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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The cross word puzzle book - -Authors: Prosper Buranelli - F. Gregory Hartswick - Margaret Petherbridge - -Release Date: June 8, 2022 [eBook #68267] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading - Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This - file was produced from images generously made available by - The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE -BOOK *** - - - - - - THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK - - An Anthology of Fifty Cross Word Puzzles - Selected as the Best of the Thousands - That Have Been Submitted to the - New York World Published - Here Exclusively for - the First Time - and Edited - - By - - PROSPER BURANELLI - F. GREGORY HARTSWICK - MARGARET PETHERBRIDGE - - - THE PLAZA PUBLISHING COMPANY - New York :: 1924 - - - - - - - - - - THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE - - By Newman Levy - - - For many years we’ve lived as man and wife, - As happy now as on the day we wed. - “We’re more like sweethearts,” I have always said. - No cloud has dimmed the sunshine of our life, - Though now and then I’ll seize a rolling pin - And playfully I’ll clout her on the dome - Just to preserve domestic discipline - And demonstrate who’s master in our home. - At times she’ll hurl with well-directed aim - A platter or an iron at my bean. - These slight attentions keep romances green - And keep alive the hymeneal flame. - - On Sunday, when the evening lamp is lit - And peace and calm contentment fill our house, - With pipe and well-loved book at ease I sit, - And at my side, in earnest thought, my spouse, - Then fade the cares and troubles of the day; - With Conrad and Lord Jim I sail the sea, - When suddenly I hear my wife’s voice say, - “What word for ‘female child’ begins with G?” - “The word is ‘Girl’,” I growl. Again I try - To catch the shattered magic of my tale. - I find my place. Again with Jim I sail - Upon the tropic sea. My wife says “My, - What pronoun in three letters starts with Y?” - - Calmly I rise and search about the place - To find a weapon of sufficient weight. - Aha! Upon our wall an ancient mace, - Studded with knobs of steel. The very thing. - I seize it, and with easy, graceful swing - Wallop my darling wife upon the pate, - The sconce or bean, or dome, or what you will. - Silent she tumbles headlong in the grate. - I take my book and leisurely resume - My tale, and peace and quiet fill the room. - - - From F.P.A.’s Conning Tower - in The New York World - - - - - - - - - -THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK - - -CONFESSIONS OF A CROSS WORD PUZZLE EDITOR - - -When I was first made unwilling Cross Word Puzzle Editor some two years -ago, the procedure in deciding what puzzle would be run was limited to -picking out a good-looking one from among the bunch and sending it -upstairs to be set. I saw no reason to change this splendid system. At -that time, I had never taken the trouble to do a puzzle and the letters -of anathema and condemnation that came in by the dozens had small -effect on my conscience. They were evidently from cranks and couldn’t -be avoided. - -I must admit that the dawning of conscience began with the arrival of -F.P.A., who came to work in the next room. When he discovered that I -was responsible for the cross words, he formed the atrocious habit of -stalking in every Monday morning bright and early (about eleven -o’clock) to point out to me in sarcastic tones just what was wrong with -yesterday’s. Well, to make a long story short, in order to avoid the -moronish feeling that usually followed such a lecture, I decided to -reform and find out what a really decent puzzle was like. - -I began by trying to do one the next Sunday, and thus experienced the -throes of acute agony that come to all solvers of puzzles on -discovering definitions left out, numbers wrong, hideously warped -definitions, words not to be found inside of any known dictionary, -foreign words—very foreign—and words that had no right to be dragged -out of their native obscurity. Then and there, with my left hand -reposing on a dictionary and my right raised in air, I took an oath to -edit the cross words to the essence of perfection. From then on, I -instituted the procedure of doing the puzzles myself on the page -proof—sort of trying it on the dog—applying the principle, - - - “If it be not fair to me, - What care I how fair it be!” - - -Since that momentous day, F.P.A.’s visits have grown less frequent—in -fact, he has to make up excuses to come in and converse on other -matters—and the cross words even came in for an occasional bouquet in -Sam Pepys’s diary. So now you all know whom to thank for the perfection -(more or less) of the cross word puzzle found each Sunday on the World -Magazine’s Ingenuities Page. - - - Margaret Petherbridge - - - - - - - -HOW TO SOLVE THEM - - -Solving a cross word puzzle offers numerous enjoyments of which the -uninitiated are ignorant. There is the pure esthetic stimulation of -looking at the pattern with its neat black and white squares, like a -floor in a cathedral or a hotel bathroom; there is the challenge of the -definitions, titillating the combative ganglion that lurks in all of -us; there is the tantalizing elusiveness of the one little word that -will satisfactorily fill a space and give clues to others that we know -not of; and there is the thrill of triumph as the right word is found, -fitted, and its attendant branches and roots spring into being. No -better illustration could be used than a recent brilliant construction -of Mr. Gelett Burgess, published in the Sunday World Magazine. - -Consider the solver as he faces his problem. The numbers in the -squares, he knows, refer to the definitions; in the system of numbering -used in this book, the first letters only are indicated by numbers. -Thus 1 horizontal means a word that will fill the space following the -figure up to the next black square. - - - Horizontal +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 4 |#####| - 1 Lowest form of life | | | | | |#####| - 12 Product of coal or pine +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - 18 Opponent | 12 | | |#####| | - | | | |#####| | - Vertical +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - | 18 | | | 20 | |#####| - 1 Gustated | | | | | |#####| - 2 Divine nourishment +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - 3 Before |#####| |#####| |#####| - 4 Indefinite number |#####| |#####| |#####| - +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - | 30 | | 32 | | 33 |#####| - | | | | | |#####| - +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - |#####| - |#####| - +-----+ - - -The solver, then, looks the puzzle over. Aha! a friend. 12 horizontal, -three letters long—“product of coal or pine.” Triumphantly the solver -writes TAR in the spaces and proceeds with this clue. 2 Vertical is -defined as “Divine Nourishment.” It links with TAR at the second -letter. A moment of thought and MANNA appears as the only possible -solution. He turns to 1 vertical, the second letter of which is the -first of 12 horizontal—T. The definition is “gustated,” and the word is -of three letters. Why hesitate? ATE goes into the space. “A cinch!” -reflects the solver, and joyously writes ENEMY in 18 horizontal, -defined as “Opponent.” 3 vertical is defined as “Before,” and with -RE -staring him in the face he would be dull indeed who did not write ERE. -And now 1 horizontal stands revealed. “Lowest form of life,” eh? AMEBA -goes down. 4 vertical is “Indefinite number.” Well, A-Y cannot be -anything but ANY—and there is the corner complete, with three clues to -the words in other sections. - - - +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 4 |#####| - | A | M | E | B | A |#####| - +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - | 12 | | |#####| | - | T | A | R |#####| N | - +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - | 18 | | | 20 | |#####| - | E | E | E | M | Y |#####| - +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - |#####| |#####| |#####| - |#####| N |#####| |#####| - +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - | 30 | | 32 | | 33 |#####| - | | A | | | |#####| - +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - |#####| - |#####| - +-----+ - - -So far the sailing has been fairly easy. But trouble waits just around -the corner. There are other definitions which are not so simple as -“product of coal or pine.” In the far reaches of the puzzle to which -the above corner belongs may be found such definitions as “Vexation -(Provincial British),” “Humorous figure of speech,” “One-sided -headaches” and “Droning dung-beetles.” Is the solver prepared to state -that he can fill the spaces represented by those words without the -assistance of the linked horizontals or verticals? - -It is here that one of the greatest charms of the crossword puzzle -lies: the discovery of new words by the process of building them, -though entirely ignorant of their actual spelling. Consider another -portion of Mr. Burgess’ puzzle. The construction of the provincial form -of “Vexation” and “Humorous figure of speech” fortunately come in -juxtaposition; they illustrate at once the vocabulary-building feature -of the cross word puzzle and a constructional weakness which may lead -to non-solution. - -The definitions surrounding this precious pair are as follows: -Horizontal, “Series of games,” “Self,” “Means of sustenance,” and -“Surface of fibres”; Vertical, “Drinking vessel” and “Body of cavalry.” -When these words are solved one finds: - - - +-----+ - |#####| - |#####| - +-----+-----+-----+ - |#####| |#####| - |#####| |#####| - +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - |#####| | | |#####| - |#####| S | E | T |#####| - +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - |#####| | | | | |#####| - |#####| | T | U | R | |#####| - +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - | |#####| | | |#####| | - | |#####| E | G | O |#####| | - +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - |#####| | | | | | | |#####| - |#####| A | L | I | M | O | N | Y |#####| - +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - |#####| | | |#####| - |#####| N | A | P |#####| - +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -Now the unfortunate part of it is that the section is completed; there -are no more clues, and if one does not know what the humorous figure of -speech is and what the British provincialism is, there is no way of -discovering them aside from the use of deduction. A little thinking -will show that the first letter of the provincialism is more likely to -be “S” than any other letter, and a short search in the dictionary will -give “Sturm” as the answer; while as for -EUGMA, a brief running -through the alphabet will so limit the possibilities that a very short -search will reveal ZEUGMA as correct. - -It is extremely difficult, in the construction of cross word puzzles, -to avoid the use of such “unkeyed” letters, and effort has been used to -ensure the presence of common words where more than one letter is -unkeyed; but the exigencies of construction will not always allow this. -Nor should it always be done; allowance must be made for erudition on -the part of the solver. When such a construction appears as S-ALE-E, -defined as “Unequal sided and angled” and with all clues exhausted, it -is with a warm sensation of culture that one triumphantly fills the -blanks with “C” and “N.” And the same thrill is present when “One-sided -headaches,” standing clueless with M-GRI-S, is properly filled in to -become MEGRIMS. - -Thus is the solution achieved; in part by the science of deduction, in -part by mother-wit, in part by erudition; appeals to as many as -possible of the lobes of the brain. There is no nobler satisfaction -than the fitting in of the last word that makes the pattern complete; -one rises to lyric heights in the contemplation of the evolution of -such a word as one enthusiastic constructor included in his design, the -definition of which was “Parallel pairs of simulacra in echinoideans.” -The cross-constructions showed BIVIA as the necessary filler and the -vocabularies of the solvers were enriched by an addition of high -esthetic value and utter incomprehensibility, to be used as occasion -demands. - -The cross word solver becomes a collector, a connoisseur of words. They -lose, to him, their mundane purpose of a suitable medium for the -exchange of thoughts, and take on an esoteric significance, akin to the -appeal of slip-ware to the collector of pottery or the three-cornered -Mauritius to the philatelist. He and Hamlet are one. “Words, words, -words”—except that he has the advantage of the melancholy one. Hamlet’s -words ran in decorous file, one after the other; the solver’s twine and -intertwine, each leading to others, resulting in a harmonious whole -unapproached by any except the masterpieces of classic literature. - - - -It is generally conceded that as a form of amusement, cross words are -very instructive, and that as a form of instruction, they are very -amusing. The first thing that strikes the eye is the pattern in which -the words are intermingled. Our experience teaches that an all-over -interlock is an absolute necessity, and except in a few cases you will -find that the puzzles in this book possess this quality. The advantages -are obvious; when all the words interlock, you can check up the -horizontal by the vertical, and vice versa. - -Occasional stunt patterns are interesting, but as a general thing they -are apt to detract from the value of a puzzle as a thing to be solved. - -The numbering system used to be quite intricate and took up a lot of -precious space. It required two numbers to each definition. On July 22, -1923, at the suggestion of an ardent puzzler who calls himself -“Radical,” we offered the new system of numbering, which calls for only -one number to a definition. It is quite simple to read either -horizontally or vertically from one number, and forms a decided -improvement over the old style. “Radical” deserves a special vote of -thanks. All the puzzles in this book use the new system of numbering. - -As for the words that find their way into cross words, strange as it -may seem with the whole of the dictionary to choose from, the same old -favorites have a way of recurring ceaselessly. Of course, all the two -letter words are overworked, and many have to compromise on -abbreviations. Our sole objection to abbreviations is that they cannot -be defined without practically telling what they are. Parts of the verb -“to be”; prepositions; the Egyptian Sun God, Ra; Pi, em, ma, pa, i.e., -e.g., so, to, go, do, are to be found in almost every cross word -puzzle, and the solver gets heartily tired of them. So the better -patterns avoid these two word spaces. The three letters words contain -some old favorites, too. Eel, emu and gnu are among the most popular. -It seems that almost nine-tenths of the puzzles we look at have a -“snake-like fish” wriggling in them somewhere. And who hasn’t found -err, sin, and erg; cam, moa, tar; pal, ode, née, ace, e’er, o’er, sac; -lee and lea; ape and pea; ego, ago and age; era and eon; Eli and spa; -and all the notes of the scale from do to do. Truly, all these words -are to the puzzler as buttons are to a shirt. - -Among the longer words, the rule seems to hold that words with -alternating consonants and vowels can be used more frequently than -others. It is evident that a word containing three consecutive -consonants, for instance, may have to take, in the word just below it, -three consecutive vowels—and who hasn’t heard the cross-word -constructor asking plaintively for a seven-letter word beginning with -e-a-o and ending with u? Among the much-used words, you’ll surely find -opera, onus, tenor, estop, used, ameer, renal, depot, emit, cabal, -item, sere, lunar, nacre, neve, apse and the rest. - - - F. Gregory Hartswick - - - - - - - - - -THE SCIENCE AND LORE OF CROSS WORD PUZZLES - - -Everyone knows the classic Riddle of the Sphinx: what is it that walks -on four legs in the morning, on two at noon and on three in the -evening? the answer being man, who goes on hands and knees in infancy, -with bipedal locomotion in after years, and in old age with a cane. - -The posing of such riddles was an important affair with ancient -peoples. It was a tradition of the archaic Scandinavians, among whom it -shows clear literary relations. Thus, the riddle—what is the name of -the horse that flies with upright wings across the sea, the answer -being ship—becomes the metaphor, of a type common in the Sagas—the -upright-winged horse of the sea. - -Old forms of writing take on puzzle forms. In the Maya hieroglyphics of -Central America is found an element similar to the mechanism of the -rebus. It is as though the symbol meaning “hair” in juxtaposition with -the one meaning “ring,” might mean “hair and ring” or it might mean -herring. This makes the decipherment of the Maya writing so very -difficult for modern scholars. The old fashioned charade has rebus-like -elements. Cryptography, of course, must have begun in the earliest -times when a literate man had a secret message to convey. The most -recondite systems of hidden writing have been devised both for -practical use and literary fantasy, remembering only Poe’s ingenious -speculations. Much of the “Baconian Theory” has revolved around -supposed cryptography in Shakespeare. - -Ancient and medieval folk were much given to anagrams; that is, to -phrases of related meanings and made up of the same letters—as the -masterpiece, “They see,” answer “The eyes,” or “Honor est a Nilo,” -answer “Horatio Nelson.” Into theological controversy came such -damnations as this: The Calvinistic opponents of Jacobus Arminius -rearranged the letters of his name to spell, “vani orbis -amicus,”—“friend of the false world.” - -A recent “Baconian” argument based itself on an anagrammatical -treatment of the long dedication of the sonnets. The author rearranged -the letters of the dedication to form a statement that it was Lord -Bacon who had written the verse. An experienced puzzler might object -that he could rearrange the numerous letters to spell out a statement -of almost anything, that he would rearrange the letters that make up -Aristotle’s Poetics into a treatise proving that when the Democrats are -in office hard times come. Similar to the anagram in principle is the -transposition, in which you fill blanks in a text with words that are -made up of the same letters; for instance, angered, enraged, derange. - -Of ancient glory, too, is the palindrome, which is properly not a -puzzle at all, but an ingenuity. A palindrome reads the same backward -and forward, as in the familiar “Madam, I’m Adam,” and “Able was I ere -I saw Elba.” Perhaps the most charming of antique palindromes is the -Roman legal maxim, “Si nummi immunis,”—“if you pay you go free.” - -But perhaps the most fascinating of all word puzzles are the types in -which words are to be guessed from definitions. There is the well-known -acrostic, where with definitions as clues you arrive at a set of words -of which the initial letters, or finals or second letters or third, as -may have been determined, will spell another or other words. During the -struggle for Italian freedom an acrostic was seen in the shibboleth, -Vittorio Emmanuele Re D’Italia, giving the name of the composer, Verdi. -Most august of all is the fish symbol for Christ, which was held in -much mystic veneration in the early Christian centuries. The Greek word -for fish, Ichthys (Ιχθυς) was seen to be composed of the first letters -of the sacred phrase, Iesous Christos Theou Huios Soter (Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς -Θεοῦ Υἱὸς Σῷτήρ), meaning “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior.” - -It is the feature of determining words from definitions that has made -“word forms” the most popular genus of puzzle. A word form is a set of -words arranged one under the other so that their letters may be read -across and down to give sensible readings, sometimes the same readings -across and down and sometimes different readings. They may be of many -geometric configurations, as square, pyramid, octagon, etc. Their -origin is lost in the mists of time. - -Word forms, especially squares, have a considerable following of very -skillful adepts, most of them members of the National Puzzlers’ League, -who construct and solve them with the same sort of devotion that a -chess player demonstrates toward chess. Among such the forms take the -most learned guise and consist of the most unusual sort of words. With -the adepts any word that has ever been printed in an English book is -allowable, and thus there is a great selection of exotic words in -various spellings from old gazetteers, books of travel, etc. The adept -delights in words that no one has ever heard of before. Here are -several examples of recondite ingenuities. - - - By Mentor, in The Enigma - - M A L E G A G E S - A D E N O C E L E - L E U C A E M I C - E N C O R T I N E - G O A R L I N G S - A C E T I F I E S - G E M I N I A N I - E L I N G E N I O - S E C E S S I O N - - - By Gemini, in The Enigma - - V - R E S - I O N S - I N S E R T S - R O S E T R E E S - V E N E T I A N R E D - S E R R A T I O N - S T E N I O N - S E R O N - S E N - D - - - By Neophyte, in the Sunday Magazine, New York World - - Z I K R H O O D - I X I A O L L A - K I W I O L I D - R A I D Y A D A D O - Y U G A - A G N I - L E W D A I S U S U - E R I A U N I T - W I L L S I V A - D A L I U T A S - - - By Alec Sander, in The Enigma - - T - C A L - K A R A T - R A S E T E S - B A L A N I S M S - C O M M U T A T I N G - C O N T A B U L A T I O N - G A S T E R O L I C H E N E S - P E N T A G O N A S T E R I D A E - - -The great public following goes to the Cross Word Puzzle, which is an -expanded word form in which, commonly, only dictionary words are -allowed. It is this simplicity of words, together with its larger and -more elaborate construction, that makes it irresistible to the casual -puzzler. A cross word square, or other geometric figure, is a logical -modern development of the ancient word square. The insertion of black -spaces permits it to be made of any size and gives an interesting -variety of inner construction. - -The cross word puzzle began its career only a few decades back. It was -run for many years in the Sunday Magazine of the New York World and has -held a considerable and steady group of followers. Recently it has come -into a sudden great vogue and is being printed by many newspapers and -magazines throughout the country. Cross word puzzles are now published -for the first time in book form. - - - Prosper Buranelli - - - - - - - - - -DO’S AND DON’T’S FOR SOLVERS - - -Don’t get scared if you can’t guess the first horizontal word. Go -through the list till you find a definition that you’re sure of. That -is the simplest method of beginning the solution. When you have written -in all the words you are sure of you will have plenty of clues for the -unknowns. - -Don’t spend too much time with the long words unless you are sure of -them. They will appear when the short ones have been solved. Of course, -not all the short ones are easy, but they are generally more readily -attended to than the long ones. Also, there are more of them, -increasing the chances of finding familiar faces among the definitions. - -If you think a word is right, pencil it in lightly till you are sure. -This saves erosion of paper and temper. But never hesitate to try a -word that may be right. The trial and error method holds in puzzling as -it does in life. - -Remember that the horizontals furnish a sure check on the verticals, -and vice versa. - -If you are hopelessly stuck, try another puzzle. Inspiration sometimes -waits for a return engagement. - -A pleasant feeling of something attempted, something done accompanies -the solution of a cross word puzzle. It’s good for the inferiority -complex. - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 1 - -A SOFT BEGINNING - -By Gregorian - - -The two long central words, if solved at once, will give sufficient -clues to permit of rapid solution. But should these prove elusive, -surely such definitions as 9 horizontal and 29 vertical offer no -difficulties. Three-letter words meaning respectively “aged” and -“sorrowful” should hold few terrors for the beginner. - - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 1 | 2 |#####| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |#####| 7 | 8 | -| | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 9 | | 10 |#####| 11 | | |#####| 12 | | | -| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 13 | | 14 |#####| |#####| 15 | | |#####| -|#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 16 |#####| 17 | | 18 | | 19 | | |#####| 20 | -| |#####| | | | | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 21 | 22 |#####| 23 | | | | |#####| 24 | | -| | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 25 | | | | | | | | | | | -| | | | | | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 26 | |#####| 27 | | | | |#####| 28 | | -| | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 29 | | | | | | 30 |#####| | -| |#####| | | | | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 31 | | |#####| |#####| 32 | | 33 |#####| -|#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 34 | | |#####| 35 | | 36 |#####| 37 | | 38 | -| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 39 | |#####| 40 | | | | |#####| 41 | | -| | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Pronoun - 3 Albumin from castor-oil bean - 7 Exist - 9 Aged -11 Negative -12 Incite, hasten -13 Remote -15 Obstruction -17 Bivalves -21 Father -23 Tree -24 River in Italy -25 Owners -26 Printer’s measure -27 Tree -28 Personal pronoun -29 Legislative bodies -31 Compact mass -32 Moved rapidly -34 Walk about -35 Toss -37 Small child -39 Upon -40 Small openings -41 Act - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Exclamation - 2 Fairy - 4 Preposition - 5 Plotter - 6 Pronoun - 7 Express generally - 8 Pronoun -10 Obstruct -12 Owns -14 Disarranged -15 Voluble talkativeness -16 Above -18 The bow of Vishnu -19 Choose -20 Assumed an attitude -22 Limb -24 Peer -29 Sorrowful -30 Rested -31 Pale -33 Incline the head -34 Move -35 Behold -36 Exist -38 Preposition - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 2 - -TRY AND DO IT - -By W. W. Foster - - -This enigma comes from New London, where they specialize in regattas, -which is the one unusual word omitted from Mr. Foster’s contraption. - - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 1 | | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |#####| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | | 10 | -| | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 11 | | | |#####| 12 | | | |#####| | -| |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 13 | 14 |#####| 15 | | | 16 | | | |#####| 17 | | -| | |#####| | | | | | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 18 | | 19 |#####| 20 | | | | |#####| 21 | | | -| | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 22 | | | 23 |#####| 24 | | |#####| 25 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 26 | | | | 27 | |#####| 28 | 29 | | | | | -| | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####|#####| 30 | | |#####|#####|#####| 31 | | |#####|#####| -|#####|#####| | | |#####|#####|#####| | | |#####|#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 32 | 33 | | | | 34 |#####| 35 | | | | 36 | 37 | -| | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 38 | | | |#####| 39 | 40 | |#####| 41 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 42 | | |#####| 43 | | | | 44 |#####| 45 | | | -| | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 46 | |#####| 47 | | | | | | 48 |#####| 49 | | -| | |#####| | | | | | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 50 | | | |#####| 51 | | | 52 |#####| | -| |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 53 | | | | | |#####| 54 | | | | | | -| | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Choose - 6 Pores -11 Herb used in soup -12 Rent -13 Egyptian god -15 Serious -17 Either, else -18 Colloquial Irish exclamation -20 Coffins -21 Fifty-six -22 Pertaining to the mouth -24 Bog -25 Viewed -26 Oriental dish of meat and rice -28 Egyptian goddess -30 Unclose -31 As you say -32 Machine -35 They go off or out -38 Digits -39 Supply with strength -41 Arguments in favor of -42 Barbarian -43 Nunnery -45 Sooner than -46 Within -47 Wise sayings -49 By -50 The dye indigo -51 Quietude -53 Scoundrel, pest -54 Seek laboriously or blindly - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Harsh sound - 2 Behold - 3 Likewise, also - 4 Sour - 5 Duty - 6 After ends - 7 Agitate - 8 A worthless leaving - 9 Personal pronoun -10 Reed-pipe -14 Town in Italy -16 Born -17 Used for baking -19 Chemical group -21 Spare time -23 Stone -25 Domestic animal -27 Bog -29 Sacred vessel -32 Moral science -33 Part of speech -34 Preserve -35 Administered extreme unction to -36 Character in Ibsen play -37 Bloodsucking fly -40 Primer -43 Covering of a seed -44 Period of time -47 Unit -48 Point of compass -50 Exclamation -52 Editor (abbr.) - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 3 - -A SIMPLICITY - -By Isidore Edelstein - - -Some abbreviations may be treated as words, such as “i.e.,” “A.D.,” -points of the compass and so on. It is not the purest usage, but may be -passed to get over a difficult spot. This construction has an -abbreviation or two beyond these, but it is a simple, easy design for a -not too energetic moment. - - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |#####| 5 | 6 | 7 |#####| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | -| | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 13 | | | |#####| 14 | | | | 15 |#####| 16 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 17 | | | | | | |#####| 18 | | | | | | | -| | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 19 | |#####| 20 | | 21 | | |#####| 22 | |#####| | -| |#####| | |#####| | | | | |#####| | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 23 | 24 | | | 25 |#####| 26 | | |#####| 27 | | | 28 | | -| | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| |#####| 29 | | |#####| |#####| 30 | | |#####| |#####| -|#####| |#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 31 | | 32 | | |#####| 33 | | 34 |#####| 35 | | 36 | | 37 | -| | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 38 | | |#####| 39 | | |#####| 40 | | |#####| 41 | | | -| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 42 | | | 43 | |#####| 44 | 45 | |#####| 46 | 47 | | | | -| | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| |#####| 48 | | |#####| |#####| 49 | | |#####| |#####| -|#####| |#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 50 | | 51 | | |#####| 52 | | 53 |#####| 54 | | 55 | | 56 | -| | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 57 | |#####| 58 | | | | 59 |#####| 60 | |#####| | -| |#####| | |#####| | | | | |#####| | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 61 | 62 | | | | | |#####| 63 | | | | | 64 | | -| | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 65 | | | |#####| 66 | | 67 | | |#####| 68 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 69 | | | | |#####| 70 | | |#####| 71 | | | | | -| | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Banquet - 5 Lout - 8 Willow for making baskets -13 Formerly -14 Domesticated -16 Genus of African plant -17 Lockjaw -18 Flowing -19 For example -20 Ethiopian -22 French for “of the” -23 Funeral hymn -26 Chinese sauce -27 Asiatic animal -29 Large Australian bird -30 Sick -31 Musical drama -33 An enclosure -35 Questioner -38 Bird -39 And not -40 A vase -41 Congealed water -42 An injection -44 There -46 Class -48 And so forth -49 Fen -50 Level -52 Short for a physician -54 Thick cords -57 Baby’s first word -58 Order -60 Initials of the Rough Rider -61 Obscurity -63 Leaves -65 Impel -66 Consumed -68 Stupefy with a blow -69 Prophets -70 Back (French) -71 To correct - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Noisome - 2 Before - 3 A flower - 4 Reel - 5 Fertile spot in desert - 6 Part of “to be” - 7 Broad boat - 9 Foot coverings -10 Troy -11 An eternity -12 Royal -14 Fermenting vat -15 Two -21 Blood -24 To enroll as for jury duty -25 To flow forth -27 Clamor -28 Accomplish -31 Lyric poem -32 Female sheep -33 To scrutinize -34 Woman living in a convent -36 Relation -37 Things -43 Threatener -45 Aroma -47 Self conceit -50 Religious -51 Proverb -52 Nymph -53 Eating places -55 To gibber -56 To squander -58 Devoured -59 In the distance -62 Before, prefix -64 Weapon -67 Towards - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 4 - -TETRACRUCIFORM - -By Charles W. Snizek - - -A mystical design combined with everyday words shorter than the name it -it bears. - - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |#####| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |#####| -|#####| | | | | | |#####| | | | | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 11 |#####| 12 | | | |#####|#####|#####| 13 | | | |#####| 14 | -| |#####| | | | |#####|#####|#####| | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 15 | 16 |#####| 17 | | | 18 |#####| 19 | | | |#####| 20 | | -| | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 21 | | 22 |#####| 23 | | |#####| 24 | | |#####| 25 | | | -| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 26 | | | 27 |#####| 28 | |#####| 29 | |#####| 30 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | |#####| | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 31 | | | | 32 |#####| 33 | 34 | |#####| 35 | | | | | -| | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 36 | | | 37 |#####| |#####| 38 | | | |#####| | -| |#####| | | | |#####| |#####| | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####|#####|#####|#####|#####| 39 | | | | |#####|#####|#####|#####|#####| -|#####|#####|#####|#####|#####| | | | | |#####|#####|#####|#####|#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 40 |#####| 41 | 42 | 43 | |#####| |#####| 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 |#####| 48 | -| |#####| | | | |#####| |#####| | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 49 | 50 | | | |#####| 51 | | 52 |#####| 53 | | | 54 | | -| | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 55 | | | |#####| 56 | |#####| 57 | 58 |#####| 59 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | |#####| | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 60 | | |#####| 61 | | |#####| 62 | | 63 |#####| 64 | | | -| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 65 | |#####| 66 | | | |#####| 67 | | | 68 |#####| 69 | | -| | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 70 | | | |#####|#####|#####| 71 | | | 72 |#####| | -| |#####| | | | |#####|#####|#####| | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 73 | | | | | |#####| 74 | | | | | |#####| -|#####| | | | | | |#####| | | | | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Unsteady - 6 Appoint -12 Remotely -13 Besides -15 Upon -17 Worry -19 Bang -20 Fourth tone of musical scale -21 A bark or yelp -23 Pooh! -24 Climbing plant -25 Purpose -26 Poisonous sap of Malaysian trees -28 Toward -29 Perform -30 Hireling or serf -31 A drink made of wine, water, and lemon-juice, sweetened -33 Employ -35 Made of oak -36 Black -38 Practical application of knowledge (plural) -39 Without life -41 Temporary quarters -44 Gain -49 Foolish -51 Priest’s vestment -53 Heaths (Scot.) -55 Faithful -56 Either -57 Advertisement (abbreviation) -59 Province of Greece -60 A small deer -61 Energy -62 Bony rod attached to the spine -64 A bird -65 One, or any -66 Ornamental plant -67 Used to allure a fish -69 Unit of printer’s measure -70 Poison -71 To invade suddenly -73 Desist -74 Medicinal herb - - -VERTICAL - - 2 God of midday sun - 3 Aside from a main track - 4 Complete dress - 5 Vast - 7 Proviso - 8 Put to death - 9 Doctrine or system -10 Depart -11 A large serpent of America -14 Mourn -16 Back of the neck -18 Familiar pronoun -19 Lateral -20 Elegant -22 Male servant -25 Inquires -27 Total -30 Consume -32 Therefore -34 Shallow -35 Else -37 Surface of fibres -38 Consumed -40 Pertaining to stars -41 Guide -42 Beverage -43 Possessive pronoun -45 Part of “be” -46 Grieve -47 African river -48 Take -50 Common metal -51 Host -52 Sharp point -54 Element of poetry -56 Anointed -58 Record of daily events -61 Slender plant -63 Prejudice -66 Resinous substance -68 It is -70 Happen -72 Execute - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 5 - -WELL BALANCED - -By Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Waller - - -This is a nice study in words of medium length, as was dictated by the -two-ply “X” construction. The solver will observe that the central -interlock is of the good, familiar “L” joint sort. - - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |#####|#####|#####|#####|#####| 5 | 6 | 7 | |#####| -|#####| | | | |#####|#####|#####|#####|#####| | | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 8 |#####| 9 | | | 10 |#####|#####|#####| 11 | | | |#####| 12 | -| |#####| | | | |#####|#####|#####| | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 13 | 14 |#####| 15 | | | 16 |#####| 17 | | | |#####| 18 | | -| | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 19 | | 20 |#####| 21 | | | 22 | | | |#####| 23 | | | -| | | |#####| | | | | | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 24 | | | 25 |#####| 26 | | | | |#####| 27 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 28 | | | 29 |#####| 30 | | |#####| 31 | | | |#####| -|#####| | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####|#####| 32 | | | 33 | |#####| 34 | 35 | | | |#####|#####| -|#####|#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####|#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####|#####|#####| 36 | | |#####|#####|#####| 37 | | |#####|#####|#####| -|#####|#####|#####| | | |#####|#####|#####| | | |#####|#####|#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####|#####| 38 | | | | 39 |#####| 40 | | | | 41 |#####|#####| -|#####|#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####|#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 42 | | | |#####| 43 | 44 | |#####| 45 | | | 46 |#####| -|#####| | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 47 | | | |#####| 48 | | | | 49 |#####| 50 | | | 51 | -| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 52 | | |#####| 53 | | | | | | 54 |#####| 55 | | | -| | | |#####| | | | | | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 56 | |#####| 57 | | | |#####| 58 | | | 59 |#####| 60 | | -| | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 61 | | | |#####|#####|#####| 62 | | | 63 |#####| | -| |#####| | | | |#####|#####|#####| | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 64 | | | |#####|#####|#####|#####|#####| 65 | | | |#####| -|#####| | | | |#####|#####|#####|#####|#####| | | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Tumult - 5 Part of harness - 9 Thin metal strip -11 Seldom -13 Preposition -15 Small drink -17 Expression -18 Behold -19 Salt (chem.) -21 Proposition to be proved -23 Fabulous bird -24 Sustain -26 Not of the city -27 Spanish dry wine -28 Burlesque -30 Work with thin steel instrument -31 Engrave -32 Old-womanish -34 Miner’s hand-cart -36 Birth -37 Gone -38 Song -40 Organ pipes -42 Small hollows -43 Organ of sight -45 The other -47 Recent -48 Drudge -50 Pertaining to the Celts -52 Time -53 Pertaining to earth disturbances -55 Parent -56 Pronoun -57 A luminary -58 Dull -60 Concerning -61 Ire -62 Issue -64 Large book -65 Indivisible particle of matter - - -VERTICAL - - 2 Part of “to be” - 3 Long practiced - 4 Keen - 5 Injury - 6 Bodily member - 7 Pronoun - 8 File -10 Wild goat -11 Dance -12 Counterfeit -14 Sailors -16 World war battle -17 Net -18 Body of water (Scotch) -20 Division of Hindu philosophy -22 Metal as mined -23 Piquant -25 Feather-shaped -27 First of two stanzas -29 Rows -31 Fungus -33 Constellation -35 Cereal -38 Quote -39 American Pioneer -40 Scars -41 Carnelian -42 Sheet, usually paper -44 Opposed to No -46 Sovereign -47 Oil-burning vessel -48 Slave -49 Door of Masonic Lodge -51 Paradise -53 Sound -54 Insensibility -57 Silent -59 Humor -61 Stop -63 Preposition - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 6 - -BABY GRAND MODEL - -By Helen V. Christ - - -Only two long words. This should be pie for the hard-boiled solvers and -a pleasant exercise for the beginner. - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 1 | | 2 | 3 |#####| 4 |#####| 5 | 6 | | 7 | -| | | | |#####| |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 8 | | 9 | | 10 | | |#####| | -| |#####| | | | | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 11 | 12 |#####| 13 | | | | |#####| 14 | | -| | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 15 | | 16 |#####| 17 | | |#####| 18 | | | -| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 19 | | 20 |#####| |#####| 21 | | |#####| -|#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 22 | | | | | | | | | | | -| | | | | | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 23 | | |#####| |#####| 24 | | |#####| -|#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 25 | | |#####| 26 | | 27 |#####| 28 | | 29 | -| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 30 | |#####| 31 | | | | 32 |#####| 33 | | -| | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 34 | | | | | | 35 |#####| | -| |#####| | | | | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 36 | | | |#####| |#####| 37 | | |#####| -| | | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 To praise - 5 A storm - 8 Part of mouth (Pl.) -11 A conjunction -13 Coarse material -14 Regarding -15 Pin -17 The exertion of power -18 To spread loosely for drying, as newly mown grass -19 To gain -21 The young of various carnivora -22 Put through evolutions; intrigued -23 A ram or male sheep -24 Girl’s name -25 Possessive pronoun -26 A spasm -28 A pen for swine -30 The sixth tone of the diatonic scale -31 Cardium -33 To such a degree -34 Rabbits -36 Fatty tissues -37 Bird - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Closed curve - 2 Above - 3 Papa - 4 Inhabitants of a north-east division of China - 5 Precious stone - 6 So - 7 Increased till barely sufficient - 9 A grassy field -10 One of various small birds -12 A boat race, or a series of such races -14 Experiences sorrow for sin -16 A group or class embracing subordinate classes or species -18 Becomes sour, or spoiled, as milk; takes a new direction -20 That which is first or highest in rank or degree -21 Vegetable -25 Ailments; worries -26 Swamp -27 Prefix; three; three times; thrice -29 To bring into bondage; enslave -31 Mean dwelling -32 To spread loosely for drying -34 To have existence -35 Provided that; on condition that - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 7 - -A FOUR PETALED ROSE - -By M. Francis Cavallon, Jr. - - -Mostly short words, and not difficult. Good corner masses. Mr. Cavallon -is probably our youngest contributor, boasting as he does only fourteen -summers. - - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 1 | | 2 | 3 |#####| 4 | | 5 | | 6 |#####| 7 | 8 | | 9 | -| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 10 | | 11 | |#####| |#####| 12 | 13 | | |#####| | -| |#####| | | | |#####| |#####| | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 14 | 15 | | | |#####| 16 | | 17 |#####| 18 | | | 19 | | -| | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 20 | | | |#####| 21 | | | | |#####| 22 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 23 | | | 24 |#####| 25 | | |#####| 26 | | | |#####| -|#####| | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 27 | | |#####| 28 | 29 | |#####| 30 | 31 | |#####| 32 | | 33 | -| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 34 | |#####| 35 |#####| 36 | | 37 | | |#####| 38 |#####| 39 | | -| | |#####| |#####| | | | | |#####| |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 40 | | | |#####| |#####| 41 | | | |#####| | -| |#####| | | | |#####| |#####| | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 42 | 43 |#####| |#####| 44 | 45 | | 46 | |#####| |#####| 47 | | -| | |#####| |#####| | | | | |#####| |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 48 | | 49 |#####| 50 | | |#####| 51 | | 52 |#####| 53 | | | -| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 54 | | 55 | |#####| 56 | 57 | |#####| 58 | 59 | | |#####| -|#####| | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 60 | | | |#####| 61 | | | | |#####| 62 | | | 63 | -| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 64 | | | | 65 |#####| 66 | | |#####| 67 | | | | | -| | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 68 | | | 69 |#####| |#####| 70 | | | |#####| | -| |#####| | | | |#####| |#####| | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 71 | | | |#####| 72 | | | | |#####| 73 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Turkish coin - 4 Country in Asia - 7 Number -10 Black -12 Possessive pronoun -14 Cereal plant -16 Equality -18 Tears -20 Resinous substances -21 Wearied -22 Bird -23 South American bird -25 Optic -26 Italian province, famous for wine -27 Trouble -28 Thus -30 Front of an army -32 Sensory organ -34 Pronoun -36 Rhythm -39 Behold -40 Greek letter -41 Coarse file -42 Not at all -44 Small tropical tree -47 Note of musical scale -48 Quadruped -50 Enclosure -51 Biblical character -53 Number -54 Diseases -56 To immerse -58 Blow -60 Pipe -61 Be deserving of -62 Thing -64 Poker term -66 To clear -67 Extreme -68 God of love -70 Precious stone -71 Her own -72 Different -73 Unit of living organism - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Bar which falls into the teeth of a ratchet-wheel - 2 To reverberate - 3 To humble - 4 Preposition - 5 Record - 6 Yes - 7 Combustibles - 8 Richly embellished - 9 Chance -11 Old Testament -13 Conjunction -15 Bold -16 Fragment -17 Female of the ruff -19 Test -24 Because -26 Article -27 Mingled with -29 Picture drawn by fancy -31 Hangings in woven figures -33 An ancient imperial people -35 Marsh -37 Beverage -38 Large tree of the olive family -43 Much used as an article of food -45 Prefix denoting insufficiency -46 Dead, spiritless -47 Possessing a cutaneous disease -49 Article of apparel -50 Postscript -52 Adverb -53 Reveal a secret -55 Looks meaningly -57 Native of European country -59 Delightfully scented shrub -60 Owneth -63 Calcareous earth used as fertilizer -65 Thus -67 Erect -69 Such being the case -70 An alternative - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 8 - -A SPOTTED BORDER - -By E. Pinkerton - - -This puzzle possesses the merit of an interesting double central -interlock. Good interlock, be it observed, is the soul of cross word -puzzling. - - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 1 | | 2 | 3 |#####| 4 | 5 | | 6 |#####| 7 | | 8 | |#####| 9 | 10 | | 11 | -| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 12 | | |#####| |#####| 13 | | |#####| |#####| 14 | | |#####| | -| |#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 15 | 16 | | |#####| 17 | | | |#####| 18 | | | |#####| 19 | | 20 | | -| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 21 | | | | 22 |#####| |#####| 23 | 24 | |#####| |#####| 25 | | | | | -| | | | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| |#####| 26 | | 27 |#####| 28 | | | | 29 |#####| 30 | | |#####| |#####| -|#####| |#####| | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | |#####| |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 