*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 68267 *** THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK An Anthology of Fifty Cross Word Puzzles Selected as the Best of the Thousands That Have Been Submitted to the New York World Published Here Exclusively for the First Time and Edited By PROSPER BURANELLI F. GREGORY HARTSWICK MARGARET PETHERBRIDGE THE PLAZA PUBLISHING COMPANY New York :: 1924 THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE By Newman Levy For many years we’ve lived as man and wife, As happy now as on the day we wed. “We’re more like sweethearts,” I have always said. No cloud has dimmed the sunshine of our life, Though now and then I’ll seize a rolling pin And playfully I’ll clout her on the dome Just to preserve domestic discipline And demonstrate who’s master in our home. At times she’ll hurl with well-directed aim A platter or an iron at my bean. These slight attentions keep romances green And keep alive the hymeneal flame. On Sunday, when the evening lamp is lit And peace and calm contentment fill our house, With pipe and well-loved book at ease I sit, And at my side, in earnest thought, my spouse, Then fade the cares and troubles of the day; With Conrad and Lord Jim I sail the sea, When suddenly I hear my wife’s voice say, “What word for ‘female child’ begins with G?” “The word is ‘Girl’,” I growl. Again I try To catch the shattered magic of my tale. I find my place. Again with Jim I sail Upon the tropic sea. My wife says “My, What pronoun in three letters starts with Y?” Calmly I rise and search about the place To find a weapon of sufficient weight. Aha! Upon our wall an ancient mace, Studded with knobs of steel. The very thing. I seize it, and with easy, graceful swing Wallop my darling wife upon the pate, The sconce or bean, or dome, or what you will. Silent she tumbles headlong in the grate. I take my book and leisurely resume My tale, and peace and quiet fill the room. From F.P.A.’s Conning Tower in The New York World THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK CONFESSIONS OF A CROSS WORD PUZZLE EDITOR When I was first made unwilling Cross Word Puzzle Editor some two years ago, the procedure in deciding what puzzle would be run was limited to picking out a good-looking one from among the bunch and sending it upstairs to be set. I saw no reason to change this splendid system. At that time, I had never taken the trouble to do a puzzle and the letters of anathema and condemnation that came in by the dozens had small effect on my conscience. They were evidently from cranks and couldn’t be avoided. I must admit that the dawning of conscience began with the arrival of F.P.A., who came to work in the next room. When he discovered that I was responsible for the cross words, he formed the atrocious habit of stalking in every Monday morning bright and early (about eleven o’clock) to point out to me in sarcastic tones just what was wrong with yesterday’s. Well, to make a long story short, in order to avoid the moronish feeling that usually followed such a lecture, I decided to reform and find out what a really decent puzzle was like. I began by trying to do one the next Sunday, and thus experienced the throes of acute agony that come to all solvers of puzzles on discovering definitions left out, numbers wrong, hideously warped definitions, words not to be found inside of any known dictionary, foreign words—very foreign—and words that had no right to be dragged out of their native obscurity. Then and there, with my left hand reposing on a dictionary and my right raised in air, I took an oath to edit the cross words to the essence of perfection. From then on, I instituted the procedure of doing the puzzles myself on the page proof—sort of trying it on the dog—applying the principle, “If it be not fair to me, What care I how fair it be!” Since that momentous day, F.P.A.’s visits have grown less frequent—in fact, he has to make up excuses to come in and converse on other matters—and the cross words even came in for an occasional bouquet in Sam Pepys’s diary. So now you all know whom to thank for the perfection (more or less) of the cross word puzzle found each Sunday on the World Magazine’s Ingenuities Page. Margaret Petherbridge HOW TO SOLVE THEM Solving a cross word puzzle offers numerous enjoyments of which the uninitiated are ignorant. There is the pure esthetic stimulation of looking at the pattern with its neat black and white squares, like a floor in a cathedral or a hotel bathroom; there is the challenge of the definitions, titillating the combative ganglion that lurks in all of us; there is the tantalizing elusiveness of the one little word that will satisfactorily fill a space and give clues to others that we know not of; and there is the thrill of triumph as the right word is found, fitted, and its attendant branches and roots spring into being. No better illustration could be used than a recent brilliant construction of Mr. Gelett Burgess, published in the Sunday World Magazine. Consider the solver as he faces his problem. The numbers in the squares, he knows, refer to the definitions; in the system of numbering used in this book, the first letters only are indicated by numbers. Thus 1 horizontal means a word that will fill the space following the figure up to the next black square. Horizontal +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 4 |#####| 1 Lowest form of life | | | | | |#####| 12 Product of coal or pine +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ 18 Opponent | 12 | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | Vertical +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 18 | | | 20 | |#####| 1 Gustated | | | | | |#####| 2 Divine nourishment +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ 3 Before |#####| |#####| |#####| 4 Indefinite number |#####| |#####| |#####| +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 30 | | 32 | | 33 |#####| | | | | | |#####| +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |#####| |#####| +-----+ The solver, then, looks the puzzle over. Aha! a friend. 12 horizontal, three letters long—“product of coal or pine.” Triumphantly the solver writes TAR in the spaces and proceeds with this clue. 2 Vertical is defined as “Divine Nourishment.” It links with TAR at the second letter. A moment of thought and MANNA appears as the only possible solution. He turns to 1 vertical, the second letter of which is the first of 12 horizontal—T. The definition is “gustated,” and the word is of three letters. Why hesitate? ATE goes into the space. “A cinch!” reflects the solver, and joyously writes ENEMY in 18 horizontal, defined as “Opponent.” 3 vertical is defined as “Before,” and with -RE staring him in the face he would be dull indeed who did not write ERE. And now 1 horizontal stands revealed. “Lowest form of life,” eh? AMEBA goes down. 4 vertical is “Indefinite number.” Well, A-Y cannot be anything but ANY—and there is the corner complete, with three clues to the words in other sections. +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 4 |#####| | A | M | E | B | A |#####| +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 12 | | |#####| | | T | A | R |#####| N | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 18 | | | 20 | |#####| | E | E | E | M | Y |#####| +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |#####| |#####| |#####| |#####| N |#####| |#####| +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 30 | | 32 | | 33 |#####| | | A | | | |#####| +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |#####| |#####| +-----+ So far the sailing has been fairly easy. But trouble waits just around the corner. There are other definitions which are not so simple as “product of coal or pine.” In the far reaches of the puzzle to which the above corner belongs may be found such definitions as “Vexation (Provincial British),” “Humorous figure of speech,” “One-sided headaches” and “Droning dung-beetles.” Is the solver prepared to state that he can fill the spaces represented by those words without the assistance of the linked horizontals or verticals? It is here that one of the greatest charms of the crossword puzzle lies: the discovery of new words by the process of building them, though entirely ignorant of their actual spelling. Consider another portion of Mr. Burgess’ puzzle. The construction of the provincial form of “Vexation” and “Humorous figure of speech” fortunately come in juxtaposition; they illustrate at once the vocabulary-building feature of the cross word puzzle and a constructional weakness which may lead to non-solution. The definitions surrounding this precious pair are as follows: Horizontal, “Series of games,” “Self,” “Means of sustenance,” and “Surface of fibres”; Vertical, “Drinking vessel” and “Body of cavalry.” When these words are solved one finds: +-----+ |#####| |#####| +-----+-----+-----+ |#####| |#####| |#####| |#####| +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |#####| | | |#####| |#####| S | E | T |#####| +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |#####| | | | | |#####| |#####| | T | U | R | |#####| +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| E | G | O |#####| | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |#####| | | | | | | |#####| |#####| A | L | I | M | O | N | Y |#####| +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |#####| | | |#####| |#####| N | A | P |#####| +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Now the unfortunate part of it is that the section is completed; there are no more clues, and if one does not know what the humorous figure of speech is and what the British provincialism is, there is no way of discovering them aside from the use of deduction. A little thinking will show that the first letter of the provincialism is more likely to be “S” than any other letter, and a short search in the dictionary will give “Sturm” as the answer; while as for -EUGMA, a brief running through the alphabet will so limit the possibilities that a very short search will reveal ZEUGMA as correct. It is extremely difficult, in the construction of cross word puzzles, to avoid the use of such “unkeyed” letters, and effort has been used to ensure the presence of common words where more than one letter is unkeyed; but the exigencies of construction will not always allow this. Nor should it always be done; allowance must be made for erudition on the