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Title: The cross word puzzle book: Second series
Author: Farrar, Margaret Petherbridge, Hartswick, F. Gregory (Frederic Gregory), Buranelli, Prosper
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THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK
SECOND SERIES
A Second Anthology of Fifty New Cross Word Puzzles
Selected as the Best of the Thousands Submitted
to the New York World Published Here
Exclusively for the First Time,
and Edited
By
PROSPER BURANELLI
F. GREGORY HARTSWICK
MARGARET PETHERBRIDGE
Preface by
WILLIAM A. STERN II
CROSS WORD PUZZLE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD
SIMON AND SCHUSTER, INC.
THE PLAZA PUBLISHING COMPANY
New York :: 1924
FOREWORD BY THE PUBLISHERS
One Cross Word Puzzle Book leads to another.
Now that the second volume, containing a new series of fifty more Cross
Word Puzzles, is available, it seems fitting to take the reader behind
the scenes and give him a short history of this cross word business.
The first Cross Word Puzzle Book was published on April 10th, 1924. In
New York it sprang into immediate popularity, becoming there a best
seller within a fortnight. A small but ardent group of cross word
puzzle devotees gave the fad a running start. Among these pioneers may
be mentioned F. P. A., Montague Glass, Neysa McMein, Emily Price Post,
Baird Leonard, Ruth Hale, Gelett Burgess, Robert C. Benchley, Hendrik
Willem Van Loon, Kathleen and Charles G. Norris, Mary Roberts Rinehart,
and Carolyn Wells.
Cross word puzzling became the thing to do, the raging topic of
conversation, supplanting Coué, Mah Jong, and Bananas (first a
slogan—now a fact!). With this impetus, the pastime’s popularity
radiated to other cities, and within a month the Cross Word Puzzle Book
was ranked No. 4 on the national list of non-fiction best sellers.
Three weeks later it advanced to third place, and the following month
jumped into the lead, where it appears to remain indefinitely.
First a fad, then a best seller, the Cross Word Puzzle Book became an
American institution, immortalized in cartoons by Briggs, prose-epics
by Bob Benchley, and ballads by F. P. A.
Ordinary books are meant to be read. Here is a book in which one
writes—more than that, a book in which one has the supreme satisfaction
of unravelling a real mystery, tracking down clue after clue. This, no
doubt, is the secret of the irresistible fascination of Cross Word
Puzzling. Every one enjoys being an amateur Sherlock Holmes—and the
tantalizing black-and-white word patterns provide an ideal
battle-ground for one’s detective instincts.
This deep-rooted appeal explains the extraordinary popularity of the
book. When we announced in one of our early advertisements that “people
do not want this book—they crave it!” we had actual proof to support
this statement—frenzied fans storming the publishers’ office to get
extra copies in order “to keep peace in the house.”
Six weeks after the publication of the first Cross Word Puzzle Book—May
18th, to be precise—the Cross Word Puzzle Association of America was
formed at a convention at the Hotel Ambassador, New York. At this
congress the rules and regulations of Cross Word Puzzling were
formulated. A contest for the cross word puzzle championship of the
world was held, and William A. Stern II won first honors, solving a
standard eleven-square formation in 10 minutes, 10 and two-fifths
seconds. Mr. Stern has written a preface for this book, explaining the
delights of cross word puzzling, for both novice and veteran.
Thus, in the words of Neal O’Hara, America began to gasp for words. The
Cross Word Puzzle became the Great Escape from Boredom—the most
powerful enemy of ennui....
Not only entertainment and thrills, but sound instruction reward the
true Cross Word Puzzler. Here is the most delightful and the most
effective way of building up one’s vocabulary and enriching one’s
general fund of information. Dictionaries and synonym books joined the
best seller list, right behind The Cross Word Puzzle Book itself, for
every one, to obtain the maximum benefit and fun, must have a
dictionary or a word book handy.
The pencil and eraser provided with The Cross Word Puzzle Book proved
to be a most popular feature. Post cards for applying for the correct
answers to the puzzles also pleased the followers of the pastime. This
equipment, therefore, is retained in the Second Series. The suggestion
has been made that future editions of the book be equipped with
shock-absorbers and four-wheel brakes.
Thousands of puzzle enthusiasts have indicated their eagerness for this
second series of cross words. This book, like the first volume, is
edited and compiled by the Cross Word Puzzle Editors of the New York
World, the undisputed leaders of the gentle art. Every effort has been
made to safeguard the technical perfection of the puzzles. This time
they are arranged in the order of their difficulty, beginning with
fairly easy ones, and ranging to the most intricate formations,
calculated to baffle Houdini himself. Beauty of design, accuracy of
definition, complete interlock, and the minimum number of unkeyed
letters—these elements have all been considered in selecting the
puzzles. We are confident that they will prove as absorbing, as
entertaining,—yes, as exciting,—as the first fifty.
The Publishers.
PREFACE
By William A. Stern, 2nd Cross Word Puzzle Champion of the World
Two years ago I saw a friend of mine earnestly studying a checkered
diagram in the magazine section of a Sunday newspaper. Curiosity
impelled me to ask him whether he had taken up cross-stitching, because
the pattern he so zealously pored over resembled closely that of an
old-fashioned sampler. When he explained that he was attempting to
solve a puzzle I laughed, because in my ignorance I believed that
puzzles were childish time-wasters. I snorted my disdain at this sort
of balderdash and, angered, he challenged me to try my hand at it.
I confidently predicted that I would easily solve the foolish enigma
and after he had explained the manner of solution I set to work. A few
minutes later I started asking questions. What was one supposed to do?
My friend explained a second time and I was all at sea. Finally I
understood what to do, but was shaky on how to do it. I finished that
puzzle the next day. I gave little thought to food and rest; in the end
I triumphed.
Since that time I have solved many cross word puzzles but on none have
I consumed as much time as on that first heart-breaker. I used to blame
my slowness on the fact that the method was never properly explained,
but I now believe that my friend who gave me my first cross word
baptism was an adequate instructor. The chief difficulty which the
uninitiate meets lies in the struggle to concentrate on the
explanation. In their simplest terms here are the rules and technique
of cross word puzzling:
The primary object of the game is to fill up the blank spaces in a
cross word design with letters which spell out words. The solver
guesses the words from their definitions. By looking at a pattern we
can tell how many letters are in a word to be guessed. Suppose, for
example, you were asked for a six letter word meaning unsteady. You
would go through all the synonyms for unsteady that you could recall.
You would discard unstable, shaky, tipsy, tottering and rocky because
none of these words has the proper number of letters. You would accept
groggy or fickle. Now apply this system to the solution of a puzzle.
The definitions of the words are shown in two divisions: one division
is captioned Horizontal, the other Vertical. Before each definition is
a number which indicates that the word defined has its first letter in
the square of the same number on the pattern. For example, in the
puzzle on the jacket of this book (which is Number 1 in the book
itself), we see under Horizontal, “1. stout.” This means that the word
is read horizontally and starts in the space numbered “1” on the
pattern. The answer is “plump.”
A word always runs from its first letter to a black square or to the
end of the diagram. Having the word “plump” written in, we now have
hints of a certain letter in each of four other words, because each of
the letters in this word, except the letter “L,” is used to form a word
which is read downwards. Under the heading Vertical may be found the
definitions of the words which read downwards. So we see that the
letters in plump are used in the words prove, up, map, and plant. The
letter “L” is called in cross word parlance an unkeyed letter because
it does not give the solver a key to another word. Well constructed
puzzles have few unkeyed letters. You will notice also that all the
words in the puzzle are joined together or interlocked so that after
guessing the first word the solver may decode the entire puzzle without
once being minus a hint of some sort.
I do not mean to infer that these puzzles must be so constructed that
the solver has a simple task. An object of crosswording is to puzzle,
but fairness to a hard working puzzler dictates certain laws for the
designer to follow. The first of these laws is the all-over interlock.
The second is that in obsolete, rare, and unfamiliar words no letter
should be unkeyed.
And now a few words as to technique. Of course I prefer my own method
to any other, but I do not claim for it greater merit than the systems
I will tell you about. When I get a puzzle to solve, my first move is
to read all the definitions. Among these I am sure to find some
familiar and overworked words which I can set into place and be off to
a flying start. Certain simple three letter words such as bog, fen,
pen, boa, emu, and roc, and other words in which vowels pre-dominate
such as opera and arena are used in hundreds of puzzles. I get these
out of the way in short order. My next move is to start working on that
part of the puzzle where I have filled in the largest number of words,
because it is there that I have the greatest number of hints. If I
strike a snag I immediately take up my work in some other place. And so
I work my way around to completion.
Some people obtain excellent results by another method. They first do
all the horizontal words which quickly come to mind. And then all the
vertical. Thus they get an excellent start from which to work. Some
solvers use the system of building up from the first word which they
can guess.
Just a few words of warning:
First—Beware of putting in certain words whose definitions do not
accurately define. Parts of the verb “to be,” personal pronouns,
exclamations, notes of the scale, prefixes, suffixes and prepositions
should not be filled in unless an interlocking word gives you a hint as
to what they are. They are so numerous that without a hint it is futile
to attempt to guess them.
Second—Beware of homonyms. A homonym is two words which have the same
sound, but have different meanings. The best illustration of a homonym
appeared in F. P. A.’s column, the Conning Tower, a few years ago.
According to my feeble memory the sentence ran, “If I should say that
you are prone to carp, I would not mean that you are lying face
downward to a deep sea fish.” How often does the solver struggle over
such a definition as “light,” believing all the while that he must find
a word meaning an illuminant, when the correct word is “airy”!
Third—Beware of sloppy printing and careless erasing. When you write in
a word, letter neatly. Do not make a P look like an R. And when you
find it necessary to erase be sure to obliterate every letter. Dangling
characters which rubber crumbs have failed to pick up have cost so many
wasted hours that experts in efficiency have taken up the matter in
executive session.
Whatever method you employ or whatever mistakes you make, you will reap
pleasure and profit for your time. You will increase your vocabulary,
give yourself mental discipline, and, above all, you’ll have fun.
I want to thank the Plaza Publishing Company, whose real name is Simon
and Schuster, for its work in getting out these Cross Word Puzzle
Books. Most of the puzzles are of the first rank and the variety of
design is amazing. In fact I feel so kindly toward the publishers that
I do not upbraid them for the time they made me lose by a few errata in
the first edition, which they promptly corrected in the later editions.
I can heartily congratulate any owner of this Cross Word Puzzle Book
and all the Cross Word Puzzle Books to follow on the days of real
pleasure that lie before him.
William A. Stern, 2nd.
New York City, June, 1924.
HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS WORD PUZZLE
EXAMPLE
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DEFINITIONS
Horizontal Vertical
1 Disparage 1 Evolve
6 Cereal grass 2 Toward
7 Abbr. Vice Admiral 3 A rodent
9 An edge-tool 4 Near
10 Urge 5 A web
11 Skill 8 Gone by
12 Behold 9 A land measure
14 Prefix: good 13 A male sheep
15 Impair 15 Indeed
17 Agreement 16 Disordered type
There are two essential points that must be remembered by initiates
into the cross word puzzlers’ fraternity. First, the numbers in the
squares refer to the definitions; secondly, there should be but one
letter to each white square.
Figure 1 shows a cross word puzzle challenging each and every one of us
to solve it. Looking the puzzle over we find that 1 horizontal calls
for a seven letter word meaning “disparage.” That is not so easy, so we
leave it temporarily. We go on to the next one, which is a three letter
word meaning “a cereal grass.” What else could it be but OAT? Therefore
we ink in OAT in the proper squares. “Vice Admiral.” That most
assuredly must be VA. We place that into position. The ninth, tenth and
eleventh do not come to our minds immediately, so we pass them up. We
will catch them on the cross check. Twelve is familiar, however, and
with a little thought we place LO in the vacant squares. The rest do
not come to us, so we leave them also, and turn to the verticals.
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Looking over the diagram (See Figure 2) we find that one vertical calls
for a seven letter word whose third and fifth letters are V and L
respectively and which is defined as “evolve.” The V and the L give us
the clue. The word is DEVELOP. We place it in the diagram. Two, three
and four are easy, for we have three clues to work on and we find the
proper words without much difficulty. The next one is beyond us, so we
go on to the one numbered 8. We find that a three letter word—starting
with A—meaning “gone by,” is needed. The clues of A and O enable us to
get that without much trouble, and we place AGO in the square. We pass
by nine, but thirteen is easy. “A male sheep?” Why, of course, the word
is RAM.
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From now on the going is easy. We have plenty of clues to the words
that we do not know. (See Figure 3.) Rechecking the horizontals, we
find that we have the first, third, fourth and fifth letters of
“disparage,” and with their aid we easily see that the word is DETRACT.
Looking for a two letter word meaning “an edge-tool,” we soon find that
there is but one word that will fit. We place AX in position. With nine
vertical beginning with an A it is easy to find that ARE is the proper
word. Ten horizontal proves to be EGG and eleven becomes ART. We say to
ourselves that if we could only get five vertical we would have the
puzzle solved. Well, why not? Is the second letter an a, e, i, o, or u?
The definition gives it as “a web.” What word will fit but TEXTURE? We
place that into position. Now, we find that we have the puzzle almost
completed. Fifteen horizontal needs a three letter word meaning
“impair.” Its middle letter must be an A. With the A to guide us that
is simple. The word is “SAP.” Fifteen and sixteen being two letter
words are easily found, and we place SO and PI into position. We now
find that we have the puzzle completed with one exception. Seventeen
horizontal has to be found. Its first, third, fourth, fifth and seventh
letters are P OMI E. A consonant is needed for the second letter, and R
seems to be the most logical choice. That gives us the word, which is
defined as “agreement.” (See Figure 4.)
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We settle back into our chair with a sigh of content at the thought of
a job well done. But that is not the finish. Rather it is but the
start. Now that we have tasted the pleasures of cross word puzzling, we
are loath to give our time to anything else. What other amusement
offers the pleasure, instruction and satisfaction that is to be found
in Cross Word Puzzles? There is but one answer to that question,
and—foregoing the movies—we settle down to the elusive task of tracking
words to their lairs.
DO’S AND DON’T’S FOR SOLVERS
Don’t get scared if you can’t guess the first horizontal word. Go
through the list till you find a definition that you’re sure of. That
is the simplest method of beginning the solution. When you have written
in all the words you are sure of, you will have plenty of clues for the
unknowns.
Don’t spent too much time with the long words unless you are sure of
them. They will appear when the short ones have been solved. Of course,
not all the short ones are easy, but they are generally more readily
attended to than the long ones. Also, there are more of them,
increasing the chances of finding familiar faces among the definitions.
If you think a word is right, pencil it in lightly till you are sure.
This saves erosion of paper and temper. But never hesitate to try a
word that may be right. The trial and error method holds in puzzling as
it does in life.
Remember that the horizontals furnish a sure check on the verticals,
and vice versa.
If you are hopelessly stuck, try another puzzle. Inspiration sometimes
waits for a return engagement.
A pleasant feeling of something attempted, something done, accompanies
the solution of a cross word puzzle. It’s good for the inferiority
complex.