31 |#####| 32 |#####| 33 | | 34 | | |#####| 35 | | 36 | | |#####| 37 |#####| 38 | -| |#####| |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 39 | | | |#####| 40 | | |#####|#####|#####| 41 | | |#####| 42 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | |#####|#####|#####| | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| |#####| 43 | | | | 44 |#####| 45 | | | | 46 |#####| |#####| | -| |#####| |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 47 | 48 | | 49 | | |#####| 50 | | 51 | | |#####| 52 | | 53 | | 54 | | -| | | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| |#####| 55 | |#####|#####|#####| 56 | | |#####|#####|#####| 57 | |#####| |#####| -|#####| |#####| | |#####|#####|#####| | | |#####|#####|#####| | |#####| |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 58 | | 59 | | | 60 |#####| 61 | | | | 62 |#####| 63 | | | 64 | | 65 | -| | | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| |#####| 66 | | 67 | | |#####| 68 | | 69 | | |#####| |#####| | -| |#####| |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 70 | | | |#####| 71 | | |#####|#####|#####| 72 | | |#####| 73 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | |#####|#####|#####| | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| |#####| 74 | | | | 75 |#####| 76 | | | | 77 |#####| |#####| | -| |#####| |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 78 |#####| 79 | | |#####| 80 | | 81 | | |#####| 82 | | 83 |#####| 84 |#####| -|#####| |#####| | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | |#####| |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 85 | | 86 | | |#####| 87 |#####| 88 | | |#####| 89 |#####| 90 | | 91 | | 92 | -| | | | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 93 | | | |#####| 94 | | | |#####| 95 | | | |#####| 96 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 97 | | |#####| |#####| 98 | | |#####| |#####| 99 | | |#####| | -| |#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 100 | | | |#####| 101 | | | |#####| 102 | | | |#####| 103 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Church dignitary - 4 Trouble - 7 Part of church - 9 Irritate -12 Primary color -13 Sister -14 Energy -15 Falsehoods -17 Growth on the head -18 Clotted blood -19 Move by bounds -21 Excite -23 Make ill -25 Dry stretches of land -26 A collection -28 Seizes with the teeth -30 Beam of light -33 Written slander -35 A base (math.) -39 Noting grief -40 Law profession -41 Witty saying -42 Natty -43 Small depressions -45 Lavished fondness -47 Church holiday -50 Animal’s dens -52 Obsolete reed instruments -55 Upon -56 Ripple against -57 Else -58 Unorthodoxy -61 Regions -63 Changes -66 Intent -68 Domestic animal -70 Strip of wood -71 A rodent -72 Inflamed -73 Part of a clarinet -74 Lazy person -76 Is dull -79 Call for assistance -80 Variety of flower (Pl.) -82 Set free -85 That girl from Troy -88 Abraham’s nephew -90 Pertaining to N. Pole -93 A precious stone -94 Breathing organ of fish -95 Sour -96 Recently deceased -97 Same -98 Unit of measure -99 Fabulous bird -100 Part of the head (Pl.) -101 Variety of fruit -102 Weaver’s reed -103 Periodical payment - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Give out - 2 Open space - 3 Cozy residence (Pl.) - 5 Desert-dweller - 6 To enclose - 7 Fisherman - 8 Variety of carnelian - 9 Fresh set of horses -10 Generous -11 Borders of the mouth -16 Not well -20 Trouble -22 An elongated fish -24 Pronoun -25 Slate-cutters’ hammer -27 Italian river -28 A bunk -29 Island in Aegean Sea -30 Religious acts -31 Yawn -32 A planet -34 To bar -36 Small point -37 Oriental vessel -38 Frozen confections -43 Stupid -44 Pertaining to the sun -45 Profoundness -46 Wild dog -48 A mimic -49 Part of the foot -51 Etruscan god -53 Dexterity -54 To damage -58 Aid -59 A price -60 Unit of length (Pl.) -61 One of the twelve apostles -62 Performances alone -63 Variety of flower -64 Revise -65 Mentally sound -67 Girl -69 Saw lengthwise -74 Product of electrical decomposition. -75 Cylindrical device -76 Elementary substances -77 Absorb slowly -78 Corded fabric -79 Vends -81 In this manner -83 Anguish -84 Obese -85 Fine whetstone -86 Den -87 Small quantity -89 Bird of prey -91 Ornamental fabric -92 Cessation from motion - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 9 - -A CHECKERED CAREER - -By S. Czurles - - -Odd words and even. But good practice for the tough ones coming later -on. - - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 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 | | | |#####| 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-+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Instrument of defense - 5 Morsel - 8 African animal -13 Metal -14 Pertaining to tone -16 Prefix-not -18 Boy -19 Slang for girl -20 Seize -22 Highest part -24 Produce -26 A slight coloring -27 Chew -29 Lack -31 Limbs -32 Heavenly body -33 Day before event -35 Perceive -37 River (Sp.) -38 Limbs -40 Made -41 Member of senate -43 To have -46 A seed vessel -47 Heavenly body -49 Soaked -53 Need -56 To coin -57 Relating to Danes -58 An exclamation -60 Water ditch -62 Beast of burden -63 Bell -64 Growl (archaic) -65 Pronoun -66 Stakes -69 Relate -71 Perished -72 Demeanor -74 Destruction -76 Renders palatable -78 Incline -80 Tough timber -82 Fashion -84 Boat riding -88 Wicked -90 Recover -93 Tavern -94 Expire -95 Grain -96 Noah’s ship -97 A male human being -98 Transaction -100 Narrow fillet -102 Glory -104 Burrows -105 Pure -107 A line -108 To tear -109 Small amount -110 Short sleep -112 Propel -114 Honey gatherer -115 Disclose -116 Not moist -117 Necessary - - -VERTICAL - - 2 Particle - 3 Fasten - 4 Upon - 5 Shackled - 6 Inside - 7 Stained - 9 Upon -10 Negative -11 Recognize -12 Before winter -14 A color -15 Preserve -17 To transfer -18 Appear -19 Cotton seed separators -21 Deep tone -23 Separate -25 Suffix signifying a native -26 Revolve -28 Cry -30 Greek island -32 Fastened with thread -34 A clinging plant -36 Enough -39 Footwear -42 The first man -44 Tears -45 Entreating -47 Entangled -48 Over -49 Decreases -50 Toward -51 Prefix again -52 Danish people -54 Negative -55 Domesticated -56 A crowd -57 Small mark -59 Father -61 Half score -67 Toward -68 Carbon -70 Syllable of the scale -71 Perform -72 Encounter -73 Within -75 Female servant -77 Remain -78 Protruding tooth -79 Stands by -81 Draw together -82 In this place -83 Feels -85 A unit -86 At once -87 Auto appliance -88 Fermented -89 Expend -90 To rage -91 Leave out -92 An old cloth -99 Fasting season -101 A soft drink -103 To trouble -104 Perished -106 Roof covering -109 Honey gatherer -111 Father -113 Doctor (abbr.) -114 To live - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 10 - -SMALL BUT NEAT - -By Joseph E. Austrian - - -Eight unkeyed letters, but on the whole a very good design. Excellent -corner interlock. - - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | | 5 |#####| 6 | | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | -| | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 11 | | | |#####| 12 | | |#####| 13 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 14 | | | | 15 | |#####| 16 | 17 | | | | | -| | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 18 | | |#####| 19 | | 20 | | |#####| 21 | | | -| | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 22 | 23 | |#####| |#####| 24 | 25 | |#####| | -| |#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 26 | 27 | | |#####| 28 | | 29 |#####| 30 | | 31 | | -| | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| |#####| 32 | | |#####| 33 | | |#####| |#####| -|#####| |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 34 | | 35 | |#####| 36 | 37 | |#####| 38 | 39 | | 40 | -| | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 41 | | 42 |#####| |#####| 43 | | |#####| | -| |#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 44 | 45 | |#####| 46 | 47 | | 48 | |#####| 49 | 50 | | -| | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 51 | | | 52 | | |#####| 53 | | 54 | | | | -| | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 55 | | | |#####| 56 | | |#####| 57 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 58 | | | | | |#####| 59 | | | | | | -| | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 European nation - 6 Importance -11 Uncouth -12 Front -13 Reed instrument -14 Conjure -16 Textile material -18 Right for oxen -19 Musical instrument -21 Consumed -22 Debased coin -24 High priest of Israel -26 Fruit -28 Stupid person -30 The son of Seth -32 Softened bread -33 Violin with three strings -34 River flowing through Florence -36 Attempt -38 Military command -41 Expand -43 Pronoun -44 Make lace -46 Episcopal headdress -49 Rumor (French) -51 Temper -53 Inalienable inheritance -55 Variety of palm -56 Product of electrical decomposition -57 Bank -58 Mixes -59 First-born - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Formal and forbidding - 2 Norse writing - 3 Allude - 4 Recent (prefix) - 5 Always - 6 Peruvian prince - 7 Vessel - 8 Secure - 9 Source -10 Beliefs -15 Hill -17 Unit -20 Elastic fluid -23 Fabulist -25 Water of forgetfulness -27 Oxygen and nitrogen -28 Skillful -29 Empyrean -31 Unctuous liquid -34 Assault -35 Observe -37 Made of curled hair -39 Roofed street -40 Lavatory -42 Large bird -43 Female bird -45 Soon -47 Egyptian goddess -48 Where marriages are unmade -50 Costumes -52 Australian bird -54 Spread loosely - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 11 - -KEYS AND CROSSES - -By Harold McKay - - -The design of this bath mat is much more cryptic than the words you -will be called upon to fill in. - - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 1 |#####|#####| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |#####| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |#####|#####| 10 | -| |#####|#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####|#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####|#####|#####| 11 | | |#####|#####|#####| 12 | | |#####|#####|#####| | -| |#####|#####|#####| | | |#####|#####|#####| | | |#####|#####|#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 13 | 14 |#####| 15 | | | | 16 |#####| 17 | | | | 18 |#####| 19 | | -| | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 20 | | 21 | | | |#####| 22 | 23 | |#####| 24 | | | 25 | | | -| | | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 26 | | | |#####|#####|#####| 27 | | |#####|#####|#####| 28 | | | | -| | | | |#####|#####|#####| | | |#####|#####|#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 29 | | | | 30 |#####| 31 | | | | 32 |#####| 33 | | | | | -| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 34 | | | 35 | | | |#####| 36 | 37 | | | |#####| | -| |#####| | | | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####|#####|#####| 38 | | | |#####|#####|#####| 39 | | | |#####|#####|#####| -|#####|#####|#####| | | | |#####|#####|#####| | | | |#####|#####|#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 40 |#####| 41 | | | | |#####| 42 | 43 | | | | | 44 |#####| 45 | -| |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 46 | 47 | | | |#####| 48 | 49 | | | |#####| 50 | | | 51 | | -| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 52 | | | |#####|#####|#####| 53 | | |#####|#####|#####| 54 | | | | -| | | | |#####|#####|#####| | | |#####|#####|#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 55 | | | | 56 | 57 |#####| 58 | | |#####| 59 | 60 | | | | | -| | | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 61 | |#####| 62 | | | 63 | |#####| 64 | 65 | | | |#####| 66 | | -| | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####|#####|#####| 67 | | |#####|#####|#####| 68 | | |#####|#####|#####| | -| |#####|#####|#####| | | |#####|#####|#####| | | |#####|#####|#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####|#####| 69 | | | | |#####| 70 | | | | |#####|#####| | -| |#####|#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####|#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 2 Small boat - 6 Answer -11 Anger -12 A lament -13 Conjunction -15 Rock -17 Eligible jurors -19 Note in musical scale -20 Heavy woolen fabric -22 Imitate -24 A surgeon’s cylindrical saw -26 An image -27 Misdeed -28 Quintessence -29 Glide -31 Reason -33 Web-footed birds -34 Wonder -36 Lamentation -38 Fabricated -39 Give -41 Mesial plane -42 Came out -46 Make amends -48 Turret -50 Pleased expression -52 Debate -53 Wager -54 Open space -55 School master -58 Before -59 Large nails -61 Part of “to be” -62 Truck -64 Second cutting of hay -66 Provided that -67 Period of time -68 Strife -69 Drive back -70 Shelters - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Assure - 3 A bird - 4 A metal - 5 Marsh - 7 Period of time - 8 Flat bottomed boat - 9 Lewd smile -10 One who prints -14 Stone -15 Emotional -16 Artist’s stand -17 Enclosures -18 Sleight of hand -19 Religious ceremony -21 Wander -23 A tree -25 Pastries -30 Efface -31 Odor -32 An anesthetic -33 Groups -35 Confusion -37 Part of head -40 A stopper -41 Fancy -42 Pitcher -43 Measure of length -44 Dagger -45 Motives -47 Digits -49 To comply -51 Sediment -56 Knob -57 To ensnare -59 Web-footed bird -60 Saucy -63 A grain -65 Be indebted - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 12 - -A BLACK BEAUTY - -By P. B. Geotsch - - -Anyone who geotsch this one is good. 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|/////| | | | | | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 One of the highest order of mammals - 8 Less long -15 Old womanish -16 Little devil -18 Junction -20 Small, explosive report -22 Link -24 Enticed -26 Moisture -28 Aloft -29 A sloth -30 Having three teeth -32 Accomplish -34 Myself -35 Wise counsellor -38 Pertaining to the sister of Osiris -39 To render infamous -41 Anger -42 Observe -44 Between hip bone and false ribs -46 Procure -47 Hub of a wheel -49 A gloomy covering -51 One of a Slavic people of Eastern Germany -52 Location -53 Go in -55 Unclose -57 Faithful -59 Tract on the earth -60 I refuse -62 Belonging to me -63 Paradise -65 Exists -66 Males -67 Proportion; rate -68 Insane -69 Ourselves -70 Vessels for carrying liquids -72 To exist -73 Near -75 Narrow fissure -78 Irritable -80 One indiscriminately -82 Ethyl -85 Weapons -87 African antelope -89 A hairy man -91 Identical -93 Snake that crushes its prey -94 Unfettered -96 Victim -98 Impost -99 A painful swelling -101 Astound -104 Special aptitude -106 The thing -107 Otherwise -108 Sketch -110 Egyptian god represented by lion, cat or hawk -111 Proceed -112 A beverage -114 Lean -116 Different -118 Low, swampy land -119 To consume by using -121 Illimitable period of time -123 Odor -125 To break into fragments -126 Fiscal agent - - -VERTICAL - - 2 Knock lightly - 3 Inward - 4 Hireling - 5 A fermented liquor - 6 Theme - 7 Exist, in the first person - 9 Injured -10 Unit -11 Autocratically controlled -12 Toward -13 Termination -14 Foaming -16 Goddess of fecundity -17 Entreaty -19 To make less sour -21 Musical drama -23 “The sharpest sighted spirit of all in heaven” -25 A parent’s brother -27 An ant -29 In, on, near or by -31 Plunge -33 From; out of -36 At no time -37 Twisted strand -39 Founder and queen of Carthage -40 Flexible; dexterous -43 Small mountain lake -45 Single -48 Foes -50 Behold -51 Ourselves -52 Seats -54 Chinese coins -56 Plate bearing the Eucharist -58 Leaven -59 Venomous little snake -61 Natural combination of metals -62 Rabble -64 A fruit -71 The life principle -72 Cowshed -74 A period of time -76 Angry -77 Rodents -79 Disrupted -80 A tool -81 You -83 Hard fat -84 Under-officers of churches -86 Itinerary -88 Long -90 Exhausted -92 Contagious skin disease -94 To lose remembrance of -95 Crude -97 Asteraceous plant having small white blossoms -100 Maiden loved by Zeus -102 Companion; comrade -103 Hill in Jerusalem -105 Exclamation -108 Fop (slang) -109 Landing place with ascending stairs, in India -113 Timber and shade tree -115 A small insect -117 Before -118 Distant -120 Parent -122 Bovine quadruped -124 The other parent - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 15 - -A QUADRUPLEX QUIDDITY - -By Person or Persons Unknown - - -A truly marvelous study in four-letter words, with some notably lengthy -side-interlocks. 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Tardy -58 In front -59 Bivouac -60 Utter musical sounds -61 Trial of speed -63 Regret -64 Staff -65 Search -66 Light red -67 Pronoun -68 Preposition -69 Bottom -70 Sift -71 Generous -72 End of day (poet) -73 High nest -74 Send by telegraph -75 Useless plant -76 Throw -77 Measure of weight -79 Wan -80 Hear -81 Composer -82 European River -83 Ring slowly -84 Come to birth -85 Particle -86 Spring -87 Rule -88 Clean -89 Frame of animal -90 Pronoun -91 French, here -92 Winged mammals -93 Tunes -94 Wind -95 Male person -96 Musical compositions -97 Member of new school - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Blessest - 2 Old form of perform - 3 Act - 4 Body of water - 5 Earth (South Afr.) - 6 Period of time - 7 Thing - 8 Level place - 9 Earth -10 Consumed -11 Point of compass -12 Source -13 Snake-like fish -14 Similar to -15 African antelope -16 Placed -20 Consume by fire -23 Chief -24 Carriage for heavy commodities -25 Small tubular filament -26 Flip -27 Count on -28 Vending -29 Direct -30 Infrequent -32 Musical composer -33 Seize -34 Sell -35 Wharf -37 In a sound condition -38 Cultivated land -39 A weight -41 Audacious -42 Observed -43 Fief -44 Butterfly -46 Restoration to health -47 Assist -48 Two masted vessel -49 Carry -50 Female horse -51 Duration -52 Damp -53 Sharp pointed nail -54 Oaf -55 Vegetable -56 Tumult -57 Ground -58 Common Spanish proper name -59 Snug -60 Solitary -61 Peel -62 Feeling -64 Share -65 Erudition -66 Streaked -67 Mixup -69 Carry -70 Beak -71 Sharp -72 Loosen -73 Space of ground -74 Welt -75 Part of verb “to be” -76 Bird house -78 Venomous snake -79 Utensils -80 Early invader of England -81 Baseball slang term -83 Children -84 Inflection of speech -85 Small animal -87 Rodent -88 Small part -89 Rotten -90 Possesses -92 Have existence -93 Italian particle, used in music -94 Proceed -95 Note in musical scale - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 16 - -A WELL-TIED SAILOR’S KNOT - -By Captain F. F. Stewart - - -The sea contributes a spacious, ample field of voyage. It is remarkable -for the presence of no small units—two or three letter words. 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- -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Ancient goblet - 5 Puzzle - 8 Noiseless -12 Degree -13 Baking place -14 Consolidation -15 Skeleton of certain Marine Polyps -16 Brute -17 Close with wax -19 Glen -21 Proclamation -24 Felt with pleasure -27 Cleanse lightly with clean water -30 Uncivil -31 Tardy -32 Jewish mystic ornament -34 Rent -35 Stair -37 Become weary -39 Seclude -41 Melted -44 Unit -47 Long stuffed seat -48 High fliers -49 Personal servant -50 Half wit -51 Forcibly concise -52 Island -54 Mineralized vegetable matter -56 Drink habitually -59 Compact -62 Retail in small quantities -65 Texas wild cat -67 Dry -68 Land measure -70 A liberty -72 Extends over -74 Dry -77 Household task -79 Gangway aid -81 Worship -82 Endure -84 Object of worship -86 Circuitous way -87 Dye -88 Pertaining to a ray -89 Presiding dignitary -90 Garment -91 Part of the eye -92 Style of painting -93 Account book - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Arch - 2 Scared - 3 Upright - 4 Half cooked - 5 Fresh - 6 Donkey - 7 Join - 8 Ocean mammal - 9 Internal -10 Fur animal -11 Husbandman -18 Gather -20 Passage -22 Blunt -23 Assess -25 Coachman -26 Christmas -28 Newspaper paragraph -29 Mentally sound -31 Mother of Apollo -33 Rich source of wealth -36 In a peevish manner -38 Cattle thief -39 Long for -40 Lower deck -41 Noted -42 Bewitching -43 Informal ball -45 Denuded -46 Bailiff -53 Feudal slave -55 Imitates -57 Lineal measure -58 An equal -60 Paradise -61 Song -63 Gone west -64 Wild beast covert -66 Soldier equipment -67 Ran fast -68 Opposed to basic -69 Muster roll -71 Consuming -73 Each -75 Wandering -76 Trader -78 Escape -80 Bird -81 Having winds -83 Surface -85 By word of mouth - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 17 - -A TESSELATED TANGLE - -By Persephone - - -Perfect interlocking and very few unkeyed letters! Technically, this -puzzle is nearly perfect. 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- -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Rank - 6 Paralysis -10 Relating to medicine or doctors -15 Single -16 Fierce jungle beast -18 To brown over a blaze -20 Bustle -21 American Indian of certain tribe -23 Vagrants -25 To pack compactly -26 Matrons -28 Soft plug -29 Deceives -31 Accomplish -33 A dark, viscous liquid -34 Roomy, flat-bottomed boat -35 To be ill -36 A measure of area -37 Unaccustomed -40 That which serves to solve or explain -41 Occupied -43 A metal -44 Corrode -46 Skill -47 Pig -48 Marry -50 Instrument of punishment -52 Unclose -54 Vigor -56 Wind instruments -59 Tranquillity -61 A milk product -63 To bar -64 A grain -65 Frenzy -66 Undermined -68 Opposite middle of ship’s side -70 Inclosed -72 Is company -73 Wield diligently -74 To bow quickly -76 Goddess of Dawn -77 The whole -79 A digit -81 Fragment -83 Beast of burden -84 Dealt with -86 Convulsive gasp -88 Sisterhood -91 The man -92 Insect -93 A principle held as true -94 Contest by force -95 I disagree -96 Fraudulent -98 Solemn promise -99 Tidy; spruce -101 Close to -103 One who frees -106 Father of the gods -108 To call out -109 Less covered -110 A rough -112 Wrath -113 Church holiday -114 A small carnivore -115 Hidden - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Curves - 2 An insect - 3 Urgent want - 4 The thing - 5 To extend from a common point in different directions - 6 A wooden pin - 7 South American Indian - 8 Dull; stupid - 9 At a distance -10 Proceeding -11 In, on, by or near -12 Rodents -13 Artificial language based on Esperanto -14 Craven -17 A vapor -19 Augment -22 The Devil -24 Uncovered -25 Word of unknown meaning occurring often in the Psalms -27 Genus homo -30 Swine -32 Aquatic, fur-bearing animal -36 A shield or protection -38 Highest horizontal timber in a roof -39 Spike -41 Before -42 Woman teacher in private household -45 Highest point -46 To mimic -48 Bad in the highest degree -49 Go in -51 Famous English race -52 Nearly three-quarters of the Earth’s surface -53 A scold -55 Repairs -57 Cleopatra’s last resort -58 Turf -60 An affirmative -61 Small vessel -62 Illimitable period of time -67 Conscious -68 A forbidden drink -69 Rabble -71 A dyestuff -73 A number of animals in a group, herd or flock -75 An underworld god -78 Work -79 Pertaining to tiles -80 Manifestation of respect or reverence -82 In the direction of -83 The great artery -84 From there -85 To pull vigorously -86 Harsh -87 To have a care for -89 Pad worn in a woman’s hair -90 A verse form -96 Garlands bestowed for victories -97 A title of respect -99 At this time -100 The primeval body from which the gods created the world -102 Epoch -104 Implore -105 Small child -107 Natural compound of metals -109 Exist -111 You - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 18 - -HOT CROSS BUNS - -By Everett A. Brown - - -This cookie will put you in a Brown study. 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Weiner - - -This looks like a rocky road. Don’t trip over it. Constructionists -will please notice that there is not a single unkeyed letter in -this chef d’ouvre. - - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |#####| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |#####| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | -| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 16 | | | | |#####| 17 | | | | |#####| 18 | | | | | -| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 19 | | | | | 20 | | |#####| 21 | | 22 | | | | | | -| | | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 23 | | |#####| 24 | | | | 25 | | | | |#####| 26 | | | -| | | |#####| | | | | | | | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 27 | | | 28 | | |#####| 29 | | |#####| 30 | | 31 | | | | -| | | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####|#####| 32 | | |#####|#####| 33 | | |#####|#####| 34 | | |#####|#####| -|#####|#####| | | |#####|#####| | | |#####|#####| | | |#####|#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 35 | 36 | | |#####|#####| 37 | | | | 38 |#####|#####| 39 | | 40 | 41 | -| | | | |#####|#####| | | | | |#####|#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 42 | | | | 43 | 44 | | |#####| 45 | | 46 | 47 | | | | | -| | | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 48 | |#####| 49 | | | |#####|#####|#####| 50 | | | |#####| 51 | | -| | |#####| | | | |#####|#####|#####| | | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 52 | | 53 | | | | | 54 |#####| 55 | | | | | 56 | | | -| | | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 57 | | | |#####|#####| 58 | | 59 | | |#####|#####| 60 | | | | -| | | | |#####|#####| | | | | |#####|#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####|#####| 61 | | 62 |#####|#####| 63 | | |#####|#####| 64 | | |#####|#####| -|#####|#####| | | |#####|#####| | | |#####|#####| | | |#####|#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 65 | 66 | | | | 67 |#####| 68 | | |#####| 69 | | | | 70 | 71 | -| | | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 72 | | |#####| 73 | | 74 | | | | 75 | | |#####| 76 | | | -| | | |#####| | | | | | | | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 77 | | | 78 | | | | |#####| 79 | | | | 80 | | | | -| | | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 81 | | | | |#####| 82 | | 83 | | |#####| 84 | | | | | -| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 85 | | | | |#####| 86 | | | | |#####| 87 | | | | | -| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 To drop or cast down - 6 Toughen by use -11 The tails of notes (musical) -16 Secretion of kidneys -17 Wound about -18 In regard to -19 A waterfall -21 Private warfare -23 Tree -24 Wife of a maharaja (Hind.) -26 To mark with ridges -27 Prisoner server certain term (colloq.) -29 Headpiece -30 Philosophy of morals -32 Assistance -33 Little devil -34 Rested -35 To draw out and twist threads -37 Contends with -39 Mumble -42 Reticent -45 One who releases -48 About -49 Painful -50 A sound used to convey meaning -51 Act -52 One who listens -55 Remunerated -57 The burbot -58 Diseased person -60 Expressions of affirmation -61 Segment, circle -63 Spirit -64 Deface -65 Inventor of a gas burner -68 High priest (Bib.) -69 Warbles -72 Girl’s name -73 Give up -76 Lighted -77 Written laws -79 Cloak -81 Oriental guitar -82 Hinder -84 Father’s or mother’s brother -85 Musical drama -86 To eat or wear away -87 One who eats - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Ancient European silver coin - 2 Eradicate - 3 Pertaining to Mithra - 4 Mothers: a Tagalog term - 5 Named - 6 Constant teasing desire - 7 Act of swimming - 8 Above - 9 A patcher -10 Earthly paradise -11 Pupils of military school -12 Unit -13 Rubbish -14 Foolish action -15 Poniards -20 Famous Swiss river -22 Born -25 Inclined plane -28 Clergymen -31 Wood nymph -35 A booth -36 Inner court of Spanish dwelling -37 Willow basket -38 Drainage pipe -40 Sister of Circe (Gr. myth.) -41 Jabs -43 Part of foot -44 Vessel -46 In a humble rank -47 Period of time -53 Salt of stannic acid (chem.) -54 Backturner -55 Called to mind -56 Abandoned ship -59 Heap -62 Pause (poet.) -64 House for unknown dead -65 Singer -66 Remove extremity -67 Seed -69 Affirmative -70 Inventor of sheening process -71 Guide -74 Advise; counsel (Scot.) -75 Great -78 Sailor -80 Heroine in Spenser’s Faerie Queene -83 At - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 20 - -FIVE GREEK CROSSES - -By William Ziegler - - -Four interesting, independent masses with a solid central interlock. -This is the kind that leads you merrily on from one section to -another. - 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- -HORIZONTAL - - 1 An executive - 7 Assaults -14 Pertaining to tones -15 24 sheets of paper -17 Behold -19 Clothes -20 Undressed kid -21 Parent -22 Give egress -24 Constellation -26 Babylonian war-god -27 Matter in aeriform state -28 Guile -30 Oscillators -33 Bundle -34 Finished -36 Perspire -37 Adhesive compound -38 Staggered -40 Beast of burden -41 Upright -42 Small fur-bearing animal -44 English school -46 Commiseration -47 Partakes of food -50 Wild animal -52 Card game -55 Fruits of genus malaceae -58 Rower -60 Tyrolean song -63 Certain tones in Greek music -64 Auctions -66 Appellations -67 Fool -68 Floor coverings -70 Change position -71 Some -72 Cut and dried grass -73 Amer. Protective Assn. (abbr.) -75 Japanese coin -76 Nickname of Baseball player -77 Keynote -78 Bird -80 Latin conjunction -81 Name of English nobleman -82 To come into -84 Surround -85 Constituent substance - - -VERTICAL - - 2 Near - 3 Mine-roof support - 4 Veins of moth’s wing - 5 Wharves on river - 6 Joints of the arms - 8 Eject stream of water - 9 Suppliants -10 Opera -11 Anger -12 Chinese measure -13 Blooms -16 Woven vessels -18 Believe -21 Agreements -23 Church officer -25 Organs of vision -27 Aeriform mixtures -29 Elongated fish -31 Apart -32 Comfort -33 Utensil -35 Determines -37 Vessel used in constructing bridges -39 Adores -41 White with age -43 American humorist -45 Beverage -48 Edict -49 Appropriately -51 Loud noise -52 Liberate -53 Commonwealth (Antiq.) -54 Agrees -56 Flower -57 Permit -59 Mountain range -61 Barrier -62 Dike -64 Maxim -65 Gazes -68 Light boat -69 Reaches -72 Tribe of Indians -74 Poker term -77 It exists (contr.) -79 Number -81 Thing -83 Red Cross - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 21 - -FOUR LEAF CLOVER - -By Marcam - - -This lucky design offers two unusual features: an excellent -conventionalized figure and freedom from excess of black spaces. -The solution offers difficulties; how much more the construction! -The three-by-five interlocks at the sides in especial deserve -worshipful consideration. - - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 1 | 2 | | 3 | 4 |#####| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |#####| 11 | 12 | | 13 | 14 | -| | | | | |#####| | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 15 | |#####| 16 | | 17 |#####| 18 | | | | |#####| 19 | | |#####| 20 | | -| | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 21 | |#####| 22 | 23 | | | | | | 24 | |#####| 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|#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Portico - 5 Characterizing the beginning of a period -11 A language of ancient Italy -15 In case -16 A color -18 To strip of rigging -19 A vase -20 Not any -21 Exist -22 Deeply malignant -25 An ejaculation of pain -27 A Greek leader in the Trojan war -30 Female sheep -31 Highest in power -34 True -35 Trades (colloquial) -37 Had business relations -38 Because -39 Cupidity -41 Analysis -44 Wary (slang) -47 Devoured -48 Unclose -49 Permit -51 Bustle -53 Not even -55 The foot of a clawed animal -57 A quick bow -59 Quick to learn -61 Observed -63 One of the seven daughters of Atlas -65 Slovenly women -68 A thread of metal -69 Statues -70 A measure of capacity -71 To take vengeance for -72 Not any -73 Primal -76 Stretched tight -77 Insect -78 Jewish Territorial Organization -79 Before -80 Little devil -82 Born -83 A boy -85 Metal dish -87 A kind of sweet potato -89 Decay -91 Models; standards -93 Facing toward the direction from which a glacier impinges -95 More mature -97 Yes -98 Fathers -100 To expiate -102 Preposition -104 The language of the Frisians -106 Struck -108 To surpass in riding -110 Above and in contact with -111 Consigns to a special category -114 Bone -115 The great god of the sun -117 Perish -119 Get up -120 The Goddess of Dawn -122 A measure of area -123 To be -124 Slapped -125 Heliograph (colloquial) - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Religious - 2 From - 3 Iron vessel for holding an illuminant - 4 The man - 6 A low form of wit - 7 On one occasion - 8 Diadems - 9 Sum paid for service -10 Past -11 Otherwise -12 Forced the air audibly through the nose -13 One, or any -14 Memoranda -17 Fear of impending evil -19 Customary -21 Beside -23 Cleopatra’s final remedy -24 Employ -26 You and I -28 A length of unshaped timber -29 To move swiftly -32 A fold of cloth -33 Have permission -36 Undermine -37 Coloring -40 Brightly -42 Emotion -43 Cattle of a certain breed -45 A mare famed in story -46 Existing in name only -48 Said to be a wise bird -50 Color imparted to the skin by the sun -52 Less bitter -54 A faithful friend -56 Piece of property -58 Aquatic, fur-bearing animal -60 Sacred poem -62 To debate -64 A stage of life -66 Forbidden by the 18th Amendment -67 To soak -68 Rainy -74 To hang down; droop -75 Intention; design -78 Mental images -81 To stamp something in or on -84 Adds as an accessory -86 A patient beast -88 A king of Judah -90 Laborious -91 Sky and war god of Teutons -92 Steeple -94 That from which anything primarily proceeds -95 To excite to activity -96 Relieved of -97 In flames -99 Title bestowed on aviators after certain accomplishments -101 One end of a shoe -103 An African -105 A maiden changed into a heifer by Hera -106 The wife of Zeus -107 Work; undertaking -109 Exists -112 To lick up with the tongue -113 A little pile of sand -116 A tool -118 The thing -121 An exclamation -122 Sloth - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 22 - -AT THE CROSSROADS - -By Helen V. Christ - - -Small, but plenty of unusual words to tax the lobes of your brain and -the pages of your dictionary. Do you like difficult words? However, we -have one or two still harder than this one. - - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | | 5 | 6 |#####| 7 | 8 | | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | -| | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 13 | | | |#####| 14 | | 15 | | |#####| 16 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 17 | | 18 |#####| 19 | | |#####| 20 | | |#####| | -| |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 21 | 22 |#####| 23 | | 24 |#####| |#####| 25 | | |#####| 26 | | -| | |#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 27 | | 28 |#####| 29 | | 30 |#####| 31 | | |#####| 32 | | | -| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 33 | | | 34 |#####| 35 | | 36 | | |#####| 37 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####|#####| 38 | | |#####| 39 | | |#####| 40 | | |#####|#####| -|#####|#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####|#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 41 | 42 | | |#####| 43 | | | | 44 |#####| 45 | | 46 | 47 | -| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 48 | | |#####| 49 | | |#####| 50 | | 51 |#####| 52 | | | -| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 53 | |#####| 54 | | |#####| 55 |#####| 56 | | 57 |#####| 58 | | -| | |#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 59 | | |#####| 60 | | 61 |#####| 62 | | 63 |#####| | -| |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 64 | 65 | | |#####| 66 | | | | 67 |#####| 68 | | 69 | | -| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 70 | | | | | | |#####| 71 | | | | | | | -| | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Herbivorous fish-like mammal of the Atlantic shores - 7 Quick succession of notes from a horn -13 Minor prophet (8th century B.C.) -14 To conceal or store as in the earth; hide -16 A light-yellowish brown -17 A piece of metal that holds another in place, or adjusts a bearing -19 Regret -20 Scot.—“to go” -21 Close to; near by; in; within -23 Little island, especially in inland waters -25 Have a purpose; endeavor earnestly -26 Copper (Chem.) -27 Roam idly abroad; ramble; stray -29 Changeling -31 Priest’s white linen vestment -32 Close; obstruct; hinder -33 Shield or defensive armor, as the mantle of Minerva -35 Mountain range in N. E. Utah -37 Constituting a large number; numerous -38 Heavy textile fabric, made in one piece, to cover a portion of - a floor -39 Parasite -40 Part of the verb “to be” -41 Notify or summon -43 Showiness of achievement; brilliancy -45 Bind to secrecy -48 Make, grow, or seem to grow old -49 Exclamation of repugnance or disgust -50 Steep, or soak, as flax -52 Be slow; tardy; late -53 Preposition -54 Suffix used to form present participles -56 Pet or strike softly -58 Abbreviation for “company” -59 Brief poem characterized by exalted feeling -60 Carryall -62 Power of comprehending and judging -64 Slang for “no” -66 Court -68 God (Latin) -70 Betrayal; treachery; or breach of allegiance -71 Now going on; current - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Carry out by action, effort, or skill of any kind - 2 Part of the verb “to be” - 3 Square or rectangular block of wood - 4 Largest continent - 5 Prefix, from, out of; used before many words beginning with a - consonant - 6 Auditory organ - 7 Belonging to a particular genus or class; definite article - 8 Scot: one - 9 Flock; brood -10 Bad luck; loss; the worst; also the best -11 Abbreviation for “railroad” -12 Art or practice of foretelling by signs or omens -15 Drinking vessel -18 From Greek “life”: a combining form -20 Protecting crane-arm; jib -22 Something attached -24 Letter in the Greek alphabet -25 Biol: A wing, or a wing-like part -26 Be able -28 Funeral hymn or tune -30 Small seed-eating bird, as a bunting, sparrow -31 The fragrant essential oil extract from rose petals -32 Bark-tanned sheep-skin for bookbinding -34 Woo -36 Nothing -37 Tangled -41 Secure a patent for -42 Gone by; past -43 Biol: An ovum or germ cell -44 Spread loosely for drying, as newly mown grass -46 Resinous substance exuded from an East-Indian scale-insect and used - in making varnishes -47 One who advocates or practises egoism -49 French: Fem. gen. “one”; an; -51 Beat; torture; vex; also to harden or prepare -54 Any product of mental apprehension or activity -55 Conjunction -57 Offers -59 Poetic: to open -60 Bar -61 Drink slowly -63 Golf term -65 Conjunction -66 River in Italy -67 Conjunction -69 Prefix (negative) - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 23 - -CROSSWORD VALENTINE - -By J. W. Shaw - - -This contributor has dedicated himself to romance. 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- -VERTICAL - - 1 Man’s name - 2 Small child - 3 Mineral - 4 Companion - 5 Japanese shawl - 6 Yale - 7 Instead - 9 Boast -10 Note of scale -12 Diphthong -13 Revel, glut -14 Pronoun, first person singular -15 Vessel -16 Grievest -18 After the birth of Christ -19 Note in scale -20 Grin -22 Affiliation -23 Procured -25 Northern animal -26 Part of wheat plant -28 Curtain -33 Sheds -34 Female name -35 Obtain redress by law proceedings -37 Female name -38 Small cottage -45 Ready -46 Snare -47 Monkeys -49 Orb -50 To reverence -51 Appendages -52 Small island -57 Stride -59 Sewing implements -60 Not common -61 Liquor -62 Italian river -63 Oriental weight -68 Fold over -70 Providing -72 Ocean -79 Girl’s name -80 Ancient Grecian coin -81 Was indebted to -82 Male name - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 24 - -EIGHTEEN KARAT - -By Harry Friedman - - -The author, a jeweler of Maiden Lane, dragged this from his treasure -chest. 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- -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Savory - 5 Cuts - 9 Visible moisture -14 Ladies -15 Cruel ruler -17 Part of a Mohammedan house -19 On any occasion -20 Judicious -22 Priest -23 Encounter -25 Constructive Metabolism -27 Else -28 Slow (musical term) -29 Peninsula in East Asia -30 Toward -31 Downcast -32 Killer -35 Utmost possible -37 Pertaining to eye -39 Water pitcher -40 Limb (anat.) -42 Not lawful -44 Note of scale -45 Covered with a cupola -47 Conical mound of earth -48 Tear -50 American Protective Association -51 Daughter of Cadmus (myth.) -52 Read with attention -53 Beverage -54 Transgress -55 Nothing -56 Crouches -59 Interrogation -61 Shrill, discordant whistle -64 Procreated -65 Highway -67 Beam, set as a prop -69 Angling term -70 Goddess of the hearth -72 One -74 Conjunction -76 Public assembly -78 Forcibly -80 One -81 Falsetto tenor voice -83 Capturing cattle -85 A special privilege -86 Of boundless extent -89 Tune -90 Wanderer -92 Philosophers -93 Engraved circular piece of metal -94 Restore -95 Term used in printing -96 Disinfectant - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Flavor - 2 Expression of hearty assent - 3 Blow through - 4 Part of verb “to be” - 5 Regular contraction of the heart - 6 Curve - 7 Contest between nations - 8 Cowardly fellow -10 Exclamation -11 City in California -12 Verbal -13 Forgive -14 Lure into danger -15 Colors -16 Drift -18 City in Georgia -20 Put on -21 Sailor -24 Re-excavate -26 Defy -31 Lustrous -33 Tool -34 Affirmative -36 Body that gives light -37 Oily -38 Carried in a wagon -40 Pineapples -41 Aged -42 Disease of the skin -43 Prevaricates -45 Noble -46 Child’s toy -49 Parent -50 Like -57 Interpreter to an embassy -58 Person afflicted with abhorrent disease -59 Goddess of the dawn -60 Article of apparel -62 An opera -63 Signifies -65 Retaliates -66 Language as modified by local peculiarities -68 Silk fabric -70 Sharpens -71 Accumulate -73 Ministering spirit -75 Gentleman -77 Sort of glove -79 Beast of burden -80 Record of a single year -82 Designate -84 Indicating presence of iodine (comb. form) -87 Pithy saying -88 Misleading statement -91 From (prefix) -93 Mine - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 25 - -HONEYMOON HOKUM - -By Mr. and Mrs. William Stern II - - -They constructed this on their honeymoon, which is a good argument -for marriage. - - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\| 4 |\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\| 8 |\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\| -|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\| |\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\| |\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|\\\\\|\\\\\| 1 | 2 | 3 | | 5 | |\\\\\| 6 | 7 | | 9 | 10 | 11 |\\\\\|\\\\\| -|\\\\\|\\\\\| | | | | | |\\\\\| | | | | | |\\\\\|\\\\\| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|\\\\\| 12 | | | | | |#####| 13 |#####| 14 | | | | | 15 |\\\\\| -|\\\\\| | | | | | |#####| |#####| | | | | | |\\\\\| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|\\\\\| 16 | | | |#####| 17 | 18 | | 19 | |#####| 20 | | | |\\\\\| -|\\\\\| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | |\\\\\| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|\\\\\| 21 | | | |#####| 22 | | | | |#####| 23 | | | |\\\\\| -|\\\\\| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | |\\\\\| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 24 | | |#####|#####| 25 | | | | | | 26 |#####|#####| 27 | | | -| | | |#####|#####| | | | | | | |#####|#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|\\\\\| 28 | | 29 | 30 | | |#####| |#####| 31 | | 32 | 33 | | |\\\\\| -|\\\\\| | | | | | |#####| |#####| | | | | | |\\\\\| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|\\\\\| |#####| 34 | | |#####| 35 | | 36 |#####| 37 | | |#####| |\\\\\| -|\\\\\| |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| |\\\\\| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|\\\\\|\\\\\| 38 | | | | | | | | | | | | |\\\\\|\\\\\| -|\\\\\|\\\\\| | | | | | | | | | | | | |\\\\\|\\\\\| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|\\\\\| 39 |#####| 40 | | |#####| 41 | | |#####| 42 | | |#####| 43 |\\\\\| -|\\\\\| |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| |\\\\\| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|\\\\\| 44 | 45 | | | | 46 |#####| |#####| 47 | | | | 48 | |\\\\\| -|\\\\\| | | | | | |#####| |#####| | | | | | |\\\\\| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 49 | | |#####|#####| 50 | | 51 | | 52 | | |#####|#####| 53 | | | -| | | |#####|#####| | | | | | | |#####|#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|\\\\\| 54 | | 55 | 56 |#####| 57 | | | | |#####| 58 | 59 | | |\\\\\| -|\\\\\| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | |\\\\\| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|\\\\\| 60 | | | |#####| 61 | | | | |#####| 62 | | | |\\\\\| -|\\\\\| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | |\\\\\| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|\\\\\| 63 | | | | 64 | |#####| |#####| 65 | 66 | | | | |\\\\\| -|\\\\\| | | | | | |#####| |#####| | | | | | |\\\\\| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|\\\\\|\\\\\| 67 | | | | | |\\\\\| 68 | | | | | |\\\\\|\\\\\| -|\\\\\|\\\\\| | | | | | |\\\\\| | | | | | |\\\\\|\\\\\| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\| |\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\| |\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\| -|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\| |\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\| |\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\|\\\\\| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Leaves of corolla - 6 Pertaining to particles -12 Soda ash -14 Part of optical or surveying instrument -16 Neighborly gatherings for special purposes -17 Drives with blows -20 Kind of fish -21 Outside covering -22 Subdues -23 Spill -24 In favor of -25 Suits -27 Decay -28 Kind of walking stick -31 Lost cattle -34 Entered in political contest -35 Swamp land -37 Groove -38 Apparently contrary to truth (adverb) -40 Tavern -41 Young dog -42 Form of entertainment -44 Anything that heals -47 Tumults -49 Male of kind of mammal -50 Seamen -53 Endeavor -54 Relate -57 Excretion from kidneys -58 Projecting part of building -60 Dish of many ingredients -61 Allots -62 Den -63 Alter, correct -65 Cases of wooden slats -67 Indicate -68 Laxer - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Membrane lining thorax of mammals - 2 Pieces out - 3 Stint - 4 Crony - 5 Hearken - 7 Drinking cups - 8 Sun - 9 Omit -10 Object of devotion -11 Unit of heat -12 Avoids -13 Fondness for one’s own sex -15 Displace -18 Base of shellac -19 Something prized -25 “Yes, we have no” -26 Cloud form -29 Path -30 Mountain lakes -32 Canons -33 Large size paper -35 Dude -36 Pinch -39 One who puts an end to -43 Willows -45 Anointed -46 False god or idol -47 Painting on plaster -48 Less difficult -51 Wrath -52 Indefinite pronoun -55 Be alive -56 Cut of meat -58 Exclamation of sorrow -59 Head -64 Female of kind of pachyderm -66 Take by force - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 26 - -FOR THE ZIGZAG ZEALOT - -By Joseph H. Gersten - - -This pattern zigs itself one way and zags itself the other way. 