farm
  • 57 To lay in surrounding matter
  • 58 Below
  • 60 Away from
  • 62 An American poet and story-writer
  • 64 An age
  • 66 To devour
  • 72 To reiterate
  • 73 To dismiss
  • 74 To gaze
  • 75 A goose
  • 76 On top of
  • 77 Useless adornments
  • 79 A beverage
  • 81 A mixture of gases
  • 83 A plane surface
  • 85 To recover
  • 86 Ethylene
  • 88 Flags
  • 89 Not moving
  • 90 Converse
  • 91 A prefix meaning half
  • 93 To ordain
  • 94 Sea soldiers
  • 96 Dull gray
  • 97 A satellite
  • 99 Biblical name
  • 101 Obsolete, herald
  • 103 Smite (past part.)
  • 105 Not far
  • 108 To subside
  • 109 Rave
  • 110 A jar or pot
  • 111 Identical
  • 114 Beverage
  • 116 Filled pastry
  • 118 The (French pl.)

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Puzzle No. 91

THAT EXCLUSIVE LINOLEUM PATTERN

By Wilmer H. Koch

Mr. Koch wandered into the kitchen after a doughnut, and saw black and white squares all over the floor. “Aha,” thought he, “like a flash, an idea!” This is it.

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Grammatical figure
  • 6 Interchange
  • 11 A negative vote
  • 12 First cause
  • 14 A tetrasyllabic foot
  • 16 The two-toed sloth
  • 18 Fragments
  • 20 Collection of animals
  • 21 To charge with gas
  • 23 Astronomical measuring instrument
  • 25 Bull’s-eyes at archery
  • 27 Compounds having the same composition
  • 29 Spiteful woman
  • 31 Separation of compound words
  • 33 Ornamental border
  • 34 To eject legally
  • 36 Displace
  • 38 The Roman libra
  • 39 A kind of indehiscent fruit
  • 41 Concerning
  • 43 Indefinite nominative
  • 44 Petitioner at law
  • 46 A color
  • 48 River in Germany
  • 50 A second perusal
  • 52 Rather than
  • 53 The rear
  • 55 Layers
  • 57 Coins minted under Charles I
  • 59 Tripod
  • 61 Prefix; the same
  • 63 Scourge
  • 65 A field of granular snow
  • 66 A bid at bridge
  • 68 An evening party
  • 70 Gold color
  • 71 The goober
  • 72 A cognomen

VERTICAL

  • 1 Encircle
  • 2 Ordinary
  • 3 Wend
  • 4 Collection of interesting objects
  • 5 Geometric figure
  • 6 Tolerate
  • 7 Rebels
  • 8 Preposition
  • 9 A soluble ferment
  • 10 River
  • 11 A delicate gradation
  • 13 Lacrosse racket
  • 15 Solicits
  • 17 Frigid
  • 19 Place of detention
  • 22 Falter
  • 24 Aftermaths
  • 26 Cylindrical
  • 28 A click beetle
  • 30 Incarnation
  • 32 Turkish hospice
  • 35 St. Vitus’s dance
  • 37 Month of the Jewish year
  • 40 Strait
  • 42 A grooved wheel
  • 43 A source of synthetic indigo
  • 45 Shakespearean character; a duke
  • 47 Sexless
  • 49 Scene of Napoleon’s defeat of the Austrians, 1796
  • 51 A blood vessel
  • 54 Penal crime
  • 56 Ringworm
  • 58 Inclination
  • 60 Cry of bacchanals
  • 62 Sip
  • 64 Tomcat
  • 67 Note of diatonic scale
  • 69 Printer’s measure

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Puzzle No. 92

ADAM’S RIB

By E. Pinkerton

If this puzzle were Adam, that central double armed cross would be his rib just before it started turning into Eve. We observe nice fat masses of words at sides and corners.

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 3.2 grains
  • 5 Wicked
  • 8 Supply food
  • 13 Animal without feet
  • 14 Rectangular piece
  • 16 Female beast of burden
  • 17 Father
  • 18 Reduce
  • 19 Series of heroic events
  • 20 Hermit
  • 22 Zealous
  • 24 Constraint
  • 27 Rested
  • 29 Every one
  • 33 Narrow-minded people
  • 35 Chart
  • 36 Vassal
  • 38 Rage
  • 39 Dregs
  • 40 Unfastens
  • 42 Small egg
  • 43 Handles
  • 44 Move
  • 46 Huge snake
  • 48 Two-faced outwork
  • 52 Hide
  • 55 Studio
  • 59 A game
  • 60 Choose
  • 62 Qualified
  • 63 Entrance to a mine
  • 64 Bargains
  • 65 Furnace
  • 66 Keep back
  • 67 Relieved
  • 68 Set again