PUZZLE NO. 51
MADE IN A RATHSKELLER
A Duet
Two of the editors went out to lunch one hot day, with this result. By
the way, this pattern is the same on which the puzzle for the World’s
Championship was made up. Can you do it in ten minutes, ten and
two-fifths seconds? That was the time it took William A. Stern II to
win the championship.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Stout
5 Rapid
9 Roofs of mouths
11 Belonging to
13 Called
14 Adverb (degree)
15 Vessel
17 Presently
18 Perform
19 Happening
21 Weapon
23 Unclose
24 Also
25 Sorrow
27 Parts of speech
29 Conducted
30 Japanese sash
32 Provide outlet for
33 Alleged force
34 Obliterate
36 Preposition
37 Small herring
39 Cut out
40 Smells strong
VERTICAL
1 Demonstrate
2 Above
3 Plan
4 Sow
5 Cooks
6 United
7 Exists
8 Sense
10 Past
12 Was partial to
14 Circus performer
16 Lukewarm
18 To check in development
20 Born
22 Corroded
25 Article of clothing
26 Natural phenomenon
27 Guard
28 Stains
31 Interjection of disgust
34 Conclude
35 End of day
37 Three-toed sloth
38 You
PUZZLE NO. 52
A TRIAL BOUT
By Joseph A. Margolies
When four eleven-letter words meet each other at right angles,
something is bound to happen. This only goes to show that Mr. Margolies
of Brentano’s is one of our most confirmed addicts.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Groundwork
5 Exhausted
9 High explosive
10 Small seed
11 Tropical chestnut
12 First son
14 Exercisings of authority
17 A prophetic sign
18 Russian carnival
19 Melodies
20 Opposed to
23 Twirl
26 Refactory
29 Narrow street
30 Expression of hearty assent
32 Moved swiftly
33 A common toy
35 A passageway in a theater
36 Brief treatise
VERTICAL
1 Exist
2 A stick
3 Designed
4 Chief actor in a play
5 A humanitarian society (abbr.)
6 ppp. (pl.)
7 Narrative poems
8 Preposition
11 A Gypsy
13 Point
14 Become insane (two words)
15 Present time
16 Holy person
21 Nothing
22 Extinct rulers
24 Looks furtively
25 Small hotel
26 New Testament (abbr.)
27 A prayer
28 Fruit of certain palm trees
31 Exclamation
34 Near
PUZZLE NO. 53
AS YOU LIKE IT
By Mrs. J. Meissner
All the words in this pattern should be in your every-day vocabulary.
For instance, the first word means a lot to golfers, and there are
several that will please the housewives.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Cavity
5 Morning prayer
9 Down with
13 Form of “to be”
14 Condiment made from bean
15 A number
17 Short song
18 A seed vessel
21 To sift
23 Sooner than
24 A purpose
26 Point
27 Chronicles
29 Mexican cat
32 Terminate
33 Affinity
34 To be drowsy
36 By
37 Doctrines
38 Baubles
40 Parent
41 Spanish for “the”
42 Id est
43 Towards
45 Part of the eye
48 Petition
50 Indef. article
51 Haunch
53 Greetings
54 Skill
55 Splendor
57 Kind of type
60 A poet
61 Armed conflict
63 Aeriform fluid
65 Tilted
68 A tree
70 To lengthen
71 Witty saying
73 Male adult
74 Before time
75 Measure
76 The whole
77 Inquiries
VERTICAL
1 Hearty
2 Mineral
3 Motto
5 Man’s name
6 Yes
7 That thing
8 Modern
10 Candy
11 Commotion
12 Unites with thread
14 Daubs
16 Four score and ten
19 Vessel for ashes
20 Jumbled type
22 Nothing
24 Vipers
25 Open for debate
27 Insect
28 Composed of thin plates
30 Game
31 Child’s plaything
32 Ground
35 Make afraid
37 Ailing
39 Perch
44 Lubricant
46 Respect
47 Killed
48 Rouse
49 Figure with equal angles
50 Part of circle
52 Doll
54 Passages
56 Soak
58 Lick up
59 Forepart of vessel
62 Since
64 Metal bearing rocks
66 Short for Isaac
67 Small speck
68 Comrade
69 Noah’s vessel
71 Towards
72 Preposition
73 Mother
PUZZLE NO. 54
TINY TIM
By W. S. Boyd
Sixteen black squares to one hundred and fifteen white is a pretty fine
average. A too black pattern means the constructor was a bit lazy. This
is small, but the words are not ordinary by any means.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Stocks and bonds
9 Hail
10 Anger
11 More exact
13 Paris subway
15 Roulade
16 Builder
18 Harmonize
20 Discretion
21 Expletive
23 Hits lightly
26 Famous Irish chalice of 10th century
29 Stir
31 Snake
32 Make fast
33 Shellfish
35 Period
36 Members of hill tribe, British India
37 Baked clay
VERTICAL
1 Refractory
2 Boast
3 First lady
4 Tranquil
5 Act
6 Built
7 Girl’s name
8 To gyp
12 Beaten track
14 Bird of fable
17 Reposed again
19 Arrogant person
22 Surgeon’s cylindrical saw
24 Years
25 One who heaps
27 Town of Gold Coast
28 Gull (Scotch)
30 Nurse
34 Quarrel
PUZZLE NO. 55
A SPOTTED SPECTER
By J. T. Rich
In spite of an abbreviation here and there, this puzzle is one which is
high in its rating. There aren’t so many difficult words in it; but the
few that do exist will keep you searching, or we miss our guess.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Consumptive
7 Part of a whole
12 Wings
13 Carrion
14 Member of Japanese race
15 A fragmentary thing
17 Disciple
20 Eastern state
21 Flying insect
23 Small bottle
24 Note of the scale
25 Three-toed sloth
27 Anchor
28 For example
30 Nobleman
32 Girl’s name
33 Body of water
34 Matron
36 Noble
38 Before
40 Small mug
42 Girdle
44 To catch sight of
45 Unite
46 One holding extreme opinions
47 Epoch
48 Part of a hammer
50 Coarse
53 Snugly
55 Mineral spring
57 Required
60 Soon
61 And so forth
63 Human being
65 Anxiety
66 Exist
67 Treat as a celebrity
68 Southern state
69 Like
71 Small aperture
72 Mild expletive
74 Post graduate (abbr.)
75 Short poems
79 Character in “Arabian Nights”
82 Booty
83 Bird
84 Inland body of water
85 Ensnare
86 Compartment
VERTICAL
1 Pilgrimage to Mecca
2 Old age
3 Part of machinery
4 To be prolific
5 Fibrous substance
6 Astern
7 Heroine of famous poem
8 Prison
9 Belonging to him
10 Explosive
11 Part of boat
15 Attack
16 Wanderers
18 Heathens
19 Consumed
22 Whetstone
23 Official endorsement
25 Dexterity
26 Evils
28 Sharp
29 Joke
31 Accessory of a plane
35 Mixer
37 A stand
39 To fee again
41 To suppose
43 Barbarian
44 Organ of the body
48 To languish
49 Small hole
51 To heat to fix colors
52 To retch
53 Flat basket
54 Sough
55 Scotchman
56 In the midst of
58 The time of light
59 To vouchsafe
62 Metallic material
64 The angel of death
70 Single
71 Interdiction
73 Magnesium silicate
74 Breakwater
76 Not (prefix)
77 Negative particle
78 Past
80 Transport by relays of men and horses
81 College fraternity
PUZZLE NO. 56
LITTLE BUT NEAT
By Isidore Edelstein
A pretty construction by an old-timer at the game. And don’t run away
with the idea that its size has anything to do with ease of solution!
Tackle it, and you’ll get what we mean.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Carouse
5 Question
7 Burdened
11 Part of “to be”
12 Beverage
13 Possessive pronoun
14 Perform
15 Guide
17 Total
19 Fossil gum
21 Wrath
22 Atrocious
25 Insect
26 Vision
28 Gloomy
30 Period of time
31 Come to fruition
33 Encountered
35 Requires
37 Fool
38 Attack
40 Part of “to be”
41 Precipitation
42 Weed
43 Negative
44 Struck an attitude
46 Speak
48 Town in Germany
50 Matter
53 High explosive
55 Having islands
58 Color again
61 Rodent
63 Seaport in Sicily
65 Period of time
67 Watchful
69 Mohammed’s adopted son
70 Subnormal person
72 Thus
73 Absorbing of gases
74 Preposition
75 Support
76 Observe
77 At no time
VERTICAL
1 Swift
2 Prince
3 Self
4 Graceful
6 Rotated rapidly
7 Legal document
8 Weapon
9 Paradise
10 Point of compass
16 Projection
17 Anthropoids
18 Shyness
20 Exposes
23 Organ
24 Vase
27 Reparation
29 Governmental act of pardon
30 Fabulist of note
32 Postscript
34 Belief
35 Bite
36 Mournful
38 Metallic rock
39 Unit of weight
45 Connected rooms
47 Conjunction
49 Grimace
51 State of U. S. (abbr.)
52 House animal
54 Clutch
56 Fasten
57 Clock faces
58 Elevate
59 Legendary character
60 House and land
62 Genus of plants
64 Thread
66 Repetition as a means of learning
68 Huge mythical bird
71 Single
PUZZLE NO. 57
SEVEN GREEK CROSSES
By John B. Sirich, Jr.
We counted the half-crosses to make up Mr. Sirich’s grand total. Please
note: no unkeyed letters, no abbreviations or contractions, and
comparatively few two- and three-letter words. Also double interlock
throughout. Io triumphe!
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1 Domestic animal (female)
5 Interlaced
9 Spanish dance
11 Charge with gas
13 Devoured
14 Bitter
16 Monastic female
17 Exclamation
18 Pile loosely
19 Perform
20 Civil War general
22 Long hair of lions (pl.)
24 Stitch
25 Ran rapidly
27 Foundation
29 Procured
30 Member
31 Gave formally
33 Begins
35 Vehicle
36 Dried fruit (bot.)
38 Term of address
40 Article
41 Large snake
42 Note of musical scale
43 Contest
45 Impost
47 Rear
48 Become planted deeply
50 Celestials
52 Facile
53 Portion
VERTICAL
1 Nurturer
2 Beverage
3 Regarding
4 Age
5 Interlacement
6 Conjunction
7 Large vehicle
8 Studies
9 Syrian god
10 Group of eight
11 Oriental measure
12 Sufficient (poet)
15 End of day (poet)
21 Avid
22 Unit of measure
23 An ascidian
24 Indications
26 Fish
28 Perceive
31 Dog
32 Charge
33 City in Nebraska
34 Sibilant rale
35 Hollow
37 Procured
39 Rodents
44 Age
45 Plaything
46 Finish
47 Bronze
49 Bone
51 Proceed
PUZZLE NO. 58
BOOLA BOOLA
By Hassler Whitney
Considering how often the convenient “eli” finds its way into Cross
Words, it is quite right to include this puzzle from New Haven. It is
undoubtedly meant for freshmen, for despite a loose center and several
unkeyed letters it shouldn’t be too difficult.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Adore
4 Suggests
7 Prepare for publication
10 Article
11 Fish eggs
13 Ovum
15 Preposition
16 End
20 Consumed
22 Snare
23 Look at
25 Demons
26 Recent
27 Serpent
28 Edge
29 Thigh
31 Decay
34 Condition
37 Egg-shaped
38 Periods
39 Examinations
41 Punitive
42 Japanese fish
44 Exist
45 Fool
47 Utensils
49 Quality
50 Numeral
51 Female deer
53 Lair
55 Shorthand memoranda
60 Parent
62 Disturbance
63 Vegetable
64 Exists
65 Excitement
66 Wrench
67 Depression
VERTICAL
1 Molten rock
2 Upon
3 Before
4 A fold in cloth
5 Not any
6 Outfit
7 Self
8 Pronoun
9 Ripped
12 Metallic earths
14 Young person
16 Enticements
17 Motionless
18 Small particles
19 European country
21 It exists (contr.)
24 Affirmative
27 Take
30 Poles
32 Beverage
33 Negative
35 Small mound
36 Beverage
40 Spanish game
41 Diminish
43 Imitate
46 Observe
48 Hurried
49 Flat cord
50 Ends
52 Monster
54 Refuge
56 Sailor
57 At once
58 Adept
59 Possessed
61 Preposition
64 Not out
PUZZLE NO. 59
AT EASE
By John Fasel
If you are angry and want something to fight with, don’t try this one.
It won’t give you much of a wrestle—that is, if you are one of those
hard-boiled solvers. But if you haven’t reached the state of complete
addiction, or if you merely want a fillip, Mr. Fasel’s construction
will please you.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Large drinking bowl
5 Ruin
9 Geometrical figure
10 Unlimited quantity
12 Fine particles of stone
14 Is situated
15 Footprint
17 Serpent of S. Amer.
18 Near
19 Plots of ground
21 Jumbled type
22 Projecting part of wheel
23 Alkaline solution
25 Composed of the number two
27 To earn
29 Whirl
31 Serious
32 Listlessness
33 Diffuse
34 Point of compass
36 Frosted
38 Small horse
40 Penetrated
41 Pronoun
43 Plain
46 Prefix, equal
47 Jurisprudence
49 Affray
50 Clear from weeds
51 To repeat the sound of
53 Vicious
54 Fondles
55 Hourly
56 S. A. quadruped
VERTICAL
1 To adhere
2 Individual
3 Concerning
4 Market
5 Brine pit
6 Roman weight
7 Vehicle
8 Button
9 A multitude
11 Mother-of-pearl
13 Flower
15 Covering
16 A fish
19 Knight errant
20 Granitic rock
22 Mark used in writing
24 Evolve
26 Exclamation of disgust
27 Fix
28 Mark aimed at
30 Wither
33 To designate
35 Division of stable
37 Quantities
39 Boy’s name
40 Beverage
42 Every one
44 The linden
45 To be in flower
46 Jot
48 Pronoun
50 Ejaculatory sound
52 Conjunction
54 Father
PUZZLE NO. 60
NOT TOO HARD
By Saul Berman
This constructor built a form that gave himself a lot of two-letter
words. Are two-letter words permitted in English? They are. But there
are only a few of them in existence and, consequently, they are
repeated often.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Signify
5 Appointments
10 Nimbus
12 Mexican dollar
13 Negation
15 Timid
18 Exclam. of surprise
20 Above
22 Moderates
23 White
25 Legendary character
27 Chill
28 Violent strains
29 By
30 Salutations
32 Prescribed regimen
34 Exclamation
35 French article
36 Passage out
37 Certain quantity
38 Printers’ measure
39 Parent
41 Deposited
44 Holds a session
47 Another parent
49 One or any
50 On the top
51 Imitate
52 A reëntrant angle
53 Primeval deity
55 Rent
57 Wear away
59 Musical character
60 Acts involving civil action
62 By word of mouth
63 The man or person
64 Head hunters of Luzon
67 Selenium (symbol)
68 Break
69 Rate of exchange
71 City in Utah
72 Angry
VERTICAL
1 Hush (exclam.)
2 Master
3 Man’s name
4 Floor in a warehouse
6 Mimics
7 Cardinal number
8 One sensible of the beautiful
9 Consequently
11 Galvanize
13 Pert. to knots
14 Egg shaped
16 Impose
17 Exploits
18 Turning machine
19 Flagrant crime
21 Unit of measure
24 Relating to
26 Goddess of night
28 Enclose
31 Toe or finger
33 Style of capital
39 Repair
40 Imbecile
41 Lounging
42 Cape on Atlantic Coast
43 Distress
44 Vigorous argument
45 Definite article
46 Woman’s club
47 Greedy king (myth.)
48 Anoint
54 Symbol for tellurium
56 Misses
58 Marking an alternative
60 Drink
61 Asterisk
65 To go about idly
66 Self
68 Thus
70 Bone
PUZZLE NO. 61
THE EASIEST WAY
By Mildred M. Sanders
Here are all your favorite three-letter words in neat array. With such
practice as this one, you’ll soon get to know every three-letter word
in the dictionary.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Intervals of time
7 Ordain
13 Bad, soft coal
14 African animal
16 Creeks
17 A fish
19 Wrath
20 Flowed
21 Behold
23 Males
25 To feel pain
26 Pronoun
27 Associate
29 Projection
31 Spanish epic
32 Spanish particle
33 Vehicle mounted on runners
35 Hang down
37 A tree
38 Lad
39 Trap
40 Vessel
41 Annoy
43 Flambeau
45 No more than
48 A large fabulous bird
49 To decay
50 Possessive pronoun
52 Hasten
53 Preposition
54 To undermine
56 A viscous substance
58 A parent
59 To plan
60 To interdict
62 To bore into
64 Indigo plant
66 Fertile spot
68 Bobbin
70 Infatuated
71 A sweetmeat
VERTICAL
1 Sacred songs
2 Unit of measure in printing
3 To repent of
4 Article
5 To cheat
6 Snow shoe
7 To imitate
8 Jumbled type
9 Elliptical
10 Substance resulting from the decomposition of a body by electrolysis
11 New England
12 African fly
15 Exist
18 To lease
20 Free
22 Highly inflammable liquid
24 Negative
25 To be ill
26 Product of dissociation
28 Small three masted vessel
30 Fungus of rye
31 Sure hold
32 Measure
34 Diminutive child
36 Melody
37 Dog
41 Noisy quarrel
42 Nonsense
43 Child’s toy
44 Stroke
46 Odd
47 Empower
49 Sharp blow
51 Rested
54 Sailor
55 Possesses
57 Uncommon
59 Glove
60 Exclamation expressing disgust
61 Nothing
63 Coop
65 None
66 Bone
67 Therefore
69 For example
PUZZLE NO. 62
PLAN OF CAMPAIGN
By Mordecai M. Richter
This looks like the plan of a fortress. Like a fortress of the true
medieval type it has four massive corner ramparts, towers, battlements.