part of the solver. When such a construction appears as S-ALE-E, defined as “Unequal sided and angled” and with all clues exhausted, it is with a warm sensation of culture that one triumphantly fills the blanks with “C” and “N.” And the same thrill is present when “One-sided headaches,” standing clueless with M-GRI-S, is properly filled in to become MEGRIMS. Thus is the solution achieved; in part by the science of deduction, in part by mother-wit, in part by erudition; appeals to as many as possible of the lobes of the brain. There is no nobler satisfaction than the fitting in of the last word that makes the pattern complete; one rises to lyric heights in the contemplation of the evolution of such a word as one enthusiastic constructor included in his design, the definition of which was “Parallel pairs of simulacra in echinoideans.” The cross-constructions showed BIVIA as the necessary filler and the vocabularies of the solvers were enriched by an addition of high esthetic value and utter incomprehensibility, to be used as occasion demands. The cross word solver becomes a collector, a connoisseur of words. They lose, to him, their mundane purpose of a suitable medium for the exchange of thoughts, and take on an esoteric significance, akin to the appeal of slip-ware to the collector of pottery or the three-cornered Mauritius to the philatelist. He and Hamlet are one. “Words, words, words”—except that he has the advantage of the melancholy one. Hamlet’s words ran in decorous file, one after the other; the solver’s twine and intertwine, each leading to others, resulting in a harmonious whole unapproached by any except the masterpieces of classic literature. It is generally conceded that as a form of amusement, cross words are very instructive, and that as a form of instruction, they are very amusing. The first thing that strikes the eye is the pattern in which the words are intermingled. Our experience teaches that an all-over interlock is an absolute necessity, and except in a few cases you will find that the puzzles in this book possess this quality. The advantages are obvious; when all the words interlock, you can check up the horizontal by the vertical, and vice versa. Occasional stunt patterns are interesting, but as a general thing they are apt to detract from the value of a puzzle as a thing to be solved. The numbering system used to be quite intricate and took up a lot of precious space. It required two numbers to each definition. On July 22, 1923, at the suggestion of an ardent puzzler who calls himself “Radical,” we offered the new system of numbering, which calls for only one number to a definition. It is quite simple to read either horizontally or vertically from one number, and forms a decided improvement over the old style. “Radical” deserves a special vote of thanks. All the puzzles in this book use the new system of numbering. As for the words that find their way into cross words, strange as it may seem with the whole of the dictionary to choose from, the same old favorites have a way of recurring ceaselessly. Of course, all the two letter words are overworked, and many have to compromise on abbreviations. Our sole objection to abbreviations is that they cannot be defined without practically telling what they are. Parts of the verb “to be”; prepositions; the Egyptian Sun God, Ra; Pi, em, ma, pa, i.e., e.g., so, to, go, do, are to be found in almost every cross word puzzle, and the solver gets heartily tired of them. So the better patterns avoid these two word spaces. The three letters words contain some old favorites, too. Eel, emu and gnu are among the most popular. It seems that almost nine-tenths of the puzzles we look at have a “snake-like fish” wriggling in them somewhere. And who hasn’t found err, sin, and erg; cam, moa, tar; pal, ode, née, ace, e’er, o’er, sac; lee and lea; ape and pea; ego, ago and age; era and eon; Eli and spa; and all the notes of the scale from do to do. Truly, all these words are to the puzzler as buttons are to a shirt. Among the longer words, the rule seems to hold that words with alternating consonants and vowels can be used more frequently than others. It is evident that a word containing three consecutive consonants, for instance, may have to take, in the word just below it, three consecutive vowels—and who hasn’t heard the cross-word constructor asking plaintively for a seven-letter word beginning with e-a-o and ending with u? Among the much-used words, you’ll surely find opera, onus, tenor, estop, used, ameer, renal, depot, emit, cabal, item, sere, lunar, nacre, neve, apse and the rest. F. Gregory Hartswick THE SCIENCE AND LORE OF CROSS WORD PUZZLES Everyone knows the classic Riddle of the Sphinx: what is it that walks on four legs in the morning, on two at noon and on three in the evening? the answer being man, who goes on hands and knees in infancy, with bipedal locomotion in after years, and in old age with a cane. The posing of such riddles was an important affair with ancient peoples. It was a tradition of the archaic Scandinavians, among whom it shows clear literary relations. Thus, the riddle—what is the name of the horse that flies with upright wings across the sea, the answer being ship—becomes the metaphor, of a type common in the Sagas—the upright-winged horse of the sea. Old forms of writing take on puzzle forms. In the Maya hieroglyphics of Central America is found an element similar to the mechanism of the rebus. It is as though the symbol meaning “hair” in juxtaposition with the one meaning “ring,” might mean “hair and ring” or it might mean herring. This makes the decipherment of the Maya writing so very difficult for modern scholars. The old fashioned charade has rebus-like elements. Cryptography, of course, must have begun in the earliest times when a literate man had a secret message to convey. The most recondite systems of hidden writing have been devised both for practical use and literary fantasy, remembering only Poe’s ingenious speculations. Much of the “Baconian Theory” has revolved around supposed cryptography in Shakespeare. Ancient and medieval folk were much given to anagrams; that is, to phrases of related meanings and made up of the same letters—as the masterpiece, “They see,” answer “The eyes,” or “Honor est a Nilo,” answer “Horatio Nelson.” Into theological controversy came such damnations as this: The Calvinistic opponents of Jacobus Arminius rearranged the letters of his name to spell, “vani orbis amicus,”—“friend of the false world.” A recent “Baconian” argument based itself on an anagrammatical treatment of the long dedication of the sonnets. The author rearranged the letters of the dedication to form a statement that it was Lord Bacon who had written the verse. An experienced puzzler might object that he could rearrange the numerous letters to spell out a statement of almost anything, that he would rearrange the letters that make up Aristotle’s Poetics into a treatise proving that when the Democrats are in office hard times come. Similar to the anagram in principle is the transposition, in which you fill blanks in a text with words that are made up of the same letters; for instance, angered, enraged, derange. Of ancient glory, too, is the palindrome, which is properly not a puzzle at all, but an ingenuity. A palindrome reads the same backward and forward, as in the familiar “Madam, I’m Adam,” and “Able was I ere I saw Elba.” Perhaps the most charming of antique palindromes is the Roman legal maxim, “Si nummi immunis,”—“if you pay you go free.” But perhaps the most fascinating of all word puzzles are the types in which words are to be guessed from definitions. There is the well-known acrostic, where with definitions as clues you arrive at a set of words of which the initial letters, or finals or second letters or third, as may have been determined, will spell another or other words. During the struggle for Italian freedom an acrostic was seen in the shibboleth, Vittorio Emmanuele Re D’Italia, giving the name of the composer, Verdi. Most august of all is the fish symbol for Christ, which was held in much mystic veneration in the early Christian centuries. The Greek word for fish, Ichthys (Ιχθυς) was seen to be composed of the first letters of the sacred phrase, Iesous Christos Theou Huios Soter (Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς Θεοῦ Υἱὸς Σῷτήρ), meaning “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior.” It is the feature of determining words from definitions that has made “word forms” the most popular genus of puzzle. A word form is a set of words arranged one under the other so that their letters may be read across and down to give sensible readings, sometimes the same readings across and down and sometimes different readings. They may be of many geometric configurations, as square, pyramid, octagon, etc. Their origin is lost in the mists of time. Word forms, especially squares, have a considerable following of very skillful adepts, most of them members of the National Puzzlers’ League, who construct and solve them with the same sort of devotion that a chess player demonstrates toward chess. Among such the forms take the most learned guise and consist of the most unusual sort of words. With the adepts any word that has ever been printed in an English book is allowable, and thus there is a great selection of exotic words in various spellings from old gazetteers, books of travel, etc. The adept delights in words that no one has ever heard of before. Here are several examples of recondite ingenuities. By Mentor, in The Enigma M A L E G A G E S A D E N O C E L E L E U C A E M I C E N C O R T I N E G O A R L I N G S A C E T I F I E S G E M I N I A N I E L I N G E N I O S E C E S S I O N By Gemini, in The Enigma V R E S I O N S I N S E R T S R O S E T R E E S V E N E T I A N R E D S E R R A T I O N S T E N I O N S E R O N S E N D By Neophyte, in the Sunday Magazine, New York World Z I K R H O O D I X I A O L L A K I W I O L I D R A I D Y A D A D O Y U G A A G N I L E W D A I S U S U E R I A U N I T W I L L S I V A D A L I U T A S By Alec Sander, in The Enigma T C A L K A R A T R A S E T E S B A L A N I S M S C O M M U T A T I N G C O N T A B U L A T I O N G A S T E R O L I C H E N E S P E N T A G O N A S T E R I D A E The great public following goes to the Cross Word Puzzle, which is an expanded word form in which, commonly, only dictionary words are allowed. It