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- -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Layer of bets by word - 8 Severely self-denying -15 Exclusively -16 Non-poisonous serpent -18 The large intestine -20 Part of “to be” -22 Entertainment -23 On condition that -24 Automobile -26 Young dog -27 Friendly hint -28 Beverage -30 Cloth measure -31 Noblewomen -35 Winding about and constantly receding from a center -37 In a tilted manner -38 Brain-box -41 Secret -42 Large cask -43 Conjunction -45 Intensity of passion -46 Note of diatonic scale -47 Small dram -48 In the manner of -49 Agitate -50 Humans -51 Race -53 Prefix meaning “with” -54 Italian composer -55 Pertaining to weight -57 Ardor -59 Fool -60 A low fellow -61 Where animals are kept -62 A useful insect -64 Strip of wood -67 Domesticated -69 Behind the time -72 Silver (chemical) -74 Exclamation -76 Sister -77 A heavenly body -78 Objective pronoun -79 The spawn of fishes -81 King of Norway who christened the country -82 Stretched tight -83 Intention -84 A bright-colored North American bird -86 Metal bearing rock -88 To be agitated -90 An object of worship -91 The positive terminal of a cell -93 Snake-like fishes -94 Recent -95 Sojourn -97 A Scottish Highlander -100 Hinder -101 Edition (abbr.) -102 Cast-off -103 Part of the shoe -105 Christmas (French) -107 Egyptian god -108 Genuine -109 A passageway -111 Ingenuously piquant -113 To be extremely fond of -114 Strength -115 Chief officer of a cathedral - - -VERTICAL - - 2 Egyptian god - 3 Beverage - 4 Behold - 5 River of India - 6 Trickle (Scotch) - 7 Plant of the parsley family - 9 Native of Scotland -10 Figures that taper uniformly from a circular base -11 Elevated railroad -12 A weight of about 28 lbs. -13 Within -14 A coarse, transparent muslin -16 Pledge -17 Venomous serpent -19 A kind of candy -21 A conspicuous passage -23 Pertaining to Slavs -25 Germanic god -26 Small -29 Terrify -30 Ireland -32 French for “he” -33 Period of time -34 Low-bred dog -36 Not (prefix) -39 Fleets of war vessels -40 Decomposes into molecules -44 Tree -46 Sheltered side -49 Black -52 A small drum -54 Secretion -55 Nocturnal flying mammal -56 A pod or husk -58 Not old -63 A strict disciplinarian -65 State of excitement -66 Clever -68 Little world -69 A large fish -70 Deceased -71 A school term -73 Incited -75 Dare (obs.) -77 Rested -78 A pale moth with floury wings -80 Enough -83 One of Adam’s sons -85 Arabic article -86 Upon -87 Boy’s nickname -89 Pronoun -91 Yes -92 For instance -95 Covering of the foot -96 In the Year of Our Lord -98 Indefinite article -99 Show the way -102 A drunkard -103 Spanish for “aunt” -104 High priest -106 A falsehood -108 Proceed -109 By -110 Half a printer’s unit -112 A note of the scale - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 27 - -THIS TAKES THE CAKE - -By M. H. Ronzone - - -Cut yourself a piece of this one. It’s a mouthful. 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| | | | |#####| 122 | | | 123 |#####| 124 | | | | 125 |#####| | -| |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 126 | | | | | |#####| 127 | | | | | |#####| 128 | | | | | | -| | | | | | |#####| | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Sluggish inlets - 6 To flatter grossly -11 All but -16 A folding frame -18 An East Indian tree -19 A fine soft powder -20 Exclamation of surprise -22 High temperature -23 Denial -24 Vegetables with dressing -25 Conjunction -26 Small barrel -28 To make or mend -29 Identity -31 Compound, as of atoms -32 Term of address -33 English nobleman -35 Ascent -37 Unctuous -39 Luminous circle -40 Sailing vessel -42 Props -45 H2O -46 Woodland deity -48 Adorns with colors -49 Energy -51 Measure of length -53 Tiny -55 Form of verb “to be” -57 Measuring instrument -58 Mother -60 Stanza -62 Depart -63 Cognomen -65 Indefinite article -66 Plural of Asiatic country -68 Encourage -70 Bonds -71 State in Mexico -73 Therefore -74 That on which one sits -75 Spiritual essence of Hindus -76 Grudge -78 So -79 Faculty of sensation -81 Note of musical scale -83 Fish spawn -86 Jurisprudence -88 Started -90 Balanced -94 Lemon-like fruit -97 Fresh set -98 Pertaining to seasons -100 A pattern -102 Helper -103 To converse -104 So be it -106 Fruit juice -107 Arm of the sea -108 Female rabbit -109 Infernal regions -112 Solemn promise -114 Small insect -115 Near -116 Sway -117 To accomplish -118 Elementary substance -120 On -121 A thin biscuit -122 Chief -124 Carouse -126 Happenings -127 South American vulture -128 Round-about way - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Ferns - 2 Personal pronoun - 3 Simpleton - 4 Employs - 5 Cleave asunder - 7 Elevated - 8 Vocal inflection - 9 Implement -10 Measure in printing -11 Mixture -12 Something lent -13 Mire -14 Gold -15 Fear -17 A noted American explorer -19 Leaves undone -21 Cures -25 A lubricator -27 Moaning sound -29 Leaf of the calyx -30 Two score -32 Satisfied -34 Chance -36 Sip -38 Possessive pronoun -39 Hedge -41 Funeral pile -43 Jumbled type -44 Forward -45 Griefs -47 A turning -49 Relating to private affairs -50 Unrestrained -52 Signify -53 Quadruped of slender form -54 Maker of earthenware -56 Cripple -57 Mixed mast -58 Small table-land -59 Segments of curves -60 Six -61 Repose -62 Toothed wheel -64 Myself -66 Father -67 Yes -69 To exist -72 Part of passive auxiliary -77 Supplicate -80 To float -82 Abdomen -84 Detest -85 Held for sale -87 Middle place -88 Make fast -89 Merry -90 A plant food -91 Part of verb “to be” -92 Provided that -93 Female parent -95 Cut down -96 A plant -97 Mob -98 Precipitous -99 A bar to gain power -101 Epistle -103 Small bays -105 Well known -108 Crazy -110 Paradise -111 Burden -113 Billow -116 Pale -119 Permit -121 Us -122 Halloo -123 Note of diatonic scale -125 Behold - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 28 - -A JERSEY ’SKEETER - -By Henry Kroener - - -This comes from Montclair, and it’ll sting you more than once. Get out -the citronella and go to it. - - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 1 | | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |#####| 7 |#####| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | | 14 | -| | | | | | | | |#####| |#####| | | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 15 | | | | |#####| 16 | | |#####| 17 | | | | |#####| | -| |#####| | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 18 | | | | | 19 |#####| |#####| 20 | | | | | |#####| | -| |#####| | | | | | |#####| |#####| | | | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 21 | 22 | |#####| |#####| 23 | | 24 | | 25 | | |#####| |#####| 26 | 27 | | -| | | |#####| |#####| | | | | | | |#####| |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 28 | | |#####| 29 | | | |#####| 30 | | | |#####| 31 | | |#####| -|#####| | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 32 | | |#####| 33 |#####| 34 | | | 35 | | | |#####| 36 |#####| 37 | | 38 | -| | | |#####| |#####| | | | | | | |#####| |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 39 | 40 | | 41 | | |#####| |#####| 42 | | 43 | | 44 | |#####| | -| |#####| | | | | | |#####| |#####| | | | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 45 | | | |#####| 46 | 47 | | 48 | |#####| 49 | | | |#####| | -| |#####| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 50 | 51 | | | | | 52 |#####| 53 | | |#####| 54 | | | | | 55 | | -| | | | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| |#####| |#####| 56 | | | |#####| 57 | | | |#####| |#####| |#####| -|#####| |#####| |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| |#####| |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 58 | | 59 | | 60 | | |#####| 61 | 62 | |#####| 63 | | 64 | | 65 | | 66 | -| | | | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 67 | | | |#####| 68 | | | | 69 |#####| 70 | | | |#####| | -| |#####| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####|#####| 71 | | | 72 | |#####| |#####| 73 | 74 | | | |#####|#####| | -| |#####|#####| | | | | |#####| |#####| | | | | |#####|#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 75 | 76 | 77 |#####| |#####| 78 | | 79 |#####| 80 | | |#####| |#####| 81 | 82 | | -| | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 83 | | |#####| 84 | | | |#####| 85 | | | 86 |#####| 87 | | |#####| -|#####| | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 88 | | |#####| 89 |#####| 90 | | | 91 | | | | | 92 |#####| 93 | | 94 | -| | | |#####| |#####| | | | | | | | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 95 | 96 | | 97 | | |#####| |#####| 98 | | | |#####| 99 | | | -| |#####| | | | | | |#####| |#####| | | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 100 | | | | |#####| 101 | | 102 |#####| 103 | | | 104 | |#####| | -| |#####| | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 105 | | |#####| 106 | | | |#####| 107 | | | |#####| 108 | | | | | -| | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Design on metal - 8 Fixers of teeth -15 Deck of battleship -16 Floor cleaner -17 Signified -18 One who dispatches -20 Latin tribe -21 Parcel of ground -23 Military leader -26 City in Armenia -28 Protuberant tumor -29 Long -30 Official of Mohammedan Church -31 Foundation -32 Possessive pronoun -34 Try -37 Dip lightly -39 Frozen pendant -42 Entomological prefix -45 River in Russia -46 Lift -49 Arab chief -50 Altar-screen -53 Apostrophic poem -54 Soak -56 Lachrymal exudation -57 Conflicts -58 Female character in Acts XI xxxvi -61 Pedal digit -63 Fire-opal -67 Syrian city -68 Twos -70 Narrow roadway -71 Stand for painting -73 Each -75 Distress signal -78 Circuit -80 Biblical character -81 Jump -83 Court -84 Club -85 Prefix, right -87 The sun -88 Sprite -90 Completed -93 Point -95 Wood -98 Seaport in Columbia -99 Sow (Prov. Eng.) -100 Accustom -101 Equip -103 Belch -105 Artificial ravine -106 Excellent (superlative) -107 Simple -108 Young man - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Mock - 2 Rear - 3 Metallic rock - 4 Bone of arm - 5 Earth - 6 Exceptional - 7 Stronghold - 9 Proceed -10 Point -11 Caudal appendage -12 Hostelry -13 Worker on dock -14 Witnessed (past perf.) -19 Loud talker -20 Easy -22 Be indebted to -24 Stroke -25 Direct -27 Girl’s name -32 Capillary growth -33 Mottled -35 Girl’s name -36 American admiral -38 Circumstance -40 Crack -41 Clad -43 Pendent -44 Herb -47 Large artery -48 Drain -51 Period of time -52 Ocean -54 Unit of work -55 Self -58 Receptacles -59 College degree -60 Snare -62 Lubricant -64 Infrequent -65 Point of compass -66 Closed curve -68 Permission by authority -69 Choose -72 Passes -74 Success -76 Night bird -77 Border (theatrical) -79 Through -80 Before -81 Largest island of Japan -82 Prefix pertaining to oil -86 Prefix, far -88 Noble -89 Beat -91 Shoot -92 Obligation -94 Two together -96 Upon -97 Earlier than -102 Mother -104 Carbon monoxide - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 29 - -UNLUCKY - -By Harold H. Hodges - - -There are thirteen crosses in this widget and the words around them -will make you the same. - - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 1 | 2 | | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |#####| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | | 12 | 13 | -| | | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 14 | |#####| 15 | | | |#####|#####|#####| 16 | | | |#####| 17 | | -| | |#####| | | | |#####|#####|#####| | | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####|#####|#####| 18 | | | 19 |#####| 20 | | | |#####|#####|#####| | -| |#####|#####|#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####|#####|#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 21 | 22 |#####| 23 | | | | | 24 | | | | | 25 |#####| 26 | | -| | |#####| | | | | | | | | | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 27 | | 28 | | |#####| 29 | | | | |#####| 30 | | 31 | | | -| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 32 | | | |#####|#####|#####| 33 | | |#####|#####|#####| 34 | | | | -| | | | |#####|#####|#####| | | |#####|#####|#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 35 | | | | 36 |#####| 37 | | | | 38 |#####| 39 | | | | | -| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 40 | | | 41 | | |#####| 42 | | 43 | | | |#####| | -| |#####| | | | | | |#####| | | | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####|#####|#####| 44 | | | |#####|#####|#####| 45 | | | |#####|#####|#####| -|#####|#####|#####| | | | |#####|#####|#####| | | | |#####|#####|#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 46 |#####| 47 | | | | | 48 |#####| 49 | | | | | 50 |#####| 51 | -| |#####| | | | | | |#####| | | | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 52 | 53 | | | |#####| 54 | | 55 | | |#####| 56 | | | 57 | | -| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 58 | | | |#####|#####|#####| 59 | | |#####|#####|#####| 60 | | | | -| | | | |#####|#####|#####| | | |#####|#####|#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 61 | | | | 62 |#####| 63 | | | | 64 |#####| 65 | | | | | -| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 66 | |#####| 67 | | 68 | | | | | | 69 | | |#####| 70 | | -| | |#####| | | | | | | | | | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####|#####|#####| 71 | | | |#####| 72 | | | |#####|#####|#####| | -| |#####|#####|#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####|#####|#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 73 | 74 |#####| 75 | | | |#####|#####|#####| 76 | | | 77 |#####| 78 | | -| | |#####| | | | |#####|#####|#####| | | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 79 | | | | | | | |#####| 80 | | | | | | | | -| | | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Out of date - 7 Poison found in opium -14 Not you -15 A new star -16 Indivisible -17 Beast of burden -18 Existed -20 To disparage -21 Tone of diatonic scale -23 An alcoholic liqueur -26 Mixed type -27 To stop -29 Dandies -30 Glory -32 Soapstone -33 To study -34 Italian coin -35 Letter of Greek alphabet -37 Distinctive areas -39 A species of hickory -40 Named -42 Relief -44 To root up -45 Small skin tumor -47 Harmony -49 Acid formed in vegetable jellies -52 Weird -54 The lowest point -56 Clamber up -58 Frosted -59 Amidst -60 March 15th -61 Machine for cutting metal -63 Having more than usual power -65 Stupid fellows -66 In like manner -67 Immoral conduct -70 Tone of musical scale -71 A prima donna -72 Knobs -73 An interjection -75 Simple -76 A ridge near surface of water -78 Preposition -79 Excluded -80 Instruments for measuring - - -VERTICAL - - 1 A toothsome dish - 2 Exist - 3 Preposition - 4 To frown - 5 Uniform - 6 Ascertained net weight - 8 Stops - 9 Case for small articles -10 Supported -11 Part of the verb “be” -12 Negative -13 Something that arouses -19 Drawn forth -20 Odors -22 A nurse -23 Having vegetable micro-organisms -24 Object of strong devotion -25 The use of a selective method -26 Fine rubber -28 Internal decay in fruit -31 Parasitic insects -36 Got up -37 A mixture of concrete -38 A planter -39 Sunders -41 Silent -43 A resinous substance -46 A reprint -47 Member of an Indian tribe -48 Fruit of the maple tree -49 Chinese English -50 Vulgar fellows -51 Court sittings -53 Repetition of sound -55 To make foul -57 Shelters -62 Amendment to a document -63 An embankment -64 Come into operation -65 An article of property -68 A whirring sound -69 An Old World goat -74 Any male person -75 Mamma -77 Note of diatonic scale -78 Pronoun - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 30 - -SINGLE SPOTTER - -By J. T. Delaney - - -Not so decorative, but a hundred per cent interlock and no two letter -words. 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- -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Float - 4 Insulting - 9 Rim -12 Compass -13 Eskimo hut -14 Annealing oven -16 Sulphide of arsenic -19 Young woman -21 Attract -23 Negative particle -24 Refuting argument -26 Whim -28 Perfume -30 Comedian -32 Discernment -34 Precious stone -37 Always -38 Secondary planet -41 Tailless monkey -42 Offspring -44 Plasterer’s trowel -46 Within -47 Southern fish -48 Man’s name -49 Strum -51 Vestment ribbons -53 Have an obligation -55 Destroy utterly -58 Negative word -60 Nostrils -62 Fit into mortise -63 Animal in embryo -65 Loop of rope -67 Repulse -69 Calm -71 Period -73 Citrus fruit -76 Small songbird -77 Legendary siren -80 Implement -81 Ungulate of South America -82 Compound ether -83 Parti-colored -84 Foreordain -85 Morbid respiratory sound - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Artifice - 2 Vex - 3 System of rates - 4 Concur - 5 Winged insect - 6 Performing alone - 7 By way of - 8 Heron - 9 Short outer waist -10 Bay color mixed with white -11 Netting -15 Happen -17 Lower part of leg -18 Chalice -20 Fragment -22 Hybrid -25 Subsequent -27 Second mowing -29 Hydro carbon of methane series -30 Blessing -31 Waste -33 Proteid -35 Recompense -36 Fanatical partisans -39 Predict -40 Former playing card -43 Interjection -45 Egyptian god of pleasure -50 Exudation of certain plants -52 Allude -54 Sway -56 Restrain -57 Compound polyp -59 Expenditure -61 Plant of the ebony family -64 Snapping beetle -66 Frozen -68 Balance -69 Exchange -70 Plexus -72 Despoiled -74 Ibsen heroine -75 Otherwise -78 Native metal -79 Even - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 31 - -A PRIZE PACKAGE - -By H. R. 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- -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Container (physiol.) - 4 Two-sided -11 Earth -14 River in Virginia -15 Sweet potato -16 Threatens -18 Love -19 Repose -20 Bivouac -21 Aid -25 Disturb -28 Seize -29 Conjunction -30 Italian coin -31 Murmurs softly -32 Preposition -33 Italian particle often used in English -35 Far -37 Preposition -38 Heavy cord -40 Pertaining to square area -42 Body of land -44 Golden one -46 Before -47 Joyed -49 Italian corn-meal cake -52 Rustic -54 Spice -55 Reply -58 Railer -62 War method -63 Things -65 Shouted -67 Against -68 Optical instrument -73 One who utilizes -74 3.14159 -75 Strainedly -76 Musical note -77 Symbol for copper -78 Skin disease -79 Roman emperor -81 Conjunction -83 Precious stone -85 Masticate -86 Stands even with -87 Positive command -89 Antillean island -91 Numeral adverb -92 Loving -94 Compound of oxygen and nitrogen -96 Ordered -97 Beverage -98 Organ of public information -99 Written pages (abbr.) - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Indian magical plant - 2 Groups of electrons - 3 Bodily - 4 Ordinary - 5 Suffix, pertaining to - 6 Affirmative - 7 Brown - 8 Printer’s measure - 9 Part of verb “to be” -10 Looks evilly -11 Pertaining to clothes -12 Body of water -13 Writing rest -14 Make of automobile -17 Let stand -22 Wait -23 Ireland -24 Sense -25 Frighten -26 Species of sound -27 Greek letter -34 Closed curve -36 Lateness -37 Man’s nickname -39 Thrust forth -40 Mix -41 Address -43 Dutch coins -45 Prefix, from -48 Behold -50 Measure of weight -51 Conjunction -52 Wager -53 Heroine in Spenser -55 Indian princess -56 Condition -57 Mixed type -59 Negative -60 Bull-shaped -61 Bar -62 Cereal -63 Make over -64 Odor -66 Drawn -69 Engrave -70 Learning, knowledge (obs.) -71 Prefix, pertaining to oil -72 Fire -77 Intrigue -78 Seed of oak -80 Reed -82 Monetary penalties -84 Mountain lion -88 Ones -90 Plunge -93 Pronoun -94 Conjunction -95 Sun-god -96 Prefix, out of - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 32 - -HIC LABOR HIC OPUS EST - -By Neophyte - - -This erudite contribution comes from an old-time puzzler who is one of -the experts on ingenuities. He does not hesitate to delve in the -darkest corners of the dictionary for words to fill his pattern. - - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####|#####|#####| 1 | 2 | 3 | | 4 | 5 | 6 |#####|#####|#####| -|#####|#####|#####| | | | | | | |#####|#####|#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 7 | 8 | | | |#####| 9 | | | 10 | 11 |#####| -|#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 12 | | | | |#####| 13 | | | | |#####| -|#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 14 | | | | | |#####| 15 | | | | | 16 | -| | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 17 | | | |#####| |#####| |#####| 18 | | | | -| | | | |#####| |#####| |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 19 | | | | |#####|#####|#####| 20 | | | | | -| | | | | |#####|#####|#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####|#####|#####|#####|#####|#####|#####|#####|#####|#####|#####| | -| |#####|#####|#####|#####|#####|#####|#####|#####|#####|#####|#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | |#####|#####|#####| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | | -| | | | | |#####|#####|#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 29 | | | |#####| 30 |#####| 31 |#####| 32 | | | | -| | | | |#####| |#####| |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 33 | | | | 34 | |#####| 35 | 36 | | | | | -| | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 37 | | | | |#####| 38 | | | | |#####| -|#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 39 | | | | |#####| 40 | | | | |#####| -|#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####|#####|#####| 41 | | | | | | |#####|#####|#####| -|#####|#####|#####| | | | | | | |#####|#####|#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 A hybrid animal - 7 A kind of monoplane, originally designed by an Austrian - 9 Cultivated -12 A Knight of the Round Table -13 To march on -14 Three-banded armadillos of S. A. -15 One who edits -17 To stand between -18 French artist -19 A colorless liquid -20 A place to sleep in -21 To demolish -25 Upper part of a hat -29 Heroine of Charlotte Bronte novel -32 To instigate -33 To predestine -35 Sets again -37 Encircles -38 To get up -39 First eight lines of a sonnet -40 A guest at dinner -41 Hurries - - -VERTICAL - - 1 A Spanish copper coin - 2 Biblical name - 3 Stretched tight - 4 In pursuit of - 5 To fatten - 6 An alloy, used in cheap jewelry - 7 Relating to type - 8 To adjudge -10 To drive an auto -11 Amusement -14 A kind of pack saddle -16 Hunts again -22 Slowly -23 Pertaining to India -24 Lack -26 A dried fruit -27 Fat -28 Water (obs.) -30 The present month (abbr. pl.) -31 Swap -34 Notion -36 Where the River Shannon flows - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 33 - -A SERRATE SYZYGY - -By Marcam - - -Another of Marcam’s masterpieces, somewhat simpler of solution than -her other effort. 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- -HORIZONTAL - - 4 Garden plat - 6 To pull along after - 8 Sack -10 Alarm -11 Be indebted to -12 A savage animal -14 The man -15 A cup that cheers -17 Wager -18 Otherwise -20 Frame to support a coffin -22 Applaud -25 A form of ice -26 Stutter -28 Morally improved -30 A dish made with pastry -31 It is so -33 Males or females collectively -34 A parent -36 What the United States is supposed to be -38 The woman -39 Chief deity of historical Egypt -41 Righteous -42 Invest -43 Pulls -44 The thing -45 To exercise power -47 To mimic -49 You -50 A unit -51 Fuss -53 To supply weapons -55 Effusively sentimental -58 Course -62 Hypocrisy -63 Ingenuous -65 To drudge -66 Accomplish -67 Poem -68 To drink little by little -70 In that way -71 A notorious fiddler -73 Gone by -75 To offer for sale -77 Genus homo -78 Stepped rapidly -79 The essential person - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Pound - 2 Cloth for wiping - 3 To stay for - 4 Exist - 5 Visionary person - 6 In the direction of - 7 Ourselves - 8 Disfigurement - 9 Proceed -10 Ends of stockings -13 Not any -14 Belonging to him -16 A very little -17 To command -19 A measure of distance -21 Knock -23 Call out -24 Bronze or copper -25 A half dozen -27 Inland -29 Sources of supply -32 Finished -34 Hawaiian food -35 Skill -37 Still -38 Wave -39 A beam -40 Solemn wonder -46 Pale green -48 Unresisting -50 Forth -51 An insect -52 Unclose -54 Chart -55 Insane -56 Presently -57 Wrath -59 Donkey -60 Joyful -61 Goddess of Dawn -64 Lawful -67 Spoken -69 Wooden or metal pins -72 Type measure -73 A measure of area -74 Over and in contact with -76 A veto - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 34 - -FIVE SPOTS AND RAYS - -By R. B. MacMullin, Jr. - - -Good interlock, but a number of unkeyed letters. 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- -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Vessel used for assaying gold - 5 Tertiary - 9 Coral island -13 Rainbow -15 Unity -16 Asterisk -17 God of sunshine -19 Discernment -22 Near -23 Yale -25 Seize -26 Tip -27 Fear -28 Melody -30 Snake -31 Used for bacterial culture -32 Plaster -34 Force times distance -37 Charcoal -39 Stag’s horn -41 Australian ostrich -43 Evening -45 Dyne centimeter -47 Tint -48 Pedal digit -49 Negro -50 Greek exclamation -51 Decoration -53 Devoured -54 Steering lever -57 Hot egg-nog -60 Linear -62 Scottish -64 Eternity -65 A fatty acid -66 Weaving machine -68 Homo -69 Herself -70 Metal-bearing rock -72 No -73 One -74 Necessity -78 Note on diatonic scale -79 Speculator who sells -80 Yes (Fr.) -81 Raised platform -83 Iron -84 Armored -85 Indivisibility - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Sign of omission - 2 3.1416 - 3 Mistake - 4 Legal security - 6 Pig - 7 Inform - 8 Brazilian coin - 9 Indivisible particle -10 Brown -11 Gold -12 Metric unit of volume -14 Sacred beetle -16 Noiseless -18 Sulfate of aluminum -20 King of the fairies -21 Natural ability -22 Absent -24 Insertion of virus -27 Collection -29 Epoch -31 Metric land measure -33 Grief -35 Planetary orbit -36 A nut -38 Saltpeter -39 In a heap -40 Heron -42 Minor (mus.) -44 Deity -46 Steep flax -51 Molten -52 A saying -55 Hostelry -56 Weir -58 Religious -59 45 inches -60 Scrawny -61 Void space -63 Common fuel -64 Accumulate -67 Farinaceous -69 Wax impression -71 Eldest son of Isaac -74 Born -75 Because of -76 Equivocation -77 Wickedness -79 Exist -82 Another note on the diatonic scale - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 35 - -A SLOTTED OBLONG - -By Marion Hague - - -Splendid corner solids and easy central islands. Good words. 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- -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Foot-gear - 6 Every -10 Float -13 The smallest amount -18 The floor of a fireplace -20 Also -21 A kettle -22 One who carries something -23 Items of record -25 Pertaining to a pole -27 To pass from one place to another -28 To break short -29 Exhausted -30 Jewel -31 Rule established by authority -34 Clan -36 Hostelry -38 Extremity -40 Domestic animal -42 Instrument used to operate a lock -43 Snare -45 Color -46 Bustle -47 Marks made by folding -49 Sort of skeleton found in the sea -51 Striking gently -54 Piece of instruction -55 Sort of preserved fruit -56 Pouch -58 Epistle -59 To enliven -60 Body of land surrounded by water -65 Hastened -66 An edge -67 Rapacious bird -71 To wind, as a brook -73 Burdened -75 Small dagger -76 To set free of -77 Horse -79 To allow -80 Co-relative of “neither” -81 Period of time -82 A possessive pronoun -83 A delicious drink -85 Arbor -87 A measure of length -89 Entrance -90 Machine which gives motion -93 At any time -95 Tells -98 A variety of quartz -99 Dwells -102 Fastened -103 Bond -104 Tag -106 Recollect -107 Older -108 The fruit of the pine tree -109 Lyric poems -110 An aromatic herb - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Hard covering - 2 Female fowl - 3 Grain - 4 Sins - 5 Provide for meagrely - 7 Near - 8 Thicket - 9 Metal or wooden band -10 Short space of time -11 Merit -12 Neuter pronoun -13 According to law -14 A nobleman -15 A Southern constellation -16 Fixed -17 Inclination -19 Listen -22 Having two feet -24 Sees -26 A bar of metal for raising weight -27 Sacred musical composition -32 Land measure -33 Troubles -35 Beside -37 Otherwise -38 To prepare for publication -39 Not any -41 Part of verb “to be” -43 Existing only in name -44 A silk used for upholstering -46 Expert -47 Demand -48 Whole -49 Artificial waterway -50 High school subject -52 Delicious nut -53 Great -55 Receptacle -57 Precious stone -61 Dry -62 Home of a wild beast -63 A conjunction -64 Indicated -67 Always -68 To recline -69 Anxiety -70 Spoken -72 Runs swiftly -74 A triangular piece of land at the mouth of a river -75 Potency -78 To depart -80 Negative -82 Domestic animal -83 To supply food or amusement -84 Furiously -85 A food -86 Set again -88 Fine lace -89 Strong wind -91 Sort of molding -92 Common name of old German emperors -94 Wealthy -96 Soft finned fish -97 Boy -100 Span of twenty-four hours -101 Kind of tree -103 Forward -105 Exist - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 36 - -AN HOUR GLASS - -By Mrs. Henry Wolf - - -The constructor must have turned her hour glass several times while -she was building this hour glass. It presents beautiful masses of -interlocks. - - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | | 6 |#####| 7 | 8 | 9 |#####| 10 | | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | -| | | | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 16 | | | | |#####| 17 | 18 | | | | 19 | |#####| 20 | | | | | -| | | | | |#####| | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 21 | | | |#####| 22 | | | | | | | | 23 |#####| 24 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | | | | | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 25 | | | | | | |#####| 26 | | |#####| 27 | | | | | | | -| | | | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 28 | | | |#####| |#####| 29 | | | | 30 |#####| |#####| 31 | | | | -| | | | |#####| |#####| | | | | |#####| |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 32 | | |#####| 33 | | | | | | | | | | |#####| 34 | | | -| | | |#####| | | | | | | | | | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 35 | | | 36 |#####| |#####| 37 | | | | |#####| |#####| 38 | | | | -| | | | |#####| |#####| | | | | |#####| |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| |#####| 39 | 40 | | 41 |#####| 42 | | |#####| 43 | | 44 | |#####| |#####| -|#####| |#####| | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | |#####| |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 45 | | 46 | | | | | 47 |#####| |#####| 48 | | | | | 49 | | 50 | -| | | | | | | | |#####| |#####| | | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| |#####| |#####| 51 | | |#####| 52 | | |#####| |#####| |#####| | -| |#####| |#####| |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| |#####| |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 53 | 54 | | 55 | | 56 | | |#####| 57 |#####| 58 | | 59 | | 60 | | 61 | | -| | | | | | | | |#####| |#####| | | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| |#####| 62 | | | |#####| 63 | | 64 |#####| 65 | | | |#####| |#####| -|#####| |#####| | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | |#####| |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 66 | | 67 | |#####| |#####| 68 | | | | 69 |#####| |#####| 70 | 71 | | 72 | -| | | | |#####| |#####| | | | | |#####| |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 73 | | |#####| 74 | | | | | | | | | | |#####| 75 | | | -| | | |#####| | | | | | | | | | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 76 | | | 77 |#####| |#####| 78 | | | | |#####| |#####| 79 | | | | -| | | | |#####| |#####| | | | | |#####| |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 80 | | | | | | 81 |#####| 82 | | |#####| 83 | | | | | | | -| | | | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 84 | | | |#####| 85 | | 86 | | | | 87 | | |#####| 88 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | | | | | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 89 | | | | 90 |#####| 91 | | | | | | |#####| 92 | | | | | -| | | | | |#####| | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 93 | | | | | | |#####| 94 | | |#####| 95 | | | | | | | -| | | | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Definite - 7 Cymbals used by Hindu dancers -10 Declares -16 Vigilant -17 Publication -20 Manifest -21 Plateau -22 17th century article of dress -24 Concept -25 Confederations of territory -26 Nightfall -27 Operator of cotton cleaning machine -28 Restrain -29 Belonging to Ireland -31 Conveyed -32 Insect -33 Bloomed again -34 Scotch for no -35 Stride -37 Silenced -38 Agitate -39 Lyric poems -42 Title -43 Half -45 Laundry implement -48 One who lives only for pleasure -51 Nautical diary -52 Clamor -53 Delivered -58 Entanglers -62 Insects -63 Wicked -65 Skin disease -66 Defense -68 Premise -70 Plunge -73 Previous -74 Quarrel -75 Anger -76 Performs -78 Unsympathetically -79 Irritated -80 Harangues -82 One of many -83 Helmsman -84 Employer -85 Aversions -88 Liquid measure -89 Prepared -91 Share -92 A relative -93 Regards -94 Assent -95 Feared - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Likeness producers - 2 Rudimentary - 3 Postponement - 4 Educate - 5 There - 6 Yields - 7 Afraid - 8 Tendency to revert to type - 9 One who issues permits -10 Again -11 Therefore -12 Ills -13 Returning (rare.) -14 Wooden pegs -15 Beginner -18 Accomplish -19 Exclamation -22 Separater -23 Matured -29 Shade tree -30 Turf -36 Utensil -38 Err -40 Couch -41 Parts of shoes -43 Medicinal plant -44 Grieve -45 Distant -46 Total -47 Bow -48 Belonging to him -49 Anger -50 Contraction of “it is” -54 Conjurors -55 Corrode -56 Bombastic -57 Charm -59 Salutes -60 Guided -61 Homage -63 Wilful damage to ship by mariners -64 Separation of parts previously joined -66 Characteristic -67 Refuge -68 Resting place -69 Pen -71 Made like ivory -72 Exercised -77 Atlantic right whale -79 Brown pigment -81 Tastes -83 Deliver -86 This way -87 Toward -90 3rd person plural -92 Nor - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 37 - -DECORATION - -By Anna J. Munro - - -A good deal of black, but very ornamental. 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refrain from - - -VERTICAL - - 1 To butt - 2 Above - 3 Pronoun - 4 Billiard shot - 5 Raw metals - 7 Dry - 8 Hearsay - 9 Part of verb “to be” -10 Either -11 Guided -12 Glut -14 Purer -17 Terse -19 Part -21 Noblemen -24 Skill -26 Drunkard -28 Mineral spring -30 Edge -31 State of equality -33 Help -35 Accuse -36 Abets -37 Liberty -39 Purposeless -41 Loathes -42 A member of solar system -44 Powerful explosive -46 A bird of crow family -49 Easily crumbled -51 Gazers -53 Oriental tower -55 Insect -56 Separate -58 Playing card -59 Rage -60 Equipped -61 Vortex -63 Tear -65 Tune -68 Directed -70 Systematic rules for eating -73 Military assistant -74 To pierce -76 Used in small boats -78 A box or place -80 In regard to -81 Part of verb “to be” -83 Latin for “and” -84 Exclamation - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 38 - -BLACK BEETLE - -By Fred L. Kleinschmidt - - -This constructor blocked out a pretty fair beetle form. 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- -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Intellectual dullness - 6 A resting place - 8 The hair of the Angora goat -13 Bracing -15 Hairy appendages -16 Come together -18 Pertaining to Mars -19 A female bird -21 Drinking vessel -23 Threads that guide through a maze -25 A vase with feet -26 Barren -30 Single -31 Note of scale -32 To vanquish -33 Concise -34 As -36 Us -37 An obstinate person -39 As -41 A game of chance -45 General term for followers of theory -47 To corrode -48 Lessened -49 A soft white metal -50 To take out -52 Aid -55 Regarding -57 Madness -60 Conjunction -62 Near -64 Primp -66 Exposes -68 Towards -69 Consumed -71 To dignify -73 Be indebted to -75 Carries -76 Scented -78 Sick -79 Wearisome -81 Hebrew prophet -82 Anxious -85 An indestructible unit -88 Instruction -89 A lair -90 A drink of hot milk curdled with liquor - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Problems in arithmetic - 2 To speak - 3 River in Italy - 4 Forward - 5 Edge - 7 One who consumes - 8 Male - 9 Preposition -10 A personal pronoun -11 Pale -12 Flees -14 The air -15 A tree -17 Handbag -20 Female sheep -22 To deduce -24 A pale yellowish clay -26 A male child -27 Period of time -28 Possessive pronoun -29 To make a mistake -31 Personal pronoun -35 Over and above -36 A common liquid -38 Jeer -40 Fur-bearing animal -41 Hobby -42 A lyric poem -43 To freeze -44 Utilize -45 Historic mountain -46 To rest -51 Diseased person -53 Chest -54 A parent -56 A golf term -57 An hotel -58 To recede -59 Metalliferous earth -61 To act -63 An Oriental weight -65 To go into -67 A book for pictures -68 To inform -70 Stories -72 To think -74 Useless plants -75 A bank-note -77 Shade -79 A number -80 To soak in -83 So -84 To depart -86 Negative -87 To wit - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 39 - -FACILE EST DECENSUS AVERNI - -By Cerberus - - -Cerberus was a three-faced dog, and that is what you may think of the -progenitors of this bark after you’ve tried it. Averni (which does not -mean Arverne) is the unkeyed centre-piece. - - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 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 | | | | 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|#####| 95 | 96 | 97 | |#####| 98 | | 99 |#####| 100 | | | -| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####|#####| 101 | 102 | | |#####| 103 | | | | | 104 |#####| 105 | | 106 | |#####|#####| -|#####|#####| | | | |#####| | | | | | |#####| | | | |#####|#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 107 | | | | |#####| 108 | | | | | | | 109 |#####| 110 | | | | 111 | -| | | | | |#####| | | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 112 | | | 113 | | |#####| 114 | |#####| 115 | | 116 | | | |#####| | -| |#####| | | | | | |#####| | |#####| | | | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 117 | 118 |#####| |#####| 119 | | | 120 |#####|#####| 121 | | | |#####| |#####| 122 | | -| | |#####| |#####| | | | |#####|#####| | | | |#####| |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 123 | | | |#####| 124 | | | | | | | | | |#####| 125 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | | | | | | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Extremities - 4 Unchangeable -12 A metal -15 Concerning -16 Digits -17 Variety of wood -18 Therefore -19 Shores -21 Thus -23 Catkins -26 Fruit of common tree -27 And so forth -30 Obliterate -31 Things of secondary importance -33 Sportmen’s lodges (Scot.) -34 A blow -35 Grassy field -37 Part of “to be” -39 Ecclesiastical contribution box -40 Strike -41 Bleak -44 Unoccupied -46 Container for liquids -48 Rip -50 Hindu mendicant -51 Designation -53 Annoy -54 Common breakfast food -55 Lacquer -56 Latin, and -57 Roman magistrate -59 Behold -61 Pert. to -63 Road (abbr.) -64 Eager -65 Indian Cult -67 Black -69 Companion -70 Organs of hearing -71 Legendary Queen of Carthage -72 Toward -74 To eulogize -77 Myself -78 Orange-brown -80 Disordered type -81 Mammal milk bag -83 Toss gently -85 Rational animal -86 Mournful sound -88 Collected mass of eggs (pl.) -89 Kind of fish -90 Engrave -92 Vocal music -93 Before, prefix -94 Head covering -95 Requirement -98 Secreted -100 Possessive pronoun -101 Equal -103 Golf term -105 Fermented drink -107 Severe -108 Fossil lizards -110 African antelope -112 Vend again -114 Latin for “and” -115 Compound of nitrogen -117 Inside -119 Earth -121 Open hall -122 Elevated -123 An injury -124 Association -125 Melt - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Roman garment - 2 Allowing that - 3 Tale - 4 Belonging to it - 5 Missive - 6 Article of apparel (pl.) - 7 Like - 8 By - 9 Wild animal (pl.) -10 A priest -11 Piece out -12 Prefix, within -13 Bone -14 A feature -19 A metallic element -20 Again -21 Prophet -22 Pert. to the ear -24 Lizard -25 Persian ruler -28 Form of limestone -29 Stimulate -32 Juice of a tree -34 Form of male address -35 Written or printed productions -36 Revise -38 To be impelled by wind -40 Old women -42 Substance derived from seaweed -43 Meanderings -45 Lifts -47 Anger -49 Self -50 Captain of Arab vessel (pl.) -52 Literary compiler -55 Shifting sail -58 Conception -59 Kind of soil -60 Giant -62 Man of ancient Asiatic race -64 Form of “to be” -65 You -66 Intransitive verb -68 Word of negation -73 Smell -75 Common woman -76 Measure of weight -78 Perched -79 Measure of length -80 To palpitate -82 More profound -84 African native race -85 Plural of medium -87 Egg-shaped (obs.) -89 Pitch -91 Pronoun -94 Domestic birds -96 Judicial circuit -97 Send forth -99 Wild animal -102 Upright -103 A dinner course -104 Boredom -106 Apart from -107 Utensil for roasting -108 Fruit of a shrub -109 Storehouse for grain -111 Thick liquid -113 Sprite -116 To prepare leather -118 Denial -120 Pronoun -121 Near -122 Plural pronoun - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 40 - -99-9⁄10 PER CENT PURE - -By Kross Korner Knut - - -They don’t come much better than this one. 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| | | | | | | -| | | | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Self contradiction - 6 Competitor -10 Restrict -16 Holly -17 Couch -18 Dance step -20 Froth -21 Crow-like bird -23 Solitary -24 Smooth -26 Condition -28 Prayer -29 Hard blows -31 Infirm -33 Caoutchouc -34 Acquires -36 Again -38 Underanged -39 Completed -40 Either -41 Flavor -43 Cloud -45 Annoy -47 Any -48 Slant -49 Divide proportionately -52 An auction -54 Dormant -56 Obliterate -57 Austere -59 Trite -60 Guided -62 Consume -64 Retorts -66 Possessive pronoun -67 Comrade -68 Precious stone -70 Small cake -72 Weird -73 Fruit -74 Eludes -75 Table-land -79 Fondle -80 Shallow vessel -82 Place -83 Medley -86 Episode -88 Decade -90 Bog -91 Endured -92 Diners -94 The end -97 German -100 Baked clay -101 Humming -103 Wagon travel -105 Printing measure -107 Climate -109 Insect -110 Different one -112 Exclamation -113 Bribes -115 Cabal -117 Ancestor -118 Proof-reading direction -120 Wrath -121 Inner part of bottom of a shoe -123 Penetrates -125 Metallic rock -126 Restrain -128 Remain -129 Learning -130 Tall, slim structure -132 Opposite of aloft -134 Before -135 Behold -136 Uncouth -137 Metallic salts -138 Ether derived from oxygenated acid -139 A young seal - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Model of excellence - 2 Short bolt - 3 Beverage - 4 Lairs - 5 Bovine quadruped - 6 Regenerate - 7 Important Roman dates - 8 Mimics - 9 Bathes -11 Concerning -12 Snout -13 Corpulent -14 Adult, mature insect -15 Rudiment -17 Nursery rhyme character -19 Legislative body -22 Affirm -23 Cotton fibre -25 Baseball team -27 Oceanic fish -30 Refuse -32 Let -35 Silences -37 State of mind, esp. of soldiers -39 Dele. -42 To the sheltered side -43 Pro -44 Aeriform fluid -46 Rescue -48 Ex-Emperor -50 Color -51 Golf requisite -53 Young eagle -54 Corroded -55 Worlds -57 Scholar -58 Spike -59 Chagrin -61 To raise the spirits -63 Humble -65 Ecclesiastic council -67 Baby food -68 Chasm -69 Humans -71 Lace -76 Close of day -77 Locate -78 Capers -81 Broad thoroughfare -83 Weasel-like fur-bearing animals -84 Behold -85 Compound of atoms and electrons -87 Relate -89 Neither -90 Baseball enthusiast -91 Certain -93 Govern -95 Canaille -96 Two-wheeled, one-seated vehicle -98 The upper air -99 In addition -101 Represent -102 Neck swelling -104 Provider -106 Greater -108 Church service -111 A cross -112 In this place -114 Leaf of a corolla -116 To stare fiercely -117 Grimace of contempt -119 An altar cloth -121 To smooth cloth or clothing -122 Orbs -123 Otherwise -124 Button for shirt front -127 Yale -131 Unusual -133 Us -136 Sun God - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 41 - -A WEST POINTER - -By Corporal Arthur Baisch and Sergeant William M. Munroe - - -The army sends a neat design—and not an easy one. The interlocking is -good, and the occasional unkeyed letters are well supported by -cross-clues. - - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 1 | 2 | |#####| 3 |#####| 4 | 5 | 6 |#####| 7 | 8 | |#####| 9 |#####| 10 | 11 | 12 |#####| -|#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 13 | | |#####| 14 | | 15 |#####| 16 | | | | |#####| 17 | | |#####| 18 | | 19 | -| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 20 | | | 21 |#####| 22 | | 23 | | |#####| 24 | | 25 | | |#####| 26 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 27 | | 28 |#####| 29 | | | |#####| 30 | | | |#####| 31 | | |#####| | -| |#####| | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 32 | | | | | 33 |#####| |#####|#####|#####|#####|#####| |#####| 34 | | | | | | -| | | | | | |#####| |#####|#####|#####|#####|#####| |#####| | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####|#####|#####| 35 | | 36 | | 37 | 38 |#####| 39 | 40 | | 41 | | |#####|#####|#####| | -| |#####|#####|#####| | | | | | |#####| | | | | | |#####|#####|#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | | | |#####| 46 | | | | |#####| 47 | | | 48 | 49 | 50 | | -| | | | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 51 | | |#####|#####| 52 | 53 | | |#####| 54 | | 55 | |#####|#####| 56 | | |#####| -|#####| | | |#####|#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####|#####| | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 57 | | |#####|#####| 58 | | | |#####| 59 | | | |#####|#####| 60 | | |#####| -|#####| | | |#####|#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####|#####| | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 61 | | | | 62 | 63 |#####| |#####| 64 | | |#####| |#####| 65 | 66 | | | | 67 | -| | | | | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####|#####|#####| 68 | | | | | |#####| 69 | | | | | |#####|#####|#####| | -| |#####|#####|#####| | | | | | |#####| | | | | | |#####|#####|#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 70 | | 71 | 72 | | |#####| |#####|#####|#####|#####|#####| |#####| 73 | | 74 | 75 | | | -| | | | | | |#####| |#####|#####|#####|#####|#####| |#####| | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 76 | | |#####| 77 | | 78 | 79 |#####| 80 | 81 | | 82 |#####| 83 | | |#####| | -| |#####| | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 84 | 85 | | |#####| 86 | | | | |#####| 87 | | | | 88 |#####| 89 | | 90 | | -| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 91 | | |#####| 92 | | |#####| 93 | | | | |#####| 94 | | |#####| 95 | | | -| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| |#####|#####|#####| |#####| 96 | | |#####| 97 | | |#####| |#####|#####|#####| |#####| -|#####| |#####|#####|#####| |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| |#####|#####|#####| |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Duct - 4 Bird’s beak - 7 Assume -10 Steel-pointed mining tool -13 Hunting shoe -14 Genus -16 Equity -17 Organ -18 Bituminous shale -20 Intermittent fever -22 Four-wheel truck supporting the front end of a locomotive -24 Coral isle -26 More or less -27 Pony -29 (In poker) stake put up -30 Rich vegetable mold -31 Energy -32 Combination of acetic acid with glycerine -34 Thick ointment of wax, etc. -35 Splendor -39 Wanton slaughter of unresisting game -42 Sickness -46 Pertaining to a foot -47 Error in printing or writing -51 Female rabbit -52 Mystic ornament worn by a Jewish high priest -54 Void -56 Attention -57 Period of time -58 Small cubes that know arithmetic -59 So be it -60 Floor covering -61 A mastiff -64 Grooved metal fastener -65 Specie of duck -68 Neuter verbal noun -69 Captivate -70 In great plenty -73 Petty officer in charge of stores -76 Wrath -77 Glacier ice -80 Prison -83 Tiny -84 An island (poetic) -86 Symbol -87 Ancient, bygone -89 Amount -91 Abroad -92 Crude, cold and damp -93 Claim of right -94 Fermenting vat -95 Sailor -96 Nonsense -97 Lair - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Sink - 2 Sharp pointed - 3 Priestly vestment - 5 Revise - 6 Sauce, moisture - 7 Face of a clock - 8 Oil of roses - 9 Comrade -11 Anaconda -12 Barrier -13 Kind of hat -15 Hawaiian tree -17 Shade tree -19 Ancient hymn sung at matins -21 Taste -23 Small stinging insect -25 Kiln for drying hops -26 Title -28 Door of Masonic lodge -31 Wear -33 Blue titmouse -34 Cad -36 Ornamental knob -37 Narrative -38 Repair again -39 Austro-Hungarian Territory ruled by a Ban -40 Al2 K2 (SO4) + 24 H2O -41 Sorrow -43 Mental image -44 Forsaken -45 Meadow -48 Arial -49 Snug -50 Incite -53 Little stream -55 Ten armed cephalopod -61 Bath house -62 Monster -63 Move or stir -65 Kind of fish sauce -66 Boats’ company -67 Boat propelled by three -71 Cadence -72 Natural metal -74 Over -75 Flesh of animals -77 The present time -78 Prohibit -79 Utter -80 In archery; the bull’s eye -81 Sheltered side -82 To permit -85 Total -86 Headgear -88 Pile -90 Hit lightly - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 42 - -A CENTRAL SWASTIKA [1] - -By Warren Hannaford - - -Small, but by no means so easy as it looks. 