VERTICAL

  • 1 Cloak
  • 2 Aside
  • 3 Cord
  • 4 First man
  • 5 Young children
  • 6 Collection of sayings
  • 7 Restrain
  • 9 So be it
  • 10 Narrow strip
  • 11 Appearing gnawed
  • 12 Cease from motion
  • 14 Eucharist plate
  • 15 Depart
  • 21 The rainbow
  • 23 Actual
  • 25 Scrutinize
  • 26 Dress covering
  • 27 Exists
  • 28 Actor
  • 30 Microscopic hair (pl.)
  • 31 Part of a shoe (pl.)
  • 32 Dirty
  • 34 Knock
  • 37 Obtain
  • 41 A father
  • 43 Sharpen
  • 45 Scolds
  • 46 Posts for cables on a ship
  • 47 Crystal-lined stone
  • 49 Pert. to the palate
  • 50 Lashed
  • 51 Reigning beauty
  • 52 To box
  • 53 Shear
  • 54 Repetition to learn
  • 56 Variety of red
  • 57 Egyptian bird
  • 58 Hire
  • 61 Yale

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Puzzle No. 93

IN THE CLOVER PATCH

By Minerva

A splendid construction, particularly in its avoidance of the bane of puzzlers—the loose center. Minerva has not hesitated to call upon the deeps of the dictionary for her words; there are some old favorites in the patch, of course, but also some interlopers that will serve to keep your interest for some time.

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Phrygian shepherd changed into a fir tree
  • 5 God of love
  • 9 Parched
  • 12 Domesticates
  • 17 Unusual
  • 18 Was contiguous
  • 19 Kind of compass used in surveying
  • 20 Considerable in degree
  • 22 Rounded protuberance
  • 23 A drop of saline fluid
  • 25 Domestic animal
  • 26 Indian tribe
  • 27 To inspire deep reverence
  • 29 Bordered
  • 31 Exist
  • 33 Small mound of earth
  • 34 Goddess of the moon
  • 37 Receptacle for ashes
  • 38 Grecian sub-prefect
  • 40 Obtain
  • 41 Make less bitter
  • 44 Overmuch
  • 46 Pore over
  • 47 One
  • 48 Part of a circle
  • 50 A small hole
  • 53 Ventilate
  • 55 Groups of three
  • 58 Trial impression
  • 60 Loose end
  • 62 Web-footed, tailless amphibian
  • 64 Minor devil
  • 65 Seaman
  • 67 To be obliged for
  • 68 Certain
  • 69 In the direction of
  • 71 Writer of a kind of plaintive verse
  • 74 To seek something lofty
  • 76 Floating vegetation in the Nile
  • 77 Vapid
  • 78 Move
  • 79 Dissipate
  • 81 Pert. to the eyes
  • 83 Federations of workers
  • 86 Hostelries
  • 87 A lizard
  • 89 Unit
  • 90 Propeller
  • 92 A pledge
  • 93 Past
  • 94 One who compiles material for publication
  • 96 Placed at intervals
  • 99 Japanese plant
  • 100 Implore
  • 102 Barrier
  • 104 Abaft
  • 105 Tree
  • 107 Males
  • 109 Well-being
  • 112 Wrath
  • 114 Phœnician princess carried away by Zeus
  • 116 Bronze or copper
  • 117 Tottered
  • 121 Watering place
  • 123 International language
  • 124 Broke
  • 126 Tiny
  • 127 Sharp-pointed tool
  • 129 Vedic god of the sun
  • 131 Not good
  • 133 Persia
  • 135 Pert. to national sea forces
  • 137 Sea eagle
  • 138 Brittle, salty biscuit
  • 139 Languish
  • 140 Irascible
  • 141 Be conscious of
  • 142 Those snaky fish
  • 143 A donkey

VERTICAL

  • 1 Hundred-eyed son of Zeus
  • 2 Acid
  • 3 Instruments for preserving the form of shoes
  • 4 An affirmative
  • 6 Took its way
  • 7 Wind instrument
  • 8 Quiet
  • 9 Heedful
  • 10 Long, slender plant
  • 11 Mountain near ancient Troy
  • 13 Flurry
  • 14 Merriment
  • 15 Comfort
  • 16 Smooth
  • 21 Ancient coin mentioned in the Bible
  • 22 Immediate knowledge
  • 24 Tap
  • 25 The brave
  • 28 Saturated
  • 30 Enlarged
  • 32 Rodent
  • 35 Essential self
  • 36 Elude
  • 38 To implant deeply
  • 39 Demure
  • 42 Marry
  • 43 A discriminating sense of hearing
  • 45 Imbecile
  • 46 Expression of exaltation
  • 47 Intention
  • 49 A female quadruped
  • 51 Case for small articles
  • 52 A kind of molding
  • 54 Smoothing
  • 56 Full of perforations
  • 57 Person with a powerful voice
  • 58 Noblemen of high rank
  • 59 A marked characteristic
  • 61 To adjust
  • 63 Pants
  • 66 Once more
  • 68 A small shoot or twig
  • 70 Regret
  • 72 Edge
  • 73 A high wave
  • 75 Wickedness
  • 79 The moon
  • 80 One who meanly admires wealth or social position
  • 81 One of a tribe of Algonquin Indians
  • 82 Idler
  • 84 Solemn affirmation
  • 85 To shut close
  • 88 Falsehood
  • 91 Deed
  • 94 A nymph who was changed into a fountain
  • 95 Metal-bearing rock
  • 97 Equality as to value
  • 98 Make less light
  • 101 That overworked Australian bird
  • 103 The southwest wind
  • 106 The papal court
  • 108 The land where the sandman lives
  • 110 The bay tree
  • 111 A judicial inquest
  • 112 To chill
  • 113 A piece of property
  • 114 Merits
  • 115 An effervescent drink
  • 118 Possess
  • 119 A king of Israel
  • 120 A narrow passage
  • 122 Unadulterated
  • 124 A tiresome person
  • 125 A large plant
  • 128 Staff
  • 130 Still
  • 132 Open
  • 134 Total
  • 136 Imitate

