THE CROSS WORD
                              PUZZLE BOOK

                              Third Series

               A Third 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

                                 with a

                         BALLADE OF CROSS WORDS

                                   by
                          Ruth Franc von Phul
                Cross Word Puzzle Champion of the World


                        SIMON AND SCHUSTER, INC.
                      THE PLAZA PUBLISHING COMPANY
                          New York   ⸬   1924









ACKNOWLEDGEMENT


The publishers and editors of the Cross Word Puzzle Books wish to
record the debt of all Cross Word fans to The New York World for its
pioneer work in the field. Cross Word Puzzles have been run in the
Sunday World for over twenty years and their present nation-wide vogue
had its origin in and received its greatest impetus from the Puzzle
Page of the Sunday World Magazine. The fifty cross word puzzles in this
book are all entirely new and have never been printed before in any
publication.









OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENT


The original Cross Word Puzzle Books, published by Simon and Schuster,
are the only ones officially endorsed by the Amateur Cross Word Puzzle
League of America and edited in conformity with the rules of cross word
puzzle construction promulgated by the League and printed on page 9 of
this book.









PREFACE


Controversy, which is the breath of life to any of the arts or
sciences, has reared its head among the ranks of Cross Word solvers.
The air is filled with ’tis and ’tain’t. The clan is divided into
schools, which is well for the vitality of puzzling. It is undoubtedly
true that a house divided against itself cannot stand; but it is also
veritable that an art divided against itself flourisheth exceedingly.

The schism that is causing all the noise, reduced to its simplest
terms, is stated in the question, “Shall the Cross Word Puzzle be made
hard or easy?”

On the one hand stand the pundits, with thesaurus and dictionary armed.
They crave queer words and exotic definitions. They thrill to the
cross-clue unravelling of some strange combination of vowels and
consonants resembling nothing ever uttered by human tongue, but which
their reference-books declare is a genuine word, with meanings and
inflections and everything. They delight in extracting a simple word
from its definition of secondary or tertiary meaning: when “express
generally” is solved as “air” they greet the word so often defined as
“mixture of gases” with cries of delight; “introduce as an antagonist”
is found to be “pit,” and tears of joy are shed over the relief from
the common “hole” or “depression.”

Thus the solvers who revel in the recondite. Opposed to them stand the
serried ranks of those whose pleasure lies in the accomplishment; who
do not wish their onward march to victory delayed by forests of
Javanese shrubs or oceans full of rajidae with enlarged pectoral fins.
Nor do they wish words torn far from their daily, or at least
semi-weekly, use. A Leer by the river’s brim a simple Sly Glance is to
them, and not an Annealing-furnace.

A third element enters the lists at this point—the constructors. When a
man has a superb puzzle almost finished, with complete interlock and no
abbreviations or unkeyed letters, he frequently finds a space left into
which nothing will go except a particularly rare combination of
letters—let us say, for example, TIL. The constructor runs hastily
through his vocabulary and finds no TIL; he has a vague recollection of
such a word somewhere in his poetic remembrances; but the familiar
abbreviation of “until” is “till,” and the constructor has no wish to
add the damning parenthesis-enclosed “poet. contr.” after his
definition. He tries all the combinations possible; none will fit. Torn
between despair and hope he seeks Webster’s Unabridged. Trembling
finger runs down the columns. Ah! Between “tikur” and “tilbury,” in
small type, as though ashamed of existence, he finds what he seeks.
“Til—Sesame.” Into the construction goes the word, and the puzzle is
finished. Observe that the constructor had no desire to introduce this
exotic syllable; he did not even know that there was such a word in any
language. If he could have written “tic,” or “tie,” or “tin,” or “tip,”
or “tis,” or “tit,” he would have done so. But “til” was his sole
refuge, and the Unabridged bore him nobly out. Thus, says the
constructor, why should the solver rage when he discovers “sesame”
among the definitions? Let him try to make one himself, etc., etc.

Returning a moment to the pundits’ side of the argument, observe a
fact. If any solver had been asked, before he took up cross words, to
give offhand the name of Egypt’s sun-god, a three-letter word meaning
island, a four-letter word for handbag, the name of a large Australian
bird, or the sash affected by the ladies of cherry-blossom land, it is
odds but that he would have been reduced to stammering evasions. But
even a tyro at the glorious game can now rattle off by rote the words
Ra, Uit, Etui, Moa, Obi. In running down the definitions of a new
puzzle it is not the household words that set him scribbling
frantically, but such old friends as the above. So, contend the
punditti, a word that may be a nameless horror at the moment becomes
through association a friend in time of trouble.

True enough, answer the believers in the simplicities, but the
introduction of such words is evidence of laziness on the part of the
constructor. Moreover, their constant use tends to eliminate them,
their places to be taken by other literal monstrosities. And there is
much in this contention. Where now are the Emu and the Eel? Time was,
and not so long ago, that every other construction was the combined
aviary and aquarium necessary to harbor these two; today they are one
with Nineveh and Tyre. And so it may well be with Ra and Uit and Etui.
They will march one by one into the shades where lurk the other gallant
words that died of over-work. And the strange combinations that take
their places will also abide their little hour, and go their way.

Once again the constructor beats on the table and demands to be heard.
“Where,” he asks, “do I get off? Am I to be barred from including words
that finish my design because a group of you insist that no word not
included in everyday vocabularies appear in the little white squares?
Or am I to suffer under the lash of scorn because a few of you mock my
brilliant construction wherein no exotic letter-combination rears its
head?—a construction that cost me more time than if I had allowed a few
oddities, I may add. What am I to do?”

“Go as far as you like!” cry the Recondites.

“Stick to the common words!” insist the Champions of the Plain.

Of course, these admonitions do not help the constructor in the least.
He is the ham in the verbal sandwich—necessary, but spread rather thin
and squashed flat. It is in the nature of things that this should be
so. No creator has had a different experience. You can please some of
the people, and the rest of it. It is part of the penalty of the
builder to receive criticism. Scarce have the birth-pangs passed when
the child is the storm-center of a tempest of contradictory comment.

It is, of course, an indeterminable debate. The Simplicities have their
case, as have the Abstrusities. In the meantime, short of erasure and
complete rebirth, the constructor’s pattern remains. For better, for
worse, for easier, for harder, in the pocket edition or the Unabridged,
his words cross and twine all among the blacks and the whites.

In the meantime, the schism remains. What is to come of it, we know
not. Whatever the decision may be, the constructor will not change his
status. Once a constructor, always between the millstones.


Prosper Buranelli
F. Gregory Hartswick
Margaret Petherbridge









                     BALLADE OF CROSS WORDS

                     By Ruth Franc von Phul
         (Cross Word Puzzle Champion of the World) [1]


            Once from the world I sought surcease
              Between a novel’s covers pressed;
            No longer there I look for peace;
              Of anodynes I’ve found the best.
              So, when the sun sinks in the west
            Sunk, too, are husband, friends and cook—
              Where do I find my treasure chest?
            All in the leaves of the Cross Word Book.

            If from ennui you seek release
              Purchase this book; don’t beg; invest!
            Madame, she will love ze fine service
              A caller intrudes? Hein? Kill ze pest!
              Oh, Noah Webster, you are blest
            When for a clue in your works I look—
              Where is all life from “less” to “crest”?
            All in the leaves of the Cross Word Book.

            What galleon sought the Golden Fleece?
              What is the Welsh for “eagle’s nest”?
            What is a Flemish tartan crease?
              Who was it asked the Erse for “breast”?
              Who can define a Baltic jest?
            Who ever called it a six-pronged hook!
              You will discern them, mixed and messed,
            All in the leaves of the Cross Word Book.

            L’envoi

            Prince: if from affairs your soul craves rest,
              Hie you to some abandoned nook.
            There for your mind seek a gayer test
              All in the leaves of the Cross Word Book.









VOCABULARY ENRICHMENT IN THE SUBURBS DUE TO THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE
INFLUENCE


(Two neighbors, Mrs. Wordsworth and Mrs. Frazee, are spending a warm
summer afternoon together on the former’s front porch. They are
sewing.)

Mrs. W.—What is that you are working at, my dear?

Mrs. F.—I’m tatting Joe’s initials on his moreen vest. Are you making
that ebon garment for yourself?

Mrs. W.—Yea. Just a black dress for every day. Henry says I look rather
naif in black.

Mrs. F.—Well, perhaps; but it’s a bit too anile for me. Give me
something in indigo or, say, ecru.

Mrs. W.—Quite right. There is really no neb in such solemn investments.

Mrs. F.—Stet.

Mrs. W.—By the way, didn’t I hear that your little Junior met with an
accident?

Mrs. F.—Yes. The little oaf fell from an apse and fractured his artus.

Mrs. W.—Egad!

Mrs. F.—And to make matters worse Dr. Bloop botched it so that we had
to trek into town to a specialist. How Dr. Bloop makes his sal is a
rebus to me.

Mrs. W.—The zany.

Mrs. F.—Joe’s ire was so aroused that he told Dr. Bloop right to his
visage that he was a dolt and an ort. Is your offspring well?

Mrs. W.—Not entirely. He was abed yester with a severe megrim, dark
arcs neath his orbs and as pale as talc.

Mrs. F.—Renal?

Mrs. W.—That is moot. You see, Dicky is so active.

Mrs. F.—A perfect icon of his pater; restless as a little emu.

Mrs. W.—He took a canoe out on the tarn and paddled over to the ait.
There he stepped into a fen and got his feet roric.

Mrs. F.—Boys have such an elan for the eau.

Mrs. W.—Why can’t they play on the muirs and in the wald nearby? I gave
him a drachm of ricin and thank goodness he was better this morn.

Mrs. F.—I’m so glad. This torrid weather is very trying. One’s vitality
reaches its nadir in this heat, and to add to the discomfort I have an
incompetent serf to contend with.

Mrs. W.—Oh, this esne problem. The last one I had was such a schelm I
had to let her go. Would you drink a nice cold beaker of negus? I’m so
sere.

Mrs. F.—Don’t trouble yourself, my dear.

Mrs. W.—Not at all. It’s Henry’s favorite quaff and he insists upon it
being on the ice at all times. He gets quite roiled if it isn’t.

Mrs. F.—Well, we must humor our sires. I hate to hear them gnar.

(They are interrupted by piercing juvenile shrieks growing rapidly
louder and nearer. Junior and Dicky, ages six and seven, burst into
view around the corner of the house. They take final kicks at each
other before smothering their sobs in the laps of their respective
mothers.)

Mrs. F.—Why, Junior, what is this?

Mrs. W.—Come, come, Dicky, aren’t you ashamed of such——

Dicky (Howling)—W-well, it’s h-his fault. He said I was a five-letter
word meaning a human being with inferior intelligence and wit!

Junior—And he called me a four-letter word meaning an invisible
particle of matter!

Dicky—And that’s what you are.

(They mix it up once more and are disentangled with difficulty.)

Mrs. F.—I think we had better be going, Mrs. Wordsworth. I’m so sorry.

Mrs. W.—Male progeny will be male progeny, you know.

(Mrs. F. drags Junior away.)

Dicky—(Yelling after him with much feeling)—ATOM!!

Junior—(Not too gently)—MORON!!!


                                                        N. D. Plume+Jean


    —Reprinted by permission from F. P. A.’s Conning Tower,
     The N. Y. World.









RULES FOR CONSTRUCTION OF CROSS WORD PUZZLES

Reported by the Committee on Rules, and adopted by The Amateur Cross
Word Puzzle League of America at its meeting, September 27, 1924, in
The Wanamaker Auditorium, New York City.


1. Pattern

    The pattern shall interlock all over.
    Only approximately one-sixth of the squares shall be black.
    Only approximately one-tenth of the letters shall be unkeyed.
    The design shall be symmetrical.

2. Words

    Obsolete, and dialectic words may be used in moderation, if plainly
    marked and accessible in some standard dictionary, such as
    Webster’s New International (Merriam’s), Funk & Wagnalls’ and
    Century.
    Foreign words that are more or less familiar and are easily
    accessible, may be used, but should be marked with the language to
    which they belong.
    Technical terms that are found in a standard dictionary may be
    used.
    Abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes, should be avoided as far as
    possible. When used they should be plainly marked and must be
    legitimate.

3. Definitions

    Great variety may be attained in writing the definitions and as
    wide a scope as possible must be left to the constructor. The only
    requirement is common sense. This means that the definitions may be
    of the safe and sane dictionary kind, may be literary or
    historical, may employ secondary meanings cleverly, may be
    legitimately funny. Synonyms that are too far removed from the word
    and what Gelett Burgess calls “smarty-cat definitions” should be
    avoided.









HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS WORD PUZZLE


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.


EXAMPLE

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

                  Fig. 1

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


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


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

                  Fig. 2


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

                  Fig. 3


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


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

                  Fig. 4


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









DO’S AND DON’T’S FOR SOLVERS


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

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

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

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

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

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









PUZZLE NO. 101

A CHRISTMAS TREE

By Moby Dick


This Christmas tree is a tour de force in consecutive two-letter words.
Even the veriest beginner should finish it in a half hour, for the
words are all fair and should come to mind immediately. This is a case
where the rule on ratio of black squares to white is purposely violated
for appropriateness of design.

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


HORIZONTAL

1 Lover of wisdom
9 Exclamation
10 Conjunction
11 Negative
12 Pronoun
13 Portent
15 Deposited
17 Tailless amphibian
18 Preposition
19 Girl’s name
21 Seize in arrest
23 Printer’s measure
24 Pronoun
25 Toward
26 Sun god
27 Dental filling
31 Warble
35 Garment
36 Italian city


VERTICAL

1 Pertaining to measurement of light intensity
2 Man
3 Material part of the earth
4 Bone
5 Preposition
6 Outdoor sport
7 Send out
8 Formidable
14 Simple
16 Presently
20 Latin for I love
22 Atmosphere
28 Not
29 Note of scale
30 Near
32 Conjunction
33 Perform
34 Printer’s measure









PUZZLE NO. 102

CHILDSPLAY

By Hugo Kladeviko and James McIntyre


These contributors have made one for the tots. Likewise it is a good
one for beginners at cross word puzzling. Warm up on this one for the
holy terrors that later on will beset you.


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HORIZONTAL

1 Form of literary expression
5 Speculation
10 Constellation
11 To be mistaken
12 Thus
14 Consumed
16 Character in “Peer Gynt”
17 Upon
18 Tool for cutting threads
20 Be
22 Humped beast of burden
23 Spoken
25 Colored fluid
26 Cook in oven
27 Droop
29 Appear
31 Behold
32 Adverb and conjunction
34 Minute particle
36 Support
39 Undermines
41 Be in debt
43 Unit of linear measure
45 Fasten
46 Trapped, cornered (colloq.)
48 Caress
49 Expression of hesitancy
50 Unit of weight
51 Jurisprudence
53 Preposition, toward
54 Utensil
55 Used in ancient warfare
57 Poor in quality
58 Irritate


VERTICAL

1 Church dignitary
2 Elevated R. R.
3 Leaves of a shrub of China
4 Repetition
6 Request (poet)
7 Before
8 Either
9 Citizen of New England
13 Propeller
15 Place for egress
16 Solicits
17 Hard wood
19 Foot
21 Into
22 Tuber
24 Sings with spirit
26 A broom
28 A card game
30 Attention
33 Regard
34 Mimic
35 A.M.
36 Skin
37 Speck
38 Long seat with back
40 Vent
42 You and I
44 Pasture
46 Sound
47 Mend
50 Label
52 Contest between countries
54 Father
56 Mother









PUZZLE NO. 103

LADIES FIRST

By Albert Buran


Here is the puzzle that Mrs. Ruth von Phul did in four minutes and
twenty seconds, thereby winning the Ladies’ Championship, at the
tournament held in Wanamaker’s Auditorium in September. See if you can
clip a second off that record.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Boat hoisting contrivance
5 Prosecuting judicially
9 A pronoun
10 Pertaining to the nose
12 A conjunction
13 A thin oval board used by an artist
15 A pasture
17 The first flapper
18 A color
20 A brownish red stone
22 Mentally sound
23 Savant
24 Notice
25 Saucy
27 Completely
28 Social beginner (slang)
30 A cereal grass
31 Shelters
34 An expression of inquiry
36 A parent’s sister
37 Bone
38 Kingdom
39 To give out


VERTICAL

1 Face of a timepiece (pl.)
2 Near
3 A feminine suffix
4 Narrative
5 Glut
6 Ultimo (abbr.)
7 A negation
8 To class or sort
11 XVII
13 Packages
14 Obliterators
16 A wooden frame
19 A vestibule
21 Achieved
22 A slight taste
24 A personal enemy
26 Rigid
28 Sound rhythmically
29 Stupid (Fr.)
32 Presidential nickname
33 Goddess of night (myth.)
35 A pronoun
37 An alleged force