is this simplicity of words, together with its larger and more elaborate construction, that makes it irresistible to the casual puzzler. A cross word square, or other geometric figure, is a logical modern development of the ancient word square. The insertion of black spaces permits it to be made of any size and gives an interesting variety of inner construction. The cross word puzzle began its career only a few decades back. It was run for many years in the Sunday Magazine of the New York World and has held a considerable and steady group of followers. Recently it has come into a sudden great vogue and is being printed by many newspapers and magazines throughout the country. Cross word puzzles are now published for the first time in book form. Prosper Buranelli 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 spend 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. PUZZLE NO. 1 A SOFT BEGINNING By Gregorian The two long central words, if solved at once, will give sufficient clues to permit of rapid solution. But should these prove elusive, surely such definitions as 9 horizontal and 29 vertical offer no difficulties. Three-letter words meaning respectively “aged” and “sorrowful” should hold few terrors for the beginner. +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 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 | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ HORIZONTAL 1 Pronoun 3 Albumin from castor-oil bean 7 Exist 9 Aged 11 Negative 12 Incite, hasten 13 Remote 15 Obstruction 17 Bivalves 21 Father 23 Tree 24 River in Italy 25 Owners 26 Printer’s measure 27 Tree 28 Personal pronoun 29 Legislative bodies 31 Compact mass 32 Moved rapidly 34 Walk about 35 Toss 37 Small child 39 Upon 40 Small openings 41 Act VERTICAL 1 Exclamation 2 Fairy 4 Preposition 5 Plotter 6 Pronoun 7 Express generally 8 Pronoun 10 Obstruct 12 Owns 14 Disarranged 15 Voluble talkativeness 16 Above 18 The bow of Vishnu 19 Choose 20 Assumed an attitude 22 Limb 24 Peer 29 Sorrowful 30 Rested 31 Pale 33 Incline the head 34 Move 35 Behold 36 Exist 38 Preposition PUZZLE NO. 2 TRY AND DO IT By W. W. Foster This enigma comes from New London, where they specialize in regattas, which is the one unusual word omitted from Mr. Foster’s contraption. +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 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 | | | | | | | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ HORIZONTAL 1 Choose 6 Pores 11 Herb used in soup 12 Rent 13 Egyptian god 15 Serious 17 Either, else 18 Colloquial Irish exclamation 20 Coffins 21 Fifty-six 22 Pertaining to the mouth 24 Bog 25 Viewed 26 Oriental dish of meat and rice 28 Egyptian goddess 30 Unclose 31 As you say 32 Machine 35 They go off or out 38 Digits 39 Supply with strength 41 Arguments in favor of 42 Barbarian 43 Nunnery 45 Sooner than 46 Within 47 Wise sayings 49 By 50 The dye indigo 51 Quietude 53 Scoundrel, pest 54 Seek laboriously or blindly VERTICAL 1 Harsh sound 2 Behold 3 Likewise, also 4 Sour 5 Duty 6 After ends 7 Agitate 8 A worthless leaving 9 Personal pronoun 10 Reed-pipe 14 Town in Italy 16 Born 17 Used for baking 19 Chemical group 21 Spare time 23 Stone 25 Domestic animal 27 Bog 29 Sacred vessel 32 Moral science 33 Part of speech 34 Preserve 35 Administered extreme unction to 36 Character in Ibsen play 37 Bloodsucking fly 40 Primer 43 Covering of a seed 44 Period of time 47 Unit 48 Point of compass 50 Exclamation 52 Editor (abbr.) PUZZLE NO. 3 A SIMPLICITY By Isidore Edelstein Some abbreviations may be treated as words, such as “i.e.,” “A.D.,” points of the compass and so on. It is not the purest usage, but may be passed to get over a difficult spot. This construction has an abbreviation or two beyond these, but it is a simple, easy design for a not too energetic moment. +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 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 | | | | | | | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ HORIZONTAL 1 Banquet 5 Lout 8 Willow for making baskets 13 Formerly 14 Domesticated 16 Genus of African plant 17 Lockjaw 18 Flowing 19 For example 20 Ethiopian 22 French for “of the” 23 Funeral hymn 26 Chinese sauce 27 Asiatic animal 29 Large Australian bird 30 Sick 31 Musical drama 33 An enclosure 35 Questioner 38 Bird 39 And not 40 A vase 41 Congealed water 42 An injection 44 There 46 Class 48 And so forth 49 Fen 50 Level 52 Short for a physician 54 Thick cords 57 Baby’s first word 58 Order 60 Initials of the Rough Rider 61 Obscurity 63 Leaves 65 Impel 66 Consumed 68 Stupefy with a blow 69 Prophets 70 Back (French) 71 To correct VERTICAL 1 Noisome 2 Before 3 A flower 4 Reel 5 Fertile spot in desert 6 Part of “to be” 7 Broad boat 9 Foot coverings 10 Troy 11 An eternity 12 Royal 14 Fermenting vat 15 Two 21 Blood 24 To enroll as for jury duty 25 To flow forth 27 Clamor 28 Accomplish 31 Lyric poem 32 Female sheep 33 To scrutinize 34 Woman living in a convent 36 Relation 37 Things 43 Threatener 45 Aroma 47 Self conceit 50 Religious 51 Proverb 52 Nymph 53 Eating places 55 To gibber 56 To squander 58 Devoured 59 In the distance 62 Before, prefix 64 Weapon 67 Towards PUZZLE NO. 4 TETRACRUCIFORM By Charles W. Snizek A mystical design combined with everyday words shorter than the name it it bears. +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |#####| 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 | | | | | |#####| |#####| | | | | | |#####| | | | | | |#####| +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ HORIZONTAL 1 Unsteady 6 Appoint 12 Remotely 13 Besides 15 Upon 17 Worry 19 Bang 20 Fourth tone of musical scale 21 A bark or yelp 23 Pooh! 24 Climbing plant 25 Purpose 26 Poisonous sap of Malaysian trees 28 Toward 29 Perform 30 Hireling or serf 31 A drink made of wine, water, and lemon-juice, sweetened 33 Employ 35 Made of oak 36 Black 38 Practical application of knowledge (plural) 39 Without life 41 Temporary quarters 44 Gain 49 Foolish 51 Priest’s vestment 53 Heaths (Scot.) 55 Faithful 56 Either 57 Advertisement (abbreviation) 59 Province of Greece 60 A small deer 61 Energy 62 Bony rod attached to the spine 64 A bird 65 One, or any 66 Ornamental plant 67 Used to allure a fish 69 Unit of printer’s measure 70 Poison 71 To invade suddenly 73 Desist 74 Medicinal herb VERTICAL 2 God of midday sun 3 Aside from a main track 4 Complete dress 5 Vast 7 Proviso 8 Put to death 9 Doctrine or system 10 Depart 11 A large serpent of America 14 Mourn 16 Back of the neck 18 Familiar pronoun 19 Lateral 20 Elegant 22 Male servant 25 Inquires 27 Total 30 Consume 32 Therefore 34 Shallow 35 Else 37 Surface of fibres 38 Consumed 40 Pertaining to stars 41 Guide 42 Beverage 43 Possessive pronoun 45 Part of “be” 46 Grieve 47 African river 48 Take 50 Common metal 51 Host 52 Sharp point 54 Element of poetry 56 Anointed 58 Record of daily events 61 Slender plant 63 Prejudice 66 Resinous substance 68 It is 70 Happen 72 Execute PUZZLE NO. 5 WELL BALANCED By Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Waller This is a nice study in words of medium length, as was dictated by the two-ply “X” construction. 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Christ Only two long words. This should be pie for the hard-boiled solvers and a pleasant exercise for the beginner. +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 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 | | |#####| | | | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ HORIZONTAL 1 To praise 5 A storm 8 Part of mouth (Pl.) 11 A conjunction 13 Coarse material 14 Regarding 15 Pin 17 The exertion of power 18 To spread loosely for drying, as newly mown grass 19 To gain 21 The young of various carnivora 22 Put through evolutions; intrigued 23 A ram or male sheep 24 Girl’s name 25 Possessive pronoun 26 A spasm 28 A pen for swine 30 The sixth tone of the diatonic scale 31 Cardium 33 To such a degree 34 Rabbits 36 Fatty tissues 37 Bird VERTICAL 1 Closed curve 2 Above 3 Papa 4 Inhabitants of a north-east division of China 5 Precious stone 6 So 7 Increased till barely sufficient 9 A grassy field 10 One of various small birds 12 A boat race, or a series of such races 14 Experiences sorrow for sin 16 A group or class embracing subordinate classes or species 18 Becomes sour, or spoiled, as milk; takes a new direction 20 That which is first or highest in rank or degree 21 Vegetable 25 Ailments; worries 26 Swamp 27 Prefix; three; three times; thrice 29 To bring into bondage; enslave 31 Mean dwelling 32 To spread loosely for drying 34 To have existence 35 Provided that; on condition that PUZZLE NO. 7 A FOUR PETALED ROSE By M. Francis Cavallon, Jr. Mostly short words, and not difficult. Good corner masses. 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Pinkerton This puzzle possesses the merit of an interesting double central interlock. 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|#####| 90 | | 91 | | 92 | | | | | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | | | | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 93 | | | |#####| 94 | | | |#####| 95 | | | |#####| 96 | | | | | | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | |#####| 97 | | |#####| |#####| 98 | | |#####| |#####| 99 | | |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 100 | | | |#####| 101 | | | |#####| 102 | | | |#####| 103 | | | | | | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ HORIZONTAL 1 Church dignitary 4 Trouble 7 Part of church 9 Irritate 12 Primary color 13 Sister 14 Energy 15 Falsehoods 17 Growth on the head 18 Clotted blood 19 Move by bounds 21 Excite 23 Make ill 25 Dry stretches of land 26 A collection 28 Seizes with the teeth 30 Beam of light 33 Written slander 35 A base (math.) 39 Noting grief 40 Law profession 41 Witty saying 42 Natty 43 Small depressions 45 Lavished fondness 47 Church holiday 50 Animal’s dens 52 Obsolete reed instruments 55 Upon 56 Ripple against 57 Else 58 Unorthodoxy 61 Regions 63 Changes 66 Intent 68 Domestic animal 70 Strip of wood 71 A rodent 72 Inflamed 73 Part of a clarinet 74 Lazy person 76 Is dull 79 Call for assistance 80 Variety of flower (Pl.) 82 Set free 85 That girl from Troy 88 Abraham’s nephew 90 Pertaining to N. Pole 93 A precious stone 94 Breathing organ of fish 95 Sour 96 Recently deceased 97 Same 98 Unit of measure 99 Fabulous bird 100 Part of the head (Pl.) 101 Variety of fruit 102 Weaver’s reed 103 Periodical payment VERTICAL 1 Give out 2 Open space 3 Cozy residence (Pl.) 5 Desert-dweller 6 To enclose 7 Fisherman 8 Variety of carnelian 9 Fresh set of horses 10 Generous 11 Borders of the mouth 16 Not well 20 Trouble 22 An elongated fish 24 Pronoun 25 Slate-cutters’ hammer 27 Italian river 28 A bunk 29 Island in Aegean Sea 30 Religious acts 31 Yawn 32 A planet 34 To bar 36 Small point 37 Oriental vessel 38 Frozen confections 43 Stupid 44 Pertaining to the sun 45 Profoundness 46 Wild dog 48 A mimic 49 Part of the foot 51 Etruscan god 53 Dexterity 54 To damage 58 Aid 59 A price 60 Unit of length (Pl.) 61 One of the twelve apostles 62 Performances alone 63 Variety of flower 64 Revise 65 Mentally sound 67 Girl 69 Saw lengthwise 74 Product of electrical decomposition. 