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- -[1] The second square from the right, second row from the bottom, -should be black to correspond with the other corners. - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Motion - 5 A barricade -10 Goddess of mischief -11 Disarranged type -13 Prefix, equal -14 Distend -16 Actors -19 A large bird -21 A measure of type -22 The solan goose -23 An exclamation -24 An arch -27 Combine with air -30 Pert. to atmosphere (comb. form) -31 Order -32 Time -33 A beverage -35 The egg of a small insect -37 Coarse cloth made from jute -39 An alarm -42 In another direction -45 Classes of two species -47 Hereditary -49 Regarding -50 The small white heron -53 Nickname for father -54 Design -56 Exclamation of disdain -57 A fish destitute of ventral fins -58 A short song -60 Belonging to me -61 A tree -63 Title of address (pl.) -64 Obliterates - - -VERTICAL - - 1 The finest of Indian silk - 2 Scold - 3 And (French) - 4 Scanty - 6 Pigment from wood soot - 7 Roman weight equal to a pound - 8 Jutting rock - 9 Small bag filled with perfume -11 Incarcerate -12 Tavern -15 Curious scraps of literature -17 Agallochum -18 Disrupt -20 A grain -25 An adherent of the Zoroastrian religion -26 A heavy wooden mallet -28 A stem of a specie of palm -29 Quadruped of Madagascar -32 Each -34 Near by -36 A gentleman’s servant -38 Departure -40 An article used to expunge -41 Predatory incursion -43 Deteriorate -44 Hypothetical ape man -46 Contr. of evening -48 Mock -51 Highly finished work of art -52 Narrow beam of light -55 Assume -57 Square of a type body (pl.) -59 Trick -62 Sixth note of scale - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 43 - -NOT SO BLACK AS PAINTED - -By Norman Kendy - - -Excellent center, but somewhat loose corner construction, passed, -however, under Mr. Gelett Burgess’ ruling that at least half the -letters of a word shall be included in other words. - - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 1 | 2 | | 3 | | 4 | |#####| 5 | 6 | | 7 | | 8 | |#####| -|#####| | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 9 |#####| |#####| |#####| |#####|#####|#####| |#####| |#####| |#####| 10 | -| |#####| |#####| |#####| |#####|#####|#####| |#####| |#####| |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 11 | | | | | | | 12 |#####| 13 | | | | | | | | -| | | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| |#####| |#####|#####| 14 | | |#####|#####| |#####| |#####| | -| |#####| |#####| |#####|#####| | | |#####|#####| |#####| |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 15 | | | |#####| 16 | 17 | |#####| 18 | 19 | |#####| 20 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| |#####| 21 |#####| 22 | | | | |#####| 23 |#####| |#####| | -| |#####| |#####| |#####| | | | | |#####| |#####| |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 24 | | |#####| 25 | 26 | | |#####| 27 | | 28 | |#####| 29 | | | -| | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 30 | 31 | | | | |#####| 32 | | | | 33 | |#####| | -| |#####| | | | | | |#####| | | | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####|#####|#####| 34 | | |#####|#####|#####|#####|#####| 35 | | |#####|#####|#####| -|#####|#####|#####| | | |#####|#####|#####|#####|#####| | | |#####|#####|#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 36 |#####| 37 | | | | 38 | 39 |#####| 40 | 41 | | | | 42 |#####| 43 | -| |#####| | | | | | |#####| | | | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 44 | | |#####| 45 | | | |#####| 46 | | | |#####| 47 | | | -| | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| |#####| |#####| 48 | | | | |#####| |#####| |#####| | -| |#####| |#####| |#####| | | | | |#####| |#####| |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 49 | | | |#####| 50 | | |#####| 51 | | |#####| 52 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| |#####| 53 |#####|#####| 54 | | |#####|#####| 55 |#####| |#####| | -| |#####| |#####| |#####|#####| | | |#####|#####| |#####| |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 56 | | | | | | 57 | |#####| 58 | 59 | | | | | | | -| | | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| |#####| |#####| |#####|#####|#####| |#####| |#####| |#####| | -| |#####| |#####| |#####| |#####|#####|#####| |#####| |#####| |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 60 | | | | | | |#####| 61 | | | | | | | | -|#####| | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Observes - 5 Opposes -11 Spicy -13 Erect -14 Egg cells -15 Luck -16 Sin -18 Garden product -20 Crustacea -22 Spartan magistrate -24 Number -25 Payments -27 To chance -29 Negative -30 Agile -32 Woman’s work -34 River (Spanish) -35 To mimic -37 Scold -40 Sharpshooter -44 Indispensable for animal life -45 English college -46 Corn meal bread -47 To be in debt -48 A Spanish horse -49 Noose -50 Theory -51 Ill-bred fellow -52 God -54 Friend (French) -56 Submerged continent -58 Grain warehouse -60 Penetrated -61 Industrial preservatory - - -VERTICAL - - 2 Premature birth - 3 Dressed - 4 Testament character - 6 Orb - 7 Particle - 8 Amusing - 9 Textile -10 Causing excitement -12 Body -13 Old name for the blues -17 A dance -19 Largo lake -21 Lover -23 Seagoing person -26 Submarine -28 Country gallant -31 Anger -33 Born -36 Freight term -37 City of Churches -38 Clothes -39 Injections -40 Coin -41 Take notice -42 Automobile -43 Vaults -53 Poker term -55 Just quite -57 Frost -59 Pasture - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 44 - -FINE AND DANDY - -By Julie D. Carder - - -A splendid example of what can be done in the waving of long and -intricate word patterns. 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- -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Reserved - 3 According to value -11 Fulfil -14 Pronoun -15 Comfortable -16 The substantive verb -17 A land measure -19 Traveler’s bag -21 A room in a harem -22 A high hill -23 Entirely -24 That Japanese statesman -25 By -26 To become weary -28 A sounding instrument -32 A branch -33 Growing out -35 Wheat -36 East Indian climber -37 Animal coagulant -39 Conscious being -40 Wool fabric -41 A maiden -43 The tongue -45 Gratuity -46 A plant -48 Expressing pleasure -51 Corn meal mush -55 Dilatory -57 To fortify -59 Colored glass -61 Fidelity -62 Melodies -64 Invest with a fee -65 Tramp -66 A tapering mandrel -68 Force -69 Single -70 Electrical unit -71 An extinct bird -73 Point of the compass -74 Goddess of dawn -75 That which is recent -79 Of the Tartar race -80 What every woman adds -81 A vessel -82 In regard to -83 Still -84 An American lizard -85 A color - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Deranges - 2 The leading lady - 4 Divides - 5 A scoundrel - 6 Serpent - 7 Sheltered side - 8 Many times - 9 Mildew on plants -10 Excite -12 An ancient puzzler -13 Chronicle of a year -18 Commission -19 Calcium -20 Depart -21 An Asiatic shrub -27 A volcano -29 Open space -30 Vehicle -31 Interested -32 Lord -34 Australian catfish -36 Elements of plants -38 Oriental weight (pl.) -40 Ditches -42 Turn to the right -44 Fate -47 Phonology -48 Emits fumes -49 Small amount -50 Defy -51 Biblical character -52 Arrive -53 Weird -54 Made tender -56 Disease of grape leaves -58 What Eve was made of -60 Stretching (old) -62 An arsenal -63 A son of Shem -66 Act of stealing -67 A worker in wool -70 Forward -72 Exist -76 Cup with four handles -77 The entire man -78 One who has extreme political views (slang) - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 45 - -A LINGUAL LABYRINTH - -By Coutance - - -This effort contains one definition which comprises two words, but -the all-round excellence of the construction makes up for this -single deficiency. - - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | | 5 | 6 |#####| 7 | 8 | | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | -| | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 13 | | | |#####| 14 | | 15 | | |#####| 16 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 17 | | |#####| 18 | | | | |#####| 19 |#####| 20 | | | -| | | |#####| | | | | |#####| |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 21 | |#####| 22 | | |#####| |#####| 23 | | 24 |#####| 25 | | -| | |#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 26 | | | | 27 | | 28 | | | | 29 |#####| | -| |#####| | | | | | | | | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 30 | | | |#####| 31 | | |#####| 32 | | | 33 |#####| -|#####| | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 34 | |#####| 35 | | 36 | | |#####| 37 | | |#####| 38 | 39 | -| | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 40 | | | | | | |#####| 41 | | | | | | | -| | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 42 | |#####| 43 | | |#####| 44 | | | | |#####| 45 | | -| | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 46 | 47 | | |#####| 48 | | |#####| 49 | | 50 | |#####| -|#####| | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 51 |#####| 52 | | | 53 | | | | 54 | | | |#####| 55 | -| |#####| | | | | | | | | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 56 | 57 |#####| 58 | | |#####| |#####| 59 | | |#####| 60 | | -| | |#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 61 | | 62 |#####| |#####| 63 | | 64 | | |#####| 65 | | | -| | | |#####| |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 66 | | | 67 |#####| 68 | | | | |#####| 69 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 70 | | | | | | |#####| 71 | | | | | | | -| | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Otalgia - 7 Pimple -13 Soon -14 Cable-deck -16 Units -17 Rested -18 Terror -20 Insect -21 Printer’s measure -22 Prefix before -23 Child -25 Preposition -26 Novice -30 Bar -31 Permit -32 Change -34 Elevated railroad (abbr.) -35 Bone -37 Gypsy -38 Biblical name -40 State of ennui -41 Untruthfully -42 Exclamation used to frighten -43 Strike -44 The whole range -45 French article -46 Feline vocalism -48 Fastener -49 Social functions -52 Dust on roof of room (2 words) -56 Behold -58 Portuguese coin -59 Goddess of the dawn -60 Egyptian sun-god -61 Tool -63 Sweetheart -65 Article -66 Rare element -68 French leader assassinated by Charlotte Corday -69 Expanse -70 Gathered -71 Related to Muse of joy - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Stand - 2 French Protectorate - 3 Decay - 4 Article - 5 Mountain in Arabia - 6 Before - 7 A capsule - 8 Above - 9 Preposition -10 Maiden symbolic of truth -11 Period of fast -12 To impede -15 Last of two -18 Arabian beast -19 Whorl -22 One who likes better -23 Preposition -24 Drivers -26 Symbol for Platinum -27 Astringent mineral substance -28 Pronoun -29 Railroad -30 Sailing vessel -33 Shouts -34 Slack -36 A pouting girl -37 An engine of war -39 Color -41 Tooth -44 Spicy root -47 On one string (Mus. abbr.) -48 Geometric function -50 Preposition -51 Vernacular -53 Chinese measure and weight -54 Extinction -55 Hymn -57 German river -60 A nandu -62 Collection of animals -63 Youth -64 Surface of fibers -65 Prefix, three -67 Greek letter -68 Pronoun -69 Italian particle - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 46 - -A HUNDRED PER CENTER - -By R. and R. Williams - - -This is the simplest form for securing an all-over interlock with -no unkeyed letters. 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- -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Species of bird - 5 Sacred bird - 7 Throws -11 Part of the verb “be” -12 Quick -14 Piece -16 Preposition -17 Spawn -18 A measure -19 Preposition -21 Overshadows -24 Allowing that -25 Sun-god -26 To mimic -27 Preposition -28 Share with -32 Groove -34 Son of Aaron -35 Beast of burden -36 Kingdom of Persia -38 Holy picture -39 To saturate -41 A medley -44 A priestly vestment -46 Rears up -49 Termination -50 Collection of units -51 Indef. article -52 Oriental sash -54 Personal pronoun -56 Exist -57 Sanctioned -62 Goddess of Earth -63 Allow -64 Tribe of Indians -65 Act -67 Help -68 Meager -70 Part of the verb “be” -71 To wipe out -72 Situation set apart -73 Species of elk - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Character in Genesis - 2 Measure of type - 3 Connected with - 4 Species of plant - 5 Note of entry - 6 Small piece - 7 Conceal - 8 Above - 9 Note of scale -10 Support -13 French coin -15 Abodes for travelers -20 Deputy of Sultan -21 Resembling a sandflea -22 Hindu title -23 Can be drawn together -24 A small part -29 A musical note -30 Species of bird -31 To harden -33 Birthplace of Abraham -34 Besides -37 Wooden pegs -39 Unrighteousness -40 A limb -42 Smooth consonant -43 Enclosed -44 The highest point -45 Used in fishing -47 Personal pronoun -48 Narrow-minded person -51 Dwell -53 Posts for ships’ cables -55 Under strain -58 River in Germany -59 Beast of burden -60 Goddess of Mischief -61 Two or more together -66 Else -67 Conjunction -69 Denial -70 Part of the verb “be” - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 48 - -A VOCABULARY TESTER - -By Irvan Neckerman - - -Mr. Neckerman is apparently never happy till he has filled his -construction with difficult words. This one is a real trial of -verbal strength. - - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | | 6 |#####| 7 | | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | -| | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 13 | | | | |#####| 14 | 15 | |#####| 16 | | | | | -| | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 17 | | | | |#####| 18 | | |#####| 19 | | | | | -| | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 20 | |#####| |#####| 21 | | | | 22 |#####| |#####| 23 | | -| | |#####| |#####| | | | | |#####| |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 24 | | | |#####| |#####| 25 | | | 26 |#####| | -| |#####| | | | |#####| |#####| | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 27 | 28 | | |#####| 29 | 30 | | 31 | |#####| 32 | | 33 | | -| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 34 | | |#####| 35 | | | | | | 36 |#####| 37 | | | -| | | |#####| | | | | | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 38 | | | |#####| |#####| |#####| 39 | | | |#####| -|#####| | | | |#####| |#####| |#####| | | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 40 | | |#####| 41 | 42 | | 43 | | 44 | |#####| 45 | | 46 | -| | | |#####| | | | | | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 47 | | | 48 |#####| 49 | | | | |#####| 50 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 51 | | | |#####| |#####| 52 | | | |#####| | -| |#####| | | | |#####| |#####| | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 53 | 54 |#####| |#####| 55 | 56 | | 57 | |#####| |#####| 58 | | -| | |#####| |#####| | | | | |#####| |#####| | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 59 | | 60 | | 61 |#####| 62 | | |#####| 63 | | 64 | | | -| | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 65 | | | | |#####| 66 | | |#####| 67 | | | | | -| | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 68 | | | | | | |#####| 69 | | | | | | | -| | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 To reveal - 7 Scrutinizer -13 Dissimulation -14 To request -16 To despoil -17 American flycatcher -18 Cereal -19 Dwelling -20 Ridge of sand or gravel -21 Assault -23 Tone of musical scale -24 To opine -25 Amorous glance -27 So be it -29 Chosen -32 Feast of the nativity -34 Ribbed fabric -35 Hostile persons -37 To run wild -38 To cheat -39 Sly look -40 Twice -41 Uprightly -45 Bill -47 Passageway -49 Ascend -50 A mass -51 Dexterous -52 Silicate of magnesia -53 Alleged force of mesmerism -55 Nether world (myth) -58 Tone of musical scale -59 Shrinking -62 To cut -63 To brawl -65 To eat away -66 Superficial measure -67 Nest of bird of prey -68 Is contingent upon -69 Sorrows - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Having two poles - 2 Strong resentments - 3 Asseverate - 4 Odd - 5 Caustic - 6 Merit - 7 Toboggan for the foot - 8 Part of circle - 9 Almost -10 To seize -11 Bad -12 Changed appellation -15 Method -21 Foreshowing -22 Carry -24 Witnessed -26 Well bred -28 Excellence -30 A bar -31 Cinerary urns -33 Fold in a garment -35 Increase -36 See -40 Illiberal -42 A hill or mound -43 Burnt material -44 Permits -46 Over and above -48 Sojourn -50 Deposit of sand or gravel -54 Ill-boding -56 Sunken fences -57 Wide mouthed pitcher -58 Long cut -60 A grimace -61 A haunt -63 To sink -64 Raw material - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 49 - -IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE - -By J. T. Delaney - - -Ever read a book in words of one syllable? 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-43 Nonsense -44 Caustic -47 Church bench -48 Kind of fish -50 Boastful behavior -51 Viper -53 Chopping tool -54 Kind of cheese -55 Suitable -56 Repulsive -58 Petty quarrel -59 Title -61 Coin -63 Dipper -65 Heroic poem -67 Suitable -69 Soft hat -71 Happened -72 Cipher -74 Lively (archaic) -76 Swelling due to fluid -78 Harass -79 Forage plant -82 Lively -83 Censure -84 Engraving tool -85 French military cap -86 Conclude -88 Inferior -91 Dispatch -92 Husband or wife -94 Logging boot -96 Excise -98 Caustic -100 Russian -101 Beautiful girl -103 Dam -104 Assembled -106 Small bottle -107 Instigate -109 Burden -111 Measure -112 Personal pronoun -114 Beverage -116 Regular -117 Measurement of type (PL) -118 Twitching -120 From this place -122 Swagger -124 A Biblical character -126 Exhausted -128 Fascinate -130 Pertaining to a division of Greeks -132 Incarnation -134 Muscular strength -137 Storeroom for foods -140 City in Nevada -141 Black -144 Corroded -145 Take principal meal -147 Carry -148 Unit of weight -149 Obliquely -150 Waste -151 Depression -152 Seaweed -153 Antiquity -154 Herb -155 Onion-like plant - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Ratchet check - 2 Expand - 3 Waver - 4 Burn with liquid - 5 Greek letter - 6 Crooked - 7 Sudden break - 8 Kind of poplar - 9 Head -10 Supplement -11 Past -12 Dullard -13 Clergyman -14 Raise up -15 Head -20 Raise up -22 Compassion -25 Front hair -27 Numerical base -29 Yellowish brown -30 Menial servant -33 Cold -34 Pipe -36 Object of devotion -37 Body of water -38 Composition -39 Wide-mouthed jug -40 Barter -42 Native -43 Defect -44 Affected -45 Large quantity -46 Indentation -49 Chemical of ammonia type -52 Kind of cigar -55 Bare -57 Unit of time -60 Rhetorical decoration -62 Standard -64 Daily -66 Intent -68 Encroach -69 Genus of cats -70 Divert -72 Lowest point -73 Duty -74 Tibetan ox -75 Tear -77 Mimic -78 Personal pronoun -80 Unit of surface -81 Conclude -86 Slur (music) -87 Bones -89 Intelligence -90 Rule -93 Babble -94 For trial (as, a jury) -95 Cleft hoof (dial.) -97 Dense -98 Luxuriant -99 Regular -101 Stupefy -102 Cause destruction -104 Measure -105 Discrimination -108 Halo -110 Boss of a shield -113 Handle of ax -115 Common tree -117 Biblical character -119 Entrance -121 Circuit breaker -123 Duty -125 Against -127 Entrance -128 Muscular spasm -129 Mortal -131 Split -132 Dry -133 Soon -135 Search thoroughly -136 Proceed on -138 Scant portion -139 Heed -142 Born -143 Yelp -145 Condensed moisture -146 Negative particle - - - - - - - - - -PUZZLE NO. 50 - -OF SOMEWHAT ORIENTAL FLAVOR - -By Gregorian - - -An excellent construction, admirable chiefly for the entire absence -of two-letter words and for the central interlock. As for the -words—go ahead and see for yourself. - - -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 1 | | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |#####| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |#####| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | | 14 | -| | | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 15 | | | | 16 |#####| 17 | | |#####| 18 | | | | |#####| | -| |#####| | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 19 | 20 | | | | | |#####| 21 | | |#####| 22 | | | | | 23 | | -| | | | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 24 | | |#####| |#####| 25 | 26 | |#####| 27 | 28 | |#####| |#####| 29 | | | -| | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 30 | | | |#####| 31 | | | | 32 | | | | 33 |#####| 34 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | | | | | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 35 | | |#####| 36 | | | |#####| |#####| 37 | | | 38 |#####| 39 | | | -| | | |#####| | | | |#####| |#####| | | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 40 | | 41 | | |#####| 42 | 43 | | 44 | |#####| 45 | | 46 | | |#####| -|#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 47 |#####|#####| 48 | | | 49 |#####| 50 | | |#####| 51 | | | |#####|#####| 52 | -| |#####|#####| | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | |#####|#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 53 | 54 | 55 | | |#####| 56 | 57 | | | | 58 | |#####| 59 | | 60 | 61 | | -| | | | | |#####| | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 62 | | |#####| 63 | | | | | | | | | | |#####| 64 | | | -| | | |#####| | | | | | | | | | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 65 | | | 66 | |#####| 67 | | | | | | |#####| 68 | 69 | | | | -| | | | | |#####| | | | | | | |#####| | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####|#####| 70 | | 71 | |#####| 72 | | |#####| 73 | 74 | | |#####|#####| | -| |#####|#####| | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | |#####|#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -|#####| 75 | 76 | | | |#####| 77 | | | | 78 |#####| 79 | | | 80 | 81 |#####| -|#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 82 | | |#####| 83 | | 84 | |#####| |#####| 85 | 86 | | |#####| 87 | | 88 | -| | | |#####| | | | |#####| |#####| | | | |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 89 | | | |#####| 90 | | | 91 | | 92 | | | |#####| 93 | | | | -| | | | |#####| | | | | | | | | |#####| | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 94 | | |#####| 95 |#####| 96 | | |#####| 97 | | |#####| 98 |#####| 99 | | | -| | | |#####| |#####| | | |#####| | | |#####| |#####| | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 100 | | | 101 | | 102 | |#####| 103 | 104 | |#####| 105 | 106 | | 107 | | | | -| | | | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| |#####| 108 | | | | |#####| 109 | | |#####| 110 | | | | |#####| | -| |#####| | | | | |#####| | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ -| 111 | | | | | |#####| 112 | | | | |#####| 113 | | | | | | -| | | | | | |#####| | | | | |#####| | | | | | | -+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ - - - -HORIZONTAL - - 1 Pertaining to an Oceanic race - 6 Mohammedanism -10 A modern form of assembly -15 Prevent -17 Cymbals used by Hindu dancers -18 Mountain Lions -19 Thoroughfares -21 Ovum -22 Put back -24 Child -25 Beverage -27 Past -29 Toss -30 Chemical radical -31 Shoed -34 Cake -35 Illumined -36 Additions -37 Poet -39 X -40 South American Animal -42 Worried -45 Hoarder -48 Unfasten -50 Be ill -51 Preposition -53 Frosting -56 Dispraise -59 Undo -62 Boy -63 City in Chile -64 Heroine in Spencer -65 Seize -67 Proceed -68 Ties -70 Place -72 Run (Scotch) -73 Labor -75 Fright -77 Defeats -79 Requested -82 Beverage -83 Therefore -85 Civil offense -87 Vigor -89 Fast -90 Pedal prints -93 Opera singer -94 Piece -96 Metallic rock -97 Due -99 Negative -100 Angered -103 Present -105 Survivors -108 Curtain -109 Star -110 Scient -111 One who seasons -112 Concise -113 Vomiting - - -VERTICAL - - 1 Pertaining to mail - 2 Shakespearian character - 3 Utilize - 4 Egyptian god - 5 Negative - 7 Oblique - 8 Linger - 9 Sea Life -10 Beg -11 Siberian city -12 A container -13 Seclude -14 Pertaining to a Grecian city -16 Chant -18 Preface -20 Understood -23 Clother -26 Italian woman’s -28 Grotto name -31 Mathematical term -32 Asceticisms -33 Condemn -36 Chinese city -38 Follower of ceremony -41 Word play -43 Trumpet call -44 Graceful -46 Descendant -47 Lowest point in a ship -49 Musical composition -51 Attack -52 Animal -54 Vehicle -55 Mountain in Greece -57 Uncle (S. 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Gregory Hartswick</p> -<p style='display:block; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em;'>Margaret Petherbridge</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: June 8, 2022 [eBook #68267]</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</p> - <p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em; text-align:left'>Produced by: Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)</p> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK ***</div> -<div class="front"> -<div class="div1 cover"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divBody"> -<p class="first"></p> -<div class="figure cover-imagewidth"><img src="images/front.jpg" alt="Original Front Cover." width="587" height="720"></div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e127">[<a href="#xd31e127">1</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div class="div1 frenchtitle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divBody"> -<p class="first center large">THE CROSS WORD <br>PUZZLE BOOK -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e134">[<a href="#xd31e134">3</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div class="div1 titlepage"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divBody"> -<p class="first"></p> -<div class="figure titlepage-imagewidth"><img src="images/titlepage.png" alt="Original Title Page." width="457" height="720"></div><p> -</p> -</div> -</div> -<div class="titlePage"> -<div class="docTitle"> -<div class="mainTitle">THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK</div> -<div class="subTitle"><span class="sc">An Anthology of Fifty Cross Word Puzzles Selected as the Best of the Thousands That -Have Been Submitted to the New York World Published Here Exclusively for the First -Time and Edited</span></div> -</div> -<div class="byline"><i>By</i> -<br><span class="docAuthor">PROSPER BURANELLI</span> <br><span class="docAuthor">F. GREGORY HARTSWICK</span> <br><span class="docAuthor">MARGARET PETHERBRIDGE</span> </div> -<div class="docImprint">THE PLAZA PUBLISHING COMPANY <br><span class="sc">New York</span> :: 1924 </div> -</div> -<p><span class="pageNum" id="xd31e166">[<a href="#xd31e166">4</a>]</span></p> -<div class="div1 copyright"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divBody"> -<p class="first center small">Copyright, 1924, by <br>THE PLAZA PUBLISHING COMPANY <br><span class="sc">37 West 57th Street <br>New York, N.Y.</span> -</p> -<p class="center small">Printed by The Van Rees Press <br>Bound by H. Wolff & Co. <br>New York -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e184">[<a href="#xd31e184">5</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="cwp" class="div1 copyright"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#cwp.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="main">THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Newman Levy</span></p> -<div class="lgouter"> -<div class="lg"> -<p class="line">For many years we’ve lived as man and wife, </p> -<p class="line">As happy now as on the day we wed. </p> -<p class="line">“We’re more like sweethearts,” I have always said. </p> -<p class="line">No cloud has dimmed the sunshine of our life, </p> -<p class="line">Though now and then I’ll seize a rolling pin </p> -<p class="line">And playfully I’ll clout her on the dome </p> -<p class="line">Just to preserve domestic discipline </p> -<p class="line">And demonstrate who’s master in our home. </p> -<p class="line">At times she’ll hurl with well-directed aim </p> -<p class="line">A platter or an iron at my bean. </p> -<p class="line">These slight attentions keep romances green </p> -<p class="line">And keep alive the hymeneal flame. </p> -</div> -<div class="lg"> -<p class="line">On Sunday, when the evening lamp is lit </p> -<p class="line">And peace and calm contentment fill our house, </p> -<p class="line">With pipe and well-loved book at ease I sit, </p> -<p class="line">And at my side, in earnest thought, my spouse, </p> -<p class="line">Then fade the cares and troubles of the day; </p> -<p class="line">With Conrad and Lord Jim I sail the sea, </p> -<p class="line">When suddenly I hear my wife’s voice say, </p> -<p class="line">“What word for ‘female child’ begins with G?” </p> -<p class="line">“The <span class="corr" id="xd31e218" title="Source: world">word</span> is ‘Girl’,” I growl. Again I try </p> -<p class="line">To catch the shattered magic of my tale. </p> -<p class="line">I find my place. Again with Jim I sail </p> -<p class="line">Upon the tropic sea. My wife says “My, </p> -<p class="line">What pronoun in three letters starts with Y?” </p> -</div> -<p><span class="pageNum" id="xd31e226">[<a href="#xd31e226">6</a>]</span></p> -<div class="lg"> -<p class="line">Calmly I rise and search about the place </p> -<p class="line">To find a weapon of sufficient weight. </p> -<p class="line">Aha! Upon our wall an ancient mace, </p> -<p class="line">Studded with knobs of steel. The very thing. </p> -<p class="line">I seize it, and with easy, graceful swing </p> -<p class="line">Wallop my darling wife upon the pate, </p> -<p class="line">The sconce or bean, or dome, or what you will. </p> -<p class="line">Silent she tumbles headlong in the grate. </p> -<p class="line">I take my book and leisurely resume </p> -<p class="line">My tale, and peace and quiet fill the room. </p> -</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first xd31e238">From F.P.A.’s <i>Conning Tower</i> <br>in The New York World -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e244">[<a href="#xd31e244">7</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="foreword" class="div1 foreword"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#foreword.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="super">THE CROSS WORD <br>PUZZLE BOOK</h2> -<p><span class="pageNum" id="xd31e251">[<a href="#xd31e251">9</a>]</span></p> -<h2 class="main"><i>CONFESSIONS OF A CROSS WORD PUZZLE EDITOR</i></h2> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">When I was first made unwilling Cross Word Puzzle Editor some two years ago, the procedure -in deciding what puzzle would be run was limited to picking out a good-looking one -from among the bunch and sending it upstairs to be set. I saw no reason to change -this splendid system. At that time, I had never taken the trouble to do a puzzle and -the letters of anathema and condemnation that came in by the dozens had small effect -on my conscience. They were evidently from cranks and couldn’t be avoided. -</p> -<p>I must admit that the dawning of conscience began with the arrival of F.P.A., who -came to work in the next room. When he discovered that I was responsible for the cross -words, he formed the atrocious habit of stalking in every Monday morning bright and -early (about eleven o’clock) to point out to me in sarcastic tones just what was wrong -with yesterday’s. Well, to make a long story short, in order to avoid the moronish -feeling that usually followed such a lecture, I decided to reform and find out what -a really decent puzzle was like. -</p> -<p>I began by trying to do one the next Sunday, and thus experienced the throes of acute -agony that come to all solvers of puzzles on discovering definitions left out, numbers -wrong, hideously warped definitions, words not to be found inside of any known dictionary, -foreign words—very foreign<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e258">[<a href="#xd31e258">10</a>]</span>—and words that had no right to be dragged out of their native obscurity. Then and -there, with my left hand reposing on a dictionary and my right raised in air, I took -an oath to edit the cross words to the essence of perfection. From then on, I instituted -the procedure of doing the puzzles myself on the page proof—sort of trying it on the -dog—applying the principle, -</p> -<div class="lgouter"> -<p class="line">“If it be not fair to me, </p> -<p class="line">What care I how fair it be!” </p> -</div> -<p class="first">Since that momentous day, F.P.A.’s visits have grown less frequent—in fact, he has -to make up excuses to come in and converse on other matters—and the cross words even -came in for an occasional bouquet in Sam Pepys’s diary. So now you all know whom to -thank for the perfection (more or less) of the cross word puzzle found each Sunday -on the <i>World Magazine’s</i> Ingenuities Page. -</p> -<p class="signed"><span class="sc">Margaret Petherbridge</span> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e271">[<a href="#xd31e271">11</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="solve" class="div1 introduction"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#solve.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="main"><i>HOW TO SOLVE THEM</i></h2> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">Solving a cross word puzzle offers numerous enjoyments of which the uninitiated are -ignorant. There is the pure esthetic stimulation of looking at the pattern with its -neat black and white squares, like a floor in a cathedral or a hotel bathroom; there -is the challenge of the definitions, titillating the combative ganglion that lurks -in all of us; there is the tantalizing elusiveness of the one little word that will -satisfactorily fill a space and give clues to others that we know not of; and there -is the thrill of triumph as the right word is found, fitted, and its attendant branches -and roots spring into being. No better illustration could be used than a recent brilliant -construction of Mr. Gelett Burgess, published in the Sunday World Magazine. -</p> -<p>Consider the solver as he faces his problem. The numbers in the squares, he knows, -refer to the definitions; in the system of numbering used in this book, the first -letters only are indicated by numbers. Thus 1 horizontal means a word that will fill -the space following the figure up to the next black square. -</p> -<p><i>Horizontal</i> -</p> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Lowest form of life </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">12</span> Product of coal or pine </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">18</span> Opponent </li> -</ul><p> -</p> -<p><i>Vertical</i> -</p> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Gustated </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">2</span> Divine nourishment </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">3</span> Before </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">4</span> Indefinite number </li> -</ul><p> -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop">2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">12</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight blank"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">18</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>20</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight blank"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">30</td> -<td> </td> -<td>32</td> -<td> </td> -<td>33</td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom blank"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e387">[<a href="#xd31e387">12</a>]</span></p> -<p>The solver, then, looks the puzzle over. Aha! a friend. 12 horizontal, three letters -long—“product of coal or pine.” Triumphantly the solver writes TAR in the spaces and -proceeds with this clue. 2 Vertical is defined as “Divine Nourishment.” It links with -TAR at the second letter. A moment of thought and MANNA appears as the only possible -solution. He turns to 1 vertical, the second letter of which is the first of 12 horizontal—T. -The definition is “gustated,” and the word is of three letters. Why hesitate? ATE -goes into the space. “A cinch!” reflects the solver, and joyously writes ENEMY in -18 horizontal, defined as “Opponent.” 3 vertical is defined as “Before,” and with --RE staring him in the face he would be dull indeed who did not write ERE. And now -1 horizontal stands revealed. “Lowest form of life,” eh? AMEBA goes down. 4 vertical -is “Indefinite number.” Well, A-Y cannot be anything but ANY—and there is the corner -complete, with three clues to the words in other sections. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop solved"><span class="number">1</span> A</td> -<td class="cellTop solved"><span class="number">2</span> M</td> -<td class="cellTop solved"><span class="number">3</span> E</td> -<td class="cellTop solved">B</td> -<td class="cellTop solved"><span class="number">4</span> A</td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft solved"><span class="number">12</span> T</td> -<td class="solved">A</td> -<td class="solved">R</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="solved">N</td> -<td class="cellRight blank"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft solved"><span class="number">18</span> E</td> -<td class="solved">N</td> -<td class="solved">E</td> -<td class="solved"><span class="number">20</span> M</td> -<td class="solved">Y</td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td class="solved">N</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight blank"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 30</td> -<td class="solved">A</td> -<td>32</td> -<td> </td> -<td>33</td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom blank"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -</p> -<p>So far the sailing has been fairly easy. But trouble waits just around the corner. -There are other definitions which <span class="pageNum" id="xd31e477">[<a href="#xd31e477">13</a>]</span>are not so simple as “product of coal or pine.” In the far reaches of the puzzle to -which the above corner belongs may be found such definitions as “Vexation (Provincial -British),” “Humorous figure of speech,” “One-sided headaches” and “Droning dung-beetles.” -Is the solver prepared to state that he can fill the spaces represented by those words -without the assistance of the linked horizontals or verticals? -</p> -<p>It is here that one of the greatest charms of the crossword puzzle lies: the discovery -of new words by the process of building them, though entirely ignorant of their actual -spelling. Consider another portion of Mr. Burgess’ puzzle. The construction of the -provincial form of “Vexation” and “Humorous figure of speech” fortunately come in -juxtaposition; they illustrate at once the vocabulary-building feature of the cross -word puzzle and a constructional weakness which may lead to non-solution. -</p> -<p>The definitions surrounding this precious pair are as follows: Horizontal, “Series -of games,” “Self,” “Means of sustenance,” and “Surface of fibres”; Vertical, “Drinking -vessel” and “Body of cavalry.” When these words are solved one finds: -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop blank"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft blank"></td> -<td class="blank"></td> -<td class="blank"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="blank"></td> -<td class="blank"></td> -<td class="cellRight blank"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft blank"></td> -<td class="blank"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="solved">S</td> -<td class="solved">E</td> -<td class="solved">T</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="blank"></td> -<td class="cellRight blank"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft blank"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="solved">T</td> -<td class="solved">U</td> -<td class="solved">R</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight blank"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft blank"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="solved">E</td> -<td class="solved">G</td> -<td class="solved">O</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight blank"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td class="solved">A</td> -<td class="solved">L</td> -<td class="solved">I</td> -<td class="solved">M</td> -<td class="solved">O</td> -<td class="solved">N</td> -<td class="solved">Y</td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom solved">N</td> -<td class="cellBottom solved">A</td> -<td class="cellBottom solved">P</td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom blank"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e585">[<a href="#xd31e585">14</a>]</span></p> -<p>Now the unfortunate part of it is that the section is completed; there are no more -clues, and if one does not know what the humorous figure of speech is and what the -British provincialism is, there is no way of discovering them aside from the use of -deduction. A little thinking will show that the first letter of the provincialism -is more likely to be “S” than any other letter, and a short search in the dictionary -will give “Sturm” as the answer; while as for -EUGMA, a brief running through the -alphabet will so limit the possibilities that a very short search will reveal ZEUGMA -as correct. -</p> -<p>It is extremely difficult, in the construction of cross word puzzles, to avoid the -use of such “unkeyed” letters, and effort has been used to ensure the presence of -common words where more than one letter is unkeyed; but the exigencies of construction -will not always allow this. Nor should it always be done; allowance must be made for -erudition on the part of the solver. When such a construction appears as S-ALE-E, -defined as “Unequal sided and angled” and with all clues exhausted, it is with a warm -sensation of culture that one triumphantly fills the blanks with “C” and “N.” And -the same thrill is present when “One-sided headaches,” standing clueless with M-GRI-S, -is properly filled in to become MEGRIMS. -</p> -<p>Thus is the solution achieved; in part by the science of deduction, in part by mother-wit, -in part by erudition; appeals to as many as possible of the lobes of the brain. There -is no nobler satisfaction than the fitting in of the last word that makes the pattern -complete; one rises to lyric heights in the contemplation of the evolution of such -a word as one enthusiastic constructor included in his design, the definition of <span class="pageNum" id="xd31e592">[<a href="#xd31e592">15</a>]</span>which was “Parallel pairs of simulacra in echinoideans.” The cross-constructions showed -BIVIA as the necessary filler and the vocabularies of the solvers were enriched by -an addition of high esthetic value and utter incomprehensibility, to be used as occasion -demands. -</p> -<p>The cross word solver becomes a collector, a connoisseur of words. They lose, to him, -their mundane purpose of a suitable medium for the exchange of thoughts, and take -on an esoteric significance, akin to the appeal of slip-ware to the collector of pottery -or the three-cornered Mauritius to the philatelist. He and Hamlet are one. “Words, -words, words”—except that he has the advantage of the melancholy one. Hamlet’s words -ran in decorous file, one after the other; the solver’s twine and intertwine, each -leading to others, resulting in a harmonious whole unapproached by any except the -masterpieces of classic literature. -</p> -<p class="tb">* * *</p><p> -</p> -<p>It is generally conceded that as a form of amusement, cross words are very instructive, -and that as a form of instruction, they are very amusing. The first thing that strikes -the eye is the pattern in which the words are intermingled. Our experience teaches -that an all-over interlock is an absolute necessity, and except in a few cases you -will find that the puzzles in this book possess this quality. The advantages are obvious; -when all the words interlock, you can check up the horizontal by the vertical, and -vice versa. -</p> -<p>Occasional stunt patterns are interesting, but as a general thing they are apt to -detract from the value of a puzzle as a thing to be solved. -</p> -<p>The numbering system used to be quite intricate and took <span class="pageNum" id="xd31e602">[<a href="#xd31e602">16</a>]</span>up a lot of precious space. It required two numbers to each definition. On July 22, -1923, at the suggestion of an ardent puzzler who calls himself “Radical,” we offered -the new system of numbering, which calls for only one number to a definition. It is -quite simple to read either horizontally or vertically from one number, and forms -a decided improvement over the old style. “Radical” deserves a special vote of thanks. -All the puzzles in this book use the new system of numbering. -</p> -<p>As for the words that find their way into cross words, strange as it may seem with -the whole of the dictionary to choose from, the same old favorites have a way of recurring -ceaselessly. Of course, all the two letter words are overworked, and many have to -compromise on abbreviations. Our sole objection to abbreviations is that they cannot -be defined without practically telling what they are. Parts of the verb “to be”; prepositions; -the Egyptian Sun God, Ra; Pi, em, ma, pa, i.e., e.g., so, to, go, do, are to be found -in almost every cross word puzzle, and the solver gets heartily tired of them. So -the better patterns avoid these two word spaces. The three letters words contain some -old favorites, too. Eel, emu and gnu are among the most popular. It seems that almost -nine-tenths of the puzzles we look at have a “snake-like fish” wriggling in them somewhere. -And who hasn’t found err, sin, and erg; cam, moa, tar; pal, ode, née, ace, e’er, o’er, -sac; lee and lea; ape and pea; ego, ago and age; era and eon; Eli and spa; and all -the notes of the scale from do to do. Truly, all these words are to the puzzler as -buttons are to a shirt. -</p> -<p>Among the longer words, the rule seems to hold that words <span class="pageNum" id="xd31e607">[<a href="#xd31e607">17</a>]</span>with alternating consonants and vowels can be used more frequently than others. It -is evident that a word containing three consecutive consonants, for instance, may -have to take, in the word just below it, three consecutive vowels—and who hasn’t heard -the cross-word constructor asking plaintively for a seven-letter word beginning with -e-a-o and ending with u? Among the much-used words, you’ll surely find opera, onus, -tenor, estop, used, ameer, renal, depot, emit, cabal, item, sere, lunar, nacre, neve, -apse and the rest. -</p> -<p class="signed"><span class="sc">F. Gregory Hartswick</span> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e613">[<a href="#xd31e613">18</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="science" class="div1 introduction"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#science.