PUZZLE NO. 104

THE LAZY MAN’S DELIGHT

By B. Benas


After you have struggled with a terror and want to rest your weary
brain, here’s the puzzle for you. Nice and easy and well put together.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Eyelashes
6 Foundation
11 Decrees
13 Occupant
14 Titled person
15 Through
17 Used in games of chance
18 Before
19 Purport
21 Female deer
22 Selenium
23 Meadow
24 Not within
26 Degree given physicians
27 Clip
29 Plural of vegetable
31 That thing
32 Regarding
33 Character of a people
36 Fragment
39 Article
40 Epoch
41 Course
42 Behold
44 Obstruct
46 Urchin
48 Wager
49 Among
51 Brownish color
52 Make feverish
53 European cuttlefish
55 Oily matter
57 Dirge
58 Come into


VERTICAL

1 Resigns
2 Accustoms
3 Body of water
4 Frozen dessert
5 Near
6 Exist
7 Conjunction
8 Reported
9 Annual receipts
10 Horse
12 Weapon
13 Soldiers collectively
16 Printer’s measure
19 A drink
20 Regret
23 Mythological stream
25 Linger
28 To reach exactly
30 Ocean
33 Hard coating
34 Metal bearing rock
35 Seasonings
36 Oscillate
37 Be able
38 Give pleasure to
39 Humble
43 Animal
45 Mature
47 Note of scale
48 Cudgel
50 Excavate
52 Female bird
54 Forever
56 Note of scale









PUZZLE NO. 105

NEAT SYMMETRY

By Frank A. Ford


An unusual disposition of blacks and a pretty symmetry. Decorative
patterns give an esthetic charm to cross word puzzling. Before you
finish you will have brought home the bacon.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Salted smoked pig’s hip
5 An adult swine
8 Demesne estate
13 Sincere
14 Pertaining to a wall
16 Back of the neck
17 Color in spectrum
18 To deface
19 A small dram
20 A receptacle
21 Woodsmen’s implements
23 Arrogance
25 Famous French writer
26 Night moisture
28 Devoured
29 Yankee Jack tar
31 Curved structural member
33 Bay or chestnut
36 Dobbin’s headpiece
39 Slumbers
42 A lyric song
43 Quite a few
44 A pasture
45 Folds in cloth
47 Played golf
49 To interdict
51 Large Siberian river
53 Accomplished
54 To regret
56 An honorable title
59 Senile
61 Concerning the pope
63 To serve
65 Genus homo
66 Racket
67 Early man’s abode
68 Late man’s consolation
69 Every man’s foe
71 Pelted with hen fruit
73 Fermented malt liquors
74 Citrous fruit
75 An indeterminate age
76 Without active properties


VERTICAL

1 Borate of sodium
2 Top of pyramid
3 Surrendered
4 Surmounting
5 A shout of triumph
6 Alternative
7 Mr. Goose
9 Indefinite article
10 An Indian viceroy
11 A precious form of silica
12 Kingly
14 Representation of earth’s surface
15 To deceive
22 A place to rest
24 Pronoun
25 A parcel post district
27 Yanked
29 Liquid measures
30 To dip up
32 The peak
34 A species of orange wood
35 Celerity
36 A twining moraceous vine
37 Opposite the wind
38 A physiological distinction
40 A mythical sprite
41 Affected with grief
46 Greedy
48 Deposited by a hen
50 Large globose fruit
51 Dull gray
52 Ship of the desert
53 Coarse cotton drilling
55 Ascending
57 A light firearm
58 Box for valuables
60 Donated
61 American dessert
62 Conducted
64 An observer
70 Behold!
72 Proceed
73 One or any









PUZZLE NO. 106

THE DARLING OF THE GODS

By Ambrosian


This puzzle was used in the All Comers Contest, held at Wanamaker’s
Auditorium in September. The time of the winner, W. F. Hunter of Sound
Beach, Conn. was 6 minutes, 40⅕ seconds.

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HORIZONTAL

1 French coin
3 At a latter time
6 High mountain
8 Pole-star
11 Form of “to be”
13 Pedigrees
14 Prefix meaning two
15 Impersonal pronoun
17 Pen
18 Parent
19 Position-proud person
21 Island
23 Words parallel to this
24 Orient
25 Narrow groove
26 Negative
27 Part of anatomy
29 Mountain (abbr.)
30 Like
31 Girl’s name
33 Therefore
35 Spanish dances
37 Perceive
38 Fly
39 Possessive pronoun


VERTICAL

1 Large body of water
2 Ascent
3 Exclamation
4 Splits up into parties
5 Playing card
6 Like
7 Greek letter
9 Alternative
10 Exists
12 Pertaining to ancient Greek culture (plural)
14 Votes
16 Trunk
18 Religious song
19 Personal pronoun
20 Morsel
21 Possessive pronoun
22 Founded (abbr.)
27 Stop
28 Father (French)
30 Beast of burden
31 Exclamation
32 Behold
34 Used in boat
35 Exist
36 Therefore









PUZZLE NO. 107

RIBS OF THREE-LETTER WORDS

By Leonard J. Brightman


Over sixty three-letter words here!

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HORIZONTAL

1 Branch of medical practice
7 Quiet
14 Gracious
16 Book formed by doubled pages
18 Commonly used
19 Wrath
21 Excluded
22 Born
23 Mean fellow
25 Boy’s nickname
26 Unit
27 Shade of brown
28 Cut
30 Female of swine
32 Before
33 Pinnacle
35 Name (Fr.)
37 Knock
39 Part of verb “to be”
40 Fasten
41 Old soldier (abbr.)
43 Crow-like bird
45 Negation
46 Short hairs on surface of cloth
47 Coffins
49 Flap
51 Heavenly body
53 Fireworks
55 Decorate
57 Attack
58 Prepare the way for
59 A precious stone
60 Tropical fruit-eating bird (pl.)
62 Dissolute man
64 Rent
66 Holy person
67 A color
68 Whether
70 Bark
72 Exclamations
73 Concealed
74 Unassorted printing type
75 Small child
77 Species of fish
79 Earthen vessel
80 Procured
81 To notch
83 Affirmative
85 Wooden tank
86 Solution containing alkali
88 Decay
90 Small headless nail
92 Obstruct
94 Long narrow sword
96 Sensory organ
97 End
98 Plant of the lily family
100 Sacred cantata
101 Insect resembling dragon-fly
102 Enforced


VERTICAL

2 Interest
3 Coin of British India
4 Small aromatic shrub
5 First woman
6 A note in music
8 Provided that
9 Lout
10 Ardor
11 Baseball teams
12 South American bird
13 Employment
15 Present tense plural of “to be”
17 Song
19 Hostelry
20 Attention
23 Devitalize
24 Relation
26 Fortify
27 2000 lbs.
29 Shell for seeds
31 Pale
32 Masticates
33 Point
34 Steam
36 Entangle
38 Composition in verse
40 Garden vegetable
41 Food
42 Surgical instrument
44 Irrigated
46 Pertaining to nose
47 Filipino weapons
48 Limit
50 Livelihood
52 Strike gently
53 Wagon track
54 Call of distress
56 Weary
59 Overlook
61 The soft palate (rare)
63 Departure
65 Sailor
67 Accoutre
69 Confusion
71 Recompense
73 Hovel
74 An American author
76 A large fish
78 Opposed to “no”
79 Tooth
80 Revolve
82 Aim
84 Mimic
85 Contend
86 Narrow roads
87 Vase
89 Linden tree
91 Cereal plant
92 Fragments
93 Spout
95 King (Fr.)
97 Enemy
99 Opposed to “yes”
100 Mister









PUZZLE NO. 108

THE WHIFFENPOOF

By W. C. Brooks


Introduce this animal to your menagerie. He has a spotted coat which
may give him a terrible aspect. But you’ll find him gentle and kindly
most all the time.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Atone
6 Legendary origin of all evil
12 Combining form, air
14 Instrument of transmission
15 Vessel
17 Wander
20 Incite
22 The poor Indian
23 Possessive pronoun
24 Etruscan title
25 Forward!
27 Greek diphthong
28 Unexciting
30 Adverb
31 The same (abbr.)
33 Ellipse
35 Before
36 Having oceans
38 Arabic title
39 Remains
41 South African pen
43 Query
44 Render waterproof
46 Biographies
49 City in Germany
52 Mound
54 One who steps
55 Signal
57 Other
59 Year (abbr.)
60 Part of “to be”
61 Pins
62 Note of diatonic scale
63 First column in baseball box score
65 Us two (obs.)
67 Preposition
68 Army officer (abbr.)
69 Those in power
71 Heir
74 Inspect
75 Olfactory experience
77 Shakespearian character
79 Basic
80 Well


VERTICAL

1 Rejoiced
2 Wood god
3 That is
4 Great number
5 Step up to
7 American humorist
8 Latin incendiary
9 Concerning (Latin)
10 Poem
11 Seraphic
13 Literary bits
16 Vociferate
18 Bitter herbs
19 Liquor
21 End
23 Personal pronoun
26 None
29 Disease
30 Background
32 Scans
34 Upper curtain
36 Exclamation
37 Obsolete variant of “daw”
40 Snowshoe
42 Goddess of mischief
45 Workshop
47 New England state (abbr.)
48 Biblical name
49 Decree
50 Senior (abbr.)
51 Occidental
53 Dash
56 Disagreeable
58 Babylonian deity
61 River in Italy
64 Political unit
66 Surface of fibres
67 Poises
70 Turf
72 Period of time
73 Yale
74 Before
76 Greek prefix—two
78 Preposition









PUZZLE NO. 109

MIXED DOUBLES

By Gregorian


This puzzle was used in the mixed doubles contest held in Wanamaker’s
Auditorium in September, when Mr. and Mrs. William A. Stern II
successfully defended their title. Their time was 6 minutes, 15
seconds.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Strike sharply
5 Russian mountain range
9 Trial
10 Name of saint given to Spanish watering place
11 Preposition
12 Small fruits
14 Strange
16 Soon (plural)
17 Emperor
19 Pronoun
20 Name of queen who was mother of Edward the Confessor
21 Dispatched
24 Egyptian god
25 Alternative conjunction
26 Obstruction
29 Long
31 Prefix—not
32 Form of parasitic plant life
33 Capital of Croatia
36 Edible seed formation
37 Hinder
39 Italian particle
40 Sheltered
41 Italian dukedom famous in renaissance
43 Forbids
44 Sleep (hobo slang)


VERTICAL

1 Two wheeled child’s vehicle (pl.)
2 Lowest rank in navy
3 Conjunction
4 Pin
5 Planet
6 Rest
7 Formal close for prayer
8 Bereavement
13 Egyptian god
15 Obstruction
18 Sun god
22 Disallowed legal claims
23 Supports
27 Fliers
28 Fruits used for making alcoholic beverages
29 Afternoon
30 Product of dissociation
33 King of Israel
34 Festive
35 Personal pronoun
38 Color
42 Thus









PUZZLE NO. 110

LONG AND LANGUID

By H. Emerson Hough


This a neat construction which is filled with pleasant, diverting
words. We recommend it for the comfortable hour after dinner.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Not ruddy
4 A tank
7 Tell
9 Man of valor
12 Eggs (anat.)
14 Domesticates
16 Anathematize
17 Silvery
20 Exactly suitable
21 To burden with
23 To clothe
24 More than enough
26 Evergreen tree
27 Bring forth young
28 Confine
30 Larger
33 Shred
35 Batter
37 Started
38 Sailor
40 Exists
42 State of equality
44 Limb
45 Part of the mouth
46 Toward
47 A meadow
49 Carrying capacity of a ship
51 Smart blow
53 Cooking vessel
54 Skin eruption
55 Fish-eagle
56 Rock containing metal
57 Uncontrolled temper
59 Mere repetition
60 A cardinal number
62 Personal pronoun (pl.)
63 Relatives
64 A beverage
66 Where pigs are confined
68 Perform
69 A size of coal
70 To level
72 Fasten with thread
74 Endeavor
75 Pilgrims
77 Did see
79 Large body of water
80 Bend downward
81 Eggs of fish
83 A primary color
85 A kind of flannel
87 Also
89 Merchant
91 Public conveyance
92 External
94 Present tense of “was”
95 Was sorry for
96 The first house-boat
97 To keep the hair in control
98 The stomach of birds


VERTICAL

1 A fruit
2 One who cuts timber
3 The night before a holiday
5 On hand
6 Slight blow
7 Series
8 Similar to
9 Did have
10 Cause to be loved
11 Not shut
13 An insect
15 To be in charge of
16 Obstacle
18 To open a seam
19 To dress in one’s best
21 Title of respect
22 To be slow
25 Sphere
26 Marsh
29 A short sleep
31 Snake-like fishes
32 Shipping tickets
33 Knock
34 Lubricate
36 Substances (Lat.)
38 Coverings for the neck
39 Witty saying
41 Prophets
43 Kind of type
45 Endures
46 Played with
48 The one-spot
50 Scold
52 A card game
53 Fondle
56 Not in
58 A nobleman
59 Advise
61 At the present time
63 That which opens
65 Mourn
67 Affirmative answer
69 A dancing movement
70 Silence forcibly
71 Fail morally
73 Keeper
74 A beverage
75 Shallow dish
76 Drunkard
78 Very small
79 Mark left by a wound
80 Convulsive weeping
82 Epoch
84 Fall
86 Gamin
87 A sea bird
88 Habitation of wild beasts
90 Part of a circle
92 Conjunction
93 Concerning









PUZZLE NO. 111

A YULETIDE CHANT

By Gregorian


Good work with a stunt pattern. Note the fine tree trunk. This is one
of those puzzles that are built around a central crossing of long
words. A day of joy and feasting to you!

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HORIZONTAL

2 Allow
4 West European capital
6 Coincide
7 Impersonal pronoun
8 Symbol of metallic element
10 Talk over
13 Garment sellers
15 Personal pronoun
16 Cunning
17 Latin diphthong
18 Geometric ratio
19 Dry and hard
21 Conjunction
23 Dionysiac poet
25 Fostering
27 Believers in basic simplicities
29 Customs (Lat.)
30 South American dance
31 Insectivorous mammals
34 Biblical character
35 Western world
40 Elder


VERTICAL

1 Familiar salutation
2 Hang behind
3 Bind
4 Court
5 Mode of perception
7 Unoccupied
9 Member of Arab tribe
11 Heavenly body
12 Islands
13 Fabulous monster
14 Belonging to a sailor
18 Equestrian game
19 Top piece
20 Portion (legal)
22 Chanted
24 Closing apostrophe
26 Prevaricator
27 Printer’s measure
28 Adverb and conjunction
32 Devoured
33 Implicit
35 Since
36 Personal pronoun objective case
37 Egyptian god
38 With (prefix)
39 Measure of land









PUZZLE NO. 112

THE NOVELTY SHOP

By George E. Wilcox


We learned a few new useful words from this one. When you’ve worked out
a new word in a puzzle, and studied its definition and pondered over
its spelling, the chances are ten to one you’ll recognize it next time
you see or hear it.

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HORIZONTAL

1 City in Bohemia
7 Segregate
13 Thither (poet.)
14 Eighth part of a circle (pl.)
15 Vigor
16 Reconcile parties
18 Shortening of syllable
20 Those in power
21 Bite
23 Part of circle
24 Large bag
26 Slaves (Anglo Saxon)
28 Barks sharply
30 Girl’s name
31 Manifested
33 Die (Scotch)
34 River in Western Africa
36 Sailors, collectively
38 Eagle
39 Reposed
40 Institute of learning
43 Pertaining to the thigh
46 Hasten
47 Times (Latin)
49 Era
50 Term in Jewish calendar
52 Afraid (slang)
53 Stone (Scotch)
54 Strike softly
56 Cereal grass
57 Be sick
58 Branch of theology dealing with union among churches
61 Annuity shared among a number
64 Vehicle
65 Sentry
66 Negative prefix
67 Fifth letter of Greek alphabet
68 Ostensible reason


VERTICAL

1 Fermentation
2 Sorrow
3 Glucoside obtained from indigo plant
4 Hawaiian trees
5 Perform
6 Implement
7 Examine
8 Pen
9 Mountain in Greece
10 Fruit of tropical tree
11 Until
12 Rising above a surface, as of water
17 Writing fluid
19 Attempt
22 Hostelry
25 Glandular
26 Good news
27 A seal rookery
29 Slavery
31 Heron-like bird
32 One of the seven arts
35 Elongated fish
37 Combining form denoting connection with the hyoid bone
40 Cup
41 Those who guide
42 American poet and philosopher
43 Platform at head of the foremast
44 Small rope used for rope ladder
45 Gentle
48 Compensate
51 Hastened
53 Pose
55 Statement
57 Poker term
59 Knock
60 Noise made by pigeons
62 Belonging to us
63 Goddess of night









PUZZLE NO. 113

A DOODLE BUG

By Samuel W. Phillips


We decided to call this a doodle bug because it is essentially doable.
And it oughtn’t to bite any of you if you handle it gently and don’t
stick your pencil in its eye.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Deserts
7 Obese
14 Matched
16 Establishment of an invader
17 Spur
18 Beginning of a Nursery Rhyme
20 Proclamation
21 Erudite
24 Vapor
26 Direction
27 Lubricate
29 Rodents
31 Slender marine fish
34 An article (Fr.)
36 An exclamation
37 Part of a hanging scale
39 River in southern China
40 In contact with
41 Immediately
42 Preposition
43 Pertaining to type
44 Temple
45 A pronoun
46 A republic (abbr.)
48 Consume
50 Hawaiian Islands (abbr.)
51 Printers’ measure
52 An iota
54 One of two or more
56 Vehicle
57 Lodge
60 Eternity
62 Current
65 To trim
68 Number
69 Reconcile
72 Less difficult
74 Loops
75 Provokes
76 Lists


VERTICAL

1 Whirl rapidly
2 A tight fitting woolen cap (Scot.)
3 A render
4 119.6 sq. yds.
5 Girl’s name
6 A clerical degree
8 Of (Fr.)
9 Frozen
10 A basket (prov.)
11 God of light (myth.)
12 So
13 Part of verb to be (Spanish)
15 A sentinel
18 Exclude
19 One (Scot.)
22 Goddess of dawn (myth.)
23 Unit of work
25 A fruit (pl.)
27 Opening
28 Simple
30 A preposition
32 Like
33 Concerning
35 Insect
37 Mimic
38 Encountered
40 Unit
47 To this extent
49 Originated
50 Half a laugh
52 Majestic
53 Blot
54 Eyes (Scot.)
55 Raucous
58 Wager
59 Lair
61 Frank
62 Skin
63 Philippine men
64 A course
66 A roe (Scot.)
67 The egg of an insect
70 Received
71 Before (poetical)
73 Relating to
74 Negative









PUZZLE NO. 114

BATTALION ATTENTION!