The enemy might be tempted to pierce those thin side indentations, but
remember the military strategy about the danger of getting into pockets
and being trapped.
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6 Coronet
11 Rescinds
13 One who dissolves
14 Kitchen implement
16 Bank clerks
17 Immerse
18 Primary
20 Card game
21 Still
22 Self-lovers
23 Product of dissociation
24 Crafty
26 Record
27 Anti-prohibitionist
28 Veer
30 Hill
31 Small house
32 The sun
33 The woman
36 Away
38 Do
39 City in Italy
42 Sprite
44 Prefix, three
45 Lamentations
47 High (music)
49 Corroded
50 Estate of a nobleman
51 Mound
52 Stays
54 Furnace for melting ore
56 Get away
57 Precipitates frozen rain
58 Paces
59 Tight
VERTICAL
1 Showy
2 Looses
3 Awkwardly
4 Press for payment
5 Heroine of series of stories
6 Relates
7 Badly
8 Workshop
9 Plant again
10 Flagrant crime
12 Scorch
13 Fleshy
15 Wild beasts
16 Hebrew month
19 Small bird
25 Sailing vessel
27 General commanding at the battle of Quebec
29 Sorrow
30 Also
33 Knowledge of truths
34 Dreads
35 Ties
37 Level
38 Painter
39 Brilliant reflection
40 Nothing
41 Minute particles
43 Groups of vessels
44 Legends
45 Looks secretly
46 Noticed by means of a sense
48 Brief
53 Opening
55 Sheltered
PUZZLE NO. 63
GOOD AS GOLD
By B. Eisner and A. B. Leavitt
All these words, from Cosmetic to Indian Tent, from Fish to Tinge, are
good Rotarians. Mr. Babbitt knows and uses them all. Do you? If not,
why not?
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HORIZONTAL
1 Cosmetic
5 Instrument for writing
8 Blaze
12 Propeller
13 Wind-flower
14 Girl’s hat
15 Exhaust
17 Sink
18 Many days
20 Shell-fish
21 Cut
24 Artful
25 Delight
28 Rawhide
30 Water fowl
31 Exclamation
33 Clamor
35 Household utensils
36 Either
37 Consecrate
38 People who talk foolishly
39 Glass vessel
40 After Christ
41 Pert. to air
42 Tumult
44 Toward
45 Nimble
47 Forehead
49 Dens
51 Possesses
53 Ringlet
55 Mixture of herbs
56 Stop
59 Furnish with side supports
60 Annoyed
63 Organ of hearing
64 Result
65 One
66 Manage
67 Stationary
68 Indian tent
VERTICAL
1 Fish
2 Scarcer
3 Epoch
4 Human being
5 Equals
6 Perfume
7 Stylish
8 Small in number
9 Consumed
10 One who creates
11 Watering place
16 Internal
19 Spirit actuating manners and customs
21 Overcome
22 Aloft
23 People who run away secretly
25 Companion
26 By, near
27 Soft tissues
29 Loiter
30 Native American race
32 Bricklayers’ box for mortar
34 To shoot forth
35 By
36 Cereal
41 Part of dress
43 Trunk
45 Note of scale
46 Hate
48 Ourselves
50 Sweet flower extract
51 Stags
52 Wooden shoe
54 Place
56 Fixed
57 Part of “to be”
58 Period
60 Wager
61 Knock
62 Tinge
PUZZLE NO. 64
LULLABY
By Hugh P. Evans
Just a song at evening. This one should be a mere pleasant moment. If
you love ease, here it is. However, “easy to solve and hard to
construct,” is the way the song sometimes should go. It is hard to keep
inside a small dictionary.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Shrubs
6 Ripe
11 Match
12 S. Am. tuber
13 Famous poem
15 Otherwise
16 Double
18 Knob
20 Towards
21 Weary
23 Height
25 Came together
26 A cleanser
28 A measure
29 Harmonize
30 Lick up
32 Beverage
33 Club
34 Spectacles
37 Refuges
39 A high Moslem office
40 Describes the crowned head
42 Crowd
45 Augment
46 On behalf of
48 Finish
49 Character
51 Strengthening
53 Couch
55 Sounds of sudden pain
56 Tedium
58 Hurried
59 Forward
60 Loathe
61 Short paragraph
63 That thing
64 Tendency
66 Japanese coin
67 Vexes
69 A gnawer
70 Arenas for putters
VERTICAL
1 Mexican donkey
2 You and me
3 Place
4 Cuts
5 Musical composition
6 Fertilizer
7 A bad waiter
8 Mexican gum tree
9 N. E. State (abbr.)
10 Consumed
11 Palms off
14 Fond lovers
17 That thing’s
19 Natural metal
22 Cabbage
24 Ring up
25 Silent
27 Flapjack
29 Houses of call
31 Peas “en masse”
33 Wash
35 Memorize
36 Crafty
37 Head gear
38 Sister of mercy
40 Pull up
41 Elongated fishes
43 Effluvium
44 Titans
46 Large wood
47 A form of exercise
50 Possessor
51 Add
52 Small bed
54 Does not succeed
56 Barren
57 Lake
60 Coal scuttle
62 More (Shakespeare)
65 Not any
68 Within
PUZZLE NO. 65
QUIET COMFORT
By Marcam
This one stays close to the amenities of English. There are few words
you don’t use, if your vocabulary is as ample as a cross word puzzler’s
should be. By the way, has your vocabulary expanded since you’ve
started puzzling?
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1 To testify under oath
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14 Tool
15 Knock
16 Caprice
17 A grain for making malt
20 Allayed
22 Polly wants a cracker
24 Beast of burden
25 To reconcile to a loss
27 Glacial ridges
29 Belonging to us
30 Explain
32 Laboriously
35 To the inside of
36 Closest
38 Specious
40 Hostelries
41 First woman
43 To dress
45 Eagle
46 Privately
48 Nidus
51 To deface
53 Norse deity
55 A weight of Turkey
57 King
59 Feathery
60 Having ten legs
61 Substitute
62 Loose part of coat
63 At another time
65 A presiding officer
67 Bustle
68 Healthy physical state
70 At that place
73 Prepare for publication
75 Culmination
77 Greek mountain
78 Worry
80 Guided
82 Tracked
86 Gratuities
88 A certain unknown quantity
90 To shut up
92 Hastened
93 Way of acting
94 Bag
96 Caustic alkaline solution
97 Presents itself
99 Single things
102 More stately
104 Shelter
105 Individual
106 Article of clothing
107 Fears greatly
108 Mist of condensed vapor
109 Stuffed
VERTICAL
1 To humiliate
2 Clergyman
3 Night bird
4 Killed
6 Period of time
7 Used by cowboys
8 Open
10 From a great distance
11 Title of address
12 Hardy
13 In the way
18 Kind of tree
19 Longed for
20 Terminates
21 Specified quantity
22 Return
23 Away
26 Greek God of War
28 Vehicle on runners
31 Dam in a river
33 Indians of Utah
34 Employed
35 Writing fluids
37 Vexation
39 Inhabitant of northern region
42 Having such a face
44 To infer
45 To eject
46 Concerning
47 Wear away
49 To discourse on
50 Praise
52 Southern state (abbr.)
54 Artificial language
56 Poem
58 Finis
64 Goddess of retributive justice
66 Weapon for airplane
69 Horse food
71 Mask
72 Precipitate
74 Short paragraph
76 Cupid
78 Spring
79 Fearful
80 Aged
81 The emu
83 Pastries
84 Less interesting
85 Looked askance
87 Organ of hearing
89 Belonging to thee
91 Grain
93 Useless plant
95 Jot
98 Body of water
100 Negative
101 Beverage
103 Invitation
PUZZLE NO. 66
DIAMONDS WITHIN DIAMONDS
By Isis
Plenty of trouble ahead here for the unwary solver. The four-letter
word border is a tricky thing to monkey with, for often the wrong word
contains the same number of letters and answers the definition
perfectly. A good many unkeyed letters, but none in critical places.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Mountain range between Italy and Switzerland
4 Minute particle
8 Affirmative votes
12 Steep eminence
16 Evergreen
17 Skill
20 Since
21 Substitute
23 Correlative of neither
24 Net to be drawn along bottom
26 To mock
27 Rough cloth
29 Issue forth
30 Kind of muffin
31 Close by
32 Not anything
33 Mournful
35 Fairly good
37 A modern dance
39 Speckled
42 Industrious insect
43 Musical instrument
45 Orang-outang
46 The thing
47 Equipped
49 To deprive
52 Similar to
53 To calumniate
55 Sick
57 A bird
59 Evening
60 Regained
61 A decree
62 Feeble-mindedness
64 Source
65 Crested Brazilian bird
68 Sun God
69 A right
71 A brace
72 Square of type
73 Incorporated (abbr.)
75 Married male Indian
78 Literary collection
79 Joins
82 A drop
83 Scarcity
85 Ox-like animal
86 Lake
87 Row
88 Owns
90 Girl’s name
92 Consumed
94 Hebrew measure of capacity
97 To originate
100 Sailor
101 In style (Fr.)
103 Transgress
104 For all time
107 Requested
108 Branches of learning
109 Look for
110 Female deer
111 Arrived
VERTICAL
1 Distant
2 Brim
3 Hurl
4 Silvery
5 To play with
6 Belonging to
7 Inorganic natural substance
8 Constitutionals
9 You
10 Termination
11 Writing
13 Musical composition
14 Affirmative
15 Rule
17 Soft drink
18 Study
19 Sweet potato
22 Halting
25 Essence
27 Fixed as to time
28 Argues
30 Polite
34 Branches
35 Raised platform
36 Ointment
38 Remiss
40 Leave out
41 Article of furniture
43 Grains
44 Witnesses
47 Concerning
48 Deserve
50 Addition to a document
51 Weave
54 Hail
55 Wrath
56 Support
58 Playing card
62 Song
63 Opportunity
66 Rough
67 Indian servant
70 Anxious (alternate spelling)
71 Country in Europe
74 Crying earnestly
76 Crag rising above glacier
77 Said
78 Compound yielding chrysphanic acid
80 Sacred image
81 Says
83 Clowns
84 Interjection
89 Plateau
91 Surface of fibers
93 Harden
95 Springtime of life
96 Yield
98 Russian village
99 Before
101 Consumed
102 Dull
105 Myself
106 Negative
PUZZLE NO. 67
A STAID FORM
By Charles Erlenkotter
This plot of crosses and dots looks safe and conservative. There are,
however, several perfectly good English words that will give you a
thrill. By strange coincidence, this odd pattern was used by another
contributor and will be found elsewhere in the book. A comparison of
the two puzzles will be interesting.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Visionary
7 Entangled
13 Number
14 Cleanse
15 Mere
16 Sluggishness
17 Calvinist
18 Assuredly (slang)
19 Scoff
21 Try
22 Whelp
23 Debtor
26 Part of glacier
28 Opposed
30 Point at root of nose
32 Not accustomed
34 Whirlpool
35 Layers
37 One who conducts magazine
40 Carbonize
41 Braids
44 Musical instrument
45 Single (Scotch)
46 Serpents
49 Attack
51 Mineral
53 Braided
54 Local
55 Nobleman—A. S.
56 Privilege of taking toll
57 Darnel
58 Newcomer on land
59 Made merry
VERTICAL
1 A fabled animal
2 Prong
3 Burdensome
4 Forward
5 A genus of bees
6 A shade of difference
7 African weight
8 Not at any time
9 Aid
10 Grottos
11 Periods
12 Tooth-shaped
20 Offspring of Hindoos and Europeans
24 Soil
25 A light robe
26 A reprimand
27 Heals
28 A revenue collector
29 A settled course
31 Grain
33 Bend forward
35 Abrades
36 Fortification
38 Characteristic
39 Fared sumptuously
42 British author
43 Seesaw
47 Berry
48 Alluvial deposit
49 Looped wire
50 Mitigate
51 Small coin
52 Anxiety
PUZZLE NO. 68
A FLOCK OF TWO-SPOTS
By Persephone
An eye for efficiency as well as beauty constructed this one. Trust the
ladies to see the possibilities in simple effects! And the words are
very much present, too. A good one to try your hand on if you think
you’re good.