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Puzzle No. 94

LITTLE BUT A BAD ’UN

By Frank C. White

Mr. White must be one of those mild-seeming people who fool you so often—at least that’s the impression his construction gives the editor. It is little. It looks harmless. But don’t start it if you have an appointment two hours hence. But maybe we shouldn’t give this away.

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50 51

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Original man of Horus
  • 6 The first Jewish high priest
  • 11 A genus of Am. plants
  • 13 A member of the Creek Indian tribe
  • 15 Metal for casting in pigs
  • 17 A game played for stakes
  • 18 A valley in N. W. Argolis
  • 20 Sooner than
  • 21 Track of a deer
  • 23 One of a tribe of Algonquians
  • 24 In the thing or individual
  • 25 Permit (3rd per. sing.) (pl.)
  • 27 A workman on shoes
  • 29 Denoting the infinitive
  • 30 An exclamation of surprise
  • 31 Leisurely (obs.)
  • 34 Any sirenian, esp. the rytina
  • 37 A pliable strip of oxhide (So. Africa)
  • 38 Contrary to good in a moral sense
  • 40 A recess in the shore
  • 41 Anything steeped in liquid
  • 42 A wind (musical) instrument
  • 44 A fairy queen
  • 45 A genus of No. Am. herbs
  • 47 A cloud
  • 49 Reprinting and publishing of a work
  • 50 Lamellirostral birds
  • 51 Am. wild plums

VERTICAL

  • 2 Tutor
  • 3 A garden implement
  • 4 Monitor lizard
  • 5 Restores to existence
  • 6 Invoke
  • 7 An Eastern continent
  • 8 To clothe in an odd manner
  • 9 Mien
  • 10 A town in Oklahoma
  • 12 To insinuate contempt
  • 14 Light repast
  • 16 Absence of removal (rare)
  • 19 Objective case of I
  • 22 Natural kind or class, esp. of animals
  • 24 Son of Abraham and Sarah (Bib.)
  • 26 Sorrow
  • 28 A beverage
  • 31 Burning
  • 32 Be present (obs. var.)
  • 33 Long speech
  • 34 Slope (3rd per. sing.) (pl.)
  • 35 Common (obs. var.)
  • 36 A German philosopher
  • 39 Abbr. Life Guards
  • 42 Compounds containing metal
  • 43 An English mathematician
  • 46 A word of command in driving animals
  • 48 Hoot

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Puzzle No. 95

MODERATION

By Porter R. Lee

Never too much of anything is the slogan of this constructor. He gives you a puzzle of moderate difficulty, but a set of easy words and then a terror hidden among them like a serpent in the grass. The puzzle runs its way at an even tenor, like an honest man’s life.

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Snake
  • 4 Rainy
  • 9 Make hum by spinning
  • 12 Russian money
  • 13 Steep
  • 14 Fat
  • 15 Notable period
  • 16 For instance
  • 18 Toward
  • 19 Mend
  • 20 Confronted
  • 22 Lariat
  • 23 Speck
  • 25 Pasturage
  • 27 Impair
  • 30 Public passages
  • 32 Raves
  • 35 Layer
  • 36 Length of the forearm
  • 39 Member of cat family
  • 40 Country in N. America
  • 41 Legendary king
  • 42 Legal science
  • 44 Cause of anything
  • 45 Set again
  • 47 Son of Odin
  • 49 Something to follow
  • 51 Secondary
  • 53 A root
  • 54 Sound
  • 55 In such circumstances
  • 57 Atop
  • 59 You and I
  • 60 Torn piece
  • 62 Unripe
  • 63 Ventilate
  • 65 Product of digestion
  • 66 Slippery fish
  • 67 Bearing buds
  • 68 Influenced

VERTICAL

  • 1 Progeny of one stock
  • 2 Pert. to us
  • 3 Behind
  • 4 Edible drupe
  • 5 Ancient Biblical country
  • 6 Afflict
  • 7 That
  • 8 Release
  • 9 Cleansing agency
  • 10 Conduct oneself toward
  • 11 Cat
  • 17 Prophet
  • 18 Follows closely
  • 21 Discontinue
  • 22 Mistress of a household
  • 24 Obscurity
  • 26 Source of stability
  • 28 Strong appetite
  • 29 Topmost bone of spine
  • 31 Kind of eclipse
  • 32 Gypsy
  • 33 Man’s nickname
  • 34 Distress signal
  • 36 Cage of an elevator
  • 37 Hurtful
  • 38 Strain
  • 42 Hires
  • 43 Fancy
  • 45 Precipitation
  • 46 Suppose
  • 47 Color
  • 48 Toothed wheel
  • 49 Sharp-pointed instrument
  • 50 Relative
  • 51 Precious stone
  • 52 Sharpened
  • 56 Raw metal
  • 58 Fade
  • 61 Beverage
  • 63 Exist
  • 64 Egyptian god

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Puzzle No. 96

JUST FOR TWO!