By Major


Cross word puzzles must be something like an intricate plan of a
battle. The army delights in them. Here is one with word masses locking
at center, masses of good, useful words. Map out your campaign—keep at
it until the last long smile.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Weapon
4 Cripple
12 Satisfied
15 Miserly
17 Mechanism
18 Native hog of old world
19 Prevent
21 Public
22 Boat
23 Lightning
25 Part of a biped
26 Party periodical
28 Sweet compound
30 Group of native huts
32 Note of scale
34 Interjection
35 Unbounded expanse
38 Into
39 Note of scale
40 High
42 Ruler
44 Silver coin of Spain
46 Spoil
47 Retain
49 Pusher
50 Aid
51 Plant
52 Cold pendant
53 Operated upon with a flat-bladed implement
54 Train
57 Scrutinize
58 Fragment
59 Coin
60 Insulate
62 Play
63 Term of endearment
64 At
65 Value
67 Act
69 Pronoun
70 Small succulent fruit
72 Curl
75 Ball
76 Woman
78 Celebrity
80 Irritating to the mind
81 Kind of oil
83 Head
85 Kind of lily
86 Educate
88 Sovereign state
89 Low haunt
90 Epitomized
91 Rent


VERTICAL

1 Furthermore
2 Wind
3 Associates
5 Form of “to be”
6 Stomach
7 Tax
8 Exhalt
9 Vex
10 Poetic name for India
11 Negative prefix
12 True
13 Merit
14 Afflict
16 Play
18 Started
20 Privilege
22 Basket
24 Negative (Scotch)
26 Gold
27 Swear
29 Vociferate
30 Joint
31 Builder
33 City in Pennsylvania
36 Producer
37 Chemical element
39 Delusive reasoning
41 Hauled
43 Mode of generation
45 Water sprite
46 Birthplace of a prophet
48 Tramp
50 Pronoun
55 Explore
56 Treats
59 Entrance to a building
61 Law
64 Strained
66 Unite permanently
68 Part of war vessel
70 Capitalist
71 Matter
73 The writer or speaker
74 Part of a coat
75 Valley
76 Tool
77 Ireland
79 Weary
80 Owned
81 Native of country
82 Abbr. for hand-written book
84 Nip off
86 Negative
87 Any person whatever









PUZZLE NO. 115

AN OLYMPIAN DELIGHT

By Jupiter


Even the eight unkeyed letters in the center can’t detract from the
solid worth of this nectar for the gods. We’re glad we didn’t take the
modest author’s suggestion to throw it in the wastebasket.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Rodents of Central and South America
6 Stake in any wager
9 County in New Jersey
14 Biographical and eulogistic panegyric
15 Imitate absurdly
16 Tawny thrush
17 Serpent
18 Prohibit
19 River in India
20 Apprehend
21 Perpetual
24 Feign
25 Gaelic and Irish languages
27 Sore
28 Pismires
29 Liquid or dry measure, used especially in the Netherlands
31 Label
33 Pale
36 Hard, transparent resin
40 Hammered
41 White, amorphous or slightly crystalline very bitter alkaloid
compound
42 Be initiated into
44 As before
45 Adjust
47 Beast of burden
48 Final
51 African giraffoid ruminant
54 Organs of hearing
58 Part of verb “to be”
59 Anything by which something else is secured or fastened
61 Allow
62 Girl’s name
64 Invite
65 Animals without feet
67 Outcome
68 Shelter afforded by any object in a wind
69 Measured by revolutions of the moon
70 Ladies
71 Art (Latin)
72 Concerning; in regard to


VERTICAL

1 Peas collectively
2 Shrub of genus Alnus
3 Systems of signals with arbitrary meanings
4 Epoch
5 Withered
6 Tumult; confusion
7 Subdivision of a province in modern Greece
8 Inferior tin-plate alloyed with much lead
9 Of ill repute
10 Japanese coin 1⁄100 of yen
11 Vehicle of 17th and 18th centuries
12 Belch
13 Garden walks or terraces (Class. antiq.)
22 Exclamation to check rashness
23 Facility; power
26 Most level or uniform
28 Torture
30 Novel by George Sand
32 Sour substances
33 Mimic
34 Male descendant
35 Small dwelling
37 Oppose antagonistically
38 Insect
39 Constellation
43 Commoner
46 More than sufficiently
47 Own (Scot.)
48 Disabled
49 Land that has been tilled
50 Any one of various watery animal fluids
52 Australian bear
53 Sharp points
55 Unparalleled
56 V-shaped rampart
57 Draw the contents from; tap
59 Coarse fabrics of plaited rushes
60 Festive
63 Refrigerate
66 Play on words









PUZZLE NO. 116

SOME LIKE ’EM HOT

By Madeleine Lubetty


A neater example of Cross Word construction one doesn’t come across
often in one’s pursuit of the horizontal and vertical. Don’t worry
about the unkeyed letters—the design and words more than make up for
them.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Arched
7 Resanctified
13 Carnelian
14 Virus
15 Silk fabric
16 Violent ejector of air
17 Right of property
18 Caesar’s bad day
19 Pertaining to a nest
21 Found on dice
22 Animal’s friend (abbr.)
23 A playing card
26 A nut
28 Combustible matter
30 A Mexican blanket
32 French Cathedral town
34 Guardian
35 Card game
37 Short instants
40 “Let it stand”
41 Matted
44 The Father
45 Biblical name
46 And others (Latin)
49 Primary
51 Halt
53 The Czar
54 A dress
55 African nut
56 Famous French writer
57 Ardor
58 Antagonists
59 Fresh hair combing (two words)


VERTICAL

1 Co-operates
2 Gold district
3 A plant
4 Relating to (suffix pl.)
5 Close of day
6 To deduce
7 Turn
8 Man’s name
9 To praise
10 Pastoral poem
11 A hare
12 Pendant ornaments
20 Citizen of large American city
24 Change form
25 Boat
26 Harass
27 Non-professional
28 The end
29 Enroll
31 Biblical name
33 To injure
35 Perfume
36 Room of the Last Supper
38 Small casket
39 Reptile
42 Gets up
43 Native of Tuscany
47 Act (suffix)
48 Fertile soil
49 To travel
50 Harmonize
51 A stair
52 Oriental first name









PUZZLE NO. 117

A SPECKLED SPECIALTY

By Agnes Stewart


Though non-symmetrical, this pattern shapes itself to spell out a
number of fascinating words. You chemists ought to know all your
symbols by heart at the rate those useful two-letter combinations are
being brought into the limelight by cross words.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Fret
4 Change
12 Period of time
15 Near
16 Open space
17 Wander
18 Thus
19 Gasoline
21 Correlative of either
23 Large American lizard
26 Air
27 Nobility of birth
30 Portends
31 Member of Sheik’s tribe
33 Sharp pointed instrument
34 Exceedingly
35 Etruscan title
37 Golf term
39 Tear down
40 Assistance
41 Contraction of “it is”
44 Musical instrument
46 Despatch
48 Vessel for heating liquids
50 Large island near Florida
51 Pointed ends
53 German for “I”
54 A sty
55 A Dravidian language
56 Old Testament (abbr.)
57 Coldly
59 Note of musical scale
61 Subject
63 A continent (abbr.)
64 Clothed
65 Maker of flour
68 Resonance
70 Lavish extreme fondness
71 Kind of puzzle
72 Biblical name
73 Toward
75 Landing place in India
77 Father
78 Thick soup
80 Promissory note (abbr.)
81 Fill
83 Toe (Scot.)
85 New Zealand bird
86 Carried
88 Low
89 Stable
90 West Indian indigo plant
92 Exhaust
93 Greek letter
94 Exclamation of disgust
96 Piece of wood
98 Atmosphere
99 Noddle (Eng. dial.)
101 Encircling
105 Burial place
107 Period of time
108 Characterized by absence of power
110 Fragrant flower
112 Piled
114 Waste time
116 Indefinite article
118 Rod
120 Heroine of Lohengrin
121 Seventh note of scale
122 Satellite
123 A spirometer
124 Fabulous bird


VERTICAL

1 Destiny
2 Old form of “do” (mus.)
3 Chimney post (Old Eng.)
4 Daughters of American Revolution
5 Strong metal
6 Miscreant
7 Note of musical scale
8 Denoting hesitation
9 Din
10 Enclosure
11 Large Australian bird
12 Regard with esteem
13 Ourselves
14 Plunders
19 Island in Bay of Alexandria
20 Snare
21 Genus of trees or shrubs, the true olives
22 Bolsheviks
24 In bed
25 The innermost shrine
28 Sleeping compartment
29 Slumber
32 Small loaf of bread (Scot.)
34 By way of
35 Railway engine
36 Border on
38 Disturb
40 In the year of (Lat.)
42 Sacred Egyptian bird
43 Amphibious lizard
45 Concluding speech
47 Mohammedan saber (var.)
49 Quadrangle
50 Sperm whale
52 To injure severely
55 Admission card
58 Plan
59 Impertinent
60 A seaweed
62 Skin (Fr.)
64 Symbol for cadmium
66 Within
67 Printer’s measure
69 Upon
74 Leave out
76 A western state
79 Straight piece of wood
80 Persian elf
82 To pale
84 Ingress
85 Mother
87 Capable of being tied
89 A dance (Fr.)
91 Biblical character with famous wife
94 Entreaty
95 Pacific island owned by U. S.
97 Precious metal
100 City in New York
101 Muddle
102 Upon
103 New Mexico (abbr.)
104 Triangular spade used in ditching
106 Opaque whitish fluid
107 Bivalve mollusk
108 Long space of time
109 Hurl
111 Smart
113 Very softly (mus.)
115 Sorrow (Scot.)
117 Negative
119 Prefix meaning well
120 Printer’s measure
121 Thus









PUZZLE NO. 118

A WINGED BEAUTY

By H. R. Koegler


This two winged puzzle is of the sort that compels education. You can’t
solve it without learning something. What’s better to learn than a new
word.

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HORIZONTAL

1 An authoritative command
7 A musical instrument
13 Conjunction
14 Above
15 Part in a play
16 Upon
17 A medicine
19 A pilgrim to the Holy Land
21 An eagle
23 Loud noise
25 Unaccompanied
26 Poisonous American plant
28 To provoke
30 Preceded
32 Everybody
33 Military muster roll
35 A sailor
36 Prison city in New York
37 One who elevates
38 Girl’s name
39 Throws
41 Prevalent
43 Of “Inferno” fame
45 Pole with foot rest
46 Satisfied
48 A running knot
50 New (Spanish)
52 Spring of mineral water
53 Enthusiastic
55 Conjunction
57 A measure of weight
60 City in Italy
62 A bone
63 Boy
64 Extraction
65 Corpulent
66 Man’s nickname
67 Close to
70 Genial
74 Regarding
75 Artificial waterway
76 Bleat
78 Ventures
80 Sting
82 Begets
87 A tree
89 Bony cavity of the eye
91 Severely simple
92 Essential oil
93 Assistance
94 A child’s toy
95 A pinic acid salt
96 Recent
98 Influenced by money
100 Quick of apprehension
101 Powerful explosive (abbr.)
102 Spell
104 Erect
105 Shallow vessels
107 Prophet
109 Deal out
110 Tenth part of a Roman legion
112 A draftsman
114 Aloft
116 Fermented grain
117 Pain
118 Personal pronoun
119 Optical atmospheric illusions
120 Furnished with stories


VERTICAL

1 Powerful
2 Railroad (abbr.)
3 Celestial body
4 Evening
5 Oceanic birds
6 Three united
7 Verbal
8 Dyed
9 Something bestowed out of charity
10 Staggers
11 Negative
12 Breed of cats
17 To dispatch by train
18 Cotton cloth
19 Mannered
20 That which imparts circular motion
22 Respond
24 To run again
25 An inclined plane
27 Surrenders
29 Written communication
31 Small lances
32 Place for combat
34 Citrous fruit
40 Oval bullet
42 Penitent
44 Denials
45 Arctic marine hunters
46 To put existing materials in form
47 Trusts
49 Oriental
51 A state (abbr.)
54 Man’s name (abbr.)
56 Unhappy
58 Angry
59 Before
60 To seize unexpectedly
61 To grow old
62 Light pole with broad blade
67 Sharp point
68 Whole
69 Continent (abbr.)
71 Western state (abbr.)
72 Rough surfaced kitchen utensil
73 A cozy residence
75 Pertaining to the heart
76 Besiege
77 Skillful
79 Wrench for tightening nuts on screws
81 Watered silk
83 Floating on the surface
84 Swallows eagerly
85 Belonging to Ireland
86 Leased
88 Build
90 Embryo frog
92 To draw toward
93 A red ocher
97 Freed from weeds
99 A light preparation of cocoa
103 A Mohammedan ruler
106 Branches of academic study
108 Periods
111 An ugly old woman
113 Pronoun
115 Disordered type
118 Personal pronoun









PUZZLE NO. 119

THE MAN WHO CAME BACK

By Joseph A. Margolies


Remember Puzzle 73 in Series II? Mr. Margolies swore at that time that
it was his second and last, but here he is again, and more power to his
left elbow—it’s better than ever.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Wigwam
5 Component
11 Proofs
15 Boat propeller
16 Rescuer
17 Thin dress material
18 Headgear
19 Impress
21 Oriental
23 Expiate
25 Additional
27 Scorches
28 Resound
29 Instrument used by Spanish dancers
32 Worshippers of the beautiful
35 Finishes
36 Insect
38 Afresh
39 Brawl
41 English author and critic
43 Perfume made from rose petals
45 Promptly (obs.)
47 Expunge
49 A wasting away
50 Fine-grained, laminated rock
52 Impertinent
53 Novice
54 Affected manners
56 First
57 Heavy cord
58 Man’s name
59 Animate
61 Knot
64 Consanguineous
66 What Eve was made from (pl.)
68 Belonging to an ancient Greek city
70 Narrator
71 Insertion
72 Term of address
73 Pit
75 Anthropoid ape
77 Possesses
78 Discharge
79 Pacifier
81 Shade
83 Selected again
86 Spanish lady
89 Derisive shout
90 Prevent
93 Periods of time
94 Foreigner
96 Metallic element of the chromium group
98 Point of an eccentric orbit nearest or farthest from center of
attraction
100 Destroy
101 Alleviates
102 Fish eggs
103 Indian tribe
104 Lance
105 Duplicate of original record
106 Lock of hair


VERTICAL

1 Theme
2 Part of the head
3 Becomes stiffly decorous
4 Alienate
5 First lady of the land
6 Slightest
7 Language of Scottish Highlanders
8 Always
9 Scandinavian
10 A metal
11 Instructors
12 Sprout
13 A color
14 Paces
20 Observe
22 Small mountain lake
24 Sinew
26 Within, combining form
28 Vessel to heat liquids
30 Worship
31 Treatise
33 Woodland deity
34 Ejects
36 Air, combining form
37 Cloth used in the South Sea Islands
39 Meals
40 Soldier
42 Walks in pompous manner
44 Cogitator
45 Discoloration
46 Hates
48 Tale
51 Ascertain
53 Decade
55 Transgression
60 Commonplace
62 To talk publicly
63 Kind of trees
64 Above
65 Incensed
67 Animal
69 Kind of rigged vessel
71 Uninformed
74 Array
76 A number
78 Footgear
80 Unclosed
82 Snare
83 Raises
84 Scold
85 Nostrils
86 A compress of soft material
87 Progeny
88 Projecting parts of a building
91 Immense
92 Ascend
95 Part of the mouth
96 Utilize
97 Floor covering
99 Belonging to it









PUZZLE NO. 120

SANCTA SIMPLICITAS

By John Fasel


A little too much black for the best construction, but full of ease
such as delights the puzzler in his more languid hours. Whet your
appetite with this, and then try stronger meat.