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HORIZONTAL
1 One who guards
8 Of or pertaining to wisdom or learning
15 Fleet of ships
16 Malefactor
18 Exclamation of sorrow
19 Included
21 To pick
23 Obtained
24 Snakes
25 Look!
26 The stem of a ship
28 Official residences of ministers
31 To greet
33 Murmur lovingly
34 Serf
35 Perfume
37 Court
38 Accustom
40 Official documents conferring rights or privileges
42 Anthropoidal ape
44 Guide
46 Slight deviation from accuracy
47 Heed
48 In, on, near or by
50 Indians of an Algonquin tribe in Canada
52 Rages
54 Like
55 That which restricts
57 Turmoil
59 Expatiate
61 Hiatus
62 Traveler by boat or train
63 Disencumber
64 Retreats
66 Exist
67 Checkered
70 Otherwise
71 Relieves
73 To fix deeply or indelibly
74 Thus
75 One thing
76 A form, the faces of which are parallel to one axis
79 Utensils
81 Individual pies
83 Certain hardwood trees bearing edible nuts
85 Custom
87 Mountain near ancient Troy
88 Makes equal
90 Place of worship
92 Invisible fluid
93 A long river
95 Entwined
97 Superlatively good
98 The thing
99 Old
101 Skill
102 Silent
104 Confusion
105 Mountain in Thessaly
106 Visionary creation of the imagination
108 Dry
110 Dominion
111 Rapid, involuntary oscillation of the eyeballs
VERTICAL
1 Chief
2 Above and in contact with
3 Narrow strip
4 Alleged source of all human curiosity
5 Imaginary circle in the heavens
6 From
7 Sailing races
8 Doses: drafts
9 One
10 Sacred city of Tibet
11 A mountain
12 To shatter; crush
13 Exists
14 One who makes a practice of using new words, or new meanings
17 Destiny
20 Midday
22 Seaweed
24 Small insects
25 Savage wild beast
27 Spirit
29 Ends; aims
30 Fur-bearing animal
32 Absent
34 Center
36 Apparel
39 Receiver
41 Pert. to the skin
43 Any official orders or decrees
45 Least shallow
47 To lie over and upon
49 Another wild beast
51 Efface
53 Expert
54 Range of very high mountains
56 Small rug
57 A king of Judah
58 Unit
60 Assist
64 Adherence to regular and habitual course of action
65 Lift
68 Love affair
69 Household servants
72 Exhausted in using
73 A small fish
75 Range of mountains between Europe and Asia
77 To gather thickly again
78 Comanchean
80 A wise man
82 Entrance
83 Curve
84 Stalk
86 Pant
89 Pert. to the palate
91 Atrabilious
94 Orient
96 Wrath
97 Floating fragment of a glacier
100 Employ
103 A drink
105 Bone
106 Accomplish
107 Belonging to me
109 A measure
PUZZLE NO. 69
LOOSELY WOVEN
By John Boyajy
The warp and weft of this one are not drawn too tightly together. If
the puzzle has a fault, it is in the abundance of black squares, but
the neat interlock saves it. Rather easy for the adept, and not an
undue tax on the novice.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Wild
6 Pieces of window glass
10 One who is familiar with all the details of an art
15 Article
16 One who annoys
17 Make fast
18 Pronoun
19 Closely mown grass plot
20 Make amends for
22 Drop of saline liquid secreted by the lacrimal glands
24 That on which the affections are passionately set
26 All correct
27 Father
29 Masses
31 Group
32 Gradually enervate
34 Marsh
36 Infold
39 A duet
40 Possesses
41 Raise the spirits of
42 Obliterate
43 Disregard the divine law
44 Tocsin
45 Near the stern
47 Situation
49 Quality
51 Worthless matter
53 Bends forwards
56 Single
57 Circuit or journey
59 Manlike monkeys
62 A tree
63 To provoke
64 Sidewise
65 In error
66 Reverential fear
68 Shelter
70 Nautical mile
72 Objective of “she”
74 Erudition
76 Small shears
79 Island
80 Shabby clothing
83 Military aviator
84 Used to express comparison
86 Poem
88 Diminish
89 Frozen rain
90 Freeze or chill
92 Anarchist
93 Before
94 Heretofore
96 Exist
97 Immerse and withdraw
98 Fall in drops
100 Physician (abbr.)
102 Conjunction
103 A range of the voice
104 Bind to secrecy
107 Decorate
110 Subjugated
112 The thing
114 Rigorous
115 Inveigle
116 Exclamation
117 The period of minority
118 Antagonist
119 Talent
VERTICAL
1 Starve
2 Upon
3 And others
4 Stitch
5 Bronze
6 Summit
7 Skill
8 Bring forth young
9 Gait
10 A dull surface
11 A single spot
12 False pretence
13 Printer’s measure
14 Object
19 Quantities
21 Metal-bearing rock
23 Bars
25 Church officer
26 Precious stone
28 Exclamation
30 Constructs
32 Perceive
33 Mitigate
34 Dread
35 Catches
37 Apart
38 Pamper
44 Exist
46 Zealot
48 Printer’s measure
49 The whole
50 Not at all
51 Tries
52 Cuts
54 Vows
55 Beach
57 Extension (abbr.)
58 Dashed
60 Enclosure
61 Toper
67 Marvel
69 Ardent
71 Not the same
73 Draw out
75 Hesitant interjection
77 None (colloq.)
78 Annoyance
79 Preposition
81 Mimic
82 Hold back
84 Rip
85 Consumed
86 Institute
87 Conduct a periodical
90 Inactive
91 Eras
95 Self
99 City in Italy
101 Venture
102 Without another
103 So be it
105 Limb
106 Time immediately preceding
108 A low haunt
109 Batter
110 Pull
111 Part of “to be”
113 Preposition
116 Gold (chem.)
PUZZLE NO. 70
A STUDY IN CROSSES
By Daniel O’Leary
Funny how often you find crosses in cross word puzzles. There are
several meanings to that. You will observe Maltese crosses in Mr.
O’Leary’s construction, and it isn’t hard enough to make you cross.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Responds
7 Articles of Scotch costume
14 Way
15 Ordered thought
16 Hoarder
18 French river
19 Relating to
21 Signs
23 A conjunctive
24 Vase
26 Contend
27 Make lace
28 Midday
30 Noblemen
32 Peel
33 Pert. to birth
35 Tardier
37 Container
38 Product of decomposition
40 Withers
42 Steal
45 Termites
47 Darkness
49 Alkali
51 Plaything
53 Infant’s utterance
55 Point
56 That man
57 Maligned
61 Exclamation
62 Boxes
63 Sweet fluid
65 A widow
67 Member of Ancient Christian cult
69 Timidity
70 Serious
VERTICAL
1 Reckoning
2 Negative
3 Addition
4 Thing inscribed
5 A literary form
6 Wind
8 Space
9 Controls
10 Browns
11 Peer Gynt’s mother
12 On the contrary
13 Made a nasal sound
17 Opponent
18 Sense
20 Away
22 Title
23 Paddle
25 Negative
27 Substance from pine
29 Bodies of churches
30 Devoured
31 Holy one
32 Pert. to punishment
34 Roofing substance
36 Digit
39 Parents
40 Abode of pigs
41 Appearances
42 Footwear
43 Young goat
44 Organic chemical
46 Luke iii, 36
48 Chief ruler
50 Extinct bird
52 Site
54 French cap
57 Turn rapidly
58 Modes of skill
59 Famous opponent of John L. Sullivan
60 Sustain
62 Crafty
64 Fasten
66 Exclamation
68 Like
PUZZLE NO. 71
WATCH THE LOWER LEFT HAND CORNER
By Marcam
One of the editors, being tempted to solve this one in the proof, found
it smooth, consistent sailing throughout, save in the lower left hand
corner. This section probably isn’t hard at all. Wonder how you will
find it. You know how a pair of absurdly easy words will stump you now
and then.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Fury
5 Hopes for; endeavors to attain
11 Particle
15 Worship
17 Mexican dollars
18 Mistake
19 Myself
20 Stand for picture
22 Expiate
24 You and I
25 Appropriate
27 Sentries
29 Beverage
30 Experienced
32 Literary director
35 American poet
36 A wicked city
39 A liquor
41 Cutting instrument
44 Moisture
45 Uninjured
47 Musical instrument
48 From
50 Upon
51 Badly
52 Exist
53 Occurring twice daily
54 A land measure
55 Upright pole
57 In, on, near or by
58 Have existence
59 Decoy
61 Ensnare
63 Belonging to us
65 Sanity
67 Insect
68 Young hog
70 Member of Algonquin tribe
71 Gratify
73 Fast horses
76 Hasten
77 One who mends locks
80 Rested upon
82 One
83 Cloth made from flax
84 Open; evident
86 Not any
87 Showing indifference to pain or pleasure
89 Wireless
91 Loosened
93 To puzzle; nonplus
94 Hostile incursions
95 Bloody
VERTICAL
1 An incarnation of Vishnu
2 Expert
3 Proceed
4 Before
6 Expends
7 To strike repeatedly with small missiles
8 Exists
9 Bay or chestnut mixed with white
10 Regard
11 Wrath
12 Otherwise
13 Tall slender building
14 Plane surface
16 Church holiday
18 Flag
21 Observe
23 Aged
26 Narrow toward a point
28 Evergreen
29 Pert. to tone
31 A certain soft stone
33 Tickle pleasantly
34 Remorseful; feeling shame
37 An alleged natural force or power supposed to produce the phenomena
of hypnotism
38 Exclamation of pain
40 Unsaturated hydrocarbon
42 Son of Hammedatha the Agagite
43 One of a Hamitic race of Africa
45 Interior
46 Light colored cigar
49 Suit
50 Eye
56 Old; spoiled
60 Those who employ an article or a device
62 Kind of type face
63 Exclamation
64 God of the sun
66 Game of cards
68 To separate; distinguish
69 Three-legged stand
71 Spotted horse
72 Male offspring
74 Corroded
75 More reasonable
76 Fastening
78 Knot in wood
79 A daughter of Atlas
81 Small, bright-colored, insectivorous bird
83 Prevaricate
85 Loose end
88 Bone
90 Accomplish
92 Therefore
PUZZLE NO. 72
ROUND AND ROUND
By Persephone
The double round of blacks outlines four good corners and a center
which, while bearing an unenviable five-spot, would have been virtually
impossible of construction without it. The unkeyed letters should not
cause any trouble.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Unremittingly
7 Teach
13 Smirch
14 Forth
16 By word of mouth
17 Examine thoroughly
19 Private instructor
21 Active being or quality
23 A writer’s style
24 Crafty
26 A tuberous root
28 A dull finish
29 Deposits
31 Commanded
34 Gambling game
35 Exist
36 Long, fixed bench
38 Wrath
39 Unclose
41 Accomplish
42 Ancient goddess, personifying night
43 Single performances
45 Pointed instrument
47 End
49 Animal
51 Appropriate
53 Terminal
55 Erases
56 Mean proportion
57 Augment
58 Fish without pelvic fins
60 The entire men
61 To move to deep reverence
63 Turf
65 Official garment of Jewish high priest
68 Said to be a wise bird
70 In the direction of
72 A distinctive doctrine or theory
74 Pole having a flat end
75 Personification of Truth in “Faerie Queen”
76 The man
77 Worshiped image
79 To speak to
82 Close
84 Dandy
85 Arid
86 Bronze or copper
88 Equipage
89 Angry
91 One chosen, or set apart
94 Worship
96 Fluid rock
98 Period
99 In the midst of
100 To bind with a bandage
101 Abode; habitation
VERTICAL
1 Supersede
2 Black
3 A white linen vestment
4 Performs
5 That thing
6 Yourself
7 Jewish territorial organization
8 Thus
9 Street car
10 Tattered fragment
11 A Mohammedan college, or body composed of imams, muftis and cadis
12 Marked by indelible coloring matter, pricked in
15 Wholly
18 A measure of paper
19 Teutonic war god
20 A grain
22 Spikenard
25 Inferior
27 Fuss
30 To discover by close search
32 God (Ital.)
33 Make of automobile
37 Goes beyond the limit of
40 A proprietor under old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey
42 Requires
43 Tablet
44 Rescued
46 Lawful
48 Singular
50 Consumed
52 A pin of wood or metal
54 Of recent origin
57 Crafty device
59 Keener
62 Arising unexpectedly
64 Lubricant
66 A legume
67 Natural combination of metals
69 Pale
71 Smell
73 To deface
75 Employ
76 Hairbreadth
78 Gems
80 Color
81 Rested
83 To destroy by slow disintegration
85 A god
87 Identical
90 Marble
92 Shelter
93 Carnivorous domesticated quadruped
95 Dull
97 In, on, near or by
99 One or any
PUZZLE NO. 73
MY SECOND AND LAST
By Joseph A. Margolies
“This is my second and last,” writes J. A. M. “Too absorbing. Leaves no
time to read.” We don’t believe J. A. M. He underestimates the frailty
of the human soul where cross word puzzles are concerned. He’ll be at
it with ruled paper and pencil again, and then he’ll swear off again.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Napkins
4 Director
10 Beach
13 Photographic instrument
15 Idle
17 Pronoun
19 Mushrooms
20 Mental images
21 Pronoun
22 Belief
24 Wailing
26 Tyrolian singing
28 Atmosphere
29 Genus of lily family
31 Between
32 Poisonous snake
33 Dejected
34 Reckoning of years
36 American humorist
38 A condiment
40 Vulgar fellow
42 Rings
44 Careful observer
45 Stored for future reference
47 Implant
48 Prepared for combat
49 Leading part (musical)
50 Music drama
53 Lure into danger
55 Cichlid fish
58 Leaps over
60 Rodent
61 Supreme deity of ancient Minæans
62 Do wrong
63 Goddess of dawn
65 Before
66 Attempt
67 Frogs’ spawn
69 Weight for vessels
72 Unite
73 Minor prophet
75 Skins
76 Round of years
78 Pronoun
79 Ornamental tape
81 Uncover
83 Pronoun
84 Fraud
85 Trains
87 So
88 Bedaubed
89 Pigs
VERTICAL
1 Lure
2 Before 11 Vertical
3 Less hazardous
4 Males
5 Debated
6 Brads
7 Deceit
8 Bear
9 Regret
10 Broom
11 After 2 Vertical
12 German city
14 Egyptian goddess
16 Speak
18 Annoyer
21 Interfere
23 Biting
25 Ordinary
27 Old fashioned clocks
29 Obstruct
30 Wooden ship
32 Confirm
33 Notch
35 Enliven
37 Where the tide meets a river current
39 Gem
40 Soft drink that is sometimes hard
41 Station
43 Father of Methuselah
45 Nourished
46 Arid
51 Talking bird
52 East or southeast wind
54 Heavy rope
56 Garret
57 Not frequently
59 Sigh with sudden heaving of breast
61 Skill
64 Specie of poisonous tree
65 Ancient Monastic Order
68 First appearance
70 Shelf
71 Kind of tree
72 Characteristic of groups
73 Intimate
74 Part of body
76 Vehicle
77 Long fish (pl.)
80 Jewish month (pl.)
82 What the cow chews
84 Exclamation
86 Thus
PUZZLE NO. 74
QUADRICRUCIFEROUS
By A. C. R.
Twenty-four unkeyed letters—but no two, and only four three-letter
words and a splendid all-over interlock. Not more than average
difficult, but not more than medium easy. The long words form splendid
spinal clews—if you get them.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Penetrated
7 A fruit
13 Part of the day
14 A long spear
15 A fleet of ships
16 Finical
17 A war horse
18 Tight fitting caps
19 Foreign
21 Soup herb
22 India
23 Celtic hero
26 Establishes
28 Paradise
30 A roundabout way
32 Plain
34 Metamorphose
35 Rely upon
37 Wearing apparel
40 Length measures
41 Carried away
44 Sound of voice
45 One (Scot.)
46 Girl’s name
49 A natural right
51 Run away
53 Steppers
54 Marks of distinction
55 Always
56 A liquid compound
57 Formerly
58 Allures
59 Poisonous insects
VERTICAL
1 Disposed of contents
2 Girl’s name
3 Musical instrument
4 Purposes
5 Lohengrin’s bride
6 Flower
7 Concur
8 Laborer
9 Japanese ornaments
10 Waterfall
11 Above
12 Despotism
20 Urgent
24 Inclination
25 Rules
26 Glaziers’ tacks
27 Brief
28 Irish hero
29 Heroine in Scott
31 Vase
33 Metallic mineral
35 Groups of ten
36 Contrived
38 Balkers
39 Clothes again
42 Upper garments
43 A very small pill
47 Architectural term
48 A color
49 A large woody plant
50 Lugs
51 State of vexation
52 Other
PUZZLE NO. 75
LOCKED UP TIGHT
By Gregorian
An all-over double interlock with a triply-locked center and corners.