By Charley Cinderclass and Stoney Lonesome

These two contributors send in Cross Words by the dozen, so you can imagine what splendid vocabularies they must have. This is one of their best, and it’s not an easy one, either.

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Tatter
  • 3 Dressed, as a stone
  • 7 A color
  • 11 Guided
  • 13 State
  • 14 Danger
  • 15 Murmur
  • 16 Jutting rock
  • 18 Weird
  • 20 Select set
  • 22 Fortify
  • 24 Jejune
  • 25 Stranded
  • 27 Single
  • 28 Game at cards
  • 29 Cone bearing tree
  • 30 Scrutinize
  • 32 Cereal grain
  • 34 Craft
  • 35 Mercenary
  • 37 Mohammedan religion
  • 39 Foxy
  • 40 Winnow
  • 41 Darns
  • 43 Racing boat
  • 45 Rhythm
  • 49 Also
  • 50 Six angled figure
  • 53 Throw
  • 54 Wander
  • 56 Cad
  • 57 Desire
  • 58 Rake
  • 59 Plunder
  • 60 Squeeze
  • 61 Planet
  • 62 Silicate of magnesia
  • 63 Note
  • 65 Battering engine
  • 67 Chinese coin
  • 69 Voter
  • 71 Earthwork
  • 73 Newness
  • 75 Invisible fluid
  • 76 Dromedary
  • 78 Meadow
  • 79 Grain
  • 82 Java pepper
  • 84 Cleanser
  • 86 Iniquity
  • 88 Bark
  • 89 Vassal
  • 91 Exclude
  • 92 Trick
  • 93 Disturbance
  • 94 Become acclivitous
  • 97 Protrude
  • 98 Roadhouse
  • 99 Lance
  • 101 Extreme
  • 104 Sore
  • 106 Bond
  • 107 A relative
  • 108 Wing-shaped
  • 109 Edible tuber
  • 110 Toughen
  • 111 Hydrocarbon—radical
  • 112 At a distance

VERTICAL

  • 1 Groove
  • 2 Torniquet
  • 3 Compensation
  • 4 Unit of measure
  • 5 Pithy phrase
  • 6 Ruminant
  • 7 Stead
  • 8 Sickness
  • 9 Likely
  • 10 Hint
  • 11 Grassy plains
  • 12 To fade
  • 17 Scent
  • 19 Precipitation
  • 21 Poem
  • 23 True
  • 26 Bovine
  • 28 Coniferous tree
  • 29 Enclose
  • 31 Earnest
  • 33 Process of washing ores
  • 35 Large wagon
  • 36 Permit
  • 37 A universal language
  • 38 Amalgamate
  • 40 Sailing vessel of the Mediterranean
  • 42 Fop
  • 44 Cotton fabric
  • 46 Pertaining to the ear
  • 47 Clown
  • 48 Mistake
  • 50 Not divine
  • 51 Nepaul antelope
  • 52 Charge
  • 55 Tomfoolery
  • 56 Vehicle
  • 62 Heavy corded pile fabric
  • 63 Large drinking bowl
  • 64 Zzzzzzz
  • 66 Grinder
  • 68 Reclining
  • 70 Neuralgia
  • 71 Tap
  • 72 Nib
  • 74 Irritate
  • 76 Mythical being, half man, half horse
  • 77 Small lug
  • 80 Doubtful story
  • 81 Name of era
  • 83 Foundation
  • 85 Bluster
  • 86 Hasten
  • 87 Bit
  • 90 Exist
  • 95 Bird of prey
  • 96 Whine
  • 98 Evergreen vine
  • 99 Kind of snow shoe
  • 100 Write
  • 102 Beam
  • 103 Total
  • 105 Tumor

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Puzzle No. 97

A CRISS CROSS

By Jack Barrett

Only eight unkeyed letters in this, so you’ll jolly well have to fill in every white square before the struggle is over. You may chew an inch off your pencil before you finish, though.