75 Cylindrical device 76 Elementary substances 77 Absorb slowly 78 Corded fabric 79 Vends 81 In this manner 83 Anguish 84 Obese 85 Fine whetstone 86 Den 87 Small quantity 89 Bird of prey 91 Ornamental fabric 92 Cessation from motion PUZZLE NO. 9 A CHECKERED CAREER By S. Czurles Odd words and even. 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|#####| 104 | | | | | | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | |#####| 105 | | 106 |#####| 107 | | |#####| 108 | | |#####| 109 | | |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | |#####|#####| 110 | | 111 |#####| 112 | | 113 | | |#####| 114 | | |#####|#####| | | |#####|#####| | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | |#####|#####| | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |#####| 115 | | | | | |#####| 116 | | |#####| 117 | | | | | |#####| |#####| | | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | |#####| +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ HORIZONTAL 1 Instrument of defense 5 Morsel 8 African animal 13 Metal 14 Pertaining to tone 16 Prefix-not 18 Boy 19 Slang for girl 20 Seize 22 Highest part 24 Produce 26 A slight coloring 27 Chew 29 Lack 31 Limbs 32 Heavenly body 33 Day before event 35 Perceive 37 River (Sp.) 38 Limbs 40 Made 41 Member of senate 43 To have 46 A seed vessel 47 Heavenly body 49 Soaked 53 Need 56 To coin 57 Relating to Danes 58 An exclamation 60 Water ditch 62 Beast of burden 63 Bell 64 Growl (archaic) 65 Pronoun 66 Stakes 69 Relate 71 Perished 72 Demeanor 74 Destruction 76 Renders palatable 78 Incline 80 Tough timber 82 Fashion 84 Boat riding 88 Wicked 90 Recover 93 Tavern 94 Expire 95 Grain 96 Noah’s ship 97 A male human being 98 Transaction 100 Narrow fillet 102 Glory 104 Burrows 105 Pure 107 A line 108 To tear 109 Small amount 110 Short sleep 112 Propel 114 Honey gatherer 115 Disclose 116 Not moist 117 Necessary VERTICAL 2 Particle 3 Fasten 4 Upon 5 Shackled 6 Inside 7 Stained 9 Upon 10 Negative 11 Recognize 12 Before winter 14 A color 15 Preserve 17 To transfer 18 Appear 19 Cotton seed separators 21 Deep tone 23 Separate 25 Suffix signifying a native 26 Revolve 28 Cry 30 Greek island 32 Fastened with thread 34 A clinging plant 36 Enough 39 Footwear 42 The first man 44 Tears 45 Entreating 47 Entangled 48 Over 49 Decreases 50 Toward 51 Prefix again 52 Danish people 54 Negative 55 Domesticated 56 A crowd 57 Small mark 59 Father 61 Half score 67 Toward 68 Carbon 70 Syllable of the scale 71 Perform 72 Encounter 73 Within 75 Female servant 77 Remain 78 Protruding tooth 79 Stands by 81 Draw together 82 In this place 83 Feels 85 A unit 86 At once 87 Auto appliance 88 Fermented 89 Expend 90 To rage 91 Leave out 92 An old cloth 99 Fasting season 101 A soft drink 103 To trouble 104 Perished 106 Roof covering 109 Honey gatherer 111 Father 113 Doctor (abbr.) 114 To live PUZZLE NO. 10 SMALL BUT NEAT By Joseph E. Austrian Eight unkeyed letters, but on the whole a very good design. 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consume by using 121 Illimitable period of time 123 Odor 125 To break into fragments 126 Fiscal agent VERTICAL 2 Knock lightly 3 Inward 4 Hireling 5 A fermented liquor 6 Theme 7 Exist, in the first person 9 Injured 10 Unit 11 Autocratically controlled 12 Toward 13 Termination 14 Foaming 16 Goddess of fecundity 17 Entreaty 19 To make less sour 21 Musical drama 23 “The sharpest sighted spirit of all in heaven” 25 A parent’s brother 27 An ant 29 In, on, near or by 31 Plunge 33 From; out of 36 At no time 37 Twisted strand 39 Founder and queen of Carthage 40 Flexible; dexterous 43 Small mountain lake 45 Single 48 Foes 50 Behold 51 Ourselves 52 Seats 54 Chinese coins 56 Plate bearing the Eucharist 58 Leaven 59 Venomous little snake 61 Natural combination of metals 62 Rabble 64 A fruit 71 The life principle 72 Cowshed 74 A period of time 76 Angry 77 Rodents 79 Disrupted 80 A tool 81 You 83 Hard fat 84 Under-officers of churches 86 Itinerary 88 Long 90 Exhausted 92 Contagious skin disease 94 To lose remembrance of 95 Crude 97 Asteraceous plant having small white blossoms 100 Maiden loved by Zeus 102 Companion; comrade 103 Hill in Jerusalem 105 Exclamation 108 Fop (slang) 109 Landing place with ascending stairs, in India 113 Timber and shade tree 115 A small insect 117 Before 118 Distant 120 Parent 122 Bovine quadruped 124 The other parent PUZZLE NO. 15 A QUADRUPLEX QUIDDITY By Person or Persons Unknown A truly marvelous study in four-letter words, with some notably lengthy side-interlocks. 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|#####| 80 | | | |#####| 81 | | | | | | | | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | | | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 82 | | | |#####| 83 | | | |#####| 84 | | | |#####| 85 | | | |#####| | | | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 86 | | |#####| 87 | | | |#####| 88 | | | |#####| 89 | | | |#####| 90 | | | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 91 | |#####| 92 | | | |#####| 93 | | | |#####| 94 | | | |#####| 95 | | | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | 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61 Trial of speed 63 Regret 64 Staff 65 Search 66 Light red 67 Pronoun 68 Preposition 69 Bottom 70 Sift 71 Generous 72 End of day (poet) 73 High nest 74 Send by telegraph 75 Useless plant 76 Throw 77 Measure of weight 79 Wan 80 Hear 81 Composer 82 European River 83 Ring slowly 84 Come to birth 85 Particle 86 Spring 87 Rule 88 Clean 89 Frame of animal 90 Pronoun 91 French, here 92 Winged mammals 93 Tunes 94 Wind 95 Male person 96 Musical compositions 97 Member of new school VERTICAL 1 Blessest 2 Old form of perform 3 Act 4 Body of water 5 Earth (South Afr.) 6 Period of time 7 Thing 8 Level place 9 Earth 10 Consumed 11 Point of compass 12 Source 13 Snake-like fish 14 Similar to 15 African antelope 16 Placed 20 Consume by fire 23 Chief 24 Carriage for heavy commodities 25 Small tubular filament 26 Flip 27 Count on 28 Vending 29 Direct 30 Infrequent 32 Musical composer 33 Seize 34 Sell 35 Wharf 37 In a sound condition 38 Cultivated land 39 A weight 41 Audacious 42 Observed 43 Fief 44 Butterfly 46 Restoration to health 47 Assist 48 Two masted vessel 49 Carry 50 Female horse 51 Duration 52 Damp 53 Sharp pointed nail 54 Oaf 55 Vegetable 56 Tumult 57 Ground 58 Common Spanish proper name 59 Snug 60 Solitary 61 Peel 62 Feeling 64 Share 65 Erudition 66 Streaked 67 Mixup 69 Carry 70 Beak 71 Sharp 72 Loosen 73 Space of ground 74 Welt 75 Part of verb “to be” 76 Bird house 78 Venomous snake 79 Utensils 80 Early invader of England 81 Baseball slang term 83 Children 84 Inflection of speech 85 Small animal 87 Rodent 88 Small part 89 Rotten 90 Possesses 92 Have existence 93 Italian particle, used in music 94 Proceed 95 Note in musical scale PUZZLE NO. 16 A WELL-TIED SAILOR’S KNOT By Captain F. 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25 To pack compactly 26 Matrons 28 Soft plug 29 Deceives 31 Accomplish 33 A dark, viscous liquid 34 Roomy, flat-bottomed boat 35 To be ill 36 A measure of area 37 Unaccustomed 40 That which serves to solve or explain 41 Occupied 43 A metal 44 Corrode 46 Skill 47 Pig 48 Marry 50 Instrument of punishment 52 Unclose 54 Vigor 56 Wind instruments 59 Tranquillity 61 A milk product 63 To bar 64 A grain 65 Frenzy 66 Undermined 68 Opposite middle of ship’s side 70 Inclosed 72 Is company 73 Wield diligently 74 To bow quickly 76 Goddess of Dawn 77 The whole 79 A digit 81 Fragment 83 Beast of burden 84 Dealt with 86 Convulsive gasp 88 Sisterhood 91 The man 92 Insect 93 A principle held as true 94 Contest by force 95 I disagree 96 Fraudulent 98 Solemn promise 99 Tidy; spruce 101 Close to 103 One who frees 106 Father of the gods 108 To call out 109 Less covered 110 A rough 112 Wrath 113 Church holiday 114 A small carnivore 115 Hidden VERTICAL 1 Curves 2 An insect 3 Urgent want 4 The thing 5 To 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artery 84 From there 85 To pull vigorously 86 Harsh 87 To have a care for 89 Pad worn in a woman’s hair 90 A verse form 96 Garlands bestowed for victories 97 A title of respect 99 At this time 100 The primeval body from which the gods created the world 102 Epoch 104 Implore 105 Small child 107 Natural compound of metals 109 Exist 111 You PUZZLE NO. 18 HOT CROSS BUNS By Everett A. Brown This cookie will put you in a Brown study. 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Weiner This looks like a rocky road. Don’t trip over it. 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Secretion of kidneys 17 Wound about 18 In regard to 19 A waterfall 21 Private warfare 23 Tree 24 Wife of a maharaja (Hind.) 26 To mark with ridges 27 Prisoner server certain term (colloq.) 29 Headpiece 30 Philosophy of morals 32 Assistance 33 Little devil 34 Rested 35 To draw out and twist threads 37 Contends with 39 Mumble 42 Reticent 45 One who releases 48 About 49 Painful 50 A sound used to convey meaning 51 Act 52 One who listens 55 Remunerated 57 The burbot 58 Diseased person 60 Expressions of affirmation 61 Segment, circle 63 Spirit 64 Deface 65 Inventor of a gas burner 68 High priest (Bib.) 69 Warbles 72 Girl’s name 73 Give up 76 Lighted 77 Written laws 79 Cloak 81 Oriental guitar 82 Hinder 84 Father’s or mother’s brother 85 Musical drama 86 To eat or wear away 87 One who eats VERTICAL 1 Ancient European silver coin 2 Eradicate 3 Pertaining to Mithra 4 Mothers: a Tagalog term 5 Named 6 Constant teasing desire 7 Act of swimming 8 Above 9 A patcher 10 Earthly paradise 11 Pupils of military school 12 Unit 13 Rubbish 14 Foolish action 15 Poniards 20 Famous Swiss river 22 Born 25 Inclined plane 28 Clergymen 31 Wood nymph 35 A booth 36 Inner court of Spanish dwelling 37 Willow basket 38 Drainage pipe 40 Sister of Circe (Gr. myth.) 41 Jabs 43 Part of foot 44 Vessel 46 In a humble rank 47 Period of time 53 Salt of stannic acid (chem.) 54 Backturner 55 Called to mind 56 Abandoned ship 59 Heap 62 Pause (poet.) 64 House for unknown dead 65 Singer 66 Remove extremity 67 Seed 69 Affirmative 70 Inventor of sheening process 71 Guide 74 Advise; counsel (Scot.) 75 Great 78 Sailor 80 Heroine in Spenser’s Faerie Queene 83 At PUZZLE NO. 20 FIVE GREEK CROSSES By William Ziegler Four interesting, independent masses with a solid central interlock. 