Probably considerably easier to solve than to construct. The words are
weak in spots, but the construction passes the few obsoletes.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Alternate passage
6 Incomplete
11 Fruity nut
12 Those who dry by wind
14 Cheerfulness
15 Capable
17 Midday
19 Man’s name
21 Mountain in Greece
22 Passage-way
23 Negative
24 Shaped like a bull
27 Prefix, of
28 Character in Peer Gynt
30 Pits
31 Prefix, footed
32 Pert. to month
34 Settings
36 Plaything
37 Chemical compound
38 Imbecility
41 Sharpshooters
44 Annual Scottish festival
45 Adjusted
47 Consume
48 Ounce (abbr.)
49 Salts of stearic acid
51 Toward
52 Chinese tree
54 Hobo (slang)
55 Pert. to Asian people
57 Jog
58 Flat part of boat’s bottom
60 Color
61 Taxes
63 Mistaken
65 Cook by air and heat
66 Awe-inspiring
VERTICAL
1 Oil
2 Fuse
3 Thus
4 Those in power
5 Naval officer
6 Decanters
7 Furrow
8 Abraham’s birthplace
9 A form of colored cotton
10 God of Love
11 Form of sugar
13 Fuse
14 Ash kokos
16 Entrance
18 In want
20 Empower
22 Compounds of arsenic
25 Mineral
26 Dye
29 Finished
31 Active volcano of West Indies
33 Male descendant
35 Pinch
38 Dejected
39 Famous composer
40 Throw back
41 Knotty
42 Classification
43 Lay in a supply
46 European mountain range
49 Encounter
50 Brown pigment
53 Famous Scot
56 Outer coat
58 Egyptian god
59 To make a mistake
62 Exclamation
64 Concerning
PUZZLE NO. 76
BIG BEAUTY
By W. J. Bowman
This giant may puzzle you in several ways. At the first glance it looks
as much like a maze as a cross word puzzle. You’ll find it a cross word
puzzle all right.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Others
5 Device to carry a gun
10 Call loudly
14 Bends
16 Possessive pronoun
17 Press for payment
19 Box
20 Abraham’s birthplace
22 Small davenport
24 Sing in a low undertone
26 Average
28 Sun god
29 Female rabbit
31 Close
32 Shrub
34 Change direction
35 Automobile
36 Deliver
38 Geometric ratio
39 Consumed
40 Touch gently
42 Pronoun
43 Paper containers
44 Cut feloniously
46 Den
48 Spank
50 Finished
51 Curves
53 Affectedly precise
55 Render senseless
56 Something granted for temporary use
57 Evil
58 Neuter pronoun
60 Barren
62 Mother
63 Small child
65 Comrade
66 Slipped
68 Rock
69 Printed piece of paste-board
71 Catch (colloq.)
73 For example
74 Changes
76 Prosecute at law
77 Mean, vile
79 Exist
80 Distorted
81 Falling water
83 Units of electrical resistance
84 Egg of insect
86 Pastries
87 Ardor
88 Edible bivalve mollusk
89 Nothing
90 Bend
92 Cad
94 Sketched
96 Past
97 Negative
99 Recesses in walls
101 By
103 Inherent power
105 Mixed type
106 Arid
108 Jogging pace
109 Tramp
111 Genuine, loyal
112 Obtain
113 Beseech
115 By
116 Set free
118 Unit of type
119 Stout
120 Native of Arabia
122 Head
123 Black
125 Wharf
127 Child
128 Vehicle
129 Help
131 Catholic sisters
133 Sinless
134 Note of scale
135 Snake-like fish
137 Before
138 Part of verb “to be”
140 Small secluded valley
142 One, indef.
143 Earth
145 Those who color cloth
147 Small nail
149 River (Spanish)
150 Thing
151 City in Mass.
153 Part of head
154 A boisterous preacher
156 Preposition
157 Mold
158 Plaything
160 Female chicken
161 Frozen particles of vapor
163 Marks
164 Provoked
165 Is full
VERTICAL
1 Thumps
2 Upon
3 Wireless signal for help
4 Paradise
5 To hasten
6 Bone
7 Low district
8 Edition (abbr.)
9 Intoxicating liquor
10 Whirled rapidly
11 Cured pork
12 Else
13 Lachrymose exudations
15 Small distance
16 Fem. pronoun
18 Snare
19 Father
21 Egg masses
23 Appendage
24 Color tint
25 Crazy
27 Unload by tilting
28 Uncontrolled anger
30 Necessitate
32 Walks with affected dignity
33 Fortress
35 Implement of war
37 To mend
39 Desires
41 A color
43 Water conveyance
45 Before Christ
47 Like
49 Indef. article
50 Perform
52 Alluvial detritus
54 Obtains
55 Without
56 Grease for frying
57 Bend
59 Row
61 Uproar
62 Spoils
64 Tag
65 Binder stones
66 Artfully cunning
67 Term used when hunting a criminal
69 Criticism
70 Noise
72 Be of service to
74 Malicious firing of a building
75 Places to store grain
77 Portion
78 Dirty
80 Net
82 The head (slang)
83 Aged
85 Also
91 Humor
92 Bullet
93 Half (prefix)
95 Part of “to be”
96 Time
98 Eye
100 Crustacean
101 A long staff
102 To rage
104 Buttocks
105 Fondle
107 Annually
109 Snared
110 Prevents
112 Gather
114 A color
116 Attempt
117 Loose outer garment
119 A private quarrel
121 By
122 Father
124 Point of compass
126 Within
127 Skeletal piece
128 To incline
130 Marsh
132 Narrow opening
133 Rodents
134 Ultimate
136 Caustic
137 Sin
139 Interweaves
141 Aspects
143 Diminution
144 Small mark
146 Not west
147 Prohibit
148 Depression
151 To obstruct
152 Negative prefix
154 Color
155 Fish eggs
157 Note of scale
159 Pronoun
160 Pronoun
162 Us
PUZZLE NO. 77
TRY THEM OVER IN YOUR DAILY CHAT
By Irvan Neckerman
There are several dozen words in this puzzle that you can use and your
best girl won’t know what you are talking about. This is not misogyny.
It merely supposes that she does not follow cross word puzzling. Or
maybe that is misogyny.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Discover
4 Ordinary language
9 Story
13 Knot
14 The nobility, collectively
15 Young fish
16 Character in musical notation
18 Imbecile
19 Agitation
20 Exclamation
21 Figurative
24 Preposition
25 Vending
27 Gain superiority
28 Throw with violence
31 Piece of ground
33 Small aperture
35 Serpent
37 Robbers
40 Anger
42 Observes
44 Slacken
45 Eighth of a fathom
46 Dressed with ornaments
48 Heed
50 Peruse again
52 With less delay
53 Rested
54 Squalid place
56 Make turbid
58 Sets back
62 Adapts
64 Elevate
65 Equable
68 Beverage
69 Reduce
70 Cool
71 Merriment
72 Milestone
73 Boundary
VERTICAL
1 Engrave
2 Pits for storing fodder
3 Bill of an anchor
4 Loud sound
5 Make over
6 Pristine
7 Apartment
8 Scene of Wallenstein’s assassination, 1634
10 Repeated
11 Estuary
12 Novice
17 Drop
19 Recite metrically
22 Move swiftly
23 Certain days of months
26 Seems
29 Compensation
30 Article of food
32 Jaded
33 Irritates
34 Guard
36 Dry
38 Color
39 Viscous fluid
41 Stock
43 Weapons
45 Married person
47 Head
49 Any
51 Refresh
54 Earthenware
55 Pert. to one’s birth
57 Brook
59 Dregs
60 Head (Fr.)
61 School
62 Tire
63 Elevation
66 Contend
67 Born
PUZZLE NO. 78
POLYANGULAR AND POLYSYLLABIC
By Harold E. Vreeland
This constructor managed to fit together a well-joined construction,
central vertebrae and a neat outer shell. Decorative and full of nice
words.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Pale
5 Insignificant part
7 A circle
10 Brag
13 A river in Italy
14 Absconders
15 A musical note
17 A size of type
19 To slip
20 Furnished with a guard
22 Not the same
24 Refusal
25 Do not (Scotch)
26 Divided
28 A richly laden ship
29 Performing a service
30 An alloy
32 Wine
34 Places of confinement
35 Conjunction
37 South American ruminant
38 A shield
39 Princes
41 To goad
42 Seed of North American plant
44 Expressing surprise
45 Brown
46 Decay
47 A president of Orange Free State
VERTICAL
1 A coral island
2 A native of Pacific islands
3 A common given name
4 Saltpeter
5 A maiden loved by Jupiter
6 Poem
8 To talk nonsense
9 A hypothetical force
10 American explosive for shells
11 Sacrifice of principle to circumstances
12 Scientific description of races
13 Marrow
16 Compounds of atoms
17 A Government revenue
18 Collecting wives
20 Beckonings
21 The star of dawn
23 Tears
25 Bore
27 (Prefix) through
28 A bow
31 Loiter
33 Large birds
35 A fabric of asbestos
36 Sad
39 A short sword
40 A counter-irritant
42 Perform
43 Spot
PUZZLE NO. 79
WEDDING RING
By Mil-Wal
The contributors of this construction are husband and wife. This fact
is symbolized by the wedding ring you see in the middle of the form.
Cross-grained cross worders may complain that the ring is not a solid
mass of words. Well, is a ring ever a solid mass?
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HORIZONTAL
1 Slender
5 Time
10 Small boat
11 Invades
13 Healing medicine
15 Quicken
16 Termination
17 Wrap
18 Beast of burden
19 To soak in water
21 Preposition
22 Taut
24 Ourselves
25 Highest point
27 Personal pronoun
28 Therefore
30 Employ
31 Garment
33 Stir
35 Vessel
37 Classified
38 Indicate
39 Heavenly body
40 Female deer
42 Born
44 Consumed
45 Exclamation of pain
47 Exist
48 Deer
50 Negative
51 One who dislikes
54 Note of scale
55 Weight
57 To gain success
58 Tank
60 Distant
61 White, translucent
63 Riddle
65 Withers
66 Basket
67 Depressions
68 Polish
VERTICAL
1 Fat
2 Tavern
3 Work
4 Tri-formed Greek goddess
6 Blots out
7 Large number
8 Hole
9 Poems
10 Religious singer
12 Frozen precipitates
14 Anthropoid
15 Possesses
16 Consume
20 An equal
23 Bow
26 The Ottoman court
27 Paris subway
29 Believe
30 Talk
32 Cry of sheep
33 Calculate
34 Open
36 Single unit
39 Crouches
41 Cereal
43 Page of a book
44 Insect
46 Conjunction
47 Part
49 Rubbish
52 Some
53 Time immediately preceding
56 Require
57 A small bird
59 Periphery; cover
60 Sign
62 Part of “to be”
64 A command to draft animals
PUZZLE NO. 80
NOT SO DIFFICULT
By Robert S. Holzman
The beginner should have a good time with this neat construction. There
are no lurking terrors in the wood here for the adventurous explorer of
cross word puzzledom. Try this one against time.
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1 Father
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8 Gambling term
12 Wrath
13 Flowed
14 Clash
16 Be wrong
17 Use
20 Plant of nightshade family
22 Excavation
23 Vegetable
25 Distracted
26 Sober
28 Make plump
31 Distant
32 Typhoon
33 Beaten track
35 Preposition
36 Disposition
37 Batters
39 Sign of negation
40 Perform
41 Astir
42 Silicon
44 Disease of foot
47 Iota
49 Masculine pronoun
50 And so forth
52 Hummed
53 Mien
54 One who carves
56 Suitable for food
59 That bird
60 Haul
62 Lubricate
64 Kind of nail
67 Lower in rank
69 1004
70 Faucet
72 Fluid used for heating
73 Female sheep
74 Search
75 Austerity
76 Plan
VERTICAL
1 Mottled with various colors
2 Weapon
3 Condiment
4 Period
5 Forward
6 Exclamation
7 Pose
9 Primer
10 Skill
11 Support
13 Revolve
15 Indian drum
18 Cover
19 Exist
21 Border for picture
23 Saucy
24 Distant
26 Rested upon
27 Priestly sign
29 Suited
30 Woman devoted to religious life
31 Counterfeit
34 Drunkard
36 Swamp
38 Total
43 That one’s
45 Secret
46 Civil offense
47 Again
48 Detestable
49 Hurry
51 Adhere
53 United
55 Scamp
57 Receptacle
58 Doctrines
61 Conjunction
63 Tract
65 Fasten
66 Organ
67 Jostle
68 Be indebted to
71 3.14159265358979
72 Depart
PUZZLE NO. 81
THE EIGHT TEES
By M. B. Gillung
One more tee and Mr. Gillung could have a golf links. As it is, he has
provided some neatly placed bunkers to trap the unwary. Beware the
unkeyed letters that lurk along the fairway! Particularly those near
the boundaries.
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5 Workmanship
9 To subside
11 Human family
12 Derivations
15 Reputations
17 Young animal
18 Dregs
20 God of Thunder
21 Slimy
22 Short tail
23 Salt
25 Neglect of duty
27 Things
28 Gibe
31 Hollow cylinder
33 Abrupt
34 Aches
35 Half-breed
37 Vision
39 Managed
40 Water
42 To seize
44 Islands
46 Precious stones
47 Skin disease
48 Severe
50 Corroded
51 To bury
52 Free joint
55 Demises
56 High
57 Becoming
58 Weak
VERTICAL
1 Frequents
2 To vary
3 Odd figures
4 A tree
5 Drudgery
6 Sharp
7 Liquors
8 Artifices
10 Place
11 A bird
12 Softened
13 Shining
14 Inviolables
16 Exclamations
19 Providing energy
24 Trick
26 Steeple
29 Do
30 It exists
31 Dolorous
32 Undivided
35 Strength
36 Barren open country
38 Long hair
39 Rubbed
40 Large drops
41 On the look out
43 Chide
45 Pass along
47 Imbecile
49 Rested
51 Island
53 Soak
54 A dolt
PUZZLE NO. 82
THIRD-RAIL CROSSOVER
By I. S. O.
A fine double-cross study in four-letter words. The occasional
abbreviation does not mar the general effect. The lateral wedge-masses
key well with the central cross. Altogether a nice construction.