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="main"><i>THE SCIENCE AND LORE OF CROSS WORD PUZZLES</i></h2> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">Everyone knows the classic Riddle of the Sphinx: what is it that walks on four legs -in the morning, on two at noon and on three in the evening? the answer being man, -who goes on hands and knees in infancy, with bipedal locomotion in after years, and -in old age with a cane. -</p> -<p>The posing of such riddles was an important affair with ancient peoples. It was a -tradition of the archaic Scandinavians, among whom it shows clear literary relations. -Thus, the riddle—what is the name of the horse that flies with upright wings across -the sea, the answer being ship—becomes the metaphor, of a type common in the Sagas—the -upright-winged horse of the sea. -</p> -<p>Old forms of writing take on puzzle forms. In the Maya hieroglyphics of Central America -is found an element similar to the mechanism of the rebus. It is as though the symbol -meaning “hair” in juxtaposition with the one meaning “ring,” might mean “hair and -ring” or it might mean herring. This makes the decipherment of the Maya writing so -very difficult for modern scholars. The old fashioned charade has rebus-like elements. -Cryptography, of course, must have begun in the earliest times when a literate man -had a secret message to convey. The most recondite systems of hidden writing have -been devised both for practical use and literary fantasy, remembering only Poe’s ingenious -speculations. Much of <span class="pageNum" id="xd31e622">[<a href="#xd31e622">19</a>]</span>the “Baconian Theory” has revolved around supposed cryptography in Shakespeare. -</p> -<p>Ancient and medieval folk were much given to anagrams; that is, to phrases of related -meanings and made up of the same letters—as the masterpiece, “They see,” answer “The -eyes,” or “<span lang="la">Honor est a Nilo</span>,” answer “Horatio Nelson.” Into theological controversy came such damnations as this: -The Calvinistic opponents of Jacobus Arminius rearranged the letters of his name to -spell, “vani orbis amicus,”—“friend of the false world.” -</p> -<p>A recent “Baconian” argument based itself on an anagrammatical treatment of the long -dedication of the sonnets. The author rearranged the letters of the dedication to -form a statement that it was Lord Bacon who had written the verse. An experienced -puzzler might object that he could rearrange the numerous letters to spell out a statement -of almost anything, that he would rearrange the letters that make up Aristotle’s Poetics -into a treatise proving that when the Democrats are in office hard times come. Similar -to the anagram in principle is the transposition, in which you fill blanks in a text -with words that are made up of the same letters; for instance, angered, enraged, derange. -</p> -<p>Of ancient glory, too, is the palindrome, which is properly not a puzzle at all, but -an ingenuity. A palindrome reads the same backward and forward, as in the familiar -“Madam, I’m Adam,” and “Able was I ere I saw Elba.” Perhaps the most charming of antique -palindromes is the Roman legal maxim, “<span lang="la">Si nummi immunis</span>,”—“if you pay you go free.” -</p> -<p>But perhaps the most fascinating of all word puzzles are <span class="pageNum" id="xd31e637">[<a href="#xd31e637">20</a>]</span>the types in which words are to be guessed from definitions. There is the well-known -acrostic, where with definitions as clues you arrive at a set of words of which the -initial letters, or finals or second letters or third, as may have been determined, -will spell another or other words. During the struggle for Italian freedom an acrostic -was seen in the shibboleth, Vittorio Emmanuele Re D’Italia, giving the name of the -composer, Verdi. Most august of all is the fish symbol for Christ, which was held -in much mystic veneration in the early Christian centuries. The Greek word for fish, -Ichthys (<span class="trans" title="Ichthys"><span lang="grc" class="grek"><span class="corr" id="xd31e642" title="Source: Ιχθγε">Ιχθυς</span></span></span>) was seen to be composed of the first letters of the sacred phrase, <span lang="grc-latn">Iesous <span class="corr" id="xd31e653" title="Source: Kristos">Christos</span> Theou Huios Soter</span> (<span class="trans" title="Iēsous Christos Theou Huios Sōtēr"><span lang="grc" class="grek"><span class="corr" id="xd31e660" title="Source: Ιησομς Χριστος Θεοῖ Υιος Σῷτηρ">Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς Θεοῦ Υἱὸς Σῷτήρ</span></span></span>), meaning “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior.” -</p> -<p>It is the feature of determining words from definitions that has made “word forms” -the most popular genus of puzzle. A word form is a set of words arranged one under -the other so that their letters may be read across and down to give sensible readings, -sometimes the same readings across and down and sometimes different readings. They -may be of many geometric configurations, as square, pyramid, octagon, etc. Their origin -is lost in the mists of time. -</p> -<p>Word forms, especially squares, have a considerable following of very skillful adepts, -most of them members of the National Puzzlers’ League, who construct and solve them -with the same sort of devotion that a chess player demonstrates toward chess. Among -such the forms take the most learned guise and consist of the most unusual sort of -words. With the adepts any word that has ever been printed in an English book is allowable, -and thus there is a great selection <span class="pageNum" id="xd31e672">[<a href="#xd31e672">21</a>]</span>of exotic words in various spellings from old gazetteers, books of travel, etc. The -adept delights in words that no one has ever heard of before. Here are several examples -of recondite ingenuities. -</p> -<p class="center">By Mentor, in <i>The Enigma</i> -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="center"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop">M</td> -<td class="cellTop">A</td> -<td class="cellTop">L</td> -<td class="cellTop">E</td> -<td class="cellTop">G</td> -<td class="cellTop">A</td> -<td class="cellTop">G</td> -<td class="cellTop">E</td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop">S </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">A</td> -<td>D</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>N</td> -<td>O</td> -<td>C</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>L</td> -<td class="cellRight">E </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">L</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>U</td> -<td>C</td> -<td>A</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>M</td> -<td>I</td> -<td class="cellRight">C </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">E</td> -<td>N</td> -<td>C</td> -<td>O</td> -<td>R</td> -<td>T</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>N</td> -<td class="cellRight">E </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">G</td> -<td>O</td> -<td>A</td> -<td>R</td> -<td>L</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>N</td> -<td>G</td> -<td class="cellRight">S </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">A</td> -<td>C</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>T</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>F</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>E</td> -<td class="cellRight">S </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">G</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>M</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>N</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>A</td> -<td>N</td> -<td class="cellRight">I </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">E</td> -<td>L</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>N</td> -<td>G</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>N</td> -<td>I</td> -<td class="cellRight">O </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom">S</td> -<td class="cellBottom">E</td> -<td class="cellBottom">C</td> -<td class="cellBottom">E</td> -<td class="cellBottom">S</td> -<td class="cellBottom">S</td> -<td class="cellBottom">I</td> -<td class="cellBottom">O</td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom">N </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -</p> -<p class="center">By Gemini, in <i>The Enigma</i> -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="center"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop">V</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>R</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>S</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>I</td> -<td>O</td> -<td>N</td> -<td>S</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>I</td> -<td>N</td> -<td>S</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>R</td> -<td>T</td> -<td>S</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td>R</td> -<td>O</td> -<td>S</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>T</td> -<td>R</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>S</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">V</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>N</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>T</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>A</td> -<td>N</td> -<td>R</td> -<td>E</td> -<td class="cellRight">D </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td>S</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>R</td> -<td>R</td> -<td>A</td> -<td>T</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>O</td> -<td>N</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>S</td> -<td>T</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>N</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>O</td> -<td>N</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>S</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>R</td> -<td>O</td> -<td>N</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>S</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>N</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom">D</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -</p> -<p class="center">By Neophyte, in the <i>Sunday Magazine, New York World</i> -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="center"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop">Z</td> -<td class="cellTop">I</td> -<td class="cellTop">K</td> -<td class="cellTop">R</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop">H</td> -<td class="cellTop">O</td> -<td class="cellTop">O</td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop">D </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">I</td> -<td>X</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>A</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>O</td> -<td>L</td> -<td>L</td> -<td class="cellRight">A </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">K</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>W</td> -<td>I</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>O</td> -<td>L</td> -<td>I</td> -<td class="cellRight">D </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">R</td> -<td>A</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>D</td> -<td>Y</td> -<td>A</td> -<td>D</td> -<td>A</td> -<td>D</td> -<td class="cellRight">O </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>Y</td> -<td>U</td> -<td>G</td> -<td>A</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>A</td> -<td>G</td> -<td>N</td> -<td>I</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">L</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>W</td> -<td>D</td> -<td>A</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>S</td> -<td>U</td> -<td>S</td> -<td class="cellRight">U </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">E</td> -<td>R</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>A</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>U</td> -<td>N</td> -<td>I</td> -<td class="cellRight">T </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">W</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>L</td> -<td>L</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>S</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>V</td> -<td class="cellRight">A </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom">D</td> -<td class="cellBottom">A</td> -<td class="cellBottom">L</td> -<td class="cellBottom">I</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom">U</td> -<td class="cellBottom">T</td> -<td class="cellBottom">A</td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom">S </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e1327">[<a href="#xd31e1327">22</a>]</span></p> -<p class="center">By Alec Sander, in <i>The Enigma</i> -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="center"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop">T</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>C</td> -<td>A</td> -<td>L</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>K</td> -<td>A</td> -<td>R</td> -<td>A</td> -<td>T</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>R</td> -<td>A</td> -<td>S</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>T</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>S</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>B</td> -<td>A</td> -<td>L</td> -<td>A</td> -<td>N</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>S</td> -<td>M</td> -<td>S</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>C</td> -<td>O</td> -<td>M</td> -<td>M</td> -<td>U</td> -<td>T</td> -<td>A</td> -<td>T</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>N</td> -<td>G</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>C</td> -<td>O</td> -<td>N</td> -<td>T</td> -<td>A</td> -<td>B</td> -<td>U</td> -<td>L</td> -<td>A</td> -<td>T</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>O</td> -<td>N</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td>G</td> -<td>A</td> -<td>S</td> -<td>T</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>R</td> -<td>O</td> -<td>L</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>C</td> -<td>H</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>N</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>S</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom">P</td> -<td class="cellBottom">E</td> -<td class="cellBottom">N</td> -<td class="cellBottom">T</td> -<td class="cellBottom">A</td> -<td class="cellBottom">G</td> -<td class="cellBottom">O</td> -<td class="cellBottom">N</td> -<td class="cellBottom">A</td> -<td class="cellBottom">S</td> -<td class="cellBottom">T</td> -<td class="cellBottom">E</td> -<td class="cellBottom">R</td> -<td class="cellBottom">I</td> -<td class="cellBottom">D</td> -<td class="cellBottom">A</td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom">E </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -</p> -<p>The great public following goes to the Cross Word Puzzle, which is an expanded word -form in which, commonly, only dictionary words are allowed. It is this simplicity -of words, together with its larger and more elaborate construction, that makes it -irresistible to the casual puzzler. A cross word square, or other geometric figure, -is a logical modern development of the ancient word square. The insertion of black -spaces permits it to be made of any size and gives an interesting variety of inner -construction. -</p> -<p>The cross word puzzle began its career only a few decades back. It was run for many -years in the Sunday Magazine of the New York <i>World</i> and has held a considerable and steady group of followers. Recently it has come into -a sudden great vogue and is being printed by many newspapers and magazines throughout -the country. Cross word puzzles are now published for the first time in book form. -</p> -<p class="signed"><span class="sc">Prosper Buranelli</span> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e1667">[<a href="#xd31e1667">23</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="dosdonts" class="div1 last-child introduction"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#dosdonts.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="main"><i>DO’S AND DON’T’S FOR SOLVERS</i></h2> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">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. -</p> -<p>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. -</p> -<p>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. -</p> -<p>Remember that the horizontals furnish a sure check on the verticals, and vice versa. -</p> -<p>If you are hopelessly stuck, try another puzzle. Inspiration sometimes waits for a -return engagement. -</p> -<p>A pleasant feeling of something attempted, something done accompanies the solution -of a cross word puzzle. It’s good for the inferiority complex. -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e1679">[<a href="#xd31e1679">25</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="body"> -<div id="pz1" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz1.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 1</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">A SOFT BEGINNING</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Gregorian</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">The two long central words, if solved at once, will give sufficient clues to permit -of rapid solution. But should these prove elusive, surely such definitions as 9 horizontal -and 29 vertical offer no difficulties. Three-letter words meaning respectively “aged” -and “sorrowful” should hold few terrors for the beginner. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop"> 8 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 9</td> -<td> </td> -<td>10</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>11</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>12</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td>13</td> -<td> </td> -<td>14</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>15</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">16</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>17</td> -<td> </td> -<td>18</td> -<td> </td> -<td>19</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight">20 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">21</td> -<td>22</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>23</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>24</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">25</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">26</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>27</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>28</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>29</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>30</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td>31</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>32</td> -<td> </td> -<td>33</td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">34</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>35</td> -<td> </td> -<td>36</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>37</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight">38 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom">39</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">40</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">41</td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e1926">[<a href="#xd31e1926">24</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Pronoun </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">3</span> Albumin from castor-oil bean </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> Exist </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">9</span> Aged </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">11</span> Negative </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">12</span> Incite, hasten </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">13</span> Remote </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">15</span> Obstruction </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">17</span> Bivalves </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">21</span> Father </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">23</span> Tree </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">24</span> River in Italy </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">25</span> Owners </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">26</span> Printer’s measure </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">27</span> Tree </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">28</span> Personal pronoun </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">29</span> Legislative bodies </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> Compact mass </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">32</span> Moved rapidly </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> Walk about </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> Toss </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">37</span> Small child </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">39</span> Upon </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">40</span> Small openings </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">41</span> Act </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -</p> -<p><i>VERTICAL</i> -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Exclamation </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">2</span> Fairy </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">4</span> Preposition </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">5</span> Plotter </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">6</span> Pronoun </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> Express generally </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">8</span> Pronoun </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">10</span> Obstruct </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">12</span> Owns </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">14</span> Disarranged </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">15</span> Voluble talkativeness </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">16</span> Above </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">18</span> The bow of Vishnu </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">19</span> Choose </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">20</span> Assumed an attitude </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">22</span> Limb </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">24</span> Peer </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">29</span> Sorrowful </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">30</span> Rested </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> Pale </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">33</span> Incline the head </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> Move </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> Behold </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">36</span> Exist </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">38</span> Preposition </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e2140">[<a href="#xd31e2140">27</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz2" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz2.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 2</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">TRY AND DO IT</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">W. W. Foster</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">This enigma comes from New London, where they specialize in regattas, which is the -one unusual word omitted from Mr. Foster’s contraption. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop">10 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>11</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>12</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">13</td> -<td>14</td> -<td class="black"></td> 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class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>31</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">32</td> -<td>33</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>34</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>35</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>36</td> -<td class="cellRight">37 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">38</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>39</td> -<td>40</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>41</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">42</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>43</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>44</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>45</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">46</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>47</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>48</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>49</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>50</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>51</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>52</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom">53</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">54</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e2492">[<a href="#xd31e2492">26</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Choose 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class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">46</span> Within </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">47</span> Wise sayings </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">49</span> By </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">50</span> The dye indigo </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">51</span> Quietude </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">53</span> Scoundrel, pest </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">54</span> Seek laboriously or blindly </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -</p> -<p><i>VERTICAL</i> -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Harsh sound </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">2</span> Behold </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">3</span> Likewise, also </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">4</span> Sour </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">5</span> Duty </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">6</span> After ends </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> Agitate </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">8</span> A worthless leaving </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">9</span> Personal pronoun </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">10</span> Reed-pipe </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">14</span> Town in Italy </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">16</span> Born </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">17</span> Used for baking </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">19</span> Chemical group </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">21</span> Spare time </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">23</span> Stone </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">25</span> Domestic animal </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">27</span> Bog </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">29</span> Sacred vessel </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">32</span> Moral science </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">33</span> Part of speech </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> Preserve </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> Administered extreme unction to </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">36</span> Character in Ibsen play </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">37</span> Bloodsucking fly </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">40</span> Primer </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">43</span> Covering of a seed </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">44</span> Period of time </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">47</span> Unit </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">48</span> Point of compass </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">50</span> Exclamation </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">52</span> Editor (abbr.) </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e2762">[<a href="#xd31e2762">29</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz3" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz3.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 3</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">A SIMPLICITY</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Isidore Edelstein</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">Some abbreviations may be treated as words, such as “i.e.,” “A.D.,” points of the -compass and so on. It is not the purest usage, but may be passed to get over a difficult -spot. This construction has an abbreviation or two beyond these, but it is a simple, -easy design for a not too energetic moment. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop">10</td> -<td class="cellTop">11</td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop">12 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">13</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>14</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>15</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>16</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">17</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>18</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>19</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>20</td> -<td> </td> -<td>21</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>22</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">23</td> -<td>24</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>25</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>26</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>27</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>28</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>29</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>30</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td 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class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">50</td> -<td> </td> -<td>51</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>52</td> -<td> </td> -<td>53</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>54</td> -<td> </td> -<td>55</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight">56 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>57</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>58</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>59</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>60</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">61</td> -<td>62</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>63</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>64</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">65</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>66</td> -<td> </td> -<td>67</td> 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class="itemNumber">29</span> Large Australian bird </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">30</span> Sick </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> Musical drama </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">33</span> An enclosure </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> Questioner </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">38</span> Bird </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">39</span> And not </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">40</span> A vase </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">41</span> Congealed water </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">42</span> An injection </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">44</span> There </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">46</span> Class </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">48</span> And so forth 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class="itemNumber">69</span> Prophets </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">70</span> Back (French) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">71</span> To correct </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -</p> -<p><i>VERTICAL</i> -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Noisome </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">2</span> Before </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">3</span> A flower </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">4</span> Reel </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">5</span> Fertile spot in desert </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">6</span> Part of “to be” </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> Broad boat </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">9</span> Foot coverings </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">10</span> Troy </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">11</span> An eternity </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">12</span> Royal </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">14</span> Fermenting vat </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">15</span> Two </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">21</span> Blood </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">24</span> To enroll as for jury duty </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">25</span> To flow forth </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">27</span> Clamor </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">28</span> Accomplish </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> Lyric poem </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">32</span> Female sheep </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">33</span> To scrutinize </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> Woman living in a convent </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">36</span> Relation </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">37</span> Things </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">43</span> Threatener </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">45</span> Aroma </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">47</span> Self conceit </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">50</span> Religious </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">51</span> Proverb </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">52</span> Nymph </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">53</span> Eating places </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">55</span> To gibber </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">56</span> To squander </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">58</span> Devoured </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">59</span> In the distance </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">62</span> Before, prefix </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">64</span> Weapon </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">67</span> Towards </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e3555">[<a href="#xd31e3555">31</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz4" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz4.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 4</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">TETRACRUCIFORM</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Charles W. Snizek</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">A mystical design combined with everyday words shorter than the name it it bears. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop">10</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">11</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>12</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>13</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight">14 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">15</td> -<td>16</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>17</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>18</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>19</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>20</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">21</td> -<td> </td> -<td>22</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>23</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>24</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>25</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">26</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>27</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>28</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>29</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>30</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">31</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>32</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>33</td> -<td>34</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>35</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>36</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>37</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>38</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>39</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">40</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>41</td> -<td>42</td> -<td>43</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>44</td> -<td>45</td> -<td>46</td> -<td>47</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight">48 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">49</td> -<td>50</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>51</td> -<td> </td> -<td>52</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>53</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>54</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">55</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>56</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>57</td> -<td>58</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>59</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">60</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>61</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>62</td> -<td> </td> -<td>63</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>64</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">65</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>66</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>67</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>68</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>69</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>70</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>71</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>72</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">73</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">74</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom black"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e3998">[<a href="#xd31e3998">30</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Unsteady </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">6</span> Appoint </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">12</span> Remotely </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">13</span> Besides </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">15</span> Upon </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">17</span> Worry </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">19</span> Bang </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">20</span> Fourth tone of musical scale </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">21</span> A bark or yelp </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">23</span> Pooh! </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">24</span> Climbing plant </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">25</span> Purpose </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">26</span> Poisonous sap of Malaysian trees </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">28</span> Toward </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">29</span> Perform </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">30</span> Hireling or serf </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> A drink made of wine, water, and lemon-juice, sweetened </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">33</span> Employ </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> Made of oak </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">36</span> Black </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">38</span> Practical application of knowledge (plural) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">39</span> Without life </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">41</span> Temporary quarters </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">44</span> Gain </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">49</span> Foolish </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">51</span> Priest’s vestment </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">53</span> Heaths (Scot.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">55</span> Faithful </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">56</span> Either </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">57</span> Advertisement (abbreviation) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">59</span> Province of Greece </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">60</span> A small deer </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">61</span> Energy </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">62</span> Bony rod attached to the spine </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">64</span> A bird </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">65</span> One, or any </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">66</span> Ornamental plant </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">67</span> Used to allure a fish </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">69</span> Unit of printer’s measure </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">70</span> Poison </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">71</span> To invade suddenly </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">73</span> Desist </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">74</span> Medicinal herb </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -</p> -<p><i>VERTICAL</i> -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">2</span> God of midday sun </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">3</span> Aside from a main track </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">4</span> Complete dress </li> 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class="itemNumber">25</span> Inquires </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">27</span> Total </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">30</span> Consume </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">32</span> Therefore </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> Shallow </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> Else </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">37</span> Surface of fibres </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">38</span> Consumed </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">40</span> Pertaining to stars </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">41</span> Guide </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">42</span> Beverage </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">43</span> Possessive pronoun </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">45</span> Part of “be” </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">46</span> Grieve </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">47</span> African river </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">48</span> Take </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">50</span> Common metal </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">51</span> Host </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">52</span> Sharp point </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">54</span> Element of poetry </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">56</span> Anointed </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">58</span> Record of daily events </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">61</span> Slender plant </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">63</span> Prejudice </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">66</span> Resinous substance </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">68</span> It is </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">70</span> Happen </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">72</span> Execute </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e4358">[<a href="#xd31e4358">33</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz5" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz5.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 5</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">WELL BALANCED</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Mr.</span> and <span class="sc">Mrs. H. C. Waller</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">This is a nice study in words of medium length, as was dictated by the two-ply “X” -construction. The solver will observe that the central interlock is of the good, familiar -“L” joint sort. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 8</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 9</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>10</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>11</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight">12 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">13</td> -<td>14</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>15</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>16</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>17</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>18</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">19</td> -<td> </td> -<td>20</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>21</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>22</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>23</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">24</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>25</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>26</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>27</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td>28</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>29</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>30</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>31</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> 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-<td class="black"></td> -<td>61</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>62</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>63</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">64</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">65</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom black"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e4799">[<a href="#xd31e4799">32</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span 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class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">33</span> Constellation </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> Cereal </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">38</span> Quote </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">39</span> American Pioneer </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">40</span> Scars </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">41</span> Carnelian </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">42</span> Sheet, usually paper </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">44</span> Opposed to No </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">46</span> Sovereign </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">47</span> Oil-burning vessel </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">48</span> Slave </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">49</span> Door of Masonic Lodge </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">51</span> Paradise </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">53</span> Sound </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">54</span> Insensibility </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">57</span> Silent </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">59</span> Humor </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">61</span> Stop </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">63</span> Preposition </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e5135">[<a href="#xd31e5135">35</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz6" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz6.