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(abbr.) 75 Japanese coin 76 Nickname of Baseball player 77 Keynote 78 Bird 80 Latin conjunction 81 Name of English nobleman 82 To come into 84 Surround 85 Constituent substance VERTICAL 2 Near 3 Mine-roof support 4 Veins of moth’s wing 5 Wharves on river 6 Joints of the arms 8 Eject stream of water 9 Suppliants 10 Opera 11 Anger 12 Chinese measure 13 Blooms 16 Woven vessels 18 Believe 21 Agreements 23 Church officer 25 Organs of vision 27 Aeriform mixtures 29 Elongated fish 31 Apart 32 Comfort 33 Utensil 35 Determines 37 Vessel used in constructing bridges 39 Adores 41 White with age 43 American humorist 45 Beverage 48 Edict 49 Appropriately 51 Loud noise 52 Liberate 53 Commonwealth (Antiq.) 54 Agrees 56 Flower 57 Permit 59 Mountain range 61 Barrier 62 Dike 64 Maxim 65 Gazes 68 Light boat 69 Reaches 72 Tribe of Indians 74 Poker term 77 It exists (contr.) 79 Number 81 Thing 83 Red Cross PUZZLE NO. 21 FOUR LEAF CLOVER By Marcam This lucky design offers two unusual features: an excellent conventionalized figure and freedom from excess of black spaces. 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Not any 21 Exist 22 Deeply malignant 25 An ejaculation of pain 27 A Greek leader in the Trojan war 30 Female sheep 31 Highest in power 34 True 35 Trades (colloquial) 37 Had business relations 38 Because 39 Cupidity 41 Analysis 44 Wary (slang) 47 Devoured 48 Unclose 49 Permit 51 Bustle 53 Not even 55 The foot of a clawed animal 57 A quick bow 59 Quick to learn 61 Observed 63 One of the seven daughters of Atlas 65 Slovenly women 68 A thread of metal 69 Statues 70 A measure of capacity 71 To take vengeance for 72 Not any 73 Primal 76 Stretched tight 77 Insect 78 Jewish Territorial Organization 79 Before 80 Little devil 82 Born 83 A boy 85 Metal dish 87 A kind of sweet potato 89 Decay 91 Models; standards 93 Facing toward the direction from which a glacier impinges 95 More mature 97 Yes 98 Fathers 100 To expiate 102 Preposition 104 The language of the Frisians 106 Struck 108 To surpass in riding 110 Above and in contact with 111 Consigns to a special category 114 Bone 115 The great god of the sun 117 Perish 119 Get up 120 The Goddess of Dawn 122 A measure of area 123 To be 124 Slapped 125 Heliograph (colloquial) VERTICAL 1 Religious 2 From 3 Iron vessel for holding an illuminant 4 The man 6 A low form of wit 7 On one occasion 8 Diadems 9 Sum paid for service 10 Past 11 Otherwise 12 Forced the air audibly through the nose 13 One, or any 14 Memoranda 17 Fear of impending evil 19 Customary 21 Beside 23 Cleopatra’s final remedy 24 Employ 26 You and I 28 A length of unshaped timber 29 To move swiftly 32 A fold of cloth 33 Have permission 36 Undermine 37 Coloring 40 Brightly 42 Emotion 43 Cattle of a certain breed 45 A mare famed in story 46 Existing in name only 48 Said to be a wise bird 50 Color imparted to the skin by the sun 52 Less bitter 54 A faithful friend 56 Piece of property 58 Aquatic, fur-bearing animal 60 Sacred poem 62 To debate 64 A stage of life 66 Forbidden by the 18th Amendment 67 To soak 68 Rainy 74 To hang down; droop 75 Intention; design 78 Mental images 81 To stamp something in or on 84 Adds as an accessory 86 A patient beast 88 A king of Judah 90 Laborious 91 Sky and war god of Teutons 92 Steeple 94 That from which anything primarily proceeds 95 To excite to activity 96 Relieved of 97 In flames 99 Title bestowed on aviators after certain accomplishments 101 One end of a shoe 103 An African 105 A maiden changed into a heifer by Hera 106 The wife of Zeus 107 Work; undertaking 109 Exists 112 To lick up with the tongue 113 A little pile of sand 116 A tool 118 The thing 121 An exclamation 122 Sloth PUZZLE NO. 22 AT THE CROSSROADS By Helen V. Christ Small, but plenty of unusual words to tax the lobes of your brain and the pages of your dictionary. Do you like difficult words? 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Utah 37 Constituting a large number; numerous 38 Heavy textile fabric, made in one piece, to cover a portion of a floor 39 Parasite 40 Part of the verb “to be” 41 Notify or summon 43 Showiness of achievement; brilliancy 45 Bind to secrecy 48 Make, grow, or seem to grow old 49 Exclamation of repugnance or disgust 50 Steep, or soak, as flax 52 Be slow; tardy; late 53 Preposition 54 Suffix used to form present participles 56 Pet or strike softly 58 Abbreviation for “company” 59 Brief poem characterized by exalted feeling 60 Carryall 62 Power of comprehending and judging 64 Slang for “no” 66 Court 68 God (Latin) 70 Betrayal; treachery; or breach of allegiance 71 Now going on; current VERTICAL 1 Carry out by action, effort, or skill of any kind 2 Part of the verb “to be” 3 Square or rectangular block of wood 4 Largest continent 5 Prefix, from, out of; used before many words beginning with a consonant 6 Auditory organ 7 Belonging to a particular genus or class; definite article 8 Scot: one 9 Flock; brood 10 Bad luck; loss; the worst; also the best 11 Abbreviation for “railroad” 12 Art or practice of foretelling by signs or omens 15 Drinking vessel 18 From Greek “life”: a combining form 20 Protecting crane-arm; jib 22 Something attached 24 Letter in the Greek alphabet 25 Biol: A wing, or a wing-like part 26 Be able 28 Funeral hymn or tune 30 Small seed-eating bird, as a bunting, sparrow 31 The fragrant essential oil extract from rose petals 32 Bark-tanned sheep-skin for bookbinding 34 Woo 36 Nothing 37 Tangled 41 Secure a patent for 42 Gone by; past 43 Biol: An ovum or germ cell 44 Spread loosely for drying, as newly mown grass 46 Resinous substance exuded from an East-Indian scale-insect and used in making varnishes 47 One who advocates or practises egoism 49 French: Fem. gen. “one”; an; 51 Beat; torture; vex; also to harden or prepare 54 Any product of mental apprehension or activity 55 Conjunction 57 Offers 59 Poetic: to open 60 Bar 61 Drink slowly 63 Golf term 65 Conjunction 66 River in Italy 67 Conjunction 69 Prefix (negative) PUZZLE NO. 23 CROSSWORD VALENTINE By J. 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+-----+ HORIZONTAL 1 To the inside of 4 Shaft 7 Otherwise 8 Globe 10 A flattish mass of anything soft or moist 11 Note of scale 13 Cheaters 15 Plans 17 Exclamation of triumph 19 Behold 20 As 21 Stupefied by medicine 24 Consumed 26 A unit of electricity 27 Egyptian sun god 29 Mama (abbr.) 30 None 31 Transgress 32 Neuter pronoun 33 Degrees of speed 36 Cunning (colloq.) 39 Remuneration for personal service 40 Else 41 Hubbub 42 Act 43 Indo-Chinese language 44 Alienate 48 Societies 53 Period of time 54 Second person plural 55 Animal 56 Labels 58 Caught again 63 Swing off balance 64 Fondle 65 Nimbus 66 Liquor 67 Peddle 69 Wrath 71 Employs 73 Chum 74 Personal pronoun 75 From 76 Greek prefix-combining form 77 Paternal parent 78 Fruit 83 Begun again 84 Stood by 85 Papa VERTICAL 1 Man’s name 2 Small child 3 Mineral 4 Companion 5 Japanese shawl 6 Yale 7 Instead 9 Boast 10 Note of scale 12 Diphthong 13 Revel, glut 14 Pronoun, first person singular 15 Vessel 16 Grievest 18 After the birth of Christ 19 Note in scale 20 Grin 22 Affiliation 23 Procured 25 Northern animal 26 Part of wheat plant 28 Curtain 33 Sheds 34 Female name 35 Obtain redress by law proceedings 37 Female name 38 Small cottage 45 Ready 46 Snare 47 Monkeys 49 Orb 50 To reverence 51 Appendages 52 Small island 57 Stride 59 Sewing implements 60 Not common 61 Liquor 62 Italian river 63 Oriental weight 68 Fold over 70 Providing 72 Ocean 79 Girl’s name 80 Ancient Grecian coin 81 Was indebted to 82 Male name PUZZLE NO. 24 EIGHTEEN KARAT By Harry Friedman The author, a jeweler of Maiden Lane, dragged this from his treasure chest. 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17 Drives with blows 20 Kind of fish 21 Outside covering 22 Subdues 23 Spill 24 In favor of 25 Suits 27 Decay 28 Kind of walking stick 31 Lost cattle 34 Entered in political contest 35 Swamp land 37 Groove 38 Apparently contrary to truth (adverb) 40 Tavern 41 Young dog 42 Form of entertainment 44 Anything that heals 47 Tumults 49 Male of kind of mammal 50 Seamen 53 Endeavor 54 Relate 57 Excretion from kidneys 58 Projecting part of building 60 Dish of many ingredients 61 Allots 62 Den 63 Alter, correct 65 Cases of wooden slats 67 Indicate 68 Laxer VERTICAL 1 Membrane lining thorax of mammals 2 Pieces out 3 Stint 4 Crony 5 Hearken 7 Drinking cups 8 Sun 9 Omit 10 Object of devotion 11 Unit of heat 12 Avoids 13 Fondness for one’s own sex 15 Displace 18 Base of shellac 19 Something prized 25 “Yes, we have no” 26 Cloud form 29 Path 30 Mountain lakes 32 Canons 33 Large size paper 35 Dude 36 Pinch 39 One who puts an end to 43 Willows 45 Anointed 46 False god or idol 47 Painting on plaster 48 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Gersten This pattern zigs itself one way and zags itself the other way. 