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HORIZONTAL
1 A gewgaw
6 A point or beginning (obs.)
9 Herself
12 Bark; investing layer
18 To follow after
19 Stooping low
22 Single; only
23 Concerning
24 A prefix; half
26 A term in billiards
27 Steeps
29 Prefix; not
30 The auditory organ
32 A Hindu God
34 To carry laboriously
35 Teeth of a wheel
36 Prefix; three
37 Step lightly
39 To plunge head-first
41 A theatrical miscellany
42 Space
43 A short sleep
45 The rudimentary leaf of the embryo in plants
48 Period of years
49 To consent
51 A frozen confection
52 An old soldier; a horse doctor
53 To clutch; clench
55 Upon
56 Having narrow strips of cloth
58 Hail
60 Turf
62 Since
64 Mechanical device for irregular rotary motion
66 To bind
67 An anthropoid ape
69 Belonging to him
70 Gone by
71 Down; below
73 Pull along
75 By and by
77 Three in cards
78 To make a speech
79 Remainder
80 One who flies
81 Astir
82 Rodents
84 The Indian bull
86 Wood of a South American tree
88 Electric particle
89 A small devil
90 Vestige
93 Old
95 Limb
96 Lanterloo
97 Rasp
99 Prefix; one
100 Under
102 Thus
103 Backless chair
105 Wild, insane
107 A viscous liquid
109 Brings forth, of lambs
112 A small tumor
113 Transitory
116 Regret
118 A flower
120 A pilaster
121 A pottery slab
123 Wash
125 Equip
126 To influence
127 Upper limb
129 Jackdaws
131 An inclosure
132 Part of “to be”
133 A vegetable
134 Sour
136 Intend
138 Within
139 Prevent
141 Pathological distention with air
144 Illustrious
146 Eats away
147 Die (Scotch)
148 Curve of ship-spiling
149 Dryest
VERTICAL
1 Artists’ caps
2 Opposite of afar
3 Ourselves
4 To sprout
5 Dregs of wine
6 Correlative of either
7 A fabulous bird
8 Two-fold
9 To shake, jog
10 Obj. form of he
11 Measure of type
13 A cereal
14 Author of “Treasure Island”
15 Toward
16 Be available
17 Pert. to hospitality
19 Pert. to a city
20 Pitiless
21 Inguinal region
25 Prefix; middle
28 The self
31 A circlet
33 Shun
35 Coagulates
36 Ensnare
38 Portion
40 And so forth
41 Lyric poem
42 Dry
44 Decomposed vegetable fuel
46 A measure of time
47 Level, uniform
48 Is mistaken
49 Partly corresponding
50 Relating to the cuticle
53 So as to profit
54 Avidity
55 South American plant
57 Ever
59 Papal palace
61 Interrogative pronoun
63 A Chinese bean
65 Mental inferior
67 Art indebted
68 Very thin fabric
70 Pert. to an area
72 A wit
74 Skill
76 Born
77 Until
81 Be ill
83 Likely
85 A valuable insect
87 Gone by
89 A metal
91 Impolite
92 Summon legally
94 One who does
97 Proceeds
98 Vacant
100 Plait, interlace
101 Squall, cry
104 A small branch
106 Exclamation
108 Part of verb “to be”
110 Lowest tide
111 Long, vehement speech
113 Growing out
114 Take for wife
115 South American camel
117 Used to curdle milk
119 One who rhymes
120 Reverential fear
122 Female lamb
124 Hides
126 Dry
127 Pain
128 Fail to hit
130 Level-headed
133 Couch
134 Imitate
135 Lair
137 And not
140 Toward
142 Physician
143 Possessive pronoun
145 To exist
PUZZLE NO. 83
ANOTHER BY A PRACTICED CONSTRUCTOR
By Marcam
Remember Marcam’s neat creations in the First Series of the Cross Word
Puzzle Book? We have three by this author this time. For a pretty job,
give us Marcam. Neophyte is more prolix and erudite, but Marcam has the
graces with her.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Shrew
5 Interval
9 Seeress
13 Enemies
15 Total
16 Engagement
17 Part of “to be”
19 Insert
22 Printers’ measure
23 Bereft
25 Probable
26 Heavy
27 Mud
29 Before
30 Estate of a prince
33 Bow the head
34 Catch sight of
36 Closed compartments
37 Grows older
40 Skin
42 Beam
43 Clock face
45 Seizes roughly
48 Offers
50 Part of “to be”
51 Rope on sailing ship
52 Obtain
53 D.D.S.
55 Exude
57 Fop
58 Distant
60 Residence of David
61 Girl’s name
62 Noted stylist of the ’80s
64 Observe
66 Tumor
67 Thefts
70 Delay
72 To scold
74 Vessel
75 Age
76 Hindu groom
77 Article
78 Breathing
82 That man
83 Monster
84 Belonging to us
85 Hindrance
87 Court card
88 North African plant
89 The after song
VERTICAL
1 Old
2 Belonging to
3 Thigh
4 Lair
6 Associate
7 High mountain
8 Carefully
9 Rested
10 Newspaper article
11 Exist
12 Crippled
14 Be prominent
16 Part of wall
18 Again
20 Narrative poem
21 Boys
22 God of Love
24 Shining brilliantly
28 Ungracefully
30 Colossal
31 Fellow schoolman
32 Holds
35 Comrade
38 Prod
39 Lots (colloq.)
41 Obliterate
43 Believes
44 Flower
46 Metalliferous rock
47 Pose
48 Mound
49 Decay
54 Large vessel
56 Now (Scot.)
58 Party
59 Approaches again
61 Meager
62 Support
63 Revelry
65 Every
66 Anger
68 Part of church
69 Heroine in “Idylls of the King”
71 Fowls
73 Therefore
76 Fasten
79 Mistake
80 Famous British University (abbr.)
81 Native metal
83 Upon
86 Proceed
PUZZLE NO. 84
DOWN THE GOLDEN STAIRS
By Konstantynopolitanczyk
We have reason to believe that the name above is a pseudonym. We wish
it weren’t, for Mr. Konstantyou-finish-it has made a magnificent
construction in five-letter words, with a few long ones to accomplish
the interlock.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Erase
6 Procreates
10 Mourn
15 Regard
16 Inclined
18 Lemur
20 Actual
22 Bolt
23 Nostrils
24 Era
25 Debauchees
27 Yale students
28 Savory
29 Struck
30 Imitation satin
31 Destiny
32 Storms
33 In that place
34 Tighten again
35 Hybrid equines
36 Large felines
37 Pig-like mammal of S. A.
38 Pertaining to schedules
41 Vigilant
42 Civil
43 Possessive pronoun
45 Revised
46 Fierce look
47 Celebrated sorceress
48 Chums
49 Uncloses
50 Sufferings
51 Polyp’s skeletons
52 Molten rock
53 Reared
54 Carved gem
55 Jury
56 Signs of omission
58 Guided
59 Morning worship
60 Wed
61 British title
62 Mature
63 Flower nectar
64 Revolt
65 Interprets
68 Writing material
69 Medieval guitars
70 Style
72 Publisher
73 Withers
74 Dromedary
75 Nap
76 Employer
77 Confines
78 Aslant
79 Pastoral pipe
80 Deeds
81 Carries
82 Round-up
83 Male falcon
85 Even so
86 Rash
87 Commenced
88 Genuine
89 Knots or knobs
90 Kind of beer
91 Word of unknown meaning in the Psalms
92 Maker of arms
95 A murænoid eel
96 Even
97 Australian bird
99 Longs
100 Polecat
101 Economical person
102 Dirty street or district
103 Weird
104 Virtuous
105 Scout
106 Raise the spirits
107 Decree
108 As far as
109 Earth
110 Nothing
111 Appropriate
112 Water-nymph
113 Slurred
VERTICAL
1 Crane
2 Pieces out
3 Allow
4 Finch-like bird
5 Stockades
6 Sliding vehicle
7 Possessive pronoun
8 Rudiment
9 Deep, lethargic sleep (pl.)
10 Cause of pediculosis
11 Comminuted lava
12 Eccentric
13 More orderly
14 Removed
15 Fodder storage
17 Rainbow
19 Mechanical repetition without understanding
21 Dregs
22 Narrate
26 Contemptuous insinuations
28 Vegetables with dressing
29 Prop
30 Ink of the cuttlefish
32 Governs
33 Rows
34 Disentangle
35 Silenced
36 Flat, treeless plain
37 Pertaining to tides
39 Worship
40 Two-legged
41 Foreign
42 Sealed with wax
43 Harbor
44 Excite
46 Street urchin
47 Spondulix
48 Verbal
50 Top of the head (pl.)
51 Provide
52 Etruscan gods
53 Grass leaf
54 Antic
55 Panels
56 Junto
57 Rock
59 Secondary
60 Is melancholy
61 Asiatic shrub
62 Religious ceremony
63 Inferno
64 Juliet’s lover
66 Draw out
67 Clenched hands
68 Summons
69 Black and shining
70 Fragment
71 Church officer
73 Destinies
74 Aromatic wood
75 Roost
77 Lid
78 Standard golf score
79 Of the kidneys
80 Madagascar mammal
81 Ebb and flow
82 Royal
83 Layer of tiles
84 Bean
86 Large wasps
87 Impure soda
88 Divers
89 Water raising apparatus (pl.)
90 Town in Ohio
91 Harsh
93 Coral barrier
94 The Madonna
95 Death (Fr.)
96 Den
97 African antelope
98 Dumb
100 Strip of land
101 Hurried
102 The black haw
104 Silent
105 Station (abbr.)
106 Finish
PUZZLE NO. 85
DIRTY WORK AT THE CROSS WORDS
By Neophyte
Perhaps you agonized over Neophyte’s creation in the First Series.
Here’s its mate. Neophyte, being a hardened veteran of the cryptic art,
must have heard the groans from the breasts of puzzlers poring over his
brain buster. And he gloated and went at his fell work again. However,
this one is a little easier than the other.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Ungainly
7 Malayan animal
9 Simpleton
12 Expiate
13 Fools
14 Stiff mass, esp. of bread
15 Most singular
17 Fruit of Cola acuminata
18 Look rudely
19 Hero of series of books
20 Abounding in ferns
21 Hums
25 Readjusted
29 Learning
32 Affection
33 Ancient weapons
35 Laborer
37 Prevent
38 Venomous serpent
39 Boundary
40 Thin
41 Yields
VERTICAL
1 Footless
2 Wound but not kill
3 Basket or trap for fish
4 Glowing
5 Unit of square measure
6 Trifler
7 Prick designs on skin
8 Coral island
10 Curl the lip
11 German town
14 Writes unskillfully
16 Keeper of an engagement
22 Openings
23 Pert. to Ireland
24 One who rents
26 Cuts out
27 Furnished with guard
28 All possible
30 Poplar
31 Gaze earnestly
34 Blood
36 German river
PUZZLE NO. 86
HEY, THERE!
By Neophyte
Dear Neophyte: Whaddaye mean by those two bare, indecently naked words,
each with three unkeyed letters? An expert like you? However, you tried
too hard to keep it down to the level of ordinary mankind and
restrained yourself from so many outlandish words that you are addicted
to—that, we believe, the puzzlers will forgive you.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Outlive
7 Look hard
9 Pert. to ships
12 Spoil
13 Metric cubic unit
14 Storehouse
15 Shelter
17 Bivalve
19 Condition
21 One
22 Parent
23 Twig, spray
24 Explode
25 Behold
27 Conjunction
28 Holy day
32 One who reads
36 Anger
37 Moves slowly
38 Come to fruition
40 Musical drama
42 Give pain
43 Enticed
44 Most profound
VERTICAL
1 Godly person
2 Vessel
3 Come back
4 Part of foot
5 Vessel
6 Happening
7 Continue
8 Sailors
10 Surface
11 That not
14 Support
16 Canopies
18 American bird
20 Kind of sword
26 Fruit
27 American bird
29 Manners
30 Narrow opening
31 Lukewarm
33 Watchful
34 Defy
35 Euphemism for “By God”
39 Point of compass
41 Matter
PUZZLE NO. 87
SPOT
By Irvan Neckerman
The blacks strewn negligently over the form give it an informal look,
different from those forms that are studiedly ornamental and almost
forbidding in the courtly, mannered preciseness. However, Mr.
Neckerman’s construction may make you knit your brows now and then.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Lampoon
6 Key
11 Unit of superficial measure
12 Parisian theater
13 Southern constellation
14 Watched
16 Beetle
18 Visitations
20 Christmas
22 Signal of distress
23 Think
25 Fragment
27 Flowers
28 Small dog
29 Remedied
31 Banked
34 Anglo-Saxon money of account
35 Sovereign
38 Sooner than
39 Change
42 Backward
44 One who escapes
46 Deviate
47 Decline
48 Oil seeds
49 Assistant foreman
50 At stated periods
VERTICAL
1 Silk cloth
2 Part of “to be”
3 Humane
4 Female deer
5 Scandinavian myths
6 Detriment
7 At one time
8 Foot of an insect
9 Fixed point of time
10 Madness
15 Enlarge
17 Branch of heraldry
19 Springs
21 To meet the eye
24 Cut
26 Retailer of small wares
27 Redistribution
29 Magnetic metal
30 Species of palm
32 Preserver
33 Earnestly
36 Inside
37 Fertile (poetic)
40 Tear
41 Green and white monkey
43 Jurisdiction of a bishop
45 Fish
PUZZLE NO. 88
CENTRIFUGAL
By Minerva
Look at this with your eyes half closed and get the effect of rotary
motion. Then try and solve it, and see if the rotary motion doesn’t
transmit itself to your head. Plenty of short words, but not all of
them easy, and the long ones—but go ahead!
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HORIZONTAL
1 An ancient symbol
7 Fatigued
12 In case
14 Proceed
15 Coloring
17 New
19 Contained
21 Revolves
23 Slip away from
25 Suspended
27 A ship’s smallboat
29 School near Windsor Castle
30 Rodent
31 Enemies
33 Inhabitants of a country
35 Otherwise
36 Myself
37 At no time
39 Maiden changed by Hera into a heifer
40 Sloth
41 Discolors
44 Existed
45 Testify under oath
47 Asiatic country
49 Turf
50 Deity
51 Augment
52 Injured by a blow
53 Sea eagle
54 Owing
55 Color
56 Any plant of the amaryllis family
59 Severe trial
61 Pen
63 Excrements
65 Sun god
66 Belonging to me
67 Ridiculed
69 One
70 Affirmative
71 Preposterous
73 To scorch
75 A long strip of wood used for gliding over snow
76 Small British isle where Macbeth was buried
78 Common laborer in bondage for debt
80 Stiffly formal
82 Beginning; first attempt
84 Get up
86 A fratricide
87 Distorts; pulls obliquely
89 Inter
91 Chief Babylonian deity
93 Toward
94 Precipitous
95 A king of Thebes, son of Œdipus
VERTICAL
1 Thus
2 Deputy
3 Disposed of for a consideration
4 The thing
5 Young domestic animal
6 Assyrian god of Chaos
8 Reply
9 Accomplish
10 Made from a rib
11 Promote; cause to grow
13 Maddened
16 Attempt
18 Recent
19 Center
20 Protect; fight for
22 Backs of the necks
24 Accomplish
25 Unmetrical literary composition
26 Not any
28 Behold
32 Stitch
34 Party-colored
36 Intellect
38 Diversity
40 Soon
42 Assisted
43 Prophetess
45 Artful device to evade or cheat
46 Fearsome giants
48 Exist
49 Large body of water
51 Invisible emanation
53 Equal
54 Sleeping
55 Periods of time
57 A mushroom
58 Mohammedan title of courtesy
60 Engages in any affair or business
61 Perspiration
62 Aye
64 Seized
67 Animal fat
68 Abandon
71 Small insects
72 Above
74 In, on, near or by
75 Quiet
77 Over and in contact with
79 Point
81 Secular
83 Still
85 Plead
88 Ourselves
90 You
92 Exists
PUZZLE NO. 89
SLENDER AS A GIRL
By John A. Shafer
This is no Falstaff of cross word puzzles, no paunchy fellow stuffed
with large and grandiloquent words. It is a mite, a snack. It is an
easy one, too.