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 A play
  • 6 Certify
  • 11 A dandy
  • 12 Tackle
  • 14 A state
  • 15 To content
  • 17 Melodies
  • 19 Combination of things
  • 21 Exposes
  • 23 Cover
  • 25 Reproachful expression
  • 26 Sincere
  • 28 An ancestor
  • 29 Later
  • 31 Loiters
  • 32 From
  • 34 Rates
  • 36 Window
  • 38 Upon
  • 39 Sprightly
  • 41 A jot
  • 43 Continent
  • 44 Man’s name
  • 46 A stamp
  • 47 Scorches
  • 48 Obtuse
  • 50 Mexican gum tree
  • 51 End
  • 53 Siesta
  • 54 Inquire
  • 55 Rabbit
  • 57 A title
  • 58 A rule
  • 59 Ceremony
  • 60 Away from
  • 63 A strong horse
  • 66 Distant
  • 68 Luminary
  • 69 A stipulation
  • 71 Vigilant
  • 73 Affirmative
  • 75 Sidle
  • 77 Destroy
  • 78 Stay
  • 79 Observe
  • 80 Ourselves
  • 81 Ravishes
  • 83 Mercenary
  • 85 Pair (abbr.)
  • 86 Finished
  • 87 Annoy
  • 91 Passenger car
  • 93 Deduces
  • 96 Constituent of soap
  • 97 Part
  • 99 Smooth fabric
  • 100 Generous
  • 103 Conceals
  • 104 Make of auto
  • 105 Sharp
  • 106 Floating ice
  • 108 Propeller
  • 109 Derisive expressions
  • 110 Clothes protectors

VERTICAL

  • 1 Invents
  • 2 Obscurity
  • 3 For example
  • 4 Transaction
  • 5 An edible root
  • 6 Ejaculation
  • 7 Measure
  • 8 Toward
  • 9 Sparkling decoration
  • 10 Weeds
  • 11 Back
  • 13 A rabble
  • 14 Wave-like molding
  • 16 Expressing consent
  • 17 Agreement
  • 18 Withered
  • 20 Illumined
  • 21 Hillside (Scot.)
  • 22 Position
  • 24 Lofty nest
  • 27 Otherwise
  • 29 A minor planet
  • 30 Flowers
  • 33 Disappoint
  • 35 Lament
  • 37 Sport enclosure
  • 38 Greasy
  • 40 Discontinuing
  • 42 Serpent
  • 43 Girl’s name
  • 45 Stream beds
  • 47 Scatter
  • 49 Acclamation
  • 52 To rest
  • 56 Simpleton
  • 59 Rough
  • 60 Side glance
  • 61 Repast
  • 62 To cook
  • 63 Vehicle
  • 64 Oily fruit
  • 65 Miners’ pickax
  • 67 Ribbed-appearing fabric
  • 68 Conduits
  • 70 Species of poplar
  • 72 Yearly income
  • 74 Singing sea nymphs
  • 76 Wearing away
  • 79 Exaltation
  • 82 Soon
  • 84 Curve
  • 86 Engagements
  • 88 European river
  • 89 Expressing assent
  • 90 Slave
  • 92 Fabulously rich man
  • 94 Spike
  • 95 Innuendo
  • 97 Puddle
  • 98 Above
  • 101 Poss. pronoun
  • 102 State (abbr.)
  • 105 Cerium (chem.)
  • 107 Denoting hesitation

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Puzzle No. 98

A NINE-CELLED HIVE

By Edith S. Iseman

There is plenty of verbal honey in the nine divisions of this construction, and your search is not likely to result in any stings. The central interlock, perhaps, might be improved upon, but there! We have built puzzles ourselves, and know what the constructor is up against.

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Bribery
  • 5 At the place
  • 10 Mass of caked metal
  • 15 Musical instrument
  • 16 Treasure
  • 17 Recess
  • 19 Fabric
  • 21 Urchins
  • 22 Young feline
  • 23 Prophet
  • 24 Husk
  • 26 Relative
  • 28 Devoured
  • 29 On ocean
  • 31 Pour
  • 33 Council of judges
  • 34 Character in Genesis
  • 35 Number again
  • 37 Insect
  • 39 Beverage
  • 42 Abyssinian noble
  • 43 Claims
  • 45 Offspring
  • 47 Snow (combining form)
  • 49 Redistributes
  • 51 Mobile colorless liquid
  • 54 Equip
  • 55 Descend
  • 57 Succors
  • 59 Girl’s name
  • 60 Bewail
  • 61 Greedy
  • 62 Unit of square measure
  • 63 Depression
  • 64 Deciduous tree
  • 65 Copied
  • 67 Staff (Scotch)
  • 69 Man’s name
  • 70 Moldings (arch.)
  • 72 Struck
  • 75 A drug
  • 77 Vehicle
  • 79 Long
  • 80 One
  • 82 Jeopardy
  • 84 Animal
  • 85 Silences
  • 88 Examine minutely
  • 90 Singer
  • 92 Ruler
  • 94 Part of boat
  • 96 Tense of Greek verb (abbr.)
  • 97 Extinct bird
  • 99 End
  • 101 Evil
  • 102 A saint
  • 104 Color
  • 107 Dimness of vision
  • 109 Disinfectant
  • 110 Ant
  • 111 Partner
  • 112 Missile
  • 113 Made of tape
  • 114 German composer