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2 Iranian language
5 Perverted
7 Reduce from frozen condition
11 Clear from weeds
13 Facility
14 Dark colored layer of the iris
15 A girl’s name
17 A counterstatement
18 Piercing instrument
19 Entrance court
20 Hush
21 A lectern
23 Orient
25 Lick up
26 Otherwise
28 To sow
31 Wrath
32 Beyond (prefix)
35 Cereal
38 The forearm
41 Hatchet
43 Exclamation of pleasure
45 Species of ox
46 Pertaining to the laity
47 Clotted blood
49 To agree
50 Supreme deity
51 Alkaline solution
52 Theory
54 Prefix, oily
55 Haut boy
56 Support
58 Grained sheepskin leather
60 Metal in its natural state
62 Large plant
63 To steep in water
65 To grind the teeth
67 Calm side
69 Novice
71 A cyma
74 Attempt
76 A girl’s name
78 Straightway
79 A land measure
81 Freeholder
82 Priestly vestment
83 A rain cloud
84 A seat in a church
85 Cattle of the bovine genus
86 Mischievous child
87 Even (abbr.)
88 Great quantities
89 Likewise
90 Stained


VERTICAL

1 Talk in an easy manner
2 Relish
3 Pointed steel instrument
4 Ventures
5 Pliant
6 Christmas
7 Irritate
8 Maker of hats
9 To lament
10 Spring
12 Duty
16 Composed of the number two
22 Congeal
24 Beast of burden
26 Period
27 Goddess of peace
29 Color
30 Delude
31 A viscous material for writing
33 A badger-like animal
34 African blacks
36 To urge
37 Lyric poem
39 Noose used for catching cattle
40 A deep spoon
42 Lowest deck of a ship
44 Eagle’s nest
46 A card game
48 Bud
52 To weary
53 To injure
56 Of the verb “to be”
57 Aqueous vapor
59 Snare
61 Mean dress
62 Nodule of earth
64 Despot
65 Learned
66 Distinguished (abbr.)
67 Humanity
68 Licentious
70 Runic letters
72 A germ gland
73 Correct
74 Symbol
75 Yell
77 Abhor
78 An ecclesiastic
79 In bed
80 Hireling









PUZZLE NO. 121

A ROSE WITH A THORN OR TWO

By Alfred A. Wicklund


Conscience compels the editors to warn the solver of several troublous
words lying unobtrusively among a collection of pleasant and easily
diverting ones. But that is the delight of cross word puzzling. The
solver likes a little pain mixed with his pleasure.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Market
5 Anything sour
8 Iron or wooden post
12 Farewell
13 One or any
14 Western sport
15 Tax
16 Small insects
17 Usage
18 Mohammedan devil
20 In accordance with
21 Brute
22 A register
27 An occupation
30 Part of dynamos
33 Form of affection
36 Higher knowledge
37 To slip away
38 Sign for giving notice
42 Repeated
45 Intoxicated
47 About
48 Entice
51 A salutation
52 One
53 Hollow tube
54 Extents
55 Proceed
56 Base of a statue
57 Zealous
58 Determined
59 Be full


VERTICAL

1 An equal
2 Mexican brick
3 Small stream
4 Denoting the final end
6 Easy gallop
7 To recite in monotone
8 An arbor
9 Belief
10 Irritate
11 In law any damage
19 Vestry
21 A watch case
23 A young girl (Scotch)
24 Frustrate
25 Therefore
26 Cease
28 Dry by rubbing
29 Emitted blood
31 Upon
32 A bone (Latin)
34 Note of the scale (mus.)
35 A Roman weight
39 A farm
40 Realm
41 A crown
42 Mohammedan religion
43 Warehouse
44 A fruit
45 To melt
46 A wharf
49 Rodents
50 Be full









PUZZLE NO. 122

NINE CROSSES

By Madge Sweeney


Fine masses of words, but not too difficult. A few unkeyed letters.
Most puzzlers complain about them, and we don’t blame them. At the same
time, it is good dictionary practise to hunt along among the “pal”s
until you come to “pali.”

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HORIZONTAL

1 Talented
4 Lyric poem
8 Child
12 Card game
13 Enlarge
14 Past
15 Mop
17 Ruin
19 Justify
20 Little face
22 Pithy
24 Loose outer garment (Roman)
25 Beams
27 Heavenly body
28 Hirelings
31 Proceed
33 Indian
35 Viscous liquid
36 Jot
37 Drills skull
42 Chatterer
46 Portable chair
47 Gone astray
48 Sacred chamber of Hopi Indians
49 Xmas hymn
51 One who loves to excess
52 Rising and falling of water
55 Ball of thread
57 A system of elementary manual training
59 Further
61 Outcry
62 Measure for cloth
63 Garment
64 Eye
65 Method
66 Bills


VERTICAL

1 As well
2 Curve
3 Lounge
5 Shield-shaped
6 Liquid measure (1⅓ qts.) used in Turkey
7 War horse
9 Rage
10 Mature
11 Civil offense
16 Staff
17 Generate
18 Beg
19 Dolts
21 State of insensibility
23 Iron holding millstone on spindle
26 Landing wharf
27 Troubles
29 Norse singer of heroic poems
30 Apathetic
32 Deface
34 Cool
38 Kind of tea
39 Passage
40 Parts of churches
41 Growler
42 Pagan
43 Pertaining to Arum family
44 Trained
45 To secure by winding rope around cleat
50 Response
51 An affair of honor
53 Metallic vein
54 Quarrel
56 Pull with force
58 Experienced
60 Point of a story









PUZZLE NO. 123

THIS ONE WON’T BREAK YOUR HEAD

By Isidore Edelstein


Not much here to make you go around the house shouting, “a twenty-seven
letter word meaning ‘cat’s eyeballs.’” Mr. Edelstein by no means makes
himself a fiend, as some of the constructors do.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Prostrate
5 Raving insanity
9 Inferred
13 Dread
14 Malicious glance
15 Tradition
16 Pertaining to mouth
18 Kindle
20 Figure of speech
22 Spoliation
24 Overflows
26 Utensil
27 Manners
28 Toward
30 Drift of vessel to leeward
31 Water nymphs
32 Like
33 Central part of wheel
34 Point of compass
35 Disconsolate
37 Monetary unit (abbr.)
38 Remains of fire
39 Restrain
42 Class among Hindus
45 White heron
47 Irritates
50 Ancient
53 Jet of water
55 Pay
56 Carnivore
57 Wrathful
58 Claw
59 Selection
62 Fertile spots in desert
64 Inborn
67 Earth
68 Bears
70 One who lavishes fondness
71 Inspirit
73 Single masted vessel
75 Congealed water
76 Hush
77 A newt
79 Hindu god
80 To catch
82 Obj. case of I
83 Racing horses
85 Aid
88 Exclamation
89 Mendicant monk
90 Portable bedstead
92 Abhors
94 Register
96 That which one does best
98 Despot
100 Achieves
101 Scent
102 Oppress
103 For snow running
104 Strict
105 Upper air
106 Precipitous


VERTICAL

1 Wooden pin
2 Rave
3 Window built out from wall
4 Ingredient
5 Encountered
6 Orders
7 To be imminent
8 Yes
9 Esophagi
10 Vies with
11 Rainbow
12 Yellowish brown
13 Dirt
17 Thong
19 Golf term
21 An animal
23 Unite
25 Range
27 Kinds of isinglass
29 Output
32 Tree
36 Singing voice
39 A month (abbr.)
40 Pertaining to morals
41 Make amends for again
42 Wrinkles
43 Violent storm
44 Shade tree
45 Decree
46 Report passing from person to person
48 Service
49 Go in
51 Finger or toe
52 At no time
54 Before
56 Age
60 Consequently
61 Anger
63 Swell of sea
65 Apex
66 Mercenary
68 The upper air
69 Gash
72 Magic sword
74 Drugs to induce sleep
75 To cover with earth
77 Convoy
78 Blab
81 Eats quickly
83 Of a commonplace character
84 To be sick
86 Pen
87 Concise
89 Agitate
91 Either
93 Behalf
95 Our (Fr.)
96 Enemy
97 Head as of wheat
99 Blight









PUZZLE NO. 124

POLYGON

By Harry R. Torr


It is pleasant sometimes to get away from the even square construction.
This constructor does it quite neatly. He has a nice selection of easy
and difficult words.

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1 Skill
4 In that direction
6 Higher
8 A grain
11 An ocean wave
13 A non-existent place
16 Conjunction
17 Long for
18 Street car
19 Correlative of either
20 Vapor
22 Classification of diseases
25 Stripped felled tree
26 Chant
28 You and I
29 Photographic developer (abbr.)
30 Blood
32 Too
33 Attempt
34 Advance
36 Abbr. of city road
37 Tree destroyers
38 Heart
40 Cling to
41 Pastoral poem
42 Heap
43 Brave men
46 Pronoun
48 A cutter
51 So
52 Large snakes
53 True
54 Observes
56 Bone
58 Delineated
60 Period of time
61 Rushing waters
65 Woman of the garden
66 Not out
67 Folk tales
68 Famous for abuse and also a railroad
70 There
71 Civilized tribes
73 Vegetable (pl.)
75 Cut off
76 Latin “and”
77 Southern state (abbr.)
78 Form of “to be”


VERTICAL

1 Censure
2 Concerning
3 Strike gently
4 Male voice
5 Metal bearers
6 Preposition
7 Fish
8 Resistance (elec.)
9 Diphthong
10 Cavalrymen
11 Marshes
12 Family
14 Method
15 Therefore
21 Winter blanket
23 Night birds
24 For fear that
25 Harp
27 Kindly
29 Toughened
31 Rusts
33 The “Almighty”
35 Prohibitionists
37 Tumor
39 Elevated R. R.
40 Abbr. measure of power
44 Perpetual
45 Ostrich
46 Plateau
47 Comfort
49 Worry
50 Raise
54 Net
55 Carried
57 Wander
59 Anti-prohibitionists
61 Also
62 Sleep
63 Head support
64 Respectful salutation
67 Either side of the mouth
69 Period of time
72 Toward
74 Conjunction









PUZZLE NO. 125

FILLIP FOR AN IDLE HOUR

By Captain F. F. Stewart


If you have never solved a cross word puzzle before, this one might be
good for a starter. Captain Stewart displays an admirable taste for
simple words, even though he must have his black squares to get them.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Engagement
5 Mixture of flour and water
8 Wire fastener
12 A good wash
13 Dark colored layer of the iris
14 Usual
15 Mixed with
16 Mien
17 Lacerate
19 Direction
21 Dodge
24 Young aquatic bird
27 Upright
30 Part
31 Birds’ house
32 Wild animal
34 Unemployed
35 Has no feet
37 Unborn plant
39 Choke
41 Old
44 Chooses
47 Or
48 Fabricated
49 Meeting place
50 Propel
51 Without evil
52 Kind of deer
54 Repose
56 A pilgrim to the Holy Land
59 Foe
62 Baby bed
65 Employs
67 Peasant
68 Helps
70 H. M.
72 Place
74 Fill to satiety
77 Guide
79 Well cooked
81 Dishonor
82 Hear ye
84 Kind of duck
86 An Indian monkey
87 African equine
88 Renter
89 Aquatic mammal
90 Flower
91 Literal meaning
92 Having lugs
93 Implement that cuts metal


VERTICAL

1 Collect to a point
2 Fatal
3 Lessen
4 Story
5 A lighthouse
6 Shallow place
7 Famous prince
8 Big waters
9 Savor
10 Skinned
11 Condition of life
18 Old
20 Eras
22 Unit of electrical pressure
23 Unable to hear
25 Let it stand
26 Object of worship
28 Float on
29 Coagulated substance
31 Christmas
33 Specie of grass
36 Gratifies
38 Pertaining to an elemental force
39 Impress
40 Model
41 Swamp grass
42 Thronged
43 An abrasive
45 Belief
46 Understanding
53 Journey
55 Inhabitant of northern country
57 Mine entrance
58 Classical goddess
60 Cobra
61 Major part
63 Of the first rank
64 Soil
66 Father
67 To augur
68 Of the stars
69 Run away
71 Stream directer
73 Military explosive charge
75 Dried fruit
76 Shooting star
78 Excite
80 Unsmiling
81 Reposeful stupor
83 European river
85 Too









PUZZLE NO. 126

GRACEFUL

By Agnes Stewart


Good words here, the kind that may not be on the tip of your tongue,
but which you will add to your vocabulary for speaking or writing. Try
out Horizontal 23, 25 or 86 at your next dinner party.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Let in
5 Back of neck
9 Earliest
14 Large
15 Word
17 Deputy
19 Nurse (Hindu)
20 Shapes
22 103
23 Lowest regions (Gr. myth.)
25 Chinese province
27 Not (prefix)
28 Short pastoral poems
29 Greek theatre
30 Towards
31 With
32 Holding (property)
35 Lair
37 Joints
39 Fleet
40 Foundation
42 Scatter
44 Father
45 Prop
47 Any
48 Spanish hero
50 Mouth
51 River (Sp.)
52 Street (abbr.)
53 One (Scot.)
54 Tree
55 Undivided
56 Slipping
59 Exists
61 Controls
64 Decree
65 Hutch
67 Hubs
69 Bird
70 Middle
72 Large cask
74 The object
76 Life principle in Hinduism
78 Resin
80 Italian river
81 Following
83 Town in Czecho-Slovakia
85 Electricity (abbr.)
86 Small bone in horse’s foot
89 Jot
90 Town in Belgian Congo
92 Icelandish giants
93 Pious
94 Dough for crust of pies
95 Disappeared
96 Coin


VERTICAL

1 Indo-European
2 Valuable
3 Strict disciplinarian
4 Neuter pronoun
5 Explorer
6 Skill
7 Exclamation of ridicule
8 Evasive
10 Four
11 Wealth
12 Greek island
13 Stain
14 Town in Canal Zone
15 Young partridge
16 Eat away
18 Severity
20 Call
21 Beg
24 Snake
26 Pertaining to a system
31 Like a goose
33 Surface of cloth
34 Grape
36 Colorless gaseous element
37 A hundred weight
38 Cutting into two parts
40 Archer
41 Nets
42 Protrusion
43 Side building
45 Salve
46 Fish spawn (pl.)
49 Prefix—from
50 Myself
57 Ancient city
58 Mountain in Venezuela
59 Chemical unit
60 Imbiber
62 African country
63 Forcible separation
65 Telephone exchange
66 Sinning
68 Having two feet
70 Indian bark
71 Bellows
73 Now
75 Flower
77 Son (Gaelic prefix)
79 Inspect curiously
80 Aptly
82 Short for Rebecca
84 Portend
87 Tribe of Sioux Indians
88 Numbers (abbr.)
91 And (Latin)
93 Depart









PUZZLE NO. 127

SPREADEAGLE

By R. T. and C. K.