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HORIZONTAL
1 To twist
7 Financially sound
13 Obligation
14 Large duck
16 Response
17 Beat (colloq.)
19 Deep ditch
20 Animal of Africa
21 Proceed
23 To steep in water
25 Infatuated
26 Perform
27 Measure
29 Pericarp for seeds
31 Doleful
32 Asphyxiate
33 Bobbin
35 Human being
36 Provisions for table
37 Willingly
38 Paint carelessly
39 Rebel
40 Coffins
42 Neat
44 An individual
45 Obstacle
46 Penetrate
48 Jurisdiction of archbishop
49 Come about
50 Fodder
52 Silence by force
54 Symbol for tin
55 Period of time
56 Game
58 To desert one’s party
60 Box
62 Coarse cotton
64 Source
66 Inking pad of lithographic printer
67 Goodies
VERTICAL
1 Old man
2 Near
3 Kind of fruit
4 Former European ruler
5 Regarding
6 Nervous twitch
7 Adjust
8 Correlative
9 Offer for sale
10 Medieval shield
11 State (abbr.)
12 Uneven
15 Excavated
18 Catnip
20 Point of a spear
22 A hydrocarbon
24 Coarse part of flax
25 Anything closely interwoven
26 Handcuffs (slang)
28 Period
30 Thumb or finger
31 Portion
32 East Indian oxen
34 Wilful misstatement
36 Adipose
39 Strong
40 Turkish title
41 A bending
43 Small catlike animals
45 Non-professional
47 Thick, oily substance
50 Musical instrument
51 Fish
53 Outward form
55 Female parent
56 252 gallons
57 To chatter
59 Over and above
61 Italian river
62 In high degree
63 Noting motion toward
65 Adhering
PUZZLE NO. 90
CORNERED
By T. J. Stephens
Look at those corners, full, compact, ample, obese. A little bit loose
on the sides, but admirable for corner construction. Most constructors
would run the arms of the central cross out to the next to last letter.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Interchange of opinions
7 A set of steps leading over a wall or fence
11 A true copy of an original writing
18 Yearly
19 A unit
20 Discordant
21 Established
23 Large body of water
25 To make a circuit
26 A master
27 A slight sound
29 Taste
31 To abide
32 A shrub
34 Rent
35 To extract
36 A device for igniting an explosive charge
37 Son of Vulcan (Rom. myth)
39 A doglike animal
41 A stream
42 Clearer
43 To eject
45 Pertaining to understanding
47 Immense
48 A child
50 Jeweled headdress
51 Father
53 Staggered
55 Born
56 Admire (U. S. colloq.)
59 Needy
61 To burst forth
63 Withered (obs.)
65 Presage
67 To grate
68 Name of an automobile
69 An Indian
70 Disagreeable
71 A Roman highway
73 A fruit (pl.)
75 Horned toad
77 A festival
78 Ruins
80 A color
82 To delay
84 Laborer
85 Lift
87 Pertaining to ferns (pl.)
89 To percolate slowly
90 Part of the harness of a horse (pl.)
92 A Chinese wax
95 A place of worship
97 Artificially produced
98 Daughter of Uranus
100 A Greek letter
102 Tidy
103 A part of a shoe
104 Feminine proper name
106 Obsolete, timber
107 Catch (colloq.)
108 User of tobacco
110 A vegetable (pl.)
112 A prefix meaning limit (geom.)
113 Number of books printed at once
115 A tree
117 A large seal
119 To yield
120 Nothing
121 A fine
122 Moved away furtively
123 Cut of meat
124 Sophoclean hero
VERTICAL
1 A long outer garment
2 An Indian tribe
3 To loosen
4 A hard-shelled fruit
5 To season
6 Chosen
8 A small nail
9 A transparent solid
10 To run
12 A young hog
13 A large book
14 Hit
15 Obliteration
16 To rate
17 Assayers
22 A lateen-rigged vessel
23 An American spotted cat
24 A genus of gastropods
25 To harden
28 An element
30 Boys
33 To move heavily
36 A musical composition
38 A person in authority
40 Mock blow
41 Exhausts
42 Form assumed by certain insects
44 A recital
46 Girl’s name
47 Difficult
49 An area of ground (military)
51 Robbers
52 A part of an antenna
53 Dressed
54 Musical compositions for two performers
56 Farm
57 To lay in surrounding matter
58 Below
60 Away from
62 An American poet and story-writer
64 An age
66 To devour
72 To reiterate
73 To dismiss
74 To gaze
75 A goose
76 On top of
77 Useless adornments
79 A beverage
81 A mixture of gases
83 A plane surface
85 To recover
86 Ethylene
88 Flags
89 Not moving
90 Converse
91 A prefix meaning half
93 To ordain
94 Sea soldiers
96 Dull gray
97 A satellite
99 Biblical name
101 Obsolete, herald
103 Smite (past part.)
105 Not far
108 To subside
109 Rave
110 A jar or pot
111 Identical
114 Beverage
116 Filled pastry
118 The (French pl.)
PUZZLE NO. 91
THAT EXCLUSIVE LINOLEUM PATTERN
By Wilmer H. Koch
Mr. Koch wandered into the kitchen after a doughnut, and saw black and
white squares all over the floor. “Aha,” thought he, “like a flash, an
idea!” This is it.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Grammatical figure
6 Interchange
11 A negative vote
12 First cause
14 A tetrasyllabic foot
16 The two-toed sloth
18 Fragments
20 Collection of animals
21 To charge with gas
23 Astronomical measuring instrument
25 Bull’s-eyes at archery
27 Compounds having the same composition
29 Spiteful woman
31 Separation of compound words
33 Ornamental border
34 To eject legally
36 Displace
38 The Roman libra
39 A kind of indehiscent fruit
41 Concerning
43 Indefinite nominative
44 Petitioner at law
46 A color
48 River in Germany
50 A second perusal
52 Rather than
53 The rear
55 Layers
57 Coins minted under Charles I
59 Tripod
61 Prefix; the same
63 Scourge
65 A field of granular snow
66 A bid at bridge
68 An evening party
70 Gold color
71 The goober
72 A cognomen
VERTICAL
1 Encircle
2 Ordinary
3 Wend
4 Collection of interesting objects
5 Geometric figure
6 Tolerate
7 Rebels
8 Preposition
9 A soluble ferment
10 River
11 A delicate gradation
13 Lacrosse racket
15 Solicits
17 Frigid
19 Place of detention
22 Falter
24 Aftermaths
26 Cylindrical
28 A click beetle
30 Incarnation
32 Turkish hospice
35 St. Vitus’s dance
37 Month of the Jewish year
40 Strait
42 A grooved wheel
43 A source of synthetic indigo
45 Shakespearean character; a duke
47 Sexless
49 Scene of Napoleon’s defeat of the Austrians, 1796
51 A blood vessel
54 Penal crime
56 Ringworm
58 Inclination
60 Cry of bacchanals
62 Sip
64 Tomcat
67 Note of diatonic scale
69 Printer’s measure
PUZZLE NO. 92
ADAM’S RIB
By E. Pinkerton
If this puzzle were Adam, that central double armed cross would be his
rib just before it started turning into Eve. We observe nice fat masses
of words at sides and corners.
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HORIZONTAL
1 3.2 grains
5 Wicked
8 Supply food
13 Animal without feet
14 Rectangular piece
16 Female beast of burden
17 Father
18 Reduce
19 Series of heroic events
20 Hermit
22 Zealous
24 Constraint
27 Rested
29 Every one
33 Narrow-minded people
35 Chart
36 Vassal
38 Rage
39 Dregs
40 Unfastens
42 Small egg
43 Handles
44 Move
46 Huge snake
48 Two-faced outwork
52 Hide
55 Studio
59 A game
60 Choose
62 Qualified
63 Entrance to a mine
64 Bargains
65 Furnace
66 Keep back
67 Relieved
68 Set again
VERTICAL
1 Cloak
2 Aside
3 Cord
4 First man
5 Young children
6 Collection of sayings
7 Restrain
9 So be it
10 Narrow strip
11 Appearing gnawed
12 Cease from motion
14 Eucharist plate
15 Depart
21 The rainbow
23 Actual
25 Scrutinize
26 Dress covering
27 Exists
28 Actor
30 Microscopic hair (pl.)
31 Part of a shoe (pl.)
32 Dirty
34 Knock
37 Obtain
41 A father
43 Sharpen
45 Scolds
46 Posts for cables on a ship
47 Crystal-lined stone
49 Pert. to the palate
50 Lashed
51 Reigning beauty
52 To box
53 Shear
54 Repetition to learn
56 Variety of red
57 Egyptian bird
58 Hire
61 Yale
PUZZLE NO. 93
IN THE CLOVER PATCH
By Minerva
A splendid construction, particularly in its avoidance of the bane of
puzzlers—the loose center. Minerva has not hesitated to call upon the
deeps of the dictionary for her words; there are some old favorites in
the patch, of course, but also some interlopers that will serve to keep
your interest for some time.
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1 Phrygian shepherd changed into a fir tree
5 God of love
9 Parched
12 Domesticates
17 Unusual
18 Was contiguous
19 Kind of compass used in surveying
20 Considerable in degree
22 Rounded protuberance
23 A drop of saline fluid
25 Domestic animal
26 Indian tribe
27 To inspire deep reverence
29 Bordered
31 Exist
33 Small mound of earth
34 Goddess of the moon
37 Receptacle for ashes
38 Grecian sub-prefect
40 Obtain
41 Make less bitter
44 Overmuch
46 Pore over
47 One
48 Part of a circle
50 A small hole
53 Ventilate
55 Groups of three
58 Trial impression
60 Loose end
62 Web-footed, tailless amphibian
64 Minor devil
65 Seaman
67 To be obliged for
68 Certain
69 In the direction of
71 Writer of a kind of plaintive verse
74 To seek something lofty
76 Floating vegetation in the Nile
77 Vapid
78 Move
79 Dissipate
81 Pert. to the eyes
83 Federations of workers
86 Hostelries
87 A lizard
89 Unit
90 Propeller
92 A pledge
93 Past
94 One who compiles material for publication
96 Placed at intervals
99 Japanese plant
100 Implore
102 Barrier
104 Abaft
105 Tree
107 Males
109 Well-being
112 Wrath
114 Phœnician princess carried away by Zeus
116 Bronze or copper
117 Tottered
121 Watering place
123 International language
124 Broke
126 Tiny
127 Sharp-pointed tool
129 Vedic god of the sun
131 Not good
133 Persia
135 Pert. to national sea forces
137 Sea eagle
138 Brittle, salty biscuit
139 Languish
140 Irascible
141 Be conscious of
142 Those snaky fish
143 A donkey
VERTICAL
1 Hundred-eyed son of Zeus
2 Acid
3 Instruments for preserving the form of shoes
4 An affirmative
6 Took its way
7 Wind instrument
8 Quiet
9 Heedful
10 Long, slender plant
11 Mountain near ancient Troy
13 Flurry
14 Merriment
15 Comfort
16 Smooth
21 Ancient coin mentioned in the Bible
22 Immediate knowledge
24 Tap
25 The brave
28 Saturated
30 Enlarged
32 Rodent
35 Essential self
36 Elude
38 To implant deeply
39 Demure
42 Marry
43 A discriminating sense of hearing
45 Imbecile
46 Expression of exaltation
47 Intention
49 A female quadruped
51 Case for small articles
52 A kind of molding
54 Smoothing
56 Full of perforations
57 Person with a powerful voice
58 Noblemen of high rank
59 A marked characteristic
61 To adjust
63 Pants
66 Once more
68 A small shoot or twig
70 Regret
72 Edge
73 A high wave
75 Wickedness
79 The moon
80 One who meanly admires wealth or social position
81 One of a tribe of Algonquin Indians
82 Idler
84 Solemn affirmation
85 To shut close
88 Falsehood
91 Deed
94 A nymph who was changed into a fountain
95 Metal-bearing rock
97 Equality as to value
98 Make less light
101 That overworked Australian bird
103 The southwest wind
106 The papal court
108 The land where the sandman lives
110 The bay tree
111 A judicial inquest
112 To chill
113 A piece of property
114 Merits
115 An effervescent drink
118 Possess
119 A king of Israel
120 A narrow passage
122 Unadulterated
124 A tiresome person
125 A large plant
128 Staff
130 Still
132 Open
134 Total
136 Imitate
PUZZLE NO. 94
LITTLE BUT A BAD ’UN
By Frank C. White
Mr. White must be one of those mild-seeming people who fool you so
often—at least that’s the impression his construction gives the editor.
It is little. It looks harmless. But don’t start it if you have an
appointment two hours hence. But maybe we shouldn’t give this away.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Original man of Horus
6 The first Jewish high priest
11 A genus of Am. plants
13 A member of the Creek Indian tribe
15 Metal for casting in pigs
17 A game played for stakes
18 A valley in N. W. Argolis
20 Sooner than
21 Track of a deer
23 One of a tribe of Algonquians
24 In the thing or individual
25 Permit (3rd per. sing.) (pl.)
27 A workman on shoes
29 Denoting the infinitive
30 An exclamation of surprise
31 Leisurely (obs.)
34 Any sirenian, esp. the rytina
37 A pliable strip of oxhide (So. Africa)
38 Contrary to good in a moral sense
40 A recess in the shore
41 Anything steeped in liquid
42 A wind (musical) instrument
44 A fairy queen
45 A genus of No. Am. herbs
47 A cloud
49 Reprinting and publishing of a work
50 Lamellirostral birds
51 Am. wild plums
VERTICAL
2 Tutor
3 A garden implement
4 Monitor lizard
5 Restores to existence
6 Invoke
7 An Eastern continent
8 To clothe in an odd manner
9 Mien
10 A town in Oklahoma
12 To insinuate contempt
14 Light repast
16 Absence of removal (rare)
19 Objective case of I
22 Natural kind or class, esp. of animals
24 Son of Abraham and Sarah (Bib.)
26 Sorrow
28 A beverage
31 Burning
32 Be present (obs. var.)
33 Long speech
34 Slope (3rd per. sing.) (pl.)
35 Common (obs. var.)
36 A German philosopher
39 Abbr. Life Guards
42 Compounds containing metal
43 An English mathematician
46 A word of command in driving animals
48 Hoot
PUZZLE NO. 95
MODERATION
By Porter R. Lee
Never too much of anything is the slogan of this constructor. He gives
you a puzzle of moderate difficulty, but a set of easy words and then a
terror hidden among them like a serpent in the grass. The puzzle runs
its way at an even tenor, like an honest man’s life.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Snake
4 Rainy
9 Make hum by spinning
12 Russian money
13 Steep
14 Fat
15 Notable period
16 For instance
18 Toward
19 Mend
20 Confronted
22 Lariat
23 Speck
25 Pasturage
27 Impair
30 Public passages
32 Raves
35 Layer
36 Length of the forearm
39 Member of cat family
40 Country in N. America
41 Legendary king
42 Legal science
44 Cause of anything
45 Set again
47 Son of Odin
49 Something to follow
51 Secondary
53 A root
54 Sound
55 In such circumstances
57 Atop
59 You and I
60 Torn piece
62 Unripe
63 Ventilate
65 Product of digestion
66 Slippery fish
67 Bearing buds
68 Influenced
VERTICAL
1 Progeny of one stock
2 Pert. to us
3 Behind
4 Edible drupe
5 Ancient Biblical country
6 Afflict
7 That
8 Release
9 Cleansing agency
10 Conduct oneself toward
11 Cat
17 Prophet
18 Follows closely
21 Discontinue
22 Mistress of a household
24 Obscurity
26 Source of stability
28 Strong appetite
29 Topmost bone of spine
31 Kind of eclipse
32 Gypsy
33 Man’s nickname
34 Distress signal
36 Cage of an elevator
37 Hurtful
38 Strain
42 Hires
43 Fancy
45 Precipitation
46 Suppose
47 Color
48 Toothed wheel
49 Sharp-pointed instrument
50 Relative
51 Precious stone
52 Sharpened
56 Raw metal
58 Fade
61 Beverage
63 Exist
64 Egyptian god
CHAPTER 96
Puzzle No. 96
JUST FOR TWO!