VERTICAL

  • 1 Units of liquid measure
  • 2 Sword
  • 3 Equal quantity (med.)
  • 4 Great General
  • 5 Cetacean
  • 6 Pronoun
  • 7 Periods
  • 8 Part of structure
  • 9 Composition
  • 11 One
  • 12 Illuminated
  • 13 Series of eights
  • 14 Greek letter
  • 15 Hymn
  • 18 Injection
  • 20 Machines
  • 22 Joints
  • 25 Hire
  • 27 Receptacle
  • 30 Pertaining to atmosphere
  • 32 Domestic
  • 33 Volcano
  • 34 Relative
  • 36 Arrive
  • 38 Indigence
  • 40 Ventures forth
  • 41 Multitudes
  • 43 Wittily
  • 44 Loosen
  • 46 Cut
  • 47 Engraving
  • 48 Reflection
  • 49 Strays
  • 50 Procreated
  • 52 Pertaining to the sun
  • 53 Indian princes
  • 56 Strike
  • 58 Retreat
  • 65 Persian gold coin
  • 66 Bridge
  • 68 Adroitness
  • 71 Unbroken
  • 73 Goat
  • 74 Exclamation of contempt
  • 76 Vegetable
  • 78 Savory smell
  • 80 Pertaining to gold
  • 81 Afloat
  • 82 Ecclesiastical district
  • 83 Top
  • 85 Bleat
  • 86 Member of Asiatic race
  • 87 Artificial compound
  • 89 Warm coverings
  • 91 Emit
  • 93 Harsh
  • 95 Avid
  • 97 Playtoy
  • 98 Irregular mass
  • 100 Halting
  • 103 Deer
  • 105 Masc. prop. name
  • 106 Contest
  • 108 Loiter

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Puzzle No. 99

HIS PRIDE AND JOY

By Arthur J. Goldberg

For a second attempt (“My first you will never see,” says Mr. Goldberg) this is really quite a wonder. It is hard enough to confuse even you experts and yet all the words are 100 per cent American—or should be!

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 A leopard
  • 4 To bite, crunch
  • 8 Appears
  • 13 Trained
  • 17 Sooner than
  • 18 A small job
  • 20 Encounters
  • 22 Metal-bearing rock
  • 23 To search to the bottom
  • 24 Wholly engrossed
  • 25 A fish of pike kind
  • 27 To abound
  • 28 Obligation
  • 29 A short musket
  • 31 Last king of ancient Troy
  • 33 Personal chattel forfeited to the crown
  • 35 First
  • 36 One who makes a legal grant
  • 38 Passageway
  • 39 To undermine
  • 40 A day laborer
  • 41 The kingdom of Persia
  • 42 Small artificial elevation
  • 43 Support
  • 46 Knick-knacks
  • 48 Screens
  • 51 Word of denial
  • 52 Range of rocks under water
  • 54 Tidy
  • 56 You
  • 57 A perforated block
  • 59 Fragment
  • 60 Pen for swine
  • 62 To spill
  • 64 Group
  • 65 Characterizing ingredient of common clay
  • 67 Precipitous
  • 69 Heavy hide whip
  • 71 Siestas
  • 72 Pens for animals
  • 73 Course
  • 74 Ancient galley
  • 77 To censure as faulty
  • 78 Having two shells
  • 81 Belonging to him
  • 82 Coarse heavy friezes
  • 84 Tumor
  • 85 A division
  • 86 Tropical climbing plant
  • 87 Above
  • 89 Implement
  • 91 Strong taste
  • 93 Note of scale
  • 94 Reduce to a lower grade
  • 97 Composed of states
  • 100 Thoroughfare
  • 103 Period preceding important event
  • 104 A very small distance
  • 105 Pieced out
  • 106 Female bird
  • 108 Short for well bred man
  • 110 Helped
  • 112 Broken coat of grain
  • 114 Dreads
  • 117 Chief minister of Ahasuerus (Bib.)
  • 118 Advance
  • 120 Three (prefix)
  • 121 To gather
  • 123 Genus homo
  • 124 Floating ice
  • 125 Neckwear
  • 126 Design
  • 127 Specific quality
  • 129 Delays
  • 130 Kindled
  • 131 Cæsurea
  • 132 Tent
  • 133 Clownish fellows
  • 134 Snakelike fish

VERTICAL

  • 1 Fresh and salt water fish
  • 2 An air sung by single voice
  • 3 Quell
  • 4 Melody
  • 5 Expectancy
  • 6 Skill
  • 7 Personal pronoun
  • 9 Part of “to be”
  • 10 Soaked
  • 11 Destitution
  • 12 Macerate
  • 14 Revolved
  • 15 Ireland
  • 16 Actions
  • 18 Makes brittle
  • 19 Worthless
  • 21 Sleek
  • 25 Admit
  • 26 Proportion
  • 30 Plait
  • 31 Firm in resisting
  • 32 Early part of day (pl.)
  • 34 Gloomy
  • 36 Fur-bearing animal
  • 37 Grates
  • 43 East Indian coin
  • 44 Moving spirit
  • 45 Change
  • 47 Mediate
  • 48 Cleanings
  • 49 Observes narrowly
  • 50 A son of Adam (Bib.)
  • 53 Epoch
  • 55 Same
  • 58 N. African country
  • 59 Young pigeon
  • 60 Disseminate
  • 61 Be eager
  • 63 Establish
  • 64 Miserably
  • 66 Disfigure
  • 67 Sward
  • 68 A fold
  • 70 Bleat
  • 74 Dull sound
  • 75 Mellow
  • 76 Self
  • 78 Anathema
  • 79 Urn
  • 80 Give vent to
  • 83 Long seats
  • 85 Fenced off
  • 88 Wanderer
  • 90 Scotch city
  • 91 Captured
  • 92 A cosmetic
  • 95 Headaches
  • 96 Purports
  • 98 Revery
  • 99 Military defense
  • 101 Pangs
  • 102 Dignify
  • 107 Fragrant oil
  • 109 Negotiate
  • 111 So be it
  • 112 Part of the face
  • 113 Thrashes
  • 115 Large lake
  • 116 Preserve
  • 118 Cabal
  • 119 Work
  • 122 Sharp sound
  • 124 A disease
  • 128 Concerning
  • 129 It is well

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Puzzle No. 100

A HARD NUT TO CRACK

By J. T. D.