The spread eagled “X” seems to be one of the most natural ways of
disposing blacks in a cross word puzzle. Do you know, by the way, that
some of the most fascinating problems in cross word puzzling lie in the
difficulty and ease involved in the various designs of the blacks.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Subtracted
8 A written agreement
15 Clayey earth
16 An imbecile
18 A Japanese food
20 Adds to
23 To marry
24 Idle talker
26 Wager
27 The Devil
29 Weird
31 A meadow
32 Security for liberation
34 A bone in the body
35 Covered wagon
36 Stop
37 Spaces
39 A color
41 Nervous energy (slang)
42 Number one
43 Face of an instrument
45 A drunkard
47 Evergreen trees
48 Babylonian god
50 Of the same age
52 Period of time
53 Taunt
54 Personal pronoun
55 Remain
57 An avoirdupois measure
59 Part of a golf course
60 Not living
62 Either
63 Small waves
64 A preposition
65 So be it
67 Small viper
68 Hard shelled fruit
70 Distance measured by the foot
72 A college degree
73 Unoccupied
75 Stable
77 Indicative of grief
79 Seventh note of the musical scale
80 To weave
81 A weak acid
83 Kind of fish
85 The elect
87 Male child
88 Part of a pea
90 A town near Bombay
92 Member of an ancient Teutonic race
93 Short fine hair
94 A dolt
96 Final purpose
97 Opposed to science
98 An ocean-going steamship
100 A small shoot
102 Kind of pastry
103 Descriptive of heavy rainfall
105 To affect with pain
107 Captivates
109 Designating title
110 That inside
112 Exclamation
113 Star-like mark
114 Lessens


VERTICAL

2 Vacated
3 A cast
4 Bottle-like vessels
5 Tree found in swamp land
6 Measure (printing)
7 Soft feathers
8 Classified regulations
9 Upon
10 Retinue
11 Ritual
12 Division of play
13 Underground apartments
14 Herbiferous vegetables
17 Regarding
19 Talked idly
21 A fruit
22 Mix
24 Snare
25 Elongated fishes
28 Encourage
30 Eternal
33 Religious term designating the people
36 Engaged
38 A cutting instrument
40 Feminine of deer
41 Leguminous plant with edible seed
42 Fabrication
44 Lighted
46 Supporter
47 Expression of contempt
49 Smallest particle of matter (pl.)
51 Pertaining to Norway
53 The Saviour
54 Abhors
56 Part of the verb “to be”
58 Bite
59 Decade
61 Devour
65 To reject
66 After the eighth
67 High in the scale (mus.)
69 Neuralgia
70 Movement of the shoulders indicating indifference
71 Without commiseration
74 To end life
75 Species of bean
76 Overturn
78 Loose talk
80 The young of a feline family
81 To drill
82 Cage
84 Suggest
86 Learning
87 Stopper
89 Challenge
91 Satisfy with food (Scot.)
93 Of better quality
95 Decisive
98 Calcium compound
99 Position
100 Toboggan
101 Strong wind
104 Woven texture
106 Within
108 Entangle
110 Exists
111 Note of the musical scale









PUZZLE NO. 128

YOU’LL HEAR ME CALLING YAHOO

By Charlotte G. Davis


Good design, good words, good puzzle. Bring forth the Venus Pencil.
This one will give you the time of your life.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Carrier of goods
6 Despicable character
10 Sounded through the nose
15 African river
17 Ugly old woman
19 Space between two columns
20 Person aforesaid
22 White of egg
24 Drilled
27 Devoted woman
28 Denial
30 A fungus
32 Striking effect
33 Burning wood
34 Instrument for cooling
36 Flies high
38 Wicked spirit
39 Obscurely
40 Metallic element
42 Made one
44 Imbues
46 Untilled land
48 Incision
50 Solemn statement
52 A necessity of civilized society
53 Forbid
54 European country
56 Toward
58 Russian political body
60 Particles of earth
61 To place
62 Slender
64 Kind of engraving
67 Insect
68 Dry
69 Japanese liquor
70 Pretense
72 Denoting presence
73 Twelve
74 Mind
77 Form of ownership in English islands
78 A game
79 Precious stone
80 Regular route
82 The East
84 Hard native iron
86 A comfort in winter
88 Kind of horse
89 A vegetable spike
91 Grumble
93 Bright saying
94 Foreign poet
95 Character in Dickens
97 Killed
99 To exist
100 Morbid growth
101 Outside the law
103 New field of exploration
105 In like manner
106 A person
107 Kind of fish
109 Author’s final word
111 To join
112 Poisonous snake
113 East Indian soldier


VERTICAL

2 One
3 Light carriage
4 Side glance
5 Comes close
7 Exclamation
8 Article of wearing apparel
9 A monster
11 To aid
12 Mournful
13 Affirmative
14 Notorious lawyer
16 Stiffness
18 Used with camera
20 Throws violently
21 Improper
23 Spotted
25 Sharp
26 Short slumbers
27 Mythological maiden
29 A means of propulsion
31 Short time
33 Reverence for duty
35 Pastoral
37 To astonish greatly
39 Distributed
41 Dorsal aspect of thorax in insects
43 Study of derivations
45 Browns
47 Unit of electric measurement
49 The South
51 Ancient barbarians
55 Large cask
56 Ancient king (abbr.)
57 To try
59 A virago
61 Toilet unguent
63 To grant
65 To lengthen
66 Greek philosopher
67 Courteous form of address
69 Pertaining to center of our system
71 Color
73 English seaport
75 Chunk of ice
76 African chieftains
78 A nut
80 On guard
81 Later
82 Disables
83 Water fowl
84 Superior fellow
85 Uttered
87 Small pocket
88 A decorative tree
90 Ancient
92 Rights to retain property
95 Disappear
96 Aromatic plant
98 Hub of wheel
101 Tavern
102 Youth
104 To wipe
106 Contact
108 A pronoun
110 Expressive of effort









PUZZLE NO. 129

BEDIAMONDED BEAUTY

By P. R. Brown


This diamond studded puzzle is truly a gem. It should prove only
moderately difficult, for all its pretty designs. (You know, of course,
that a handsome design often leads the builder into difficulties from
which he escapes by resort to some musty word concealed in the depths
of the dictionary.)

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HORIZONTAL


1 Striking part of a bell
8 That which draws
15 At right angles to ship’s keel
16 Head covering
18 Pains
20 Pronoun
22 To be incorrect
23 Procreated (arch.)
25 Period of time
26 Southern state (abbr.)
27 Sign of the Zodiac
29 Inferior crown
31 An enclosure
32 One who applies
33 Not permanent
34 A uniting force
35 Atmospheric conditions
37 A digit
38 Past tense (suffix)
39 Deity (Latin)
41 Fathers
42 Head covering
44 Personal pronoun
45 An Oriental shrub or tree
47 Also not
48 Flies aloft
50 Harkens
52 A medicinal plant
54 A raw hide
55 Entrapped again
56 Calcium oxide
57 An allowance made by court order
59 Registers
62 Muzzle
63 Long church seat
65 Light pith helmet
67 Land measure
69 Periods of time (abbr.)
70 Preserved
72 Married
73 Parent
74 A spigot
77 Verbal pledges
79 Remote
80 Teachers
81 Corrupt (obs.)
82 Pinch
83 Primness
85 Hazard
86 Toward
87 Offer of price
89 Periods of time
90 A domestic animal
92 Ahead
93 Morning
95 Mythical female being (Norse)
96 Harbor
98 Larynx (combining form)
99 One who obliterates


VERTICAL

2 Musical syllable
3 Man’s name (abbr.)
4 Relevant
5 Equality of value
6 Printer’s measure
7 A dark-skinned foreigner (colloq.)
9 God of noon-day sun
10 One
11 Professing a certain religion
12 A beverage
13 Bone
14 Expands
16 Beyond question
17 Large feline carnivore
19 Soldiers’ drinking flask
21 Lukewarm
23 Removes bones from
24 Weeds
26 Poisonous fluid
28 To open (arch.)
29 Cry of a bird
30 Dark viscid oily fluid
31 Peevish mood
36 Former French palace—now museum
39 Fate
40 Burdensome
42 First name of a President of the U. S.
43 Cooked on a gridiron
45 Elevations
46 Concerning
48 Odor
49 Steps in a fence
50 A grassy field
51 Filthy habitation
52 To mimic
53 Squares of type
58 Death rate
60 Agent
61 Government grants
63 Followed up
64 Uniters of metal
66 Heels over
68 A popular diversion
70 To convey
71 Ruminant, possessive
73 Open inner court (Sp.)
75 Young dog
77 A small report
78 To explore secretly
79 Capricious hobby
84 Raised platform
87 An obstruction
88 Clamor
90 Boon companion
91 Obtain
93 Parent
94 Worthless (colloq. abbr.)
96 Personal pronoun
97 Negative reply









PUZZLE NO. 130

FOR INSOMNIACS

By Dennis R. Smith


We are told that puzzles put people to sleep and prevent nervous
breakdowns by taking the subject’s mind off his troubles. This one
should have therapeutic qualities, for according to the ratio rule it
could have at least 38 black squares, whereas it has only 33.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Indian squaws
7 Sociable
14 Drier
16 An injury
17 Obtain
18 One who slanders
21 A broad ferryboat
22 A denial
23 A lynx
25 Symbol of metallic element
26 Island connected with life of Napoleon
28 To shut in
29 Land measure (pl.)
31 To wait
33 Suffix denoting superlative
34 To eat away
35 To reward
37 Form
39 Intentions
40 To avoid
42 American journalist
44 Tail-like plait of hair
46 “That is to say” (two words)
48 Name of either boy or girl
50 Vehicles on runners
52 Stop
53 Nobleman of lowest grade
55 Part of the eye
56 Anglo-French (abbr.)
57 Impartation of knowledge
60 Greek letter
61 Egg of a louse
63 A country
64 A prefix denoting through
65 Willows
67 Projecting edge in carpentry
69 A copper alloy
70 Small device for throwing a stream of liquid


VERTICAL

1 Loadstones
2 A small space
3 Strike
4 In the year of our Lord
5 Mother of Helen of Troy
6 Acute crest of a mountain range
8 Flower (Fr.)
9 Decorative plant
10 Denoting equality
11 Upper part of apron
12 Lent
13 Enclosed
15 Young sheep
19 Noted
20 Ditches used as fortifications
23 Religious order
24 Canvas covered with waterproof material
27 Tool used to make holes for small nails
30 Smallest European deer
32 Fungus used in cooking
34 Edge of a roof
36 Combining form meaning within (Greek)
38 Ejaculation meaning “alas”
41 Furnace used by alchemists
43 Location
44 Proportional share
45 Soothe
47 Simple
49 Mouths (more common as adjective)
51 Eating principal meal of the day
53 Saclike cavity
54 Simpleton
58 Loose soil
59 Smell
62 Fasten
64 Confused noise
66 Prefix, geological epoch
68 Seventh tone of musical scale









PUZZLE NO. 131

HOCUS POCUS

By M. H. Foster


Doesn’t this look easy, a simple little pattern that seems certain to
be filled with such words as “dog” and “cat?” The editors did not want
the solver to have the shock of picking this one as a light ten
minutes, and then find himself involved in tormenting perplexities.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Proper name
5 Lawful
10 Freeman of the lowest rank (anc. English)
11 Highest mountain in Africa
13 King of Bashan (Bib.)
14 Common nickname
15 Study with care
16 One
17 A semicircular base
20 Combining form for a gaseous element
22 Roman god of war
23 Good (Fr.)
25 Places where two parts come together
26 Number
27 Malicious burning of another’s house
29 Biblical character
30 Shocking
31 Rested
33 Moderately wet
34 Entire man, body and mind
36 A county seat in Oklahoma
38 Bring to court
39 Madam (German)
40 Smells
42 Fertile spot in a waste
43 Note of scale
44 Negation
45 Facility resulting from practice
46 Any powerful deity
47 To furnish with an engine
49 A man who does woman’s work
51 Town in Siberia
52 Testing of an alloy


VERTICAL

1 Part of Mediterranean sea
2 Behold
3 Songs
4 Kinds
6 Holy picture
7 Mountain between France and Italy
8 Preposition
9 Headdress (pl.)
10 Sound judgment
12 Unusually
18 Extended written exposition
19 Friend of Cicero, Roman comic actor
21 Plaguers
23 Broth (pl. Scot.)
24 Sound
27 Limb
28 Negative
32 Rub oil upon
35 Mirth
37 Cotton goods used for overalls
39 Destiny (pl.)
41 Descendants
42 Globes
48 Leave
50 Exclamation used in double as a farewell









PUZZLE NO. 132

A WORD FEST

By Aard-vark


The gentleman whose nom-de-plume appears above—look it up if you think
there ain’t no such word—is a highly trained dictionary hound. He pulls
out some amazing words sometimes.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Poisonous tree
5 Theme or subject (mus.)
10 Color of unbleached stuff
14 Style
15 Tusks
16 Spoils
17 Kind of wind
19 Man’s name
20 Kind of cross shape
21 All right
22 To offer to verify
24 Obstruct
26 Roman copper coin
27 An arrow poison
28 Besides
30 The earth (Prov.)
32 Kind of scepter
36 Separate portion
39 Species of duck
41 Household utensils
42 Empty
43 Chinese cash
44 Scope
46 Prefix, air
48 Verb intransitive
49 Seed of canary grass
51 Anything small
53 Offcut
55 Knot (rare)
56 Contemporary
59 Beverage
60 Irregularly employed person
62 To remove
64 First month of Jewish year
66 Spanish dollar
68 Original sin (symbol.)
69 Always
71 Passed
73 Pass over ridge
75 Float of mill wheel
77 Dark
78 Lowest deck of vessel
80 Deer
81 Inner sole of a shoe
82 The nether world
83 Allowance for waste


VERTICAL

1 To
2 Bring together compactly
3 Vessel for consecrated wine
4 Covered vehicle
5 Syllable of scale
6 Crosswise
7 To take away (obs.)
8 Rainbow
9 Suffix signifying “to make”
10 Genus of venomous snakes
11 Coop or pen
12 Ecclesiastical court of Rome
13 Indian tribe
18 Common newt (obs. Sp.)
20 Blow or thump
23 Serving to inspire fear
25 Rigid
27 Artificial international language
29 Originally the highest note in scale
30 Glory
31 Turbid
33 Enraged
34 To cause
35 Growing out
37 Window
38 Witness (leg.)
40 Pertaining to language of Indo-China
42 Good
45 Snatched away
47 Religious book
50 Segment of the hind limb
52 Bone
54 Rested
57 A matter
58 Unknown land
61 To set on end
63 To suffer
64 The southwest wind
65 Kind of plum cake
67 An annual plant, good for food
68 A genus of succulent plant
69 Away from the wind
70 Spume
72 Name of King Arthur’s lance
74 Original
76 Joke
78 An exclamation
79 A paragraph added to a writing









PUZZLE NO. 133

SMALL BUT MIGHTY

By Irvan Neckerman


Mr. Neckerman, well enough known to those that solved the first two
Cross Word Puzzle Books, has concocted one of his choice brews. That is
to say, he has found some unsuspected words.

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HORIZONTAL


1 Colossal wooden statue
4 Another colossal wooden statue
7 Where both statues can now be seen (abbr.)
10 A weight of twelve grains
11 A medley
12 Genus of ruminant quadrupeds
13 Domestic fowl
14 The highest part
15 Shoemaker’s awl
17 The appointor
19 Large European dormouse
20 An alcoholic beverage
21 A rude man
22 Bill of an anchor
24 For each
25 Brood of pheasants
27 Star of first magnitude in Orion
30 Refuse
32 Circular
34 Clasp to fasten garments in front
36 Jade
37 A card
38 Artificial international language
39 As the definite article was often written in old English
41 Imitator
43 To carve or cut up a fish
45 Musical instrument
47 The condition of being consumed by a low form of organism
50 Actually existing being
51 Unique
52 Trembling poplar
53 The needlefish
54 Double


VERTICAL

1 Pertaining to tapestry
2 Coin in the Ionian Islands
3 Prater
4 To intend
5 Fowl
6 A sort of dice, formerly used
7 Inhabitants of parts of S. America
8 Dealer in unctuous substances
9 Billet
16 Strong emotion
18 Turkish weight
23 Recompense formerly given by murderers
24 To toil
26 Shrub of the holly family
28 Mass of ice
29 Towering
31 To throw again
33 Yeast
35 Vermillion red
36 Blistered
40 Measures of linen thread
42 Scotch highlanders
44 Well-known Japanese
46 Seed of a leguminous herb
48 Part of head
49 Unspent









PUZZLE NO. 134

THE BUTTERFLY

By Mr. and Mrs. Ottokar T. Cadek


This winged masterpiece represents an achievement in the interlocking
of long words in a beautiful design. All hats off to the constructors!