By Charley Cinderclass and Stoney Lonesome
These two contributors send in Cross Words by the dozen, so you can
imagine what splendid vocabularies they must have. This is one of their
best, and it’s not an easy one, either.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Tatter
3 Dressed, as a stone
7 A color
11 Guided
13 State
14 Danger
15 Murmur
16 Jutting rock
18 Weird
20 Select set
22 Fortify
24 Jejune
25 Stranded
27 Single
28 Game at cards
29 Cone bearing tree
30 Scrutinize
32 Cereal grain
34 Craft
35 Mercenary
37 Mohammedan religion
39 Foxy
40 Winnow
41 Darns
43 Racing boat
45 Rhythm
49 Also
50 Six angled figure
53 Throw
54 Wander
56 Cad
57 Desire
58 Rake
59 Plunder
60 Squeeze
61 Planet
62 Silicate of magnesia
63 Note
65 Battering engine
67 Chinese coin
69 Voter
71 Earthwork
73 Newness
75 Invisible fluid
76 Dromedary
78 Meadow
79 Grain
82 Java pepper
84 Cleanser
86 Iniquity
88 Bark
89 Vassal
91 Exclude
92 Trick
93 Disturbance
94 Become acclivitous
97 Protrude
98 Roadhouse
99 Lance
101 Extreme
104 Sore
106 Bond
107 A relative
108 Wing-shaped
109 Edible tuber
110 Toughen
111 Hydrocarbon—radical
112 At a distance
VERTICAL
1 Groove
2 Torniquet
3 Compensation
4 Unit of measure
5 Pithy phrase
6 Ruminant
7 Stead
8 Sickness
9 Likely
10 Hint
11 Grassy plains
12 To fade
17 Scent
19 Precipitation
21 Poem
23 True
26 Bovine
28 Coniferous tree
29 Enclose
31 Earnest
33 Process of washing ores
35 Large wagon
36 Permit
37 A universal language
38 Amalgamate
40 Sailing vessel of the Mediterranean
42 Fop
44 Cotton fabric
46 Pertaining to the ear
47 Clown
48 Mistake
50 Not divine
51 Nepaul antelope
52 Charge
55 Tomfoolery
56 Vehicle
62 Heavy corded pile fabric
63 Large drinking bowl
64 Zzzzzzz
66 Grinder
68 Reclining
70 Neuralgia
71 Tap
72 Nib
74 Irritate
76 Mythical being, half man, half horse
77 Small lug
80 Doubtful story
81 Name of era
83 Foundation
85 Bluster
86 Hasten
87 Bit
90 Exist
95 Bird of prey
96 Whine
98 Evergreen vine
99 Kind of snow shoe
100 Write
102 Beam
103 Total
105 Tumor
PUZZLE NO. 97
A CRISS CROSS
By Jack Barrett
Only eight unkeyed letters in this, so you’ll jolly well have to fill
in every white square before the struggle is over. You may chew an inch
off your pencil before you finish, though.
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HORIZONTAL
1 A play
6 Certify
11 A dandy
12 Tackle
14 A state
15 To content
17 Melodies
19 Combination of things
21 Exposes
23 Cover
25 Reproachful expression
26 Sincere
28 An ancestor
29 Later
31 Loiters
32 From
34 Rates
36 Window
38 Upon
39 Sprightly
41 A jot
43 Continent
44 Man’s name
46 A stamp
47 Scorches
48 Obtuse
50 Mexican gum tree
51 End
53 Siesta
54 Inquire
55 Rabbit
57 A title
58 A rule
59 Ceremony
60 Away from
63 A strong horse
66 Distant
68 Luminary
69 A stipulation
71 Vigilant
73 Affirmative
75 Sidle
77 Destroy
78 Stay
79 Observe
80 Ourselves
81 Ravishes
83 Mercenary
85 Pair (abbr.)
86 Finished
87 Annoy
91 Passenger car
93 Deduces
96 Constituent of soap
97 Part
99 Smooth fabric
100 Generous
103 Conceals
104 Make of auto
105 Sharp
106 Floating ice
108 Propeller
109 Derisive expressions
110 Clothes protectors
VERTICAL
1 Invents
2 Obscurity
3 For example
4 Transaction
5 An edible root
6 Ejaculation
7 Measure
8 Toward
9 Sparkling decoration
10 Weeds
11 Back
13 A rabble
14 Wave-like molding
16 Expressing consent
17 Agreement
18 Withered
20 Illumined
21 Hillside (Scot.)
22 Position
24 Lofty nest
27 Otherwise
29 A minor planet
30 Flowers
33 Disappoint
35 Lament
37 Sport enclosure
38 Greasy
40 Discontinuing
42 Serpent
43 Girl’s name
45 Stream beds
47 Scatter
49 Acclamation
52 To rest
56 Simpleton
59 Rough
60 Side glance
61 Repast
62 To cook
63 Vehicle
64 Oily fruit
65 Miners’ pickax
67 Ribbed-appearing fabric
68 Conduits
70 Species of poplar
72 Yearly income
74 Singing sea nymphs
76 Wearing away
79 Exaltation
82 Soon
84 Curve
86 Engagements
88 European river
89 Expressing assent
90 Slave
92 Fabulously rich man
94 Spike
95 Innuendo
97 Puddle
98 Above
101 Poss. pronoun
102 State (abbr.)
105 Cerium (chem.)
107 Denoting hesitation
PUZZLE NO. 98
A NINE-CELLED HIVE
By Edith S. Iseman
There is plenty of verbal honey in the nine divisions of this
construction, and your search is not likely to result in any stings.
The central interlock, perhaps, might be improved upon, but there! We
have built puzzles ourselves, and know what the constructor is up
against.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Bribery
5 At the place
10 Mass of caked metal
15 Musical instrument
16 Treasure
17 Recess
19 Fabric
21 Urchins
22 Young feline
23 Prophet
24 Husk
26 Relative
28 Devoured
29 On ocean
31 Pour
33 Council of judges
34 Character in Genesis
35 Number again
37 Insect
39 Beverage
42 Abyssinian noble
43 Claims
45 Offspring
47 Snow (combining form)
49 Redistributes
51 Mobile colorless liquid
54 Equip
55 Descend
57 Succors
59 Girl’s name
60 Bewail
61 Greedy
62 Unit of square measure
63 Depression
64 Deciduous tree
65 Copied
67 Staff (Scotch)
69 Man’s name
70 Moldings (arch.)
72 Struck
75 A drug
77 Vehicle
79 Long
80 One
82 Jeopardy
84 Animal
85 Silences
88 Examine minutely
90 Singer
92 Ruler
94 Part of boat
96 Tense of Greek verb (abbr.)
97 Extinct bird
99 End
101 Evil
102 A saint
104 Color
107 Dimness of vision
109 Disinfectant
110 Ant
111 Partner
112 Missile
113 Made of tape
114 German composer
VERTICAL
1 Units of liquid measure
2 Sword
3 Equal quantity (med.)
4 Great General
5 Cetacean
6 Pronoun
7 Periods
8 Part of structure
9 Composition
11 One
12 Illuminated
13 Series of eights
14 Greek letter
15 Hymn
18 Injection
20 Machines
22 Joints
25 Hire
27 Receptacle
30 Pertaining to atmosphere
32 Domestic
33 Volcano
34 Relative
36 Arrive
38 Indigence
40 Ventures forth
41 Multitudes
43 Wittily
44 Loosen
46 Cut
47 Engraving
48 Reflection
49 Strays
50 Procreated
52 Pertaining to the sun
53 Indian princes
56 Strike
58 Retreat
65 Persian gold coin
66 Bridge
68 Adroitness
71 Unbroken
73 Goat
74 Exclamation of contempt
76 Vegetable
78 Savory smell
80 Pertaining to gold
81 Afloat
82 Ecclesiastical district
83 Top
85 Bleat
86 Member of Asiatic race
87 Artificial compound
89 Warm coverings
91 Emit
93 Harsh
95 Avid
97 Playtoy
98 Irregular mass
100 Halting
103 Deer
105 Masc. prop. name
106 Contest
108 Loiter
PUZZLE NO. 99
HIS PRIDE AND JOY
By Arthur J. Goldberg
For a second attempt (“My first you will never see,” says Mr. Goldberg)
this is really quite a wonder. It is hard enough to confuse even you
experts and yet all the words are 100 per cent American—or should be!
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HORIZONTAL
1 A leopard
4 To bite, crunch
8 Appears
13 Trained
17 Sooner than
18 A small job
20 Encounters
22 Metal-bearing rock
23 To search to the bottom
24 Wholly engrossed
25 A fish of pike kind
27 To abound
28 Obligation
29 A short musket
31 Last king of ancient Troy
33 Personal chattel forfeited to the crown
35 First
36 One who makes a legal grant
38 Passageway
39 To undermine
40 A day laborer
41 The kingdom of Persia
42 Small artificial elevation
43 Support
46 Knick-knacks
48 Screens
51 Word of denial
52 Range of rocks under water
54 Tidy
56 You
57 A perforated block
59 Fragment
60 Pen for swine
62 To spill
64 Group
65 Characterizing ingredient of common clay
67 Precipitous
69 Heavy hide whip
71 Siestas
72 Pens for animals
73 Course
74 Ancient galley
77 To censure as faulty
78 Having two shells
81 Belonging to him
82 Coarse heavy friezes
84 Tumor
85 A division
86 Tropical climbing plant
87 Above
89 Implement
91 Strong taste
93 Note of scale
94 Reduce to a lower grade
97 Composed of states
100 Thoroughfare
103 Period preceding important event
104 A very small distance
105 Pieced out
106 Female bird
108 Short for well bred man
110 Helped
112 Broken coat of grain
114 Dreads
117 Chief minister of Ahasuerus (Bib.)
118 Advance
120 Three (prefix)
121 To gather
123 Genus homo
124 Floating ice
125 Neckwear
126 Design
127 Specific quality
129 Delays
130 Kindled
131 Cæsurea
132 Tent
133 Clownish fellows
134 Snakelike fish
VERTICAL
1 Fresh and salt water fish
2 An air sung by single voice
3 Quell
4 Melody
5 Expectancy
6 Skill
7 Personal pronoun
9 Part of “to be”
10 Soaked
11 Destitution
12 Macerate
14 Revolved
15 Ireland
16 Actions
18 Makes brittle
19 Worthless
21 Sleek
25 Admit
26 Proportion
30 Plait
31 Firm in resisting
32 Early part of day (pl.)
34 Gloomy
36 Fur-bearing animal
37 Grates
43 East Indian coin
44 Moving spirit
45 Change
47 Mediate
48 Cleanings
49 Observes narrowly
50 A son of Adam (Bib.)
53 Epoch
55 Same
58 N. African country
59 Young pigeon
60 Disseminate
61 Be eager
63 Establish
64 Miserably
66 Disfigure
67 Sward
68 A fold
70 Bleat
74 Dull sound
75 Mellow
76 Self
78 Anathema
79 Urn
80 Give vent to
83 Long seats
85 Fenced off
88 Wanderer
90 Scotch city
91 Captured
92 A cosmetic
95 Headaches
96 Purports
98 Revery
99 Military defense
101 Pangs
102 Dignify
107 Fragrant oil
109 Negotiate
111 So be it
112 Part of the face
113 Thrashes
115 Large lake
116 Preserve
118 Cabal
119 Work
122 Sharp sound
124 A disease
128 Concerning
129 It is well
PUZZLE NO. 100
A HARD NUT TO CRACK
By J. T. D.
Get out nutcracker, hammer, tongs and poker, for there are words in
here that the English language doesn’t know it owns. J. T. D. is
absolutely ruthless when it comes to cornering the odd and unusual
word, and the unheard-of definition. This puzzle is included especially
to show you to what lengths the innocent Cross Word can go when it
tries.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Sanction
5 East Indian revenue collector
9 Reluctant
13 Miller’s-thumb (fish)
17 Pilfer
18 List
19 Largest known toad
20 Bird of thrush family
22 Large drinking cup
23 Drained
24 Persia
25 Pert. to the gums
27 Bow-like form
28 Knavish tricks
30 Coiling organ of climbing plant
32 Climbing shrub
33 Insoluble residue
35 Know or knows (obs.)
36 Boggy land
37 Asiatic country
38 Ancient Greek dialect
40 Aromatic medicinal leaves
44 Indefinite
47 Corner
48 Black
50 Presently
51 Early Teutonic land tenure
52 Drinking vessel
53 Provident
57 Piece of needlework
59 Located
63 In an unbalanced state
64 A charm (obs.)
66 French given name, male
67 Sward
68 Holly
69 East Indian cotton fabric
70 Precedence
72 Outfit
73 Small gastropod of gardens
74 East Indian plant used in making hats
75 Allowance in addition to tare
76 Sterile
78 Unqualified
80 Tiller
81 Pass swiftly
82 Islet
83 Pastry forms
87 Serving tray
90 Genus of orchids
93 Narrow opening
97 Presently (obs.)
98 A little while (Scot.)
99 Scar (obs.)
101 Part of type face projecting beyond the shank
102 Dark or purplish brown color
103 Pale brown color
104 Gibbon of the Malay peninsula
105 Tricky (slang)
107 Long inlet with diminishing depth
108 Presently
109 Ceremonial saddle horse
111 Wooded land
113 Inflate
115 Dandy
116 Spanish gypsy dance
117 Mohammedan cleric
119 Roumanian coin
120 Domain
123 Brush of twigs for sweeping
124 Pert. to the nostrils
126 Sound of metals struck together
130 Otherwise
131 Insane
132 Trifle
134 Inland sea, Asiatic Russia
135 Pluto
136 Venezuelan coin
140 Speak rapidly and indistinctly
144 Chemical suffix of a binary compound
145 Heavenly
147 European cedar producing medicinal oil
148 European bivalve used as food
149 Alarm bell
151 Biblical patriarch
152 Star in Pegasus constellation
153 Genus of the olives
154 Ethyl oxide
155 Perennial plant with a single wooded stem
156 Inhabitant of the Kurland peninsula
157 Small river duck
158 Check
VERTICAL
1 French hackney coach
2 Breed
3 Maple
4 Fling
5 Mayflower
6 Pigmentary nævus
7 Roman highway
8 Title of nobility
9 Immature pollack (Scot.)
10 Hideous being
11 Malayan for Sahib
12 Small number
13 Bear
14 Lounge
15 Subdivision of ancient Greek clan
16 Sarcastic
17 Untamed
21 Pert. to snow (obs.)
22 Balm (obs.)
26 Flat-headed inflorescence
29 Irregular lump
31 Arikara Indian
34 East Indian tree yielding a pungent oil
37 Torment
39 16th century clock in the form of a ship
41 Kind of lettuce
42 Venerable
43 Destroy a creation
44 Spiral architectural ornament
45 Addle (obs.)
46 Pikelike fish
47 Aught (obs.)
49 Fine silk net
52 Small gnat
53 Fling
54 Axillary
55 Part
56 Willingly
58 Food prepared from taro root
59 Bitter
60 Plant of lily family
61 Divulge
62 Test (slang)
65 Mechanical device to regulate flow
67 Dawdle (dial.)
71 Dig
73 Adhere
77 Rope to hoist a yard
79 Near (Scot.)
83 Furtive glance
84 South American Indian tribe
85 Earl (obs.)
86 Sniff
87 Food made from orchid tubers
88 At a distance
89 Redemption price
90 Enact
91 Plant of the iris family
92 Gastropod with spiral shell
93 Thin flexible blade
94 Crescent-shaped geometrical figure
95 Venerated image
96 Incline
100 Suffix denoting jurisdiction
105 Not concerted (mus.)
106 Enigma (obs.)
110 Gypsy
111 Genus of cattle
112 Attention
114 Dry (French)
116 Slender stalk
118 Violent wind of Southern France
120 Interpret (obs.)
121 Ignore
122 Agreement
123 Mine (Cornwall)
125 Small house
127 Sprung up
128 Time of greatest depression
129 Secluded narrow valley
131 Bale of raw silk
133 Become exhausted (colloq.)
136 Shade of blue
137 Web of a feather
138 Passage
139 Despoiled
140 Blemish
141 Whimper
142 Carbamide
143 Routine
146 Conjunction
150 Greek letter
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