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22 Entertainment 23 On condition that 24 Automobile 26 Young dog 27 Friendly hint 28 Beverage 30 Cloth measure 31 Noblewomen 35 Winding about and constantly receding from a center 37 In a tilted manner 38 Brain-box 41 Secret 42 Large cask 43 Conjunction 45 Intensity of passion 46 Note of diatonic scale 47 Small dram 48 In the manner of 49 Agitate 50 Humans 51 Race 53 Prefix meaning “with” 54 Italian composer 55 Pertaining to weight 57 Ardor 59 Fool 60 A low fellow 61 Where animals are kept 62 A useful insect 64 Strip of wood 67 Domesticated 69 Behind the time 72 Silver (chemical) 74 Exclamation 76 Sister 77 A heavenly body 78 Objective pronoun 79 The spawn of fishes 81 King of Norway who christened the country 82 Stretched tight 83 Intention 84 A bright-colored North American bird 86 Metal bearing rock 88 To be agitated 90 An object of worship 91 The positive terminal of a cell 93 Snake-like fishes 94 Recent 95 Sojourn 97 A Scottish Highlander 100 Hinder 101 Edition (abbr.) 102 Cast-off 103 Part of the shoe 105 Christmas (French) 107 Egyptian god 108 Genuine 109 A passageway 111 Ingenuously piquant 113 To be extremely fond of 114 Strength 115 Chief officer of a cathedral VERTICAL 2 Egyptian god 3 Beverage 4 Behold 5 River of India 6 Trickle (Scotch) 7 Plant of the parsley family 9 Native of Scotland 10 Figures that taper uniformly from a circular base 11 Elevated railroad 12 A weight of about 28 lbs. 13 Within 14 A coarse, transparent muslin 16 Pledge 17 Venomous serpent 19 A kind of candy 21 A conspicuous passage 23 Pertaining to Slavs 25 Germanic god 26 Small 29 Terrify 30 Ireland 32 French for “he” 33 Period of time 34 Low-bred dog 36 Not (prefix) 39 Fleets of war vessels 40 Decomposes into molecules 44 Tree 46 Sheltered side 49 Black 52 A small drum 54 Secretion 55 Nocturnal flying mammal 56 A pod or husk 58 Not old 63 A strict disciplinarian 65 State of excitement 66 Clever 68 Little world 69 A large fish 70 Deceased 71 A school term 73 Incited 75 Dare (obs.) 77 Rested 78 A pale moth with floury wings 80 Enough 83 One of Adam’s sons 85 Arabic article 86 Upon 87 Boy’s nickname 89 Pronoun 91 Yes 92 For instance 95 Covering of the foot 96 In the Year of Our Lord 98 Indefinite article 99 Show the way 102 A drunkard 103 Spanish for “aunt” 104 High priest 106 A falsehood 108 Proceed 109 By 110 Half a printer’s unit 112 A note of the scale PUZZLE NO. 27 THIS TAKES THE CAKE By M. H. Ronzone Cut yourself a piece of this one. It’s a mouthful. 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article 66 Plural of Asiatic country 68 Encourage 70 Bonds 71 State in Mexico 73 Therefore 74 That on which one sits 75 Spiritual essence of Hindus 76 Grudge 78 So 79 Faculty of sensation 81 Note of musical scale 83 Fish spawn 86 Jurisprudence 88 Started 90 Balanced 94 Lemon-like fruit 97 Fresh set 98 Pertaining to seasons 100 A pattern 102 Helper 103 To converse 104 So be it 106 Fruit juice 107 Arm of the sea 108 Female rabbit 109 Infernal regions 112 Solemn promise 114 Small insect 115 Near 116 Sway 117 To accomplish 118 Elementary substance 120 On 121 A thin biscuit 122 Chief 124 Carouse 126 Happenings 127 South American vulture 128 Round-about way VERTICAL 1 Ferns 2 Personal pronoun 3 Simpleton 4 Employs 5 Cleave asunder 7 Elevated 8 Vocal inflection 9 Implement 10 Measure in printing 11 Mixture 12 Something lent 13 Mire 14 Gold 15 Fear 17 A noted American explorer 19 Leaves undone 21 Cures 25 A lubricator 27 Moaning sound 29 Leaf of the calyx 30 Two score 32 Satisfied 34 Chance 36 Sip 38 Possessive pronoun 39 Hedge 41 Funeral pile 43 Jumbled type 44 Forward 45 Griefs 47 A turning 49 Relating to private affairs 50 Unrestrained 52 Signify 53 Quadruped of slender form 54 Maker of earthenware 56 Cripple 57 Mixed mast 58 Small table-land 59 Segments of curves 60 Six 61 Repose 62 Toothed wheel 64 Myself 66 Father 67 Yes 69 To exist 72 Part of passive auxiliary 77 Supplicate 80 To float 82 Abdomen 84 Detest 85 Held for sale 87 Middle place 88 Make fast 89 Merry 90 A plant food 91 Part of verb “to be” 92 Provided that 93 Female parent 95 Cut down 96 A plant 97 Mob 98 Precipitous 99 A bar to gain power 101 Epistle 103 Small bays 105 Well known 108 Crazy 110 Paradise 111 Burden 113 Billow 116 Pale 119 Permit 121 Us 122 Halloo 123 Note of diatonic scale 125 Behold PUZZLE NO. 28 A JERSEY ’SKEETER By Henry Kroener This comes from Montclair, and it’ll sting you more than once. 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Parcel of ground 23 Military leader 26 City in Armenia 28 Protuberant tumor 29 Long 30 Official of Mohammedan Church 31 Foundation 32 Possessive pronoun 34 Try 37 Dip lightly 39 Frozen pendant 42 Entomological prefix 45 River in Russia 46 Lift 49 Arab chief 50 Altar-screen 53 Apostrophic poem 54 Soak 56 Lachrymal exudation 57 Conflicts 58 Female character in Acts XI xxxvi 61 Pedal digit 63 Fire-opal 67 Syrian city 68 Twos 70 Narrow roadway 71 Stand for painting 73 Each 75 Distress signal 78 Circuit 80 Biblical character 81 Jump 83 Court 84 Club 85 Prefix, right 87 The sun 88 Sprite 90 Completed 93 Point 95 Wood 98 Seaport in Columbia 99 Sow (Prov. Eng.) 100 Accustom 101 Equip 103 Belch 105 Artificial ravine 106 Excellent (superlative) 107 Simple 108 Young man VERTICAL 1 Mock 2 Rear 3 Metallic rock 4 Bone of arm 5 Earth 6 Exceptional 7 Stronghold 9 Proceed 10 Point 11 Caudal appendage 12 Hostelry 13 Worker on dock 14 Witnessed (past perf.) 19 Loud talker 20 Easy 22 Be indebted to 24 Stroke 25 Direct 27 Girl’s name 32 Capillary growth 33 Mottled 35 Girl’s name 36 American admiral 38 Circumstance 40 Crack 41 Clad 43 Pendent 44 Herb 47 Large artery 48 Drain 51 Period of time 52 Ocean 54 Unit of work 55 Self 58 Receptacles 59 College degree 60 Snare 62 Lubricant 64 Infrequent 65 Point of compass 66 Closed curve 68 Permission by authority 69 Choose 72 Passes 74 Success 76 Night bird 77 Border (theatrical) 79 Through 80 Before 81 Largest island of Japan 82 Prefix pertaining to oil 86 Prefix, far 88 Noble 89 Beat 91 Shoot 92 Obligation 94 Two together 96 Upon 97 Earlier than 102 Mother 104 Carbon monoxide PUZZLE NO. 29 UNLUCKY By Harold H. 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T. Delaney Not so decorative, but a hundred per cent interlock and no two letter words. 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Comedian 32 Discernment 34 Precious stone 37 Always 38 Secondary planet 41 Tailless monkey 42 Offspring 44 Plasterer’s trowel 46 Within 47 Southern fish 48 Man’s name 49 Strum 51 Vestment ribbons 53 Have an obligation 55 Destroy utterly 58 Negative word 60 Nostrils 62 Fit into mortise 63 Animal in embryo 65 Loop of rope 67 Repulse 69 Calm 71 Period 73 Citrus fruit 76 Small songbird 77 Legendary siren 80 Implement 81 Ungulate of South America 82 Compound ether 83 Parti-colored 84 Foreordain 85 Morbid respiratory sound VERTICAL 1 Artifice 2 Vex 3 System of rates 4 Concur 5 Winged insect 6 Performing alone 7 By way of 8 Heron 9 Short outer waist 10 Bay color mixed with white 11 Netting 15 Happen 17 Lower part of leg 18 Chalice 20 Fragment 22 Hybrid 25 Subsequent 27 Second mowing 29 Hydro carbon of methane series 30 Blessing 31 Waste 33 Proteid 35 Recompense 36 Fanatical partisans 39 Predict 40 Former playing card 43 Interjection 45 Egyptian god of pleasure 50 Exudation of certain plants 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potato 16 Threatens 18 Love 19 Repose 20 Bivouac 21 Aid 25 Disturb 28 Seize 29 Conjunction 30 Italian coin 31 Murmurs softly 32 Preposition 33 Italian particle often used in English 35 Far 37 Preposition 38 Heavy cord 40 Pertaining to square area 42 Body of land 44 Golden one 46 Before 47 Joyed 49 Italian corn-meal cake 52 Rustic 54 Spice 55 Reply 58 Railer 62 War method 63 Things 65 Shouted 67 Against 68 Optical instrument 73 One who utilizes 74 3.14159 75 Strainedly 76 Musical note 77 Symbol for copper 78 Skin disease 79 Roman emperor 81 Conjunction 83 Precious stone 85 Masticate 86 Stands even with 87 Positive command 89 Antillean island 91 Numeral adverb 92 Loving 94 Compound of oxygen and nitrogen 96 Ordered 97 Beverage 98 Organ of public information 99 Written pages (abbr.) VERTICAL 1 Indian magical plant 2 Groups of electrons 3 Bodily 4 Ordinary 5 Suffix, pertaining to 6 Affirmative 7 Brown 8 Printer’s measure 9 Part of verb “to be” 10 Looks evilly 11 Pertaining to clothes 12 Body of water 13 Writing rest 14 Make of automobile 17 Let stand 22 Wait 23 Ireland 24 Sense 25 Frighten 26 Species of sound 27 Greek letter 34 Closed curve 36 Lateness 37 Man’s nickname 39 Thrust forth 40 Mix 41 Address 43 Dutch coins 45 Prefix, from 48 Behold 50 Measure of weight 51 Conjunction 52 Wager 53 Heroine in Spenser 55 Indian princess 56 Condition 57 Mixed type 59 Negative 60 Bull-shaped 61 Bar 62 Cereal 63 Make over 64 Odor 66 Drawn 69 Engrave 70 Learning, knowledge (obs.) 71 Prefix, pertaining to oil 72 Fire 77 Intrigue 78 Seed of oak 80 Reed 82 Monetary penalties 84 Mountain lion 88 Ones 90 Plunge 93 Pronoun 94 Conjunction 95 Sun-god 96 Prefix, out of PUZZLE NO. 32 HIC LABOR HIC OPUS EST By Neophyte This erudite contribution comes from an old-time puzzler who is one of the experts on ingenuities. 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To drudge 66 Accomplish 67 Poem 68 To drink little by little 70 In that way 71 A notorious fiddler 73 Gone by 75 To offer for sale 77 Genus homo 78 Stepped rapidly 79 The essential person VERTICAL 1 Pound 2 Cloth for wiping 3 To stay for 4 Exist 5 Visionary person 6 In the direction of 7 Ourselves 8 Disfigurement 9 Proceed 10 Ends of stockings 13 Not any 14 Belonging to him 16 A very little 17 To command 19 A measure of distance 21 Knock 23 Call out 24 Bronze or copper 25 A half dozen 27 Inland 29 Sources of supply 32 Finished 34 Hawaiian food 35 Skill 37 Still 38 Wave 39 A beam 40 Solemn wonder 46 Pale green 48 Unresisting 50 Forth 51 An insect 52 Unclose 54 Chart 55 Insane 56 Presently 57 Wrath 59 Donkey 60 Joyful 61 Goddess of Dawn 64 Lawful 67 Spoken 69 Wooden or metal pins 72 Type measure 73 A measure of area 74 Over and in contact with 76 A veto PUZZLE NO. 34 FIVE SPOTS AND RAYS By R. B. MacMullin, Jr. Good interlock, but a number of unkeyed letters. 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Grief 35 Planetary orbit 36 A nut 38 Saltpeter 39 In a heap 40 Heron 42 Minor (mus.) 44 Deity 46 Steep flax 51 Molten 52 A saying 55 Hostelry 56 Weir 58 Religious 59 45 inches 60 Scrawny 61 Void space 63 Common fuel 64 Accumulate 67 Farinaceous 69 Wax impression 71 Eldest son of Isaac 74 Born 75 Because of 76 Equivocation 77 Wickedness 79 Exist 82 Another note on the diatonic scale PUZZLE NO. 35 A SLOTTED OBLONG By Marion Hague Splendid corner solids and easy central islands. 