Get out nutcracker, hammer, tongs and poker, for there are words in here that the English language doesn’t know it owns. J. T. D. is absolutely ruthless when it comes to cornering the odd and unusual word, and the unheard-of definition. This puzzle is included especially to show you to what lengths the innocent Cross Word can go when it tries.

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HORIZONTAL

  • 1 Sanction
  • 5 East Indian revenue collector
  • 9 Reluctant
  • 13 Miller’s-thumb (fish)
  • 17 Pilfer
  • 18 List
  • 19 Largest known toad
  • 20 Bird of thrush family
  • 22 Large drinking cup
  • 23 Drained
  • 24 Persia
  • 25 Pert. to the gums
  • 27 Bow-like form
  • 28 Knavish tricks
  • 30 Coiling organ of climbing plant
  • 32 Climbing shrub
  • 33 Insoluble residue
  • 35 Know or knows (obs.)
  • 36 Boggy land
  • 37 Asiatic country
  • 38 Ancient Greek dialect
  • 40 Aromatic medicinal leaves
  • 44 Indefinite
  • 47 Corner
  • 48 Black
  • 50 Presently
  • 51 Early Teutonic land tenure
  • 52 Drinking vessel
  • 53 Provident
  • 57 Piece of needlework
  • 59 Located
  • 63 In an unbalanced state
  • 64 A charm (obs.)
  • 66 French given name, male
  • 67 Sward
  • 68 Holly
  • 69 East Indian cotton fabric
  • 70 Precedence
  • 72 Outfit
  • 73 Small gastropod of gardens
  • 74 East Indian plant used in making hats
  • 75 Allowance in addition to tare
  • 76 Sterile
  • 78 Unqualified
  • 80 Tiller
  • 81 Pass swiftly
  • 82 Islet
  • 83 Pastry forms
  • 87 Serving tray
  • 90 Genus of orchids
  • 93 Narrow opening
  • 97 Presently (obs.)
  • 98 A little while (Scot.)
  • 99 Scar (obs.)
  • 101 Part of type face projecting beyond the shank
  • 102 Dark or purplish brown color
  • 103 Pale brown color
  • 104 Gibbon of the Malay peninsula
  • 105 Tricky (slang)
  • 107 Long inlet with diminishing depth
  • 108 Presently
  • 109 Ceremonial saddle horse
  • 111 Wooded land
  • 113 Inflate
  • 115 Dandy
  • 116 Spanish gypsy dance
  • 117 Mohammedan cleric
  • 119 Roumanian coin
  • 120 Domain
  • 123 Brush of twigs for sweeping
  • 124 Pert. to the nostrils
  • 126 Sound of metals struck together
  • 130 Otherwise
  • 131 Insane
  • 132 Trifle
  • 134 Inland sea, Asiatic Russia
  • 135 Pluto
  • 136 Venezuelan coin
  • 140 Speak rapidly and indistinctly
  • 144 Chemical suffix of a binary compound
  • 145 Heavenly
  • 147 European cedar producing medicinal oil
  • 148 European bivalve used as food
  • 149 Alarm bell
  • 151 Biblical patriarch
  • 152 Star in Pegasus constellation
  • 153 Genus of the olives
  • 154 Ethyl oxide
  • 155 Perennial plant with a single wooded stem
  • 156 Inhabitant of the Kurland peninsula
  • 157 Small river duck
  • 158 Check