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HORIZONTAL

1 Boundary
8 Conjecture
15 Relieves
20 Pugnacity
24 Fuse
25 Repartee
26 Pronoun
28 Confection
29 Responsibility
30 High priest
31 Digit
32 State (abbr.)
33 Muck
34 Conjunction
35 Reply (abbr.)
36 Basket (Prov. Eng.)
37 Borders
39 Swine
41 Beverage
42 Cleverness
44 Concavity
45 Candor
48 One of an early sect of Christians
49 Thrust in fencing
52 Automobile
54 Discover
55 Renounces
57 Priestly
59 Distinctive characters
60 Last (obs.)
61 Moths
62 Shreds
63 Negative
64 Pronoun
65 Hypothetical natural force
66 Pronoun
68 Claws
72 Of God
74 Set
78 Gallic priest
79 Perpetual
82 Cooks
84 Keeper of funds
86 Spanish hero
87 Old French coins
90 Female bird
91 Diplomatic representative
94 Female rabbit
95 Surround
97 Scratched
98 Admonish
100 Imitate
101 Tinge
103 Small crane on a ship
104 Consume
106 Secretion of the kidneys
107 Fowl
109 Encircle
111 Number
112 Unite
113 Grating
114 Revelry
116 Silly
117 Eats sparingly
119 Projecting
121 Old soldier
122 Grow slender
124 Indian nurse
125 Point of compass
126 Jot
127 Offense
128 Wrecks
129 Corroded
130 Spawn


VERTICAL

1 Mohammedan prince
2 Blossoming
3 Farthest
4 Note of the scale
5 Wrong
6 Hydrometer
7 Deceased
8 Hip bones
9 State of U. S. A.
10 Units
11 Move
12 Sowbug
13 Assyrian city
14 Study
15 Part of “to be”
16 Preposition
17 Hence
18 Become inert
19 Love of children
20 More intelligent
21 Orient
22 In the place quoted (abbr.)
23 Forked pipes
26 Flings (coll.)
27 Substance used for polishing
38 Woman’s robe (obs.)
39 Drove
40 Angel
42 Compressed
43 Young oyster
44 Examples
46 Voice; used in music
47 Split
50 Greedy
51 Drink
53 Punctuation mark
56 Slug
58 Rest
59 Japanese statesman
63 Knotted
67 Stool
68 Wooden plates
69 American Unitarian Association (abbr.)
70 Childish utterances
71 English poet
72 Beautiful
73 Vague
74 Checkered
75 Part of a flower
76 Obtain with difficulty
77 Disinfect
78 Flood
80 Scandinavian navigator
81 Poker term
83 Breathed heavily
84 Pronoun
85 Concerning
88 Parent
89 Bristle
92 Tablet
93 Louse egg
96 Pertaining to the muses
99 Rush
102 National reservation
105 Accession
108 Phoebus
110 Suffuse
112 Norse pantheon
113 Pike (Scot.)
115 Coronet
118 Vacant
120 Identify
123 Shed freely









PUZZLE NO. 135

SAFE AND SANE

By “Old Nick”


Many puzzlers will find an ideal example of what a Cross Word should
be. In design, interlock, words and definitions it is very near to
perfection. Constructors can learn a thing or two here.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Antithesis of reverse manner
8 Make clear
15 Loyal
16 Edible grain
18 Brother
19 Variety of quartz
20 Agitate
21 Disease
23 Ceremonial plate
25 Son (Scotch and Irish)
27 An arch
28 Part of “to be”
29 Bulky packages
31 Couch
32 Evergreen tree
34 Otherwise
35 Finch-like bird
37 Sharer
39 Reproach
40 Adjustable fronts of armor headpieces
41 Dishearten
42 Delayed
44 Enchantment
46 About
48 Restrain
49 In addition
51 Oblique direction
52 Energy
53 Nevertheless
55 Female
56 Keen watcher
58 One (Scotch)
59 Play on words
60 Card game
62 Hymenopterous insect
63 Tibetan antelope
65 Bring forth young
66 Lay prior claim to
67 Condemn
68 Metal collar (obs.)
69 Foodstuffs container
71 Mimic
72 Plant moisture
74 Term of respectful address
75 Man (Latin)
77 Wavy
79 Precious object
81 Immense fabulous bird
83 Printer’s type measure
84 Part of an ornamental edging
86 Toddler
87 Fertile spot
89 Interjection of surprise
90 Nautical rope
92 Certifies
94 Contemptuous insinuation
95 Dangerous snowslide
96 Taste
97 Originator
99 Method of painting
101 As far as
103 Harden
104 Single spot
106 Showers
107 Close to
108 Carp-like fish
110 Squares of type sizes
111 Unable to move
113 Genie
114 Japanese waistband
115 Exceedingly
117 Kind of conveyance
118 Rule of action
120 A hybrid
121 Indispensable
122 Adorns


VERTICAL

1 Capacity to smell
2 Shine
3 Large covered wagon
4 Mode of metropolitan travel
5 Surgical instrument
6 Observe
7 Bark
8 Eagle
9 Expression of mild wonder
10 Diagram
11 Execute
12 Literary miscellany
13 Novice
14 Discharge of waste matter
17 Tally
18 Nourished
21 Cloaks
22 Heir
24 Trying
25 Sicilian wine
26 Forgive
29 Poisoned
30 Cleave asunder
32 Invitations
33 Attractive woman (slang)
35 Small cask
36 Anarchistic
37 Rough oblong mass of metal
38 Title of a recent play
43 Physical exercises
45 Metallic element
47 Apodal fish
49 Craft
50 Excavated
52 Firearm
54 Sot
56 Prank
57 Saponaceous
59 Parental pet name
61 Metalliferous mineral
62 Pertinent
64 Took sustenance
65 Extremity
68 Storage receptacle
70 Kind of fruit
71 High (musical)
73 Court
74 Touchy
75 Throb
76 Turns as on an axis
78 Fanciful fiction
79 Entrance guard
80 Incorrectly forwarded
82 Benevolent works
84 Versifiers
85 Backgammon
87 Different
88 Prominent stage artists
90 Small Roman copper coin
91 Gnar
92 Performance
93 Mineral spring
98 Abate
100 Softly
102 Lofty lyrics
104 Somewhat
105 King of the elves
107 Competent
109 Species of vetch
111 Evil
112 Small street boy
114 Exterior
116 The (archaic)
117 Subdominant tone of the scale
119 Editorial pronoun
120 But (musical)









PUZZLE NO. 136

THE LITTLE TERROR

By Irvan Neckerman


Mr. Neckerman thinks obsolete words need an airing. He’s afraid they’ll
get motheaten. We’ll say he does his best to prevent any such
catastrophe.

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1 Opening in a forest
6 Fanatical
10 Dealers in small wares
11 The name of King Arthur’s lance
12 Bag
13 Elevate
15 Cover
16 Feast
17 Parts with
19 Milestone
20 Mild
24 The red monkey
28 Vessel
29 Kind of rubber tree
30 Expression of good wishes
31 Sheet; surface
33 Discarded call
34 Importune
35 Rectify
36 Premonitions


VERTICAL

1 Reinforcements
2 Counseled
3 Confuse
4 To prepare for weavers’ use (obs.)
5 Crowds
6 Employers
7 Crossbeam (Prov.)
8 Round shield
9 Anoint
14 Suffer
18 Sanctity (arch.)
20 Used up
21 An umbelliferous plant
22 Born
23 One of an ancient order of priests
24 Hit (fencing term)
25 To disturb
26 Tent
27 Printers’ marks
32 God of shepherds (myth.)









PUZZLE NO. 137

CRUTCHES AND CROSSES

By Knacker


Here’s a stiff one, with enough mythology and history in it to keep
even the scholars guessing. But the marvellous double interlock and the
presence of only four unkeyed letters should help out in the solution.
Knacker didn’t care what problems he set himself in this construction.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Breastwork
8 Town, Heard Co., Ga.
15 Unproductive
22 Cupidity
23 Half-free people of the Frankish Empire
24 God of Himalaya Mt. (India Myth)
25 Sleep; death
26 Cotton cloth
28 Mt. of California
30 Singing girls of Egypt; hired mourners
31 Greek God of war
32 One who charges exorbitant interest
33 Buddhist title
34 Fermented liquor
35 West African tribe
36 Comely
37 Terms of respect
38 Half the square of a type
39 Cymae
43 Kidneys
46 Instances of disease
48 35.31 cubic feet
51 Oil of orange blossoms
53 Flip
54 Among
55 Cauterized
56 Mexican tree
58 Gryphon
60 Inner court
61 Restrains again
64 More arid
65 Retracted
68 Delightful region
69 Minute insect found in cheese
71 One-half an em (Pl.)
72 Laid hold of
73 Prong
74 Faction
75 Russian Capital under Jenghiz Khan
77 Bears young
78 Scrutinize
79 Supposing that
80 Simple rural people
81 State (abbr.)
82 Concave vessel
85 Authority on games
87 To travel by auto
90 Finely divided carbon
92 Reverberate
93 Comply
94 Chance
96 Divorce seekers’ Paradise
97 Genuine
98 Inured
100 Humble
102 Abandons hope
104 Decorated with climbing plants
105 Market basket
107 Prophets
108 Inflexible
110 Plucky
111 A chief (Brit. India)
113 Consecrate
116 Delay
117 Tapestry
118 Home of the Krupps
120 Pertaining to punishment
121 Forward
122 Narrow aperture
123 Hebrew term for world
125 Tramp
126 Priestly caste of Persians
129 Penthouse
132 Italian scholar of 15th century
134 Sudden fall into water
136 Elderly
137 Ethers
138 Triangular sail
139 Olden time
140 Cylindrical plant stems
142 Blooming
144 More fatigued
146 Ormazd’s daughter
147 Impressed
148 Acquiesces


VERTICAL

1 Model
2 Mean
3 Demolish
4 Branches of learning
5 Jumble
6 Town in County Yorkshire, Eng.
7 Harasser
8 Coquetting
9 Cereal
10 Scent
11 Chinese measure of about ⅓ mile
12 Wide mouthed jar
13 Approach
14 Slayer
15 Clips close
16 Tinges
17 Them (colloq.)
18 River in Hungary
19 Formerly one of the four divisions of Yeovil
20 Well known Brussels professor, authority on Diptera
21 Immortalized
27 Entices
29 Swerved aside
40 Corroded
41 Lower subdivision of rocks of Tertiary era
42 Trail of a deer
44 A specie of valerian
45 Steeple
46 Coffee-houses
47 Mohammedan Prince
48 Bristle
49 Pollutes
50 Amorous
52 Separate articles
55 Pillages
57 American R. R.
59 Over-subtle
60 One in servitude because of debt
61 Dwells
62 Building
63 Wandered
65 Ridiculed severely (colloq.)
66 To inspire with ardent love
67 Indicates
70 Before time
72 Trend
76 Frosting
77 Sweet potato (U. S.)
83 Lad (colloq.)
84 Dealer in stockings
85 Flower nectar
86 Son of Boaz (Bible)
88 Units
89 Perfumed
90 Famish
91 Devotional prayer
94 Sharpens
95 Equanimity (obs.)
99 Solitary
100 Buddhist priest
101 Portuguese coin
103 To look inquiringly
105 Accessories
106 Repaired
108 Pores
109 Finch-like bird
110 Fourpence
112 Hand-to-hand fight
114 Stool
115 Absconders
117 Famous Italian architect (1512–1572)
119 Bay on Vanua Levu, Fiji Islands
122 Frozen rain
124 Explosive charges
127 Bacterium
128 Conception
130 Gait of horse
131 Mountain in Thessaly
132 Blow delivered with open hand
133 Top of the head
134 Funeral pile
135 Lower part of the back
141 Si
143 Square type body
145 Roman weight









PUZZLE NO. 138

THAT STRANGE CIRCUS ANIMAL!

By Gertrude B. Chestresmith


Here is an ornamental design with some useful words in it. The locking
is very pretty and as for that circus animal in its midst, it’s about
time he strayed into a Cross Word Puzzle.

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1 Foolish fellow
8 Territory of emperor
11 Raises
15 Racket
16 Remark
18 Assembly
19 Fine powder
20 Near
21 Maiden changed into heifer by Juno
23 Remove surface
24 Shove
25 Touching at one point
27 Point of compass
29 100 square meters
31 Writer of game book
33 Female deer
34 Note of scale
35 Child’s game
37 Paternal relative
38 Make or mend
40 North River (abbr.)
41 Fertile spot
43 Popular violinist
45 Passage
46 Like swine
47 Desert
48 Cleanse
50 Put off
52 Conjunction
54 Napoleon’s marshal “Bravest of the brave”
55 Goddess of mischief
57 Turret or high hill
58 Exclamation of surprise
59 Born
61 Grown up
63 Bed
64 Animal cries
66 Eating away
67 Wild European plum
68 Bursting sounds
70 Male designation
71 By the grace of God (abbr.)
72 Aperture for sliding piece
73 Magistrate, ancient Rome
75 Scotch for “no”
77 Annoy
78 Withdraw
80 Guard
81 Mitigates


VERTICAL

1 Suspension of proceedings
2 Anger
3 Myself
4 Meadow
5 Tellurium (symbol)
6 Anglo-Saxon money
7 Horses (obs.)
8 Bear
9 Lover of cheese
10 Exclamation of disgust
12 Blast furnace fuel
13 Union of three
14 Strong man of old
16 Ecclesiastical council
17 Submit
20 Exclamation of dislike
22 Single
24 Meanness
26 Imaginary hillside animal of circus
28 End
30 Chauffeur’s necessity
32 Jewel
35 Green and yellow finch
36 One of wandering band
38 Frozen rain
39 Bet
41 Over
42 Bucket on yoke
43 Terminus
44 Also not
49 Entangle
51 Mist
53 Harvester
55 Decorate
56 Cut out
58 Plunderer
60 Aftersong
61 Prepare for war
62 To dress up
63 Cathedral precinct
65 Revolving roasting bar
67 Blow
69 Skid
72 Views
74 Reckoning of years
76 Keel billed cuckoo
77 Golf term
79 Deity (Heb.)
80 Knights Templar (abbr.)









PUZZLE NO. 139

NOT SO EASY AS IT LOOKS

By M. B. Gillung


Some of these concoctions of short words are terrors. This one is by no
means the most difficult puzzle in the book, but it has places where
you may have to stop for a moment’s thought.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Flow
9 Voracious
16 Down
17 Spiral
19 Interstices
21 Speak
23 Queer (colloq.)
24 Boozer
26 Whether
28 Makes a whirring sound (Scot.)
30 He-animals
31 Senior (abbr.)
32 So
34 Chigoe
35 Aureolas
36 Sediment
37 Horde
39 Swab
41 Supplicate
42 Equality
43 Liberates
45 Rested
47 Paramount
49 Sea eagle
50 Rulers
52 Bird
53 Mother
55 Hesitates
58 Denoting presence
59 Similitude
60 Macerate
61 Buddy
62 Mold
63 Not (Scotch)
64 Enslaves
67 Forward
68 Ardor
70 Net
71 Heap (obs.)
74 Spreaders
77 Reams (pl. abbr.)
78 King salmon
80 Rainbow
81 Three-toed sloths
83 Silent
84 Cab
85 Scrap
86 Shoot
87 Sarcasms (obs.)
89 River
90 Canadian province (abbr.)
91 Irrigate
93 Chilling
95 Tin
96 Initiated
97 Flush
99 Doorkeeper
101 Dispassionate
102 Shoe
104 Minus quantities
106 Reasseverates
107 Politicians


VERTICAL

2 Note of scale
3 Sock
4 Vessel for coal
5 Couple
6 Plain
7 Thorium (abbr.)
8 Ever
9 Verge
10 Implement
11 Fables
12 Contends
13 Rages
14 Over
15 We
18 Ear
20 Sagacities
22 Therefores
24 Memoirs
25 Predeterminations
27 Animate
29 Dine
30 Queen
31 Pretend
33 Relinquish
36 Stead
38 Fines
40 Allurement
42 Vibrating
44 Printer’s measure
45 Nimble (obs.)
46 Snares (arch.)
48 Afternoon
50 Countenances
51 Vapid
54 Receptacle for wine
56 Grave
57 Wing
58 Past
64 Fascinate
65 Chink
66 Blundering
68 Prepare for publication
69 A Latin diphthong
72 Sloth
73 Growl (obs.)
75 Deviates
76 Whistle
78 Placidity
79 Spindle
82 Gentleman
83 A drinking cup
86 Sapients
88 Tanks
91 Ensnares
92 Boy
94 Impression
96 Serpent
97 Chief
98 Joke
100 Riddle
101 Selenium
102 Thoroughfare (abbr.)
103 Titanium
105 Strontium









PUZZLE NO. 140

WEARY WILLIE

By Margaret Wade


If the constructor felt like Weary Willie after filling in this
criss-cross pattern, which has only twelve unkeyed letters, there are
bound to be a lot of W. W.’s among those who try to solve it.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Constructors
6 Quarrels
12 Nautical
13 Crescent shaped
15 The actinia
17 Near the middle
18 Trespass
19 Principal commodities in a market
21 Conjunction
22 Track of a deer
24 Stopped
25 Moulding
26 Alleviated
28 Secret watcher
29 Waste matter
30 Girl’s name
32 Vegetable
33 Undivided whole
34 Examine minutely
36 Departs
38 Apron for vehicle
41 Loudly
43 Equal value
45 Mistake
47 Melts (Scot.)
48 Kind of acid
50 Dry
51 Finis
52 Former gold coin of Europe
54 Author of “Fables in Slang”
55 Vain person
57 Moslem enemy of Christendom
59 Remains
60 Country houses
61 To steal workers’ tools
62 Small portion of food (Univ. Eng.)