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A kettle 22 One who carries something 23 Items of record 25 Pertaining to a pole 27 To pass from one place to another 28 To break short 29 Exhausted 30 Jewel 31 Rule established by authority 34 Clan 36 Hostelry 38 Extremity 40 Domestic animal 42 Instrument used to operate a lock 43 Snare 45 Color 46 Bustle 47 Marks made by folding 49 Sort of skeleton found in the sea 51 Striking gently 54 Piece of instruction 55 Sort of preserved fruit 56 Pouch 58 Epistle 59 To enliven 60 Body of land surrounded by water 65 Hastened 66 An edge 67 Rapacious bird 71 To wind, as a brook 73 Burdened 75 Small dagger 76 To set free of 77 Horse 79 To allow 80 Co-relative of “neither” 81 Period of time 82 A possessive pronoun 83 A delicious drink 85 Arbor 87 A measure of length 89 Entrance 90 Machine which gives motion 93 At any time 95 Tells 98 A variety of quartz 99 Dwells 102 Fastened 103 Bond 104 Tag 106 Recollect 107 Older 108 The fruit of the pine tree 109 Lyric poems 110 An aromatic herb VERTICAL 1 Hard covering 2 Female fowl 3 Grain 4 Sins 5 Provide for meagrely 7 Near 8 Thicket 9 Metal or wooden band 10 Short space of time 11 Merit 12 Neuter pronoun 13 According to law 14 A nobleman 15 A Southern constellation 16 Fixed 17 Inclination 19 Listen 22 Having two feet 24 Sees 26 A bar of metal for raising weight 27 Sacred musical composition 32 Land measure 33 Troubles 35 Beside 37 Otherwise 38 To prepare for publication 39 Not any 41 Part of verb “to be” 43 Existing only in name 44 A silk used for upholstering 46 Expert 47 Demand 48 Whole 49 Artificial waterway 50 High school subject 52 Delicious nut 53 Great 55 Receptacle 57 Precious stone 61 Dry 62 Home of a wild beast 63 A conjunction 64 Indicated 67 Always 68 To recline 69 Anxiety 70 Spoken 72 Runs swiftly 74 A triangular piece of land at the mouth of a river 75 Potency 78 To depart 80 Negative 82 Domestic animal 83 To supply food or amusement 84 Furiously 85 A food 86 Set again 88 Fine lace 89 Strong wind 91 Sort of molding 92 Common name of old German emperors 94 Wealthy 96 Soft finned fish 97 Boy 100 Span of twenty-four hours 101 Kind of tree 103 Forward 105 Exist PUZZLE NO. 36 AN HOUR GLASS By Mrs. Henry Wolf The constructor must have turned her hour glass several times while she was building this hour glass. 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+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 84 | | | |#####| 85 | | 86 | | | | 87 | | |#####| 88 | | | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | | | |#####| | | | | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 89 | | | | 90 |#####| 91 | | | | | | |#####| 92 | | | | | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 93 | | | | | | |#####| 94 | | |#####| 95 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | | | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ HORIZONTAL 1 Definite 7 Cymbals used by Hindu dancers 10 Declares 16 Vigilant 17 Publication 20 Manifest 21 Plateau 22 17th century article of dress 24 Concept 25 Confederations of territory 26 Nightfall 27 Operator of cotton cleaning machine 28 Restrain 29 Belonging to Ireland 31 Conveyed 32 Insect 33 Bloomed again 34 Scotch for no 35 Stride 37 Silenced 38 Agitate 39 Lyric poems 42 Title 43 Half 45 Laundry implement 48 One who lives only for pleasure 51 Nautical diary 52 Clamor 53 Delivered 58 Entanglers 62 Insects 63 Wicked 65 Skin disease 66 Defense 68 Premise 70 Plunge 73 Previous 74 Quarrel 75 Anger 76 Performs 78 Unsympathetically 79 Irritated 80 Harangues 82 One of many 83 Helmsman 84 Employer 85 Aversions 88 Liquid measure 89 Prepared 91 Share 92 A relative 93 Regards 94 Assent 95 Feared VERTICAL 1 Likeness producers 2 Rudimentary 3 Postponement 4 Educate 5 There 6 Yields 7 Afraid 8 Tendency to revert to type 9 One who issues permits 10 Again 11 Therefore 12 Ills 13 Returning (rare.) 14 Wooden pegs 15 Beginner 18 Accomplish 19 Exclamation 22 Separater 23 Matured 29 Shade tree 30 Turf 36 Utensil 38 Err 40 Couch 41 Parts of shoes 43 Medicinal plant 44 Grieve 45 Distant 46 Total 47 Bow 48 Belonging to him 49 Anger 50 Contraction of “it is” 54 Conjurors 55 Corrode 56 Bombastic 57 Charm 59 Salutes 60 Guided 61 Homage 63 Wilful damage to ship by mariners 64 Separation of parts previously joined 66 Characteristic 67 Refuge 68 Resting place 69 Pen 71 Made like ivory 72 Exercised 77 Atlantic right whale 79 Brown pigment 81 Tastes 83 Deliver 86 This way 87 Toward 90 3rd person plural 92 Nor PUZZLE NO. 37 DECORATION By Anna J. 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refrain from VERTICAL 1 To butt 2 Above 3 Pronoun 4 Billiard shot 5 Raw metals 7 Dry 8 Hearsay 9 Part of verb “to be” 10 Either 11 Guided 12 Glut 14 Purer 17 Terse 19 Part 21 Noblemen 24 Skill 26 Drunkard 28 Mineral spring 30 Edge 31 State of equality 33 Help 35 Accuse 36 Abets 37 Liberty 39 Purposeless 41 Loathes 42 A member of solar system 44 Powerful explosive 46 A bird of crow family 49 Easily crumbled 51 Gazers 53 Oriental tower 55 Insect 56 Separate 58 Playing card 59 Rage 60 Equipped 61 Vortex 63 Tear 65 Tune 68 Directed 70 Systematic rules for eating 73 Military assistant 74 To pierce 76 Used in small boats 78 A box or place 80 In regard to 81 Part of verb “to be” 83 Latin for “and” 84 Exclamation PUZZLE NO. 38 BLACK BEETLE By Fred L. 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| | | |#####| |#####| 122 | | | | |#####| |#####| | | | |#####|#####| | | | |#####| |#####| | | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 123 | | | |#####| 124 | | | | | | | | | |#####| 125 | | | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | | | | |#####| | | | | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ HORIZONTAL 1 Extremities 4 Unchangeable 12 A metal 15 Concerning 16 Digits 17 Variety of wood 18 Therefore 19 Shores 21 Thus 23 Catkins 26 Fruit of common tree 27 And so forth 30 Obliterate 31 Things of secondary importance 33 Sportmen’s lodges (Scot.) 34 A blow 35 Grassy field 37 Part of “to be” 39 Ecclesiastical contribution box 40 Strike 41 Bleak 44 Unoccupied 46 Container for liquids 48 Rip 50 Hindu mendicant 51 Designation 53 Annoy 54 Common breakfast food 55 Lacquer 56 Latin, and 57 Roman magistrate 59 Behold 61 Pert. to 63 Road (abbr.) 64 Eager 65 Indian Cult 67 Black 69 Companion 70 Organs of hearing 71 Legendary Queen of Carthage 72 Toward 74 To eulogize 77 Myself 78 Orange-brown 80 Disordered type 81 Mammal milk bag 83 Toss gently 85 Rational animal 86 Mournful sound 88 Collected mass of eggs (pl.) 89 Kind of fish 90 Engrave 92 Vocal music 93 Before, prefix 94 Head covering 95 Requirement 98 Secreted 100 Possessive pronoun 101 Equal 103 Golf term 105 Fermented drink 107 Severe 108 Fossil lizards 110 African antelope 112 Vend again 114 Latin for “and” 115 Compound of nitrogen 117 Inside 119 Earth 121 Open hall 122 Elevated 123 An injury 124 Association 125 Melt VERTICAL 1 Roman garment 2 Allowing that 3 Tale 4 Belonging to it 5 Missive 6 Article of apparel (pl.) 7 Like 8 By 9 Wild animal (pl.) 10 A priest 11 Piece out 12 Prefix, within 13 Bone 14 A feature 19 A metallic element 20 Again 21 Prophet 22 Pert. to the ear 24 Lizard 25 Persian ruler 28 Form of limestone 29 Stimulate 32 Juice of a tree 34 Form of male address 35 Written or printed productions 36 Revise 38 To be impelled by wind 40 Old women 42 Substance derived from seaweed 43 Meanderings 45 Lifts 47 Anger 49 Self 50 Captain of Arab vessel (pl.) 52 Literary compiler 55 Shifting sail 58 Conception 59 Kind of soil 60 Giant 62 Man of ancient Asiatic race 64 Form of “to be” 65 You 66 Intransitive verb 68 Word of negation 73 Smell 75 Common woman 76 Measure of weight 78 Perched 79 Measure of length 80 To palpitate 82 More profound 84 African native race 85 Plural of medium 87 Egg-shaped (obs.) 89 Pitch 91 Pronoun 94 Domestic birds 96 Judicial circuit 97 Send forth 99 Wild animal 102 Upright 103 A dinner course 104 Boredom 106 Apart from 107 Utensil for roasting 108 Fruit of a shrub 109 Storehouse for grain 111 Thick liquid 113 Sprite 116 To prepare leather 118 Denial 120 Pronoun 121 Near 122 Plural pronoun PUZZLE NO. 40 99​-9⁄10 PER CENT PURE By Kross Korner Knut They don’t come much better than this one. 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+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ HORIZONTAL 1 Self contradiction 6 Competitor 10 Restrict 16 Holly 17 Couch 18 Dance step 20 Froth 21 Crow-like bird 23 Solitary 24 Smooth 26 Condition 28 Prayer 29 Hard blows 31 Infirm 33 Caoutchouc 34 Acquires 36 Again 38 Underanged 39 Completed 40 Either 41 Flavor 43 Cloud 45 Annoy 47 Any 48 Slant 49 Divide proportionately 52 An auction 54 Dormant 56 Obliterate 57 Austere 59 Trite 60 Guided 62 Consume 64 Retorts 66 Possessive pronoun 67 Comrade 68 Precious stone 70 Small cake 72 Weird 73 Fruit 74 Eludes 75 Table-land 79 Fondle 80 Shallow vessel 82 Place 83 Medley 86 Episode 88 Decade 90 Bog 91 Endured 92 Diners 94 The end 97 German 100 Baked clay 101 Humming 103 Wagon travel 105 Printing measure 107 Climate 109 Insect 110 Different one 112 Exclamation 113 Bribes 115 Cabal 117 Ancestor 118 Proof-reading direction 120 Wrath 121 Inner part of bottom of a shoe 123 Penetrates 125 Metallic rock 126 Restrain 128 Remain 129 Learning 130 Tall, slim structure 132 Opposite of aloft 134 Before 135 Behold 136 Uncouth 137 Metallic salts 138 Ether derived from oxygenated acid 139 A young seal VERTICAL 1 Model of excellence 2 Short bolt 3 Beverage 4 Lairs 5 Bovine quadruped 6 Regenerate 7 Important Roman dates 8 Mimics 9 Bathes 11 Concerning 12 Snout 13 Corpulent 14 Adult, mature insect 15 Rudiment 17 Nursery rhyme character 19 Legislative body 22 Affirm 23 Cotton fibre 25 Baseball team 27 Oceanic fish 30 Refuse 32 Let 35 Silences 37 State of mind, esp. of soldiers 39 Dele. 42 To the sheltered side 43 Pro 44 Aeriform fluid 46 Rescue 48 Ex-Emperor 50 Color 51 Golf requisite 53 Young eagle 54 Corroded 55 Worlds 57 Scholar 58 Spike 59 Chagrin 61 To raise the spirits 63 Humble 65 Ecclesiastic council 67 Baby food 68 Chasm 69 Humans 71 Lace 76 Close of day 77 Locate 78 Capers 81 Broad thoroughfare 83 Weasel-like fur-bearing animals 84 Behold 85 Compound of atoms and electrons 87 Relate 89 Neither 90 Baseball enthusiast 91 Certain 93 Govern 95 Canaille 96 Two-wheeled, one-seated vehicle 98 The upper air 99 In addition 101 Represent 102 Neck swelling 104 Provider 106 Greater 108 Church service 111 A cross 112 In this place 114 Leaf of a corolla 116 To stare fiercely 117 Grimace of contempt 119 An altar cloth 121 To smooth cloth or clothing 122 Orbs 123 Otherwise 124 Button for shirt front 127 Yale 131 Unusual 133 Us 136 Sun God PUZZLE NO. 41 A WEST POINTER By Corporal Arthur Baisch and Sergeant William M. Munroe The army sends a neat design—and not an easy one. 