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 6</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">BABY GRAND MODEL</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Helen V. Christ</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">Only two long words. This should be pie for the hard-boiled solvers and a pleasant -exercise for the beginner. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop"> 7 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 8</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 9</td> -<td> </td> -<td>10</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">11</td> -<td>12</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>13</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>14</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">15</td> -<td> </td> -<td>16</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>17</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>18</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td>19</td> -<td> </td> -<td>20</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>21</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">22</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td>23</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>24</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">25</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>26</td> -<td> </td> -<td>27</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>28</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight">29 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">30</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>31</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>32</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>33</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>34</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>35</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom">36</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">37</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom black"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e5381">[<a href="#xd31e5381">34</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> To praise </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">5</span> A storm </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">8</span> Part of mouth (Pl.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">11</span> A conjunction </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">13</span> Coarse material </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">14</span> Regarding </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">15</span> Pin </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">17</span> The exertion of power </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">18</span> To spread loosely for drying, as newly mown grass </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">19</span> To gain </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">21</span> The young of various carnivora </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">22</span> Put through evolutions; 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Francis Cavallon, Jr.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">Mostly short words, and not difficult. Good corner masses. Mr. Cavallon is probably -our youngest contributor, boasting as he does only fourteen summers. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop"> 9 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>10</td> -<td> </td> -<td>11</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>12</td> -<td>13</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">14</td> -<td>15</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td 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-<td> </td> -<td>69</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>70</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom">71</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">72</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">73</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e6031">[<a href="#xd31e6031">36</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Turkish coin </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span 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class="itemNumber">70</span> An alternative </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e6390">[<a href="#xd31e6390">39</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz8" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz8.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 8</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">A SPOTTED BORDER</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">E. Pinkerton</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">This puzzle possesses the merit of an interesting double central interlock. Good interlock, -be it observed, is the soul of cross word puzzling. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 10</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop"> 11 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 12</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 13</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 14</td> -<td> 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-<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">103</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e7081">[<a href="#xd31e7081">38</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Church dignitary </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">4</span> Trouble </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> Part of church </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">9</span> Irritate </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">12</span> Primary color </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">13</span> Sister </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">14</span> Energy </li> -<li 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puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz9.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 9</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">A CHECKERED CAREER</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">S. Czurles</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">Odd words and even. 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class="itemNumber">23</span> Separate </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">25</span> Suffix signifying a native </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">26</span> Revolve </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">28</span> Cry </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">30</span> Greek island </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">32</span> Fastened with thread </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> A clinging plant </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">36</span> Enough </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">39</span> Footwear </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">42</span> The first man </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">44</span> Tears </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">45</span> Entreating </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">47</span> Entangled </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">48</span> Over </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">49</span> Decreases </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">50</span> Toward </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">51</span> Prefix again </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">52</span> Danish people </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">54</span> Negative </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">55</span> Domesticated </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">56</span> A crowd </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">57</span> Small mark </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">59</span> Father </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">61</span> Half score </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">67</span> Toward </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">68</span> Carbon </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">70</span> Syllable of the scale </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">71</span> Perform </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">72</span> Encounter </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">73</span> Within </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">75</span> Female servant </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">77</span> Remain </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">78</span> Protruding tooth </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">79</span> Stands by </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">81</span> Draw together </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">82</span> In this place </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">83</span> Feels </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">85</span> A unit </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">86</span> At once </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">87</span> Auto appliance </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">88</span> Fermented </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">89</span> Expend </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">90</span> To rage </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">91</span> Leave out </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">92</span> An old cloth </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">99</span> Fasting season </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">101</span> A soft drink </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">103</span> To trouble </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">104</span> Perished </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">106</span> Roof covering </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">109</span> Honey gatherer </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">111</span> Father </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">113</span> Doctor (abbr.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">114</span> To live </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e8832">[<a href="#xd31e8832">43</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz10" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz10.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 10</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">SMALL BUT NEAT</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Joseph E. Austrian</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">Eight unkeyed letters, but on the whole a very good design. Excellent corner interlock. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop">10 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">11</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>12</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>13</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">14</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>15</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>16</td> -<td>17</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">18</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>19</td> -<td> </td> -<td>20</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>21</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>22</td> -<td>23</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>24</td> -<td>25</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">26</td> -<td>27</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>28</td> -<td> </td> -<td>29</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>30</td> -<td> </td> -<td>31</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>32</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>33</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">34</td> -<td> </td> -<td>35</td> 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-<td>56</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>57</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom">58</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">59</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e9184">[<a href="#xd31e9184">42</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> European nation </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">6</span> Importance </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">11</span> Uncouth </li> -<li 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class="itemNumber">32</span> Softened bread </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">33</span> Violin with three strings </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> River flowing through Florence </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">36</span> Attempt </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">38</span> Military command </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">41</span> Expand </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">43</span> Pronoun </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">44</span> Make lace </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">46</span> Episcopal headdress </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">49</span> Rumor (French) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">51</span> Temper </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">53</span> Inalienable inheritance </li> -<li 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class="itemNumber">6</span> Peruvian prince </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> Vessel </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">8</span> Secure </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">9</span> Source </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">10</span> Beliefs </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">15</span> Hill </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">17</span> Unit </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">20</span> Elastic fluid </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">23</span> Fabulist </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">25</span> Water of forgetfulness </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">27</span> Oxygen and nitrogen </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">28</span> Skillful </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">29</span> Empyrean </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> Unctuous liquid </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> Assault </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> Observe </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">37</span> Made of curled hair </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">39</span> Roofed street </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">40</span> Lavatory </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">42</span> Large bird </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">43</span> Female bird </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">45</span> Soon </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">47</span> Egyptian goddess </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">48</span> Where marriages are unmade </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">50</span> Costumes </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">52</span> Australian bird </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">54</span> Spread loosely </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e9456">[<a href="#xd31e9456">45</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz11" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz11.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 11</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">KEYS AND CROSSES</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Harold McKay</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">The design of this bath mat is much more cryptic than the words you will be called -upon to fill in. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop">10 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>11</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>12</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">13</td> -<td>14</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>15</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>16</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>17</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>18</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>19</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">20</td> 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-</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e9944">[<a href="#xd31e9944">44</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">2</span> Small boat </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">6</span> Answer </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">11</span> Anger </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">12</span> A lament </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">13</span> Conjunction </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">15</span> Rock </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">17</span> Eligible jurors </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">19</span> Note in musical scale </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">20</span> Heavy woolen fabric </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">22</span> Imitate </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span 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class="itemNumber">32</span> An anesthetic </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">33</span> Groups </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> Confusion </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">37</span> Part of head </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">40</span> A stopper </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">41</span> Fancy </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">42</span> Pitcher </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">43</span> Measure of length </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">44</span> Dagger </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">45</span> Motives </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">47</span> Digits </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">49</span> To comply </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">51</span> Sediment </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">56</span> Knob </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">57</span> To ensnare </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">59</span> Web-footed bird </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">60</span> Saucy </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">63</span> A grain </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">65</span> Be indebted </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e10272">[<a href="#xd31e10272">47</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz12" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz12.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 12</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">A BLACK BEAUTY</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">P. B. Geotsch</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">Anyone <span class="corr" id="xd31e10286" title="Source: whose">who</span> geotsch this one is good. This one shows how hard it is to solve a puzzle with many -unkeyed letters. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop"> 8 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 9</td> -<td> </td> -<td>10</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>11</td> -<td>12</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">13</td> -<td>14</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>15</td> -<td> </td> 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class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">44</span> An urn-like vessel </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">46</span> Song </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">48</span> Too </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">50</span> Exclamation of pain </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">51</span> To exist </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">53</span> Coy </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">56</span> Part of “to be” </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">57</span> A digit </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">59</span> Above </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">60</span> Sound made by a clock </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">62</span> A neck ornament </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">64</span> To gain by toil </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">66</span> Insane </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">67</span> Sheltered side </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">69</span> A liquor </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">70</span> To catch </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">72</span> 3.141592 </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">74</span> Backwards </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e11103">[<a href="#xd31e11103">49</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz13" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz13.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 13</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">A GRAND OLD PUZZLE</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Sylvan L. Froelich</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">There are some grand old words in this puzzle, and the interlock is something grand -also. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop">10</td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop">11 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">12</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>13</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>14</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">15</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 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class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">31</td> -<td>32</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>33</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>34</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>35</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>36</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">37</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>38</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>39</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">40</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>41</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>42</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>43</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>44</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>45</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> 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-<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">56</span> Span of time </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">57</span> Single </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">58</span> Health resort </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">60</span> Beast of burden </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">61</span> Poem </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">62</span> Scrutinize </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e11897">[<a href="#xd31e11897">51</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz14" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz14.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 14</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">A QUADRIPUNTAL ASTEROID</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Persephone</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">A brilliant construction, comprising clever interlocking combined with symmetry of -design. Such a combination is difficult and extremely rare. To obtain a picture such -as this four-pointed star makes a real treasure of the puzzle. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop shaded"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop shaded"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 10</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 11</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 12</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 13</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 14</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 15</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="shaded"></td> -<td> 16</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 17</td> -<td class="shaded"></td> -<td> 18</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> 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class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz15.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 15</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">A QUADRUPLEX QUIDDITY</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Person or Persons Unknown</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">A truly marvelous study in four-letter words, with some notably lengthy side-interlocks. -The unknown author is to be congratulated. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop">1 </td> -<td class="cellTop">2 </td> -<td class="cellTop">3 </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop">4 </td> -<td class="cellTop">5 </td> -<td class="cellTop">6 </td> -<td class="cellTop">7 </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop">8 </td> -<td class="cellTop">9 </td> -<td class="cellTop">10</td> -<td class="cellTop">11</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop">12</td> -<td class="cellTop">13</td> -<td class="cellTop">14</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop">15</td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop">16 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">17</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>18</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>19</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>20</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>21</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">22</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>23</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>24</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>25</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>26</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>27</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td 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-</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e14632">[<a href="#xd31e14632">55</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz16" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz16.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 16</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">A WELL-TIED SAILOR’S KNOT</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Captain F. F. Stewart</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">The sea contributes a spacious, ample field of voyage. It is remarkable for the presence -of no small units—two or three letter words. 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very few unkeyed letters! Technically, this puzzle is nearly -perfect. Nor should the strain on the vocabulary be unduly severe. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 10</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 11</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 12</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 13</td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop"> 14 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 15</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 16</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 17</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 18</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 19</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 20</td> -<td> </td> -<td 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Brown</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">This cookie will put you in a Brown study. 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class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>68</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>69</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>70</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">71</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">72</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom black"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e17474">[<a href="#xd31e17474">58</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li 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-<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">71</span> Foot gear </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">72</span> To revere </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -</p> -<p><i>VERTICAL</i> -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">2</span> Within </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">3</span> Midday </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">4</span> Inquire </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">5</span> Learned (obs.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> Plains </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">8</span> Portion of curve </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">9</span> Student at coeducational institution </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">10</span> Part of “to be” </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">11</span> Prejudiced </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">14</span> Ointment </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">16</span> Sketch </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">18</span> Jason’s ship </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">19</span> Plateau </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">20</span> Labor </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">22</span> Tickling sensation </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">24</span> Spikenard </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">26</span> Part of stove </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> Decorative shrub </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">32</span> Edible flesh </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">33</span> Leafy </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> Sources of minerals </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">36</span> Extinct bird of New Zealand </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">38</span> River (Spanish) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">41</span> Mariner </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">42</span> Victim </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">43</span> Air </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">45</span> Dispatch </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">46</span> To make beloved </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">48</span> Plateau in Asia </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">50</span> Upright support </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">51</span> Girl’s name meaning “fostering” </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">53</span> Wild beast </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">58</span> To shock </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">59</span> The moon </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">60</span> Coalesces </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">61</span> Island </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">64</span> Free from </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">66</span> Small spot </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">68</span> Egyptian sun-god </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">70</span> French article </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e17810">[<a href="#xd31e17810">61</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz19" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz19.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 19</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">STEPPING STONES</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">D. Weiner</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">This looks like a rocky road. Don’t trip over it. Constructionists will please notice -that there is not a single unkeyed letter in this chef d’ouvre. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop">10</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop">11</td> -<td class="cellTop">12</td> -<td class="cellTop">13</td> -<td class="cellTop">14</td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop">15 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">16</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>17</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>18</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">19</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>20</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>21</td> -<td> </td> -<td>22</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">23</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>24</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>25</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>26</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">27</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>28</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>29</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>30</td> -<td> </td> -<td>31</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>32</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>33</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>34</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">35</td> -<td>36</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>37</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>38</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>39</td> -<td> </td> -<td>40</td> -<td class="cellRight">41 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">42</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>43</td> -<td>44</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>45</td> -<td> </td> -<td>46</td> -<td>47</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">48</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>49</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>50</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>51</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">52</td> -<td> </td> -<td>53</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>54</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>55</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>56</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">57</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>58</td> -<td> </td> -<td>59</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>60</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>61</td> -<td> </td> -<td>62</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>63</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>64</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">65</td> -<td>66</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>67</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>68</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>69</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>70</td> -<td class="cellRight">71 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">72</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>73</td> -<td> </td> -<td>74</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>75</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>76</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">77</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>78</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>79</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>80</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">81</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>82</td> -<td> </td> -<td>83</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>84</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom">85</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">86</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">87</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e18391">[<a href="#xd31e18391">60</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> To drop or cast down </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">6</span> Toughen by use </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">11</span> The tails of notes (musical) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">16</span> Secretion of kidneys </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">17</span> Wound about </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">18</span> In regard to </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">19</span> A waterfall </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">21</span> Private warfare </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">23</span> Tree </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">24</span> Wife of a maharaja (Hind.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">26</span> To mark with ridges </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">27</span> Prisoner server certain term (colloq.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber"><span class="corr" id="xd31e18446" title="Source: 92">29</span></span> Headpiece </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">30</span> Philosophy of morals </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">32</span> Assistance </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">33</span> Little devil </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> Rested </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> To draw out and twist threads </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">37</span> Contends with </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">39</span> Mumble </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">42</span> Reticent </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">45</span> One who releases </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">48</span> About </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">49</span> Painful </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span 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class="itemNumber">12</span> Unit </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">13</span> Rubbish </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">14</span> Foolish action </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">15</span> Poniards </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">20</span> Famous Swiss river </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">22</span> Born </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">25</span> Inclined plane </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">28</span> Clergymen </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> Wood nymph </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> A booth </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">36</span> Inner court of Spanish dwelling </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">37</span> Willow basket </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">38</span> Drainage pipe </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">40</span> Sister of Circe (Gr. myth.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">41</span> Jabs </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">43</span> Part of foot </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">44</span> Vessel </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">46</span> In a humble rank </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">47</span> Period of time </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">53</span> Salt of stannic acid (chem.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">54</span> Backturner </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">55</span> Called to mind </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">56</span> Abandoned ship </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">59</span> Heap </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">62</span> Pause (poet.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">64</span> House for unknown dead </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">65</span> Singer </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">66</span> Remove extremity </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">67</span> Seed </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">69</span> Affirmative </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">70</span> Inventor of sheening process </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">71</span> Guide </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">74</span> Advise; counsel (Scot.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">75</span> Great </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">78</span> Sailor </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">80</span> Heroine in Spenser’s Faerie Queene </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">83</span> At </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e18794">[<a href="#xd31e18794">63</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz20" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz20.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 20</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">FIVE GREEK CROSSES</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">William Ziegler</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">Four interesting, independent masses with a solid central interlock. 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Protective Assn. 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class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 21</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">FOUR LEAF CLOVER</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Marcam</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">This lucky design offers two unusual features: an excellent conventionalized figure -and freedom from excess of black spaces. The solution offers difficulties; how much -more the construction! 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class="itemNumber">122</span> Sloth </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e21054">[<a href="#xd31e21054">67</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz22" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz22.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 22</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">AT THE CROSSROADS</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Helen V. Christ</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">Small, but plenty of unusual words to tax the lobes of your brain and the pages of -your dictionary. Do you like difficult words? However, we have one or two still harder -than this one. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop">10</td> -<td class="cellTop">11</td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop">12 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">13</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>14</td> -<td> </td> -<td>15</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>16</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>17</td> -<td> </td> -<td>18</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>19</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>20</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">21</td> -<td>22</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>23</td> -<td> </td> -<td>24</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>25</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>26</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">27</td> -<td> </td> -<td>28</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>29</td> -<td> </td> -<td>30</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>31</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>32</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">33</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>34</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>35</td> -<td> </td> -<td>36</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>37</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>38</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>39</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>40</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">41</td> -<td>42</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>43</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>44</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>45</td> -<td> </td> -<td>46</td> -<td class="cellRight">47 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">48</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>49</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>50</td> -<td> </td> -<td>51</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>52</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">53</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>54</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>55</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>56</td> -<td> </td> -<td>57</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>58</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>59</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>60</td> -<td> </td> -<td>61</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>62</td> -<td> </td> -<td>63</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">64</td> -<td>65</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>66</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>67</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>68</td> -<td> </td> -<td>69</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom">70</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">71</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e21449">[<a href="#xd31e21449">66</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Herbivorous fish-like mammal of the Atlantic shores </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> Quick succession of notes from a horn </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">13</span> Minor prophet (8th century B.C.