VERTICAL

1 Capital of Philippine Islands
2 Gritty
3 Book by Kipling
4 Biblical character, son of Seth
5 Hires
7 Var. of clead, to clothe (dial. Eng.)
8 Hastens
9 Insect
10 Model
11 Stones (Scot.)
12 Assembles
14 First in origin
16 Devours
17 To surfeit
20 Bishop of Rome
23 Subtile
25 Speakers
27 Ate
29 An author
31 The infernal regions
32 Kind of napkin
35 Move rapidly
36 Kind of boat
37 Vehicle
39 Molasses
40 To trim feathers
42 Hesitate
43 Support
44 Rivers (Span.)
46 Severe trial
48 Snake borne as a charge (Fr. Her.)
49 Part of brain
52 Early inhabitant of Scotland
53 Part of “esse” (Lat.)
56 Small singing bird
58 Higher part of scale









PUZZLE NO. 141

WORDS AND MUSIC

By Mr. and Mrs. Ottokar T. Cadek


Mr. Cadek is quite a figure in that field of music where the string
quartette raises its austere voice. But no feat of counterpoint is more
difficult than the placing against each other of two long words such as
in 19 and 26 Horizontal or 72 and 78 Horizontal.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Froth
5 Nimbus
9 Number
10 Forbid
14 Clogs
16 Thin
18 Article
19 Motors
22 Point of compass
24 Break
26 Metrical recantations
27 Conducted
28 Ages
30 Distinguished service order
31 Retained
32 Hinder
33 Scolds
35 Golf term
37 Excavate
38 Surplus
40 Distal segment of hind leg
42 Near
44 Chaste
45 Lessen gradually
46 Spiritual essence in modern occultism
47 Light
48 Blank
49 Brave
50 King of Bashan (Josh. 12)
51 Drizzle
53 Plunder
55 Half an em
56 River in Scotland
57 Descendants of Shem
60 Evil spirit
62 State in Germany
63 Entrances
64 Pays court to
66 Book of the Bible
68 Single
70 U. S. coin
71 Contains
72 Alienated
76 Pinch
77 Part of “to be”
78 Exposed
80 Abbreviation of a coin
81 Concealed
83 Holding
85 Disorder
86 Japanese statesman
88 Unit of force
89 Vast depth


VERTICAL

2 River in Italy
3 State of being contrary to fundamental law
4 Pronoun
5 Exclamation
6 Sleeveless haircloth garment
7 Melt suddenly, as snow
8 Perfume
10 Roofed
11 Beverages
12 Conveyance
13 Note of Guido’s scale
14 Trapped
15 Phoebus
16 Executed
17 Administers extreme unction (obs.)
18 Seasoned
20 King of Phrygia (myth.)
21 Hissed
23 Whirlpool
25 Parchments written on twice
27 Jugglery
29 Farinaceous food
31 Trust
33 Germane
34 Junctions of two surfaces
36 Prowess
38 Rages
39 Relieves
41 Portents
43 Lamb or yearling sheep
46 Crude metal
52 Inferior
54 Strove
56 March away
58 Irish poet
59 City in Italy
61 Cellular volcanic lava
62 Hedge
65 Clan
67 Ancient seaport of Cicilia
69 Cauterized
72 Consequences
73 Article
74 Acquire
75 Disown
78 Exercise (obs.)
79 Press for payment
82 Printers’ unit
84 Concerning
86 In the same place (abbr.)
87 Bone









PUZZLE NO. 142

DON’T BE CROSS

By Daniel O’Leary


The old slogan—“one cross word leads to another”—seems to have been
taken literally here. Get out your Webster New International before
calling the whole family into conference.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Thorny
7 Dele
11 Shudders
18 Brigand
19 Unit
20 Bring to light
21 Ideal
23 Father
25 Fall, glide, slip (rare)
26 Common metal
27 Outburst
29 Jewels
31 Edge of a dress
32 Lime tree
34 Wooden water vessels
35 Musical group
36 Work slowly through
37 Composition
39 Satiate
41 Wagers
42 Give syntax
43 Row
45 Muscular cords
47 Facts
48 Adam’s son
50 Frighten
51 Famous Italian actress
53 Room in a house
55 Golf term
56 Pie
59 Water container
61 Corrode
63 Severed
65 Not mad
67 Natural metal
68 Type of fly
69 Elongated fish
70 Beverage
71 Wax
73 Glisten
75 Sober; steady
77 Gentle
78 Anger
80 Veteran
82 White ant
84 Old (Scotch)
85 Musical instrument
87 Animal fat
89 Swell of the sea
90 Playthings
92 Boy’s name
95 Fruit
97 Risqué
98 Soft drinks
100 Not tight
102 Island in the Pacific
103 Oversatisfy
104 Strip of wood
106 Sleigh
107 Altitude
108 Says
110 Prizes
112 Anglo-Saxon money account
113 E. Indian gums
115 Direct
117 Contriver
119 Forever (poet.)
120 Period of time
121 Far East
122 Continued stories
123 Melt ore
124 Barns


VERTICAL

1 Throw out hastily
2 Feels sorry for
3 Master of a style of literature
4 Short sleep
5 Pertaining to the ear
6 Fastens
8 Loud noise
9 Insect
10 Percolate
12 Greeting
13 Sickness
14 By the way of
15 Projection
16 Those who get up
17 Stopped
22 Body of ancient temple
23 Mailed
24 That which is kept
25 Rainbow
28 Flesh
30 Sciences
33 Pertaining to the uninitiated
36 Wets
38 Cycle of time
40 Growing out
41 Parts of the body
42 Bygone days
44 Annoy
46 Owing
47 Powder
49 Turned northward
51 Newspapers
52 Era
53 Docks
54 Product of coniferous trees
56 Fold
57 Gates (obs.)
58 Not water-tight
60 Part of “to be”
62 Lair
64 Fondle
66 Born
72 Shoulder of a bastion
73 I
74 All
75 Baseless column
76 Band instrument
77 Metre (Greek)
79 Tempt
81 Lessen
83 Flour
85 Speeders
86 Vault
88 Controls
89 Speak confusedly
90 Companion
91 Sea mammal
93 Army officer
94 Hurls again
96 Biblical character
97 Rodents
99 Soot from flue of mercury furnace
101 Calm
103 Metal
105 Spartan slave
108 Bone of arm
109 Part of a plant
110 Calf
111 Girl’s name
114 Three (prefix)
116 Before
118 Pen point









PUZZLE NO. 143

A MILITARY SALUTE

By Sergeant


This one comes from West Point. Note the fine central backbones of long
words. You will observe something interesting about these two.
Incidentally, is there anything finer than the way difficulties
dissolve once long words like these flash into your mind?

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HORIZONTAL

1 Pertaining to images
8 Concealed passengers
15 Blaze
16 Reptile
18 Ancestors
19 Continually
21 Earring
22 Arable land
23 Reward (Fr.)
24 Two (prefix)
25 God of thunder
27 More than enough
28 Evil
29 A color
30 Arabian shrub
31 Sacred symbol
33 Tendered
36 Official seat (leg.)
37 Sailing ship
39 Toward
40 Adjective suffix meaning “of”
41 Word of unknown meaning found in the Bible
42 Side bars of pair of spectacles
44 Support
46 Variety of pyroxene
48 Article
49 Fruits
51 Personal pronoun
52 Measure of weight
56 Peaceful
58 Weights
62 Paradoxical
63 Proportion
64 Crushed
65 Begin
67 Sun god
69 Ricochets
70 Conjunction
71 Pillars
76 Once (obs.)
77 Makes level (Engl. dial.)
81 South American armadillos
82 Exclamation
84 Live
85 Flag
86 The number of muses
87 Respiration
91 Japanese spirit gods
92 To beat (Scot.)
93 Vat
94 Knot
95 Branch
97 Thrice
98 Printing unit
99 Genus of shrubs
100 A large weight
101 Heap (obs.)
103 Egyptian deity
104 Kilns
105 Tavern
106 Hatred
108 Designating a crystalline acid
109 Machine run by mixture of gases


VERTICAL

1 Pertaining to the classification of facts
2 Whether
3 Ancient
4 Separate
5 Company
6 Accounts
7 Mohammedan ruler
8 Temporary cross timber used in shipbuilding
9 Large hawks
10 Telegraphed
11 Barren
12 Irritate (obs.)
13 Because
14 Seamstresses
17 Independence
20 Warble
24 Territory governed by a ban
26 Space
30 Prickly plant of the glasswort family
32 Hew
34 Hawaiian bird
35 Concerning
36 Fruit of India yielding a yellow dye
38 Stages
41 Protected
43 Measure of type
44 Share
45 A worsted yarn
47 Part of verb “to be”
49 Notches
50 Margins
53 Biblical character
54 Soak
55 The first name of a character in the “Arabian Nights”
56 The goddess of dawn
57 Chief (Sp.)
59 Age
60 Dexterity
61 Stain
63 Those who disavow
66 Breathe
68 Article
70 Mystic ejaculation used by Hindus
72 A narcotic
73 Alley
74 Accustom by practice (obs.)
75 Contemptuous irony
77 Member of a legislative body
78 A vessel
79 Handle of a joiner’s plane
80 Greek poet
83 Personal pronoun
84 Prefix denoting two
87 Enough! (It. interj.)
88 Garret
89 Reddish orange dye
90 Order
93 Trough used in smelting
96 Chief
99 Strike
102 Sow (Scot.)
104 Suffix meaning oil
107 A tone of the diatonic scale









PUZZLE NO. 144

OCEAN WAVES

By Mrs. H. A. Wolfe


Don’t get seasick, although it is a little difficult. We have to do
something to please those crusty puzzlers who snort with contempt at
easy problems.

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|     |     |     |#####|     |     |     |     |     |     |#####|     |     |     |     |     |#####|     |     |     |     |
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HORIZONTAL

1 African spear
7 Language of Semitic origin
11 Climbing
17 Dead (Scotch)
18 Reverie
19 Harangues
20 Title
21 One who bequeaths
23 Ties
25 Too
27 Behold
28 Quality
29 Every third day
33 Fat
34 Bathe
35 Monsters
37 Non-poisonous strangling serpent
39 To sort
41 A kind of pastry
43 Island in the British West Indies
45 Land measure
47 Condition
48 Staggers
50 Half
51 Large volumes
53 Nightfall
54 Friend
55 Roman earth goddess
57 Decay
58 Nickname (female)
60 Royal banner
63 Combined
66 German province
69 Metal
70 Unit
72 Farm
76 Forests
81 Female singer
84 Fine
85 Incite
87 Point of the compass
88 Anger
89 Vehicle
91 College slang for a gathering
93 Horse
95 Vestige
97 Change
99 Bird
100 Drudge
102 Number
103 Dust collector
105 Corrode
106 Exhausted
108 Spanish lady
109 Fears
112 To make indented lines
115 Obstruction
118 Note of scale
120 Appendage
121 Expiate
123 Care
125 Fortify
127 Religious song of praise
128 Avarice
129 Reptile
130 Musical instrument
131 Worthless
132 Main component


VERTICAL

1 Increases
2 Perceive
3 Hindu deity
4 Revises
5 Worshippers
6 Annoy
7 Schedule
8 Pattern
9 A measure
10 Previous
11 Celestial body
12 Pertaining to the Gaels (combining form)
13 Allot
14 Exists
15 Nothing
16 Increase
22 Thorn (Scotch)
24 Mountain top ice
26 Equipped for propulsion
30 Lake in North America
31 At no time
32 Mountains in Eastern U. S.
36 Sandstorm
37 Club
38 Country in the Near East
40 Follower of the Dutch founder of Anabaptists
41 Wealth
42 Girl’s name
44 Rest
46 Scavenger fishes
48 Invade
49 Totals
52 Swamps
54 Assumption
56 Tyro
59 Suffix radical (chem.)
60 Suffix diminutive
61 Tear
62 Prefix, out
63 Tooth
64 Pronoun
65 Article
67 Dim
68 Affirmative
70 Suffix toward
71 Suffix one who
73 Small portable organs
74 Southern state (abbr.)
75 Orient
76 Previously existed
77 Place for the seal on legal papers
78 Southwestern state
79 Murdered
80 Pertaining to Italian volcano
82 Roman emperor
83 Cereal
85 Printer’s measures
86 Fruit of the vine
89 Dirt removers
90 Sharp rejoinder
92 Suffix quality
94 Occurrence
96 Antagonistic
97 Shades
98 Recompenses
101 Employ
103 Quarter in London
104 City in Nevada
107 Quaver
110 Scale
111 Biblical character Old Testament
113 Plant
114 Placed
116 Black
117 Give
119 Weary
122 Dark viscid oil
124 Insect exudation
126 Personal pronoun









PUZZLE NO. 145

WAFFLED WORDS

By Mrs. Eric Crull


Some people mumble their words, but what is more appropriate than this
waffling of Mrs. Crull’s? This is medium well done—by which we refer
not to quality, but to difficulty. Try it when the simple ones seem too
easy and the difficult ones too tough.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Ancient burial place
8 Dormant
15 Metallic rocks
16 Instrument
18 Vegetable
19 Medicinal herb
20 Low
21 Plateau
23 Design
24 Shake
25 Wager
26 Salutation
27 Lair
29 Rider Haggard’s heroine
30 Body organ
31 To add to
33 Small point
35 To rule
38 Stigmatized
40 Mythological queen
43 Hence
44 Pony of India
45 To bite lightly
47 To chastise
48 Clamor
49 Performed
50 A numeral
52 To tangle
54 Compete
55 A tribal symbol
57 A large bird
59 Adventitious sounds (med.)
61 Finery
62 Beyond
63 Girl’s name
64 A measure
66 Boisterous
68 A color
69 Attempt
71 Transgression
72 Piece of connecting pipe
73 Little Eva’s friend
75 A cereal
77 Placed
79 Of equal value
80 Legend
81 Contiguous (poet.)
83 Of greater density
86 Drunkard
87 Sailor
89 Not the same
90 Moisture
91 Pronoun
94 Weight
96 Pitch
97 A metal
98 Denoting three
100 Field
102 Scriptural animals
105 Fold
106 Heroine of a Wagnerian opera
107 Always
108 Cozy spot
109 A girl’s name
110 One who slows up
111 A kind of acid


VERTICAL

1 Summoned
2 A space
3 Lacerate
4 Cleopatra’s finish
5 An amphibious mammal
6 Ditch or trench
7 Popular style of hairdressing
8 Salt water
9 Earth
10 Done with
11 Soft food
12 Troubles
13 Biblical character
14 Produce
17 South American animal
18 Mix
22 Dusk
25 Bar
28 Immediately
30 Self
31 Skill
32 Retreat
34 Shoe latchet
36 Latin verb (form of “to be”)
37 A great menace
38 Evil
39 Not bright
41 Perpetual motion (compound word)
42 Raised platform
44 Used in building
46 Associate
49 Relating to debts
50 A green spot
51 Fairylike
53 A beautiful lake
56 One of Dickens’s characters
57 Finish
58 Consume calories
60 Hawaiian decoration
63 Name of a street
65 Kind of cloth
67 Long ago
68 Change
70 Still
72 A black substance
74 Name of a boat (historical)
76 Corrode
78 Also
79 Through
80 Depressed
82 A rodent
84 Extreme
85 A bird
86 A number
88 Dressed
90 Flat plates
92 Robust
93 Once
95 Glacier ice
97 Thunder
98 Relate
99 Branches
101 Common European gull
103 Possessive pronoun
104 Also
105 Chemical base









PUZZLE NO. 146

THE QUESTION MARK

By Mrs. E. I. Ashton


This puzzle is well named, to say the least, and those curving question
marks will try the endurance of the solver to the utmost. Some of you
will get out your Atlases and love this. Others in despair will throw
themselves in the Siberian river and drown their woes. Good luck to all
of you!

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HORIZONTAL

1 A science
6 Most loyal
12 A city in Nevada
13 Queen of the fairies
16 Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudarum (abbr.)
18 Paid (abbr.)
20 Ecclesiastical abbreviation
21 A great nation of ancient Syria
23 Prefix meaning together
24 One of the United States (abbr.)
25 Barren open country
27 Conjunction
28 Thou (Ger.)
29 A perfume (obs.)
31 Babylonian goddess
32 Or (Latin)
33 Chinese book of rights and ceremonies
34 One of the Banda Islands
35 A hero of the Trojan war
37 Spanish ecclesiastical historian
39 A fish
40 Any pointed saying
42 Thee (French)
43 Adverb
45 Ancient Roman poet
46 Russian penal colony
48 Female parent
51 Human beings
52 Famous Austrian electrician of 19th century
54 Night (Latin)
56 Preposition
57 To mark with degrees
59 Assyrian god
60 Bromine (abbr.)
61 Native of Turkey
63 Irritating sensation
65 A young dog
66 King of ancient Britain
67 Pronoun
68 Indefinite article
69 Tree
70 Portuguese chronicler
72 Part of the anatomy
73 Prefix meaning “twice”
74 A Hawaiian food
75 Grassy plant
76 River in Siberia
77 Silver (abbr.)
78 Philosophical theory of Hume and Kant
80 Tributary of Drina River
81 Foot coverings
82 Each (abbr.)


VERTICAL

2 Conjunction
3 Bequeath
4 Transformation into human shape
5 Word of refusal
7 One of the United States (abbr.)
8 Unlawful
9 Interrogation point
10 If (French)
11 Monster of Greek mythology
13 A plant
14 Preposition
15 Pandemonium
17 Mountains in Bolivia
19 River in Venetia
21 German political economist of 19th century
22 Night (French)
24 Geological term
26 At suit of (abbr.)
30 To bind
36 Torn asunder
38 Ancient Cappadocian goddess
41 A spirituous liquor
44 A sacred box
46 Prefix, through
47 A town in southeastern Africa
49 Noted American humorist
50 To introduce something new
52 Town in southeastern Slavonia
53 Lymph vessels
55 Cape in Scotland
57 A province in Spain
58 A digraph
60 A famous modern pianist
61 Gratuity (colloq.)
62 Federations
64 A riddle
65 Ecclesiastical term
68 To humble
71 Egyptian god
72 A queen of Navarre
79 No date (abbr.)