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front end of a locomotive 24 Coral isle 26 More or less 27 Pony 29 (In poker) stake put up 30 Rich vegetable mold 31 Energy 32 Combination of acetic acid with glycerine 34 Thick ointment of wax, etc. 35 Splendor 39 Wanton slaughter of unresisting game 42 Sickness 46 Pertaining to a foot 47 Error in printing or writing 51 Female rabbit 52 Mystic ornament worn by a Jewish high priest 54 Void 56 Attention 57 Period of time 58 Small cubes that know arithmetic 59 So be it 60 Floor covering 61 A mastiff 64 Grooved metal fastener 65 Specie of duck 68 Neuter verbal noun 69 Captivate 70 In great plenty 73 Petty officer in charge of stores 76 Wrath 77 Glacier ice 80 Prison 83 Tiny 84 An island (poetic) 86 Symbol 87 Ancient, bygone 89 Amount 91 Abroad 92 Crude, cold and damp 93 Claim of right 94 Fermenting vat 95 Sailor 96 Nonsense 97 Lair VERTICAL 1 Sink 2 Sharp pointed 3 Priestly vestment 5 Revise 6 Sauce, moisture 7 Face of a clock 8 Oil of roses 9 Comrade 11 Anaconda 12 Barrier 13 Kind of hat 15 Hawaiian tree 17 Shade tree 19 Ancient hymn sung at matins 21 Taste 23 Small stinging insect 25 Kiln for drying hops 26 Title 28 Door of Masonic lodge 31 Wear 33 Blue titmouse 34 Cad 36 Ornamental knob 37 Narrative 38 Repair again 39 Austro-Hungarian Territory ruled by a Ban 40 Al2 K2 (SO4) + 24 H2O 41 Sorrow 43 Mental image 44 Forsaken 45 Meadow 48 Arial 49 Snug 50 Incite 53 Little stream 55 Ten armed cephalopod 61 Bath house 62 Monster 63 Move or stir 65 Kind of fish sauce 66 Boats’ company 67 Boat propelled by three 71 Cadence 72 Natural metal 74 Over 75 Flesh of animals 77 The present time 78 Prohibit 79 Utter 80 In archery; the bull’s eye 81 Sheltered side 82 To permit 85 Total 86 Headgear 88 Pile 90 Hit lightly PUZZLE NO. 42 A CENTRAL SWASTIKA [1] By Warren Hannaford Small, but by no means so easy as it looks. 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HORIZONTAL 1 Motion 5 A barricade 10 Goddess of mischief 11 Disarranged type 13 Prefix, equal 14 Distend 16 Actors 19 A large bird 21 A measure of type 22 The solan goose 23 An exclamation 24 An arch 27 Combine with air 30 Pert. to atmosphere (comb. form) 31 Order 32 Time 33 A beverage 35 The egg of a small insect 37 Coarse cloth made from jute 39 An alarm 42 In another direction 45 Classes of two species 47 Hereditary 49 Regarding 50 The small white heron 53 Nickname for father 54 Design 56 Exclamation of disdain 57 A fish destitute of ventral fins 58 A short song 60 Belonging to me 61 A tree 63 Title of address (pl.) 64 Obliterates VERTICAL 1 The finest of Indian silk 2 Scold 3 And (French) 4 Scanty 6 Pigment from wood soot 7 Roman weight equal to a pound 8 Jutting rock 9 Small bag filled with perfume 11 Incarcerate 12 Tavern 15 Curious scraps of literature 17 Agallochum 18 Disrupt 20 A grain 25 An adherent of the Zoroastrian religion 26 A heavy wooden mallet 28 A stem of a specie of palm 29 Quadruped of Madagascar 32 Each 34 Near by 36 A gentleman’s servant 38 Departure 40 An article used to expunge 41 Predatory incursion 43 Deteriorate 44 Hypothetical ape man 46 Contr. of evening 48 Mock 51 Highly finished work of art 52 Narrow beam of light 55 Assume 57 Square of a type body (pl.) 59 Trick 62 Sixth note of scale PUZZLE NO. 43 NOT SO BLACK AS PAINTED By Norman Kendy Excellent center, but somewhat loose corner construction, passed, however, under Mr. Gelett Burgess’ ruling that at least half the letters of a word shall be included in other words. +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |#####| 1 | 2 | | 3 | | 4 | |#####| 5 | 6 | | 7 | | 8 | |#####| |#####| | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | |#####| +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 9 |#####| |#####| |#####| |#####|#####|#####| |#####| |#####| |#####| 10 | | |#####| |#####| |#####| 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Sharpshooter 44 Indispensable for animal life 45 English college 46 Corn meal bread 47 To be in debt 48 A Spanish horse 49 Noose 50 Theory 51 Ill-bred fellow 52 God 54 Friend (French) 56 Submerged continent 58 Grain warehouse 60 Penetrated 61 Industrial preservatory VERTICAL 2 Premature birth 3 Dressed 4 Testament character 6 Orb 7 Particle 8 Amusing 9 Textile 10 Causing excitement 12 Body 13 Old name for the blues 17 A dance 19 Largo lake 21 Lover 23 Seagoing person 26 Submarine 28 Country gallant 31 Anger 33 Born 36 Freight term 37 City of Churches 38 Clothes 39 Injections 40 Coin 41 Take notice 42 Automobile 43 Vaults 53 Poker term 55 Just quite 57 Frost 59 Pasture PUZZLE NO. 44 FINE AND DANDY By Julie D. Carder A splendid example of what can be done in the waving of long and intricate word patterns. 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3 According to value 11 Fulfil 14 Pronoun 15 Comfortable 16 The substantive verb 17 A land measure 19 Traveler’s bag 21 A room in a harem 22 A high hill 23 Entirely 24 That Japanese statesman 25 By 26 To become weary 28 A sounding instrument 32 A branch 33 Growing out 35 Wheat 36 East Indian climber 37 Animal coagulant 39 Conscious being 40 Wool fabric 41 A maiden 43 The tongue 45 Gratuity 46 A plant 48 Expressing pleasure 51 Corn meal mush 55 Dilatory 57 To fortify 59 Colored glass 61 Fidelity 62 Melodies 64 Invest with a fee 65 Tramp 66 A tapering mandrel 68 Force 69 Single 70 Electrical unit 71 An extinct bird 73 Point of the compass 74 Goddess of dawn 75 That which is recent 79 Of the Tartar race 80 What every woman adds 81 A vessel 82 In regard to 83 Still 84 An American lizard 85 A color VERTICAL 1 Deranges 2 The leading lady 4 Divides 5 A scoundrel 6 Serpent 7 Sheltered side 8 Many times 9 Mildew on plants 10 Excite 12 An ancient puzzler 13 Chronicle of a year 18 Commission 19 Calcium 20 Depart 21 An Asiatic shrub 27 A volcano 29 Open space 30 Vehicle 31 Interested 32 Lord 34 Australian catfish 36 Elements of plants 38 Oriental weight (pl.) 40 Ditches 42 Turn to the right 44 Fate 47 Phonology 48 Emits fumes 49 Small amount 50 Defy 51 Biblical character 52 Arrive 53 Weird 54 Made tender 56 Disease of grape leaves 58 What Eve was made of 60 Stretching (old) 62 An arsenal 63 A son of Shem 66 Act of stealing 67 A worker in wool 70 Forward 72 Exist 76 Cup with four handles 77 The entire man 78 One who has extreme political views (slang) PUZZLE NO. 45 A LINGUAL LABYRINTH By Coutance This effort contains one definition which comprises two words, but the all-round excellence of the construction makes up for this single deficiency. +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | | 5 | 6 |#####| 7 | 8 | | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | | | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | | 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Novice 30 Bar 31 Permit 32 Change 34 Elevated railroad (abbr.) 35 Bone 37 Gypsy 38 Biblical name 40 State of ennui 41 Untruthfully 42 Exclamation used to frighten 43 Strike 44 The whole range 45 French article 46 Feline vocalism 48 Fastener 49 Social functions 52 Dust on roof of room (2 words) 56 Behold 58 Portuguese coin 59 Goddess of the dawn 60 Egyptian sun-god 61 Tool 63 Sweetheart 65 Article 66 Rare element 68 French leader assassinated by Charlotte Corday 69 Expanse 70 Gathered 71 Related to Muse of joy VERTICAL 1 Stand 2 French Protectorate 3 Decay 4 Article 5 Mountain in Arabia 6 Before 7 A capsule 8 Above 9 Preposition 10 Maiden symbolic of truth 11 Period of fast 12 To impede 15 Last of two 18 Arabian beast 19 Whorl 22 One who likes better 23 Preposition 24 Drivers 26 Symbol for Platinum 27 Astringent mineral substance 28 Pronoun 29 Railroad 30 Sailing vessel 33 Shouts 34 Slack 36 A pouting girl 37 An engine of war 39 Color 41 Tooth 44 Spicy root 47 On one string (Mus. abbr.) 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of Aaron 35 Beast of burden 36 Kingdom of Persia 38 Holy picture 39 To saturate 41 A medley 44 A priestly vestment 46 Rears up 49 Termination 50 Collection of units 51 Indef. article 52 Oriental sash 54 Personal pronoun 56 Exist 57 Sanctioned 62 Goddess of Earth 63 Allow 64 Tribe of Indians 65 Act 67 Help 68 Meager 70 Part of the verb “be” 71 To wipe out 72 Situation set apart 73 Species of elk VERTICAL 1 Character in Genesis 2 Measure of type 3 Connected with 4 Species of plant 5 Note of entry 6 Small piece 7 Conceal 8 Above 9 Note of scale 10 Support 13 French coin 15 Abodes for travelers 20 Deputy of Sultan 21 Resembling a sandflea 22 Hindu title 23 Can be drawn together 24 A small part 29 A musical note 30 Species of bird 31 To harden 33 Birthplace of Abraham 34 Besides 37 Wooden pegs 39 Unrighteousness 40 A limb 42 Smooth consonant 43 Enclosed 44 The highest point 45 Used in fishing 47 Personal pronoun 48 Narrow-minded person 51 Dwell 53 Posts for ships’ cables 55 Under strain 58 River in Germany 59 Beast of burden 60 Goddess of Mischief 61 Two or more together 66 Else 67 Conjunction 69 Denial 70 Part of the verb “be” PUZZLE NO. 48 A VOCABULARY TESTER By Irvan Neckerman Mr. Neckerman is apparently never happy till he has filled his construction with difficult words. 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22 Put back 24 Child 25 Beverage 27 Past 29 Toss 30 Chemical radical 31 Shoed 34 Cake 35 Illumined 36 Additions 37 Poet 39 X 40 South American Animal 42 Worried 45 Hoarder 48 Unfasten 50 Be ill 51 Preposition 53 Frosting 56 Dispraise 59 Undo 62 Boy 63 City in Chile 64 Heroine in Spencer 65 Seize 67 Proceed 68 Ties 70 Place 72 Run (Scotch) 73 Labor 75 Fright 77 Defeats 79 Requested 82 Beverage 83 Therefore 85 Civil offense 87 Vigor 89 Fast 90 Pedal prints 93 Opera singer 94 Piece 96 Metallic rock 97 Due 99 Negative 100 Angered 103 Present 105 Survivors 108 Curtain 109 Star 110 Scient 111 One who seasons 112 Concise 113 Vomiting VERTICAL 1 Pertaining to mail 2 Shakespearian character 3 Utilize 4 Egyptian god 5 Negative 7 Oblique 8 Linger 9 Sea Life 10 Beg 11 Siberian city 12 A container 13 Seclude 14 Pertaining to a Grecian city 16 Chant 18 Preface 20 Understood 23 Clother 26 Italian woman’s 28 Grotto name 31 Mathematical term 32 Asceticisms 33 Condemn 36 Chinese city 38 Follower of ceremony 41 Word play 43 Trumpet call 44 Graceful 46 Descendant 47 Lowest point in a ship 49 Musical composition 51 Attack 52 Animal 54 Vehicle 55 Mountain in Greece 57 Uncle (S. Africa) 58 Entangle 60 Wine cask 61 Dark fluid 66 Spring 69 Tribe 71 Slave 74 Paddles 75 Killed 76 Middle 77 Lout 78 Cooked mixture 80 Shows 81 Golf Term 82 Head nun 84 Merchandise 86 Musical form 88 Chateaus 91 Strained 92 Cities 95 Giant 98 Hit 101 Skill 102 Bodily organ 104 Pronoun 106 Female sheep 107 Anger *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 68267 ***