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">14</span> To conceal or store as in the earth; hide </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">16</span> A light-yellowish brown </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">17</span> A piece of metal that holds another in place, or adjusts a bearing </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">19</span> Regret </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">20</span> Scot.—“to go” </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">21</span> Close to; near by; in; within </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">23</span> Little island, especially in inland waters </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">25</span> Have a purpose; endeavor earnestly </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">26</span> Copper (Chem.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">27</span> Roam idly abroad; ramble; stray </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">29</span> Changeling </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> Priest’s white linen vestment </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">32</span> Close; 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E. Utah </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">37</span> Constituting a large number; numerous </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">38</span> Heavy textile fabric, made in one piece, to cover a portion of a floor </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">39</span> Parasite </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">40</span> Part of the verb “to be” </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">41</span> Notify or summon </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">43</span> Showiness of achievement; brilliancy </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">45</span> Bind to secrecy </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">48</span> Make, grow, or seem to grow old </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">49</span> Exclamation of repugnance or disgust </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">50</span> Steep, or soak, as flax </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">52</span> Be slow; 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current </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -</p> -<p><i>VERTICAL</i> -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Carry out by action, effort, or skill of any kind </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">2</span> Part of the verb “to be” </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">3</span> Square or rectangular block of wood </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">4</span> Largest continent </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">5</span> Prefix, from, out of; used before many words beginning with a consonant </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">6</span> Auditory organ </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> Belonging to a particular genus or class; definite article </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">8</span> Scot: one </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">9</span> Flock; brood </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">10</span> Bad luck; loss; the worst; also the best </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">11</span> Abbreviation for “railroad” </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">12</span> Art or practice of foretelling by signs or omens </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">15</span> Drinking vessel </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">18</span> From Greek “life”: a combining form </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">20</span> Protecting crane-arm; jib </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">22</span> Something attached </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">24</span> Letter in the Greek alphabet </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">25</span> Biol: A wing, or a wing-like part </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">26</span> Be able </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">28</span> Funeral hymn or tune </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">30</span> Small seed-eating bird, as a bunting, sparrow </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> The fragrant essential oil extract from rose petals </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">32</span> Bark-tanned sheep-skin for bookbinding </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> Woo </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">36</span> Nothing </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">37</span> Tangled </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">41</span> Secure a patent for </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">42</span> Gone by; past </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">43</span> Biol: An ovum or germ cell </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">44</span> Spread loosely for drying, as newly mown grass </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">46</span> Resinous substance exuded from an East-Indian scale-insect and used in making varnishes -</li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">47</span> One who advocates or practises egoism </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">49</span> French: Fem. gen. “one”; an; </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">51</span> Beat; torture; vex; also to harden or prepare </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">54</span> Any product of mental apprehension or activity </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">55</span> Conjunction </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">57</span> Offers </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">59</span> Poetic: to open </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">60</span> Bar </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">61</span> Drink slowly </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">63</span> Golf term </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">65</span> Conjunction </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">66</span> River in Italy </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">67</span> Conjunction </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">69</span> Prefix (negative) </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e21810">[<a href="#xd31e21810">69</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz23" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz23.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 23</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">CROSSWORD VALENTINE</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">J. W. Shaw</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">This contributor has dedicated himself to romance. We wish we knew the lady to whom -he devoted this valentine. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop blank"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft blank"></td> -<td class="blank"></td> -<td> 7</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 8</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 9</td> -<td class="blank"></td> -<td 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class="itemNumber">96</span> Disinfectant </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -</p> -<p><i>VERTICAL</i> -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Flavor </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">2</span> Expression of hearty assent </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">3</span> Blow through </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">4</span> Part of verb “to be” </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">5</span> Regular contraction of the heart </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">6</span> Curve </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> Contest between nations </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">8</span> Cowardly fellow </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">10</span> Exclamation </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">11</span> City in California 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Gentleman </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">77</span> Sort of glove </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">79</span> Beast of burden </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">80</span> Record of a single year </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">82</span> Designate </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">84</span> Indicating presence of iodine (comb. form) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">87</span> Pithy saying </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">88</span> Misleading statement </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">91</span> From (prefix) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">93</span> Mine </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e24015">[<a href="#xd31e24015">73</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz25" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz25.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 25</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">HONEYMOON HOKUM</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Mr.</span> and <span class="sc">Mrs. William Stern II</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">They constructed this on their honeymoon, which is a good argument for marriage. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td 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-<td>48</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight blank"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">49</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>50</td> -<td> </td> -<td>51</td> -<td> </td> -<td>52</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>53</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft blank"></td> -<td>54</td> -<td> </td> -<td>55</td> -<td>56</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>57</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>58</td> -<td>59</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight blank"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft blank"></td> -<td>60</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>61</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>62</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight blank"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft blank"></td> -<td>63</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>64</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>65</td> -<td>66</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight blank"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft blank"></td> -<td class="blank"></td> -<td>67</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="blank"></td> -<td>68</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="blank"></td> -<td class="cellRight blank"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellBottom blank"></td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom blank"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e24565">[<a href="#xd31e24565">72</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Leaves of corolla </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">6</span> Pertaining to particles </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">12</span> Soda ash </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">14</span> Part of optical or surveying instrument </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">16</span> Neighborly gatherings for special purposes </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">17</span> Drives with blows </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">20</span> Kind of fish </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">21</span> Outside covering </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">22</span> Subdues </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">23</span> Spill </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">24</span> In favor of </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">25</span> Suits </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">27</span> Decay </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">28</span> Kind of walking stick </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> Lost cattle </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> Entered in political contest </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> Swamp land </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">37</span> Groove </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">38</span> Apparently contrary to truth (adverb) </li> -</ul> 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class="itemNumber">29</span> Path </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">30</span> Mountain lakes </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">32</span> Canons </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">33</span> Large size paper </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> Dude </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">36</span> Pinch </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">39</span> One who puts an end to </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">43</span> Willows </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">45</span> Anointed </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">46</span> False god or idol </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">47</span> Painting on plaster </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">48</span> Less difficult </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">51</span> Wrath </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">52</span> Indefinite pronoun </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">55</span> Be alive </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">56</span> Cut of meat </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">58</span> Exclamation of sorrow </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">59</span> Head </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">64</span> Female of kind of pachyderm </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">66</span> Take by force </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e24877">[<a href="#xd31e24877">75</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz26" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz26.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 26</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">FOR THE ZIGZAG ZEALOT</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Joseph H. Gersten</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">This pattern zigs itself one way and zags itself the other way. Even the most zealous -will find some unusual words. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 10</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 11</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 12</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 13</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 14</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 15</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 16</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 17</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 18</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td 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</td> -<td> 36</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 37</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 38</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 39</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 40</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 41</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 42</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 43</td> -<td> 44</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 45</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 46</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 47</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 48</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 49</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 50</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 51</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 52</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 53</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 54</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 55</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 56</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 57</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 58</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td> 59</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 60</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 61</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 62</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 63</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 64</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 65</td> -<td> 66</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 67</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 68</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 69</td> -<td> 70</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> 71 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 72</td> -<td> 73</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 74</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 75</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 76</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 77</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 78</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 79</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 80</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 81</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 82</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 83</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 84</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 85</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 86</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 87</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 88</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 89</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 90</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 91</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 92</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 93</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 94</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 95</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 96</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 97</td> -<td> 98</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 99</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>100</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">101</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>102</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>103</td> -<td> </td> -<td>104</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>105</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>106</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>107</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>108</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>109</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>110</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>111</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>112</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">113</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">114</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">115</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom black"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e25581">[<a href="#xd31e25581">74</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Layer of bets by word </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">8</span> Severely self-denying </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">15</span> Exclusively </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">16</span> Non-poisonous serpent </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">18</span> The large intestine </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">20</span> Part of “to be” </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">22</span> Entertainment </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">23</span> On condition that </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">24</span> Automobile </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">26</span> Young dog </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">27</span> Friendly hint </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">28</span> Beverage </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">30</span> Cloth measure </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> Noblewomen </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> Winding about and constantly receding from a center </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">37</span> In a tilted manner </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">38</span> Brain-box </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">41</span> Secret </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">42</span> Large cask </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">43</span> Conjunction </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">45</span> Intensity of passion </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">46</span> Note of diatonic scale </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">47</span> Small dram </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">48</span> In the manner of </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">49</span> Agitate </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">50</span> Humans </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">51</span> Race </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">53</span> Prefix meaning “with” </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">54</span> Italian composer </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">55</span> Pertaining to weight </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">57</span> Ardor </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">59</span> Fool </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">60</span> A low fellow </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">61</span> Where animals are kept </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">62</span> A useful insect </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">64</span> Strip of wood </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">67</span> Domesticated </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">69</span> Behind the time </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">72</span> Silver (chemical) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">74</span> Exclamation </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">76</span> Sister </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">77</span> A heavenly body </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">78</span> Objective pronoun </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">79</span> The spawn of fishes </li> -<li 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class="itemNumber">97</span> A Scottish Highlander </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">100</span> Hinder </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">101</span> Edition (abbr.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">102</span> Cast-off </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">103</span> Part of the shoe </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">105</span> Christmas (French) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">107</span> Egyptian god </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">108</span> Genuine </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">109</span> A passageway </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">111</span> Ingenuously piquant </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">113</span> To be extremely fond of </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">114</span> Strength </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">115</span> Chief officer of a cathedral </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -</p> -<p><i>VERTICAL</i> -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">2</span> Egyptian god </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">3</span> Beverage </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">4</span> Behold </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">5</span> River of India </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">6</span> Trickle (Scotch) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> Plant of the parsley family </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">9</span> Native of Scotland </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">10</span> Figures that taper uniformly from a circular base </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">11</span> Elevated railroad </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span 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class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">56</span> A pod or husk </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">58</span> Not old </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">63</span> A strict disciplinarian </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">65</span> State of excitement </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">66</span> Clever </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">68</span> Little world </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">69</span> A large fish </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">70</span> Deceased </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">71</span> A school term </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">73</span> Incited </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">75</span> Dare (obs.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">77</span> Rested </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">78</span> A pale moth with floury wings </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">80</span> Enough </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">83</span> One of Adam’s sons </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">85</span> Arabic article </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">86</span> Upon </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">87</span> Boy’s nickname </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">89</span> Pronoun </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">91</span> Yes </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">92</span> For instance </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">95</span> Covering of the foot </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">96</span> In the Year of Our Lord </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">98</span> Indefinite article </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">99</span> Show the way </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">102</span> A drunkard </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">103</span> Spanish for “aunt” </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">104</span> High priest </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">106</span> A falsehood </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">108</span> Proceed </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">109</span> By </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">110</span> Half a printer’s unit </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">112</span> A note of the scale </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e26138">[<a href="#xd31e26138">77</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz27" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz27.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 27</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">THIS TAKES THE CAKE</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">M. H. Ronzone</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">Cut yourself a piece of this one. It’s a mouthful. A fine mixture of long and short -words. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 10</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 11</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 12</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 13</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 14</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop"> 15 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 16</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 17</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 18</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 19</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 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class="itemNumber">119</span> Permit </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">121</span> Us </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">122</span> Halloo </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">123</span> Note of diatonic scale </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">125</span> Behold </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e27561">[<a href="#xd31e27561">79</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz28" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz28.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 28</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">A JERSEY ’SKEETER</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Henry Kroener</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">This comes from Montclair, and it’ll sting you more than once. Get out the citronella -and go to it. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 10</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 11</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 12</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 13</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop"> 14 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 15</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 16</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 17</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 18</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 19</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 20</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 21</td> -<td> 22</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 23</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 24</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 25</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 26</td> -<td> 27</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td> 28</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 29</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 30</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 31</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 32</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 33</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 34</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 35</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 36</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 37</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> 38 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 39</td> -<td> 40</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 41</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 42</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 43</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 44</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 45</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 46</td> -<td> 47</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 48</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 49</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 50</td> -<td> 51</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 52</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 53</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 54</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 55</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 56</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 57</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 58</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 59</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 60</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 61</td> -<td> 62</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 63</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 64</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 65</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> 66 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 67</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 68</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 69</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 70</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 71</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 72</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 73</td> -<td> 74</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 75</td> -<td> 76</td> -<td> 77</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 78</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 79</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 80</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 81</td> -<td> 82</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td> 83</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 84</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 85</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 86</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 87</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 88</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 89</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 90</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 91</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 92</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 93</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> 94 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 95</td> -<td> 96</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 97</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 98</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 99</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>100</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>101</td> -<td> </td> -<td>102</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>103</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>104</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom">105</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">106</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">107</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">108</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e28264">[<a href="#xd31e28264">78</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Design on metal </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">8</span> Fixers of teeth </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">15</span> Deck of battleship </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">16</span> Floor cleaner </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">17</span> Signified </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">18</span> One who dispatches </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">20</span> Latin tribe </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">21</span> Parcel of ground </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">23</span> Military leader </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">26</span> City in Armenia </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">28</span> Protuberant tumor </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">29</span> Long </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">30</span> Official of Mohammedan Church </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> Foundation </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">32</span> Possessive pronoun </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> Try </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">37</span> Dip lightly </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">39</span> Frozen pendant </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">42</span> Entomological prefix </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">45</span> River in Russia </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">46</span> Lift </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">49</span> Arab chief </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">50</span> Altar-screen </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">53</span> Apostrophic poem </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">54</span> Soak </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">56</span> Lachrymal exudation </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">57</span> Conflicts </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">58</span> Female character in Acts XI xxxvi </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">61</span> Pedal digit </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">63</span> Fire-opal </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">67</span> Syrian city </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">68</span> Twos </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">70</span> Narrow roadway </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">71</span> Stand for painting </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">73</span> Each </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">75</span> Distress signal </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">78</span> Circuit </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">80</span> Biblical character </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">81</span> Jump </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">83</span> Court </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">84</span> Club </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">85</span> Prefix, right </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">87</span> The sun </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">88</span> Sprite </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">90</span> Completed </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">93</span> Point </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">95</span> Wood </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">98</span> Seaport in Columbia </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">99</span> Sow (Prov. Eng.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">100</span> Accustom </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">101</span> Equip </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">103</span> Belch </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">105</span> Artificial ravine </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">106</span> Excellent (superlative) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">107</span> Simple </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">108</span> Young man </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -</p> -<p><i>VERTICAL</i> -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Mock </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">2</span> Rear </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">3</span> Metallic rock </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">4</span> Bone of arm </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">5</span> Earth </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">6</span> Exceptional </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> Stronghold </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">9</span> Proceed </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">10</span> Point </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">11</span> Caudal appendage </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">12</span> Hostelry </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">13</span> Worker on dock </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">14</span> Witnessed (past perf.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">19</span> Loud talker </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">20</span> Easy </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">22</span> Be indebted to </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">24</span> Stroke </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">25</span> Direct </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">27</span> Girl’s name </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">32</span> Capillary growth </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">33</span> Mottled </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> Girl’s name </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">36</span> American admiral </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">38</span> Circumstance </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">40</span> Crack </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">41</span> Clad </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">43</span> Pendent </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">44</span> Herb </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">47</span> Large artery </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">48</span> 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class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">69</span> Choose </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">72</span> Passes </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">74</span> Success </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">76</span> Night bird </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">77</span> Border (theatrical) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">79</span> Through </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">80</span> Before </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">81</span> Largest island of Japan </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">82</span> Prefix pertaining to oil </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">86</span> Prefix, far </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">88</span> Noble </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">89</span> Beat </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">91</span> Shoot </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">92</span> Obligation </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">94</span> Two together </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">96</span> Upon </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">97</span> Earlier than </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">102</span> Mother </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">104</span> Carbon monoxide </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e28752">[<a href="#xd31e28752">81</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz29" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz29.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 29</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">UNLUCKY</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Harold H. Hodges</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">There are thirteen crosses in this widget and the words around them will make you -the same. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop">10</td> -<td class="cellTop">11</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop">12</td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop">13 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">14</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>15</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>16</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td 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-<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e29702">[<a href="#xd31e29702">83</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz30" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz30.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 30</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">SINGLE SPOTTER</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">J. T. Delaney</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">Not so decorative, but a hundred per cent interlock and no two letter words. 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R. Koegler</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">The six, seven and nine letter words in this scintillating set-up will tax your gray -matter, if any. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop">10</td> -<td class="cellTop blank"></td> -<td class="cellTop">11</td> -<td class="cellTop">12</td> -<td class="cellTop">13</td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop blank"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">14</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>15</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td 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</li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">82</span> Monetary penalties </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">84</span> Mountain lion </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">88</span> Ones </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">90</span> Plunge </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">93</span> Pronoun </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">94</span> Conjunction </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">95</span> Sun-god </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">96</span> Prefix, out of </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e31834">[<a href="#xd31e31834">87</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz32" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz32.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 32</span></h2> -<h2 lang="la" class="main">HIC LABOR HIC OPUS EST</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Neophyte</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">This erudite contribution comes from an old-time puzzler who is one of the experts -on ingenuities. He does not hesitate to delve in the darkest corners of the dictionary -for words to fill his pattern. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td> 7</td> -<td> 8</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 9</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>10</td> -<td>11</td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td>12</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>13</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">14</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>15</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight">16 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">17</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>18</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">19</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>20</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">21</td> -<td>22</td> -<td>23</td> -<td>24</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>25</td> -<td>26</td> -<td>27</td> -<td>28</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">29</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>30</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>31</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>32</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">33</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>34</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>35</td> -<td>36</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td>37</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>38</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td>39</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>40</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">41</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom black"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e32172">[<a href="#xd31e32172">86</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> A hybrid animal </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> A kind of monoplane, originally designed by an Austrian </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">9</span> Cultivated </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">12</span> A Knight of the Round Table </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">13</span> To march on </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">14</span> Three-banded armadillos of S. A. </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">15</span> One who edits </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">17</span> To stand between </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">18</span> French artist </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">19</span> A colorless liquid </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">20</span> A place to sleep in </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">21</span> To demolish </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">25</span> Upper part of a hat </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">29</span> Heroine of Charlotte Bronte novel </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">32</span> To instigate </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">33</span> To predestine </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> Sets again </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span 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-<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> Relating to type </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">8</span> To adjudge </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">10</span> To drive an auto </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">11</span> Amusement </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">14</span> A kind of pack saddle </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">16</span> Hunts again </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">22</span> Slowly </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">23</span> Pertaining to India </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">24</span> Lack </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">26</span> A dried fruit </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">27</span> Fat </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">28</span> Water (obs.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">30</span> The present month (abbr. pl.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> Swap </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> Notion </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">36</span> Where the River Shannon flows </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e32360">[<a href="#xd31e32360">89</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz33" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz33.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 33</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">A SERRATE SYZYGY</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Marcam</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">Another of Marcam’s masterpieces, somewhat simpler of solution than her other effort. -But not childishly easy; Marcam finds some stiff definitions still for interested -minds to unravel. -</p> -<div 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-</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e32894">[<a href="#xd31e32894">88</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">4</span> Garden plat </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">6</span> To pull along after </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">8</span> Sack </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">10</span> Alarm </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">11</span> Be indebted to </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">12</span> A savage animal </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">14</span> The man </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">15</span> A cup that cheers </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">17</span> Wager </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">18</span> Otherwise </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">20</span> Frame to support a coffin </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">22</span> Applaud </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">25</span> A form of ice </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">26</span> Stutter </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">28</span> Morally improved </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">30</span> A dish made with pastry </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> It is so </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">33</span> Males or females collectively </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> A parent </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">36</span> What the United States is supposed to be </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">38</span> The woman </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">39</span> Chief deity of historical Egypt </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">41</span> Righteous </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">42</span> Invest </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">43</span> Pulls </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">44</span> The thing </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">45</span> To exercise power </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">47</span> To mimic </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">49</span> You </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">50</span> A unit </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">51</span> Fuss </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">53</span> To supply weapons </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">55</span> Effusively sentimental </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">58</span> Course </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">62</span> Hypocrisy </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">63</span> Ingenuous </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">65</span> To drudge </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">66</span> Accomplish </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">67</span> Poem </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">68</span> To drink little by little </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">70</span> In that way </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">71</span> A notorious fiddler </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">73</span> Gone by </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">75</span> To offer for sale </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">77</span> Genus homo </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">78</span> Stepped rapidly </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">79</span> The essential person </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -</p> -<p><i>VERTICAL</i> -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Pound </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">2</span> Cloth for wiping </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">3</span> To stay for </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">4</span> Exist </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">5</span> Visionary person </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">6</span> In the direction of </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> Ourselves </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">8</span> Disfigurement </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">9</span> Proceed </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">10</span> Ends of stockings </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">13</span> Not any </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">14</span> Belonging to him </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">16</span> A very little </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">17</span> To command </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">19</span> A measure of distance </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">21</span> Knock </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">23</span> Call out </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">24</span> Bronze or copper </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">25</span> A half dozen </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">27</span> Inland </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">29</span> Sources of supply </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">32</span> Finished </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> Hawaiian food </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> Skill </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">37</span> Still </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">38</span> Wave </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">39</span> A beam </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">40</span> Solemn wonder </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">46</span> Pale green </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">48</span> Unresisting </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">50</span> Forth </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">51</span> An insect </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">52</span> Unclose </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">54</span> Chart </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">55</span> Insane </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">56</span> Presently </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">57</span> Wrath </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">59</span> Donkey </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">60</span> Joyful </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">61</span> Goddess of Dawn </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">64</span> Lawful </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">67</span> Spoken </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">69</span> Wooden or metal pins </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">72</span> Type measure </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">73</span> A measure of area </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">74</span> Over and in contact with </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">76</span> A veto </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e33288">[<a href="#xd31e33288">91</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz34" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz34.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 34</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">FIVE SPOTS AND RAYS</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">R. B. MacMullin, Jr.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">Good interlock, but a number of unkeyed letters. These are apt to try the ingenuity -of the solver. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop">10</td> -<td class="cellTop">11</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop">12 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>13</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>14</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>15</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>16</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">17</td> -<td>18</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>19</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>20</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>21</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>22</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">23</td> -<td> </td> -<td>24</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>25</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>26</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>27</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">28</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>29</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>30</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>31</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td>32</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>33</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>34</td> -<td> </td> -<td>35</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">36</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>37</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>38</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>39</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight">40 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">41</td> -<td>42</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>43</td> -<td> </td> -<td>44</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>45</td> -<td>46</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">47</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>48</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>49</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">50</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>51</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>52</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>53</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>54</td> -<td>55</td> -<td> </td> -<td>56</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>57</td> -<td> </td> -<td>58</td> -<td> </td> -<td>59</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td>60</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>61</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>62</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>63</td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">64</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>65</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>66</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight">67 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">68</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>69</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>70</td> -<td> </td> -<td>71</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>72</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">73</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>74</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>75</td> -<td> </td> -<td>76</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>77</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>78</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>79</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>80</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>81</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>82</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom">83</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">84</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">85</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e33867">[<a href="#xd31e33867">90</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Vessel used for assaying gold </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">5</span> Tertiary </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">9</span> Coral island </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">13</span> Rainbow </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">15</span> Unity </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">16</span> Asterisk </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">17</span> God of sunshine </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">19</span> Discernment </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">22</span> Near </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">23</span> Yale </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">25</span> Seize </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">26</span> Tip </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">27</span> Fear </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">28</span> Melody </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">30</span> Snake </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> Used for bacterial culture </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">32</span> Plaster </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> Force times distance </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">37</span> Charcoal </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">39</span> Stag’s horn </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">41</span> Australian ostrich </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">43</span> Evening </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">45</span> Dyne centimeter </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">47</span> Tint </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">48</span> Pedal digit </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">49</span> Negro </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">50</span> Greek exclamation </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">51</span> Decoration </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">53</span> Devoured </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">54</span> Steering lever </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">57</span> Hot egg-nog </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">60</span> Linear </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">62</span> Scottish </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">64</span> Eternity </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">65</span> A fatty acid </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">66</span> Weaving machine </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">68</span> Homo </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">69</span> Herself </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">70</span> Metal-bearing rock </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">72</span> No </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">73</span> One </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">74</span> Necessity </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">78</span> Note on diatonic scale </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">79</span> Speculator who sells </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">80</span> Yes (Fr.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">81</span> Raised platform </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">83</span> Iron </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">84</span> Armored </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">85</span> Indivisibility </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -</p> -<p><i>VERTICAL</i> -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Sign of omission </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">2</span> 3.1416 </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">3</span> Mistake </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">4</span> Legal security </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">6</span> Pig </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> Inform </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">8</span> Brazilian coin </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">9</span> Indivisible particle </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">10</span> Brown </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">11</span> Gold </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">12</span> Metric unit of volume </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">14</span> Sacred beetle </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">16</span> Noiseless </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">18</span> Sulfate of aluminum </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">20</span> King of the fairies </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">21</span> Natural ability </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">22</span> Absent </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">24</span> Insertion of virus </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">27</span> Collection </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">29</span> Epoch </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> Metric land measure </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">33</span> Grief </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> Planetary orbit </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">36</span> A nut </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">38</span> Saltpeter </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">39</span> In a heap </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">40</span> Heron </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">42</span> Minor (mus.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">44</span> Deity </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">46</span> Steep flax </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">51</span> Molten </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">52</span> A saying </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">55</span> Hostelry </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">56</span> Weir </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">58</span> Religious </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">59</span> 45 inches </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">60</span> Scrawny </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">61</span> Void space </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">63</span> Common fuel </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">64</span> Accumulate </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">67</span> Farinaceous </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">69</span> Wax impression </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">71</span> Eldest son of Isaac </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">74</span> Born </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">75</span> Because of </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">76</span> Equivocation </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">77</span> Wickedness </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">79</span> Exist </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">82</span> Another note on the diatonic scale </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e34277">[<a href="#xd31e34277">93</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz35" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz35.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 35</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">A SLOTTED OBLONG</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Marion Hague</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">Splendid corner solids and easy central islands. Good words. A nice one to solve at -leisure. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 10</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 11</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 12</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 13</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 14</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 15</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 16</td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop"> 17 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 18</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 19</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 20</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 21</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> 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</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 55</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 56</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 57</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 58</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 59</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 60</td> -<td> 61</td> -<td> 62</td> -<td> 63</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 64</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 65</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 66</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 67</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 68</td> -<td> 69</td> -<td> 70</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 71</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 72</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 73</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 74</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 75</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td> 76</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 77</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 78</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 79</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 80</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 81</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 82</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 83</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 84</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 85</td> -<td> </td> 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href="#xd31e34975">92</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Foot-gear </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">6</span> Every </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">10</span> Float </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">13</span> The smallest amount </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">18</span> The floor of a fireplace </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">20</span> Also </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">21</span> A kettle </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">22</span> One who carries something </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">23</span> Items of record </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">25</span> Pertaining to a pole </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">27</span> To pass from one place to another </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">28</span> To break short </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">29</span> Exhausted </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">30</span> Jewel </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> Rule established by authority </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> Clan </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">36</span> Hostelry </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">38</span> Extremity </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">40</span> Domestic animal </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">42</span> Instrument used to operate a lock </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">43</span> Snare </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">45</span> Color </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">46</span> Bustle </li> -<li 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class="itemNumber">86</span> Set again </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">88</span> Fine lace </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">89</span> Strong wind </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">91</span> Sort of molding </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">92</span> Common name of old German emperors </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">94</span> Wealthy </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">96</span> Soft finned fish </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">97</span> Boy </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">100</span> Span of twenty-four hours </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">101</span> Kind of tree </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">103</span> Forward </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">105</span> Exist </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e35515">[<a href="#xd31e35515">95</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz36" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz36.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 36</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">AN HOUR GLASS</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Mrs. Henry Wolf</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">The constructor must have turned her hour glass several times while she was building -this hour glass. It presents beautiful masses of interlocks. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop">10</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop">11</td> -<td class="cellTop">12</td> -<td class="cellTop">13</td> -<td class="cellTop">14</td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop">15 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">16</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>17</td> -<td>18</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>19</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>20</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> 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-<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>92</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom">93</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">94</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">95</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e36234">[<a href="#xd31e36234">94</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Definite </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> Cymbals used by Hindu dancers </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">10</span> Declares </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">16</span> Vigilant </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">17</span> Publication </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">20</span> Manifest </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">21</span> Plateau </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">22</span> 17th century article of dress </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">24</span> Concept </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">25</span> Confederations of territory </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">26</span> Nightfall </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">27</span> Operator of cotton cleaning machine </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">28</span> Restrain </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">29</span> Belonging to Ireland </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> Conveyed </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">32</span> Insect </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">33</span> Bloomed again </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> Scotch for no </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> Stride </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">37</span> Silenced </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">38</span> Agitate </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">39</span> Lyric poems </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">42</span> Title </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">43</span> Half </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">45</span> Laundry implement </li> -<li 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-<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">30</span> Turf </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">36</span> Utensil </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">38</span> Err </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">40</span> Couch </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">41</span> Parts of shoes </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">43</span> Medicinal plant </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">44</span> Grieve </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">45</span> Distant </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">46</span> Total </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">47</span> Bow </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">48</span> Belonging to him </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">49</span> Anger </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">50</span> 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-<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">69</span> Pen </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">71</span> Made like ivory </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">72</span> Exercised </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">77</span> Atlantic right whale </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">79</span> Brown pigment </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">81</span> Tastes </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">83</span> Deliver </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">86</span> This way </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">87</span> Toward </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">90</span> 3rd person plural </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">92</span> Nor </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e36693">[<a href="#xd31e36693">97</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz37" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz37.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 37</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">DECORATION</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Anna J. Munro</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">A good deal of black, but very ornamental. The center, with its outreaching arms, -is well built. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop">10</td> -<td class="cellTop">11</td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">12</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>13</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>14</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>15</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>16</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight">17 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">18</td> -<td> 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for “and” </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">84</span> Exclamation </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e37681">[<a href="#xd31e37681">99</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz38" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz38.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 38</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">BLACK BEETLE</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Fred L. Kleinschmidt</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">This constructor blocked out a pretty fair beetle form. 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class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">80</span> To soak in </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">83</span> So </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">84</span> To depart </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">86</span> Negative </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">87</span> To wit </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e38671">[<a href="#xd31e38671">101</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz39" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz39.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 39</span></h2> -<h2 lang="la" class="main">FACILE EST DECENSUS AVERNI</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc"><span class="corr" id="xd31e38682" title="Source: Cerebus">Cerberus</span></span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first"><span class="corr" id="xd31e38685" title="Source: Cerebus">Cerberus</span> was a three-faced dog, and that is what you may think of the progenitors of this -bark after you’ve tried it. Averni (which does not mean Arverne) is the unkeyed centre-piece. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 10</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 11</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 12</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 13</td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop"> 14 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 15</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 16</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 17</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 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class="itemNumber">125</span> Melt </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -</p> -<p><i>VERTICAL</i> -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Roman garment </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">2</span> Allowing that </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">3</span> Tale </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">4</span> Belonging to it </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">5</span> Missive </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">6</span> Article of apparel (pl.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> Like </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">8</span> By </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">9</span> Wild animal (pl.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">10</span> A priest </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">11</span> 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class="itemNumber">120</span> Pronoun </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">121</span> Near </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">122</span> Plural pronoun </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e40063">[<a href="#xd31e40063">103</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz40" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz40.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 40</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">999⁄10 PER CENT PURE</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Kross Korner Knut</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">They don’t come much better than this one. K.K.K. is an expert of the first water -and knows how to put words together in a fascinating pattern. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 10</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 11</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 12</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 13</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 14</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop"> 15 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 16</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 17</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td 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class="sc">Corporal Arthur Baisch</span> and <span class="sc">Sergeant William M. Munroe</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">The army sends a neat design—and not an easy one. 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class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">26</span> Title </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">28</span> Door of Masonic lodge </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> Wear </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">33</span> Blue titmouse </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> Cad </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">36</span> Ornamental knob </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">37</span> Narrative </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">38</span> Repair again </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">39</span> Austro-Hungarian Territory ruled by a Ban </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">40</span> Al<sub>2</sub> K<sub>2</sub> (SO<sub>4</sub>) + 24 H<sub>2</sub>O </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">41</span> Sorrow </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">43</span> Mental image </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">44</span> Forsaken </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">45</span> Meadow </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">48</span> Arial </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">49</span> Snug </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">50</span> Incite </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">53</span> Little stream </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">55</span> Ten armed cephalopod </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">61</span> Bath house </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">62</span> Monster </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">63</span> Move or stir </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">65</span> Kind of fish sauce </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">66</span> Boats’ company </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">67</span> Boat propelled by three </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">71</span> Cadence </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">72</span> Natural metal </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">74</span> Over </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">75</span> Flesh of animals </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">77</span> The present time </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">78</span> Prohibit </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">79</span> Utter </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">80</span> In archery; the bull’s eye </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">81</span> Sheltered side </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">82</span> To permit </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">85</span> Total </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">86</span> Headgear </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">88</span> Pile </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">90</span> Hit lightly </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e42696">[<a href="#xd31e42696">107</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz42" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz42.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 42</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">A CENTRAL SWASTIKA<a class="noteRef" id="xd31e42704src" href="#xd31e42704">1</a></h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Warren Hannaford</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">Small, but by no means so easy as it looks. The words that swirl around the Swastika -are splendidly interlocked. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop"> 9 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>10</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>11</td> -