PUZZLE NO. 147

NOT A FLIVVER

By Frank A. Ford


Mr. Ford is not one of those puzzle builders, who, grown sated with
simple things, grow perverse in their madness for the dark and
recondite. And, if you are inclined to call Mr. Ford a Master of
Unkeyed Letters—well, just try your hand at constructing a twenty-one
square puzzle.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Confirms
6 Ahead
10 Fur-bearing animal
16 On the top of
17 Rodent
18 Possesses
20 Marsh
21 Traffic
23 To whine like a child
24 Retired
26 A balanced stone
28 Concealed
29 Quality of being rigidly perfect
31 To bestow
33 Vessel
34 Otherwise
36 To give a dinner to
38 Fixed allowance
39 Not more than one time
40 Second tone of diatonic scale
41 Projecting ridge
43 Female of the sheep
45 Manner of continuity
47 Pronoun
48 Decline
49 Different
52 Repeats noisily
54 Withdraw
56 To border upon
57 Tract of land surrounded by water
59 Harmonized
60 The hawthorn
62 Appropriate
64 A disciple of Zeno
66 Hymenopterous insects
67 Suitable
68 Measure of yarn
70 Knock lightly
72 Wide mouth pitcher
73 Calm
74 The European hedge sparrow
75 The reverse side of a coin
79 Period of time
80 Before
82 Unite
83 A percoid fish
86 A mistake
88 Name of a letter
90 Sliding weight on a steelyard
91 Dallied
92 Amounts
94 Progeny
97 Impartial
100 A number
101 Protuberant glands
103 Not near
105 Printer’s measure
107 Fur-bearing animal
109 Dread
110 A weight
112 Exclamation
113 Method of preserving
115 Address
117 Mark
118 Was indebted
120 Native metal
121 Annoy
123 Garment
125 Of the verb “to be” 126 Without content
128 Roman garment
129 Letters of ancient Scandinavians
130 Female fox
132 Lime, clay and sand mixture
134 External covering of down, or fiber
135 Quadruped of genus Equus
136 Procreate
137 Loud voiced herald
138 English theologian and philologist
139 To quiet


VERTICAL

1 Pollen containers
2 Species of batrachians
3 Stop
4 To erect a mast (naut.)
5 Preposition
6 Not real
7 An article
8 Species of fish
9 Small drum
11 Of the verb “to be”
12 A plant of the cabbage genus
13 To show affection
14 Musical instrument
15 Cloth of firm texture
17 Destroyed
19 Governing body
22 Stir up
23 Conceited fellow
25 Fruit
27 Curve
30 A mammary gland
32 Inclines
35 Lifts up
37 Differ
39 Finely finished
42 One of Tennyson’s heroines
43 Biblical character
44 Measure of physics
46 Used in painting
48 Of the verb “go”
50 Species of plant
51 The swell of the ocean
53 Crystallized rain
54 Pathway
55 Countries
57 Pertaining to a Latin race
58 Punch block
59 A sense
61 A rich kind of India satin
63 Mature
65 Summary of professed principles
67 Destroyed
68 Caustic
69 Mimic
71 The box containing the Host (obs. Sp.)
76 Application of knowledge
77 Metal
78 Preparation for the skin
81 Saws again
83 Vegetable
84 Inspection of a deed or bond (law)
85 Prefix meaning through
87 Empty declamation
89 Title
90 Lamb brought up by hand
91 Porous stone
93 River of Hades (myth.)
95 Large inland body of salt water
96 Employ
98 Merits
99 Takes a reverse motion
101 Native of Great Britain
102 Descendants
104 Rhythmical flow of language
106 First part of day
108 Cardinal point of compass
111 Disease
112 Hither
114 Obsolete spelling of realm
116 Authorized
117 Mixture of white lead and lime
119 Covered with wax
121 Bold
122 Variety of turnip (obs.)
123 Game of cards
124 Producing injury
127 Girl’s nickname
131 Anger
133 Behold
136 Note on diatonic scale









PUZZLE NO. 148

THE SQUARE ROOT OF CROSS WORDS

By Irvan Neckerman


How does he get that way? Here are some conversational words cheek to
cheek with monstrosities dragged forth from their native obscurity. We
warn all those to whom an obscure word is as a red flag to a bull to
keep away from here.

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1 A dissension
5 Expression of pity
9 Any slender bristlelike organ
13 Smooth and transparent
14 Afforded
15 Plain
17 Revolves
18 Passageway
19 Frame for drying clothes
20 Small island
21 Geometrical figure
22 An allotted portion
23 Manifestation
24 Outcry
25 Commands
26 Eastern title of authority
28 One of Rider Haggard’s books
30 To annoy
34 Chinese Buddha
36 Geometrical figure
41 Early name of Ireland
42 Poisonous extract
45 Wander
46 A chink
47 Rubber
48 A throng
49 Cotton or woolen dress goods
51 Old way of spelling “that”
52 Additional
54 Goddess of vengeance
56 Literary fragments
57 Dance
61 A borrowing
64 To name
69 Relating to spaces
70 Father
71 A student (Fr.)
72 Measure of capacity
73 Batrachian
74 Artist’s models
75 Household gods
76 Besides
77 River in England
78 Inclinations
79 To account
80 Commissioned


VERTICAL

1 Wallow
2 A cloth worn by Roman ladies
3 City in France
4 Canopies
5 Mixtures
6 To set out
7 Historical record
8 Shelters (obs.)
9 Random cuts
10 Choice body
11 Darnel
12 Concerning
13 Small ditch or furrow
16 Fragments
27 Eminence
29 Consecrated place
30 Possessive pronoun
31 Enclosed place
32 Fissure
33 Put up
34 Contest
35 Malt kiln
37 Chief; greatest
38 To penetrate
39 Across
40 Information
43 Abraham’s birthplace
44 Syllable of diatonic scale
50 Unwilling to hear
53 Special gifts
55 Transported
56 Chaplet or wreath
57 To invite
58 Ancient heretical sect
59 Combining form, meaning stone
60 Heard
62 Weight of twelve grains
63 To lower
65 A walk or passageway
66 Wild goat of the Bible
67 Conclusion
68 For fear that









PUZZLE NO. 149

THE OLD ARMY GAME

By Charley Cinderglass and Stoney Lonesome


Remember “West Pointer” in Series I? The soldiers are at it again.
There ought to be some healthful dictionary practice here. 37 Vertical,
by the way, appears to have been conned from some erudite work on
natural history. (Might as well tell you that the two unkeyed letters
are U and O.)

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HORIZONTAL

1 Spoil or mar
6 Species of rodents
11 Reduces
15 A petty dude
19 The sun god
21 Woe
22 A genus of American monkeys
23 A musical note
24 Belonging to a thing
26 Eat grass
27 Issue
28 Maker of honey
29 Produce designs on metal
31 Small wild ox (zool.)
32 Tidy
33 Stupid
34 The European finch (zool.)
36 Headmen (Hindu.)
38 Foundations (var.)
39 Showing favors
41 Silt (hyd. engine)
43 Exile
44 A compass box (naut.)
46 One who fishes with a net
47 A reptile
48 Scrapes together
50 Amphibians
51 Recital
52 Prominent people
56 Scatter
57 Etheral salt (chem.)
62 A vessel for holding soup
64 Dries by receding tide (reformed spelling)
65 Broil in a covered pan
66 The angel of the bottomless pit
68 Reduce in grade
69 Steeple
70 Crest
73 The carcass of a whale after blubber is removed (var.)
75 A bone of the forearm
76 Deep dislike
77 Crafts
79 At the (obs.)
80 Member
81 Trait
82 A fish
84 Evening (poetical)
85 So
86 Shout
87 Mist (meteorol.)
89 Regarding
90 Species of birds
91 A storehouse for arms
93 Judges
94 Serving as a type


VERTICAL

2 Force of mesmerism
3 Contraction meaning “the thing exists”
4 Obstruct
5 A cry of joy
6 The European owl (zool.)
7 Rank
8 Those who are in
9 The euphonic form of ad before g
10 Attempts
12 An instrument used by engineers
13 Pertaining to the Upper Archaean rocks
14 To affirm solemnly
15 The animals of any given period
16 Fur bearing animals
17 The winged cap of mercury
18 Celts
20 Looks after
23 Machines for cutting down trees
25 Shade
28 Bent outward
30 A genus of marine decapod crustaceans
33 The goddess of the hunt
35 Cozy corner
37 Small S. African antelope
38 The muse who presided over history
40 Having tresses
42 Epistles
44 Cross shaped
45 Arctic forked-tailed gulls (zool.)
48 Abyssinian title
49 Unite by stitches
52 Fasteners
53 A series of tubes
54 The palm cockatoo (zool.)
55 Advise (Scot.)
58 Shirt (Scot.)
59 Head-dress
60 Social standing
61 Enter again
63 Noticeable
65 A spirituous liquor
67 Idea
68 A window in a roof
69 Sea birds
71 Wahoo
72 Marine gastropod (zool.)
74 A pony
76 Stops
78 Rain, wind and snow
81 Rodent
83 Small
86 Head covering
88 Short sleep
90 Mother
92 Note of musical scale









PUZZLE NO. 150

AN INDENTED TERROR

By J. T. Delaney


“With such friends one does not need enemies,” an old proverb goes. Mr.
Delaney is a familiar friend to followers of The Cross Word Puzzle
Books, but the editors will bet that many a one has said that his worst
enemy could not have given him more cold sweats.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Contraction of common New England first name
5 Fragment of earthenware
10 Slight coloring
14 Shriek
15 Linen cloth once worn in a head-dress
16 River in Germany
17 Edible root
20 East Indian cereal
21 Distribute (obs.)
24 Philippine tree, blind-your-eyes
25 Moving company
27 Profuse talk
28 European burbot
29 Submerged marine plant
31 Purgative principle of rhubarb, etc.
33 Sharp flavor
34 Physician or surgeon
36 Equable
37 Secular
38 Italian sou
39 Stalk
41 Cuchullin’s wife in Celtic mythology
43 Steal
44 Simple
45 Bellow
47 Exudation from certain plants
49 Obstruct
51 Flow in a stream
52 Property
54 Greek letter
56 Outlying districts
60 Inner bark of trees
61 Wilful disobedience
66 Avail
67 Philippine date plum
69 Struggle
70 Round hill or point of land
71 Auditory
72 Heelless slipper
73 Move suddenly and rapidly
74 Interpret writing
75 Assign
77 Clever
78 Fall of earth into a mine, etc.
80 Path
81 Globular flask once used for ointments, etc.
83 Comfortable
84 Revolving platform with seats for children
86 Native amorphous silica
87 Significant date
89 Play on words (pl.)
90 Pastoral composition
92 Cannon
94 Inclination
95 Rabbit
97 Entrance
99 Dry
101 Trial
104 Worship
106 Chart
107 Variety of chalcedony
109 Household deities
112 Assuredly (slang)
113 Spanish copper coin
115 Terrible woman
117 Erudition
118 Tuneful
120 Italian game resembling tennis
122 Typical genus of the mustards
124 Remove hair
125 Silk cotton tree
126 Itch
127 Satiate
128 Dishearten
129 Furnace
130 Swarm (Eng.)
131 Sudden involuntary movement
132 Footgear for snow travel


VERTICAL

1 Sulphide of iron, copper, etc.
2 Esteem
3 Bone of the arm
4 Select group
5 Sieve
6 Detected by the ear
7 Seaweed
8 Pass a rope through
9 Region of fancies
10 Gateway to Buddhist temple
11 Adored one
12 Anarchist of most extreme type
13 Vibrant effect on a tambourine
17 Satiate
18 African medicinal plant
19 Panel
21 Of heroic proportions
22 Give heed
23 Consequently
25 Famish (Eng.)
26 Bullfinch (Eng. and Scot.)
30 Affirm
32 Metal blocks for stamping, etc.
35 Epistle in dactylic hexameters
38 Partition
40 Petulant grimace
42 Gratify
43 Disturbance
44 Debate
46 Plant with large spathe and starchy corn
48 Passable
50 Prong
51 Prescription given merely to satisfy a patient
53 Tally
55 Affectionate
56 Itch
57 Absolute
58 Consider the subjective objectively
59 Negro name
60 Trunk
62 Pertaining to the eye
63 Biblical name
64 Box of wooden slats
65 Warble
68 Parcel of jewels
69 Guinea pig
73 Moves with rapidity
76 Plunder
77 Associate
78 Faucet
79 Back part of the neck
80 Small beak-like process
82 Title of nobility
83 Outer garment
85 Dwarf
88 Typical genus of parrots
91 Passable
93 Resounding
94 Mass of ice
95 Designating a certain valve gear and engines so equipped
96 European bunting
98 Hamlet
100 Unusual
102 Marketable
103 Derivative of atropine
104 Culmination
105 Ocean
106 Brownish purple
108 Place to sleep (slang)
110 Indian of an Iroquoian tribe
111 Bar of a soap frame
113 One summoned
114 Fragrant
115 Designating the numerals from which Arabic numbers are derived
116 Notches
119 Point in time
121 Designating a common bean
123 Native corporal in India









ADONIS’ DREAM

By Mrs. E. I. Ashton


Hoboken proves that it not only can manufacture Venus, the largest
selling quality pencil in the world, but also some of the hardest
puzzles. As a special reward for solving this puzzle you can receive a
Venus Perfect Colored Pencil by sending the correct solution to the
American Lead Pencil Co., 220 Fifth Avenue, New York.

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| 60  |     |     | 61  | 62  | 63  | 64  |#####|#####|#####|#####|#####| 65  | 66  | 67  | 68  |     |     |     |
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| 69  |     |     |     |     |     |     |#####| 70  | 71  | 72  |#####| 73  |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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|     |/////| 74  |     |     |/////|     |#####| 75  |     |     |#####|     |/////| 76  |     |     |/////|     |
|     |/////|     |     |     |/////|     |#####|     |     |     |#####|     |/////|     |     |     |/////|     |
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| 77  | 78  |     |/////| 79  | 80  |     |#####| 81  |     |     |#####| 82  | 83  |     |/////| 84  | 85  |     |
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| 86  |     |/////|/////|/////| 87  |     |#####| 88  |     |     |#####| 89  |     |/////|/////|/////| 90  |     |
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HORIZONTAL

1 Latin for “I love”
4 Opera by Verdi
8 Tragedy by Sardou
13 Transgression
14 French for “Mrs.”
16 Prejudice
17 Instrument for writing
18 Adverb
19 Bales (abbr.)
21 French for “bone”
22 A quality pencil or a planet
23 Ancient state in Asia Minor
27 Lair
29 Anew
30 Gold (abbr.)
32 Any cleaning agent
34 Name of one of the British Isles
35 South African antelope
37 Pronoun
39 That is (abbr.)
40 Royal mail (abbr.)
41 A color
43 Indefinite article
44 Ancient worshippers of Venus
47 Not (French)
48 Section of a foot (abbr.)
49 Tincture for wounds
50 Preposition
51 God willing (abbr.)
52 Cipher of several letters
53 Preposition
54 Preposition
56 Form of verb “to be”
57 River in Nevada
58 Lament, complaint (French)
60 Means of travel
65 Obliterators
69 Waterfall
70 Exclude
73 A dignitary
74 American temperance society (abbr.)
75 Rage
76 Liable
77 Comrade (coll.)
79 An organ
81 Lake in Galway
82 Pronoun
84 Unit
86 Consumption (coll.)
87 Adverb
88 A parent (coll.)
89 Post scriptum (abbr.)
90 A Phoenician god


VERTICAL

1 A Roman coin
2 An island in the Aegean Sea
3 Preposition
4 Entertains, diverts
5 A wicked spirit
6 French for “of”
7 Indefinite article
9 Bay in Siberia
10 Arabian seaport
11 One of the United States
12 Variety
15 Goddess of love
20 Pull roughly
21 A form of poetry
24 New England (abbr.)
25 Form of verb “to be”
26 An exclamation
28 Word of refusal
29 “Pertaining to” (suffix)
31 Spanish feminine for “a”
33 Reflector
34 An annual plant of southern Asia
36 Affecting the whole
38 Tint, color
39 Ancient Indians
41 Opera by Verdi
42 Prefix meaning “in”
45 Household dish
46 Town in south of France
51 River in Morocco
55 A game of chance
56 Receive
59 A kingdom of antiquity
61 Deed
62 Ornamental vessel
63 To, at (prefix)
64 African
65 Hinder
66 Italian historian
67 Town in central Persia
68 Undermine
70 Species of animal
71 Any plane surface
72 Peruse
78 From (Latin)
80 Conjunction
83 Pronoun
85 Northeast (abbr.)









NOTE


[1] Winner of the Woman’s Singles and of Challenge Round, First
National All-Comers Cross Word Puzzle Tournament, held at the Wanamaker
Auditorium, September 26th–27th, 1924.