VERTICAL

  • 1 French hackney coach
  • 2 Breed
  • 3 Maple
  • 4 Fling
  • 5 Mayflower
  • 6 Pigmentary nævus
  • 7 Roman highway
  • 8 Title of nobility
  • 9 Immature pollack (Scot.)
  • 10 Hideous being
  • 11 Malayan for Sahib
  • 12 Small number
  • 13 Bear
  • 14 Lounge
  • 15 Subdivision of ancient Greek clan
  • 16 Sarcastic
  • 17 Untamed
  • 21 Pert. to snow (obs.)
  • 22 Balm (obs.)
  • 26 Flat-headed inflorescence
  • 29 Irregular lump
  • 31 Arikara Indian
  • 34 East Indian tree yielding a pungent oil
  • 37 Torment
  • 39 16th century clock in the form of a ship
  • 41 Kind of lettuce
  • 42 Venerable
  • 43 Destroy a creation
  • 44 Spiral architectural ornament
  • 45 Addle (obs.)
  • 46 Pikelike fish
  • 47 Aught (obs.)
  • 49 Fine silk net
  • 52 Small gnat
  • 53 Fling
  • 54 Axillary
  • 55 Part
  • 56 Willingly
  • 58 Food prepared from taro root
  • 59 Bitter
  • 60 Plant of lily family
  • 61 Divulge
  • 62 Test (slang)
  • 65 Mechanical device to regulate flow
  • 67 Dawdle (dial.)
  • 71 Dig
  • 73 Adhere
  • 77 Rope to hoist a yard
  • 79 Near (Scot.)
  • 83 Furtive glance
  • 84 South American Indian tribe
  • 85 Earl (obs.)
  • 86 Sniff
  • 87 Food made from orchid tubers
  • 88 At a distance
  • 89 Redemption price
  • 90 Enact
  • 91 Plant of the iris family
  • 92 Gastropod with spiral shell
  • 93 Thin flexible blade
  • 94 Crescent-shaped geometrical figure
  • 95 Venerated image
  • 96 Incline
  • 100 Suffix denoting jurisdiction
  • 105 Not concerted (mus.)
  • 106 Enigma (obs.)
  • 110 Gypsy
  • 111 Genus of cattle
  • 112 Attention
  • 114 Dry (French)
  • 116 Slender stalk
  • 118 Violent wind of Southern France
  • 120 Interpret (obs.)
  • 121 Ignore
  • 122 Agreement
  • 123 Mine (Cornwall)
  • 125 Small house
  • 127 Sprung up
  • 128 Time of greatest depression
  • 129 Secluded narrow valley
  • 131 Bale of raw silk
  • 133 Become exhausted (colloq.)
  • 136 Shade of blue
  • 137 Web of a feather
  • 138 Passage
  • 139 Despoiled
  • 140 Blemish
  • 141 Whimper
  • 142 Carbamide
  • 143 Routine
  • 146 Conjunction
  • 150 Greek letter

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Table of Contents

FOREWORD BY THE PUBLISHERS 1
PREFACE 5
HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS WORD PUZZLE 10
DO’S AND DON’T’S FOR SOLVERS 13
51. MADE IN A RATHSKELLER 15
52. A TRIAL BOUT 17
53. AS YOU LIKE IT 19
54. TINY TIM 21
55. A SPOTTED SPECTER 23
56. LITTLE BUT NEAT 25
57. SEVEN GREEK CROSSES 27
58. BOOLA BOOLA 29
59. AT EASE 31
60. NOT TOO HARD 33
61. THE EASIEST WAY 35
62. PLAN OF CAMPAIGN 37
63. GOOD AS GOLD 39
64. LULLABY 41
65. QUIET COMFORT 43
66. DIAMONDS WITHIN DIAMONDS 45
67. A STAID FORM 47
68. A FLOCK OF TWO-SPOTS 49
69. LOOSELY WOVEN 51
70. A STUDY IN CROSSES 53
71. WATCH THE LOWER LEFT HAND CORNER 55
72. ROUND AND ROUND 57
73. MY SECOND AND LAST 59
74. QUADRICRUCIFEROUS 61
75. LOCKED UP TIGHT 63
76. BIG BEAUTY 65
77. TRY THEM OVER IN YOUR DAILY CHAT 67
78. POLYANGULAR AND POLYSYLLABIC 69
79. WEDDING RING 71
80. NOT SO DIFFICULT 73
81. THE EIGHT TEES 75
82. THIRD-RAIL CROSSOVER 77
83. ANOTHER BY A PRACTICED CONSTRUCTOR 79
84. DOWN THE GOLDEN STAIRS 81
85. DIRTY WORK AT THE CROSS WORDS 83
86. HEY, THERE! 85
87. SPOT 87
88. CENTRIFUGAL 89
89. SLENDER AS A GIRL 91
90. CORNERED 93
91. THAT EXCLUSIVE LINOLEUM PATTERN 95
92. ADAM’S RIB 97
93. IN THE CLOVER PATCH 99
94. LITTLE BUT A BAD ’UN 101
95. MODERATION 103
96. JUST FOR TWO! 105
97. A CRISS CROSS 107
98. A NINE-CELLED HIVE 109
99. HIS PRIDE AND JOY 111
100. A HARD NUT TO CRACK 113

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Title: The cross word puzzle book: second series
Author: Prosper Buranelli (1890–1960) Info https://viaf.org/viaf/41419344/
Author: Frederic Gregory Hartswick (1891–) Info https://viaf.org/viaf/6288249/
Author: Margaret Petherbridge Info https://viaf.org/viaf/302285860/
File generation date: 2022-08-04 18:28:15 UTC
Language: English
Original publication date: 1924
Keywords: Crossword puzzles
Puzzles

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7 one once 1
48 Disincumber Disencumber 1
54 nonplu3 nonplus 1
58 Chicloid Cichlid 3
62 Encounte Encounter 1
80 Molton Molten 1
84 . [Deleted] 1
100 mathemetician mathematician 1
111 [Not in source] 11 2
118 [Not in source] . 1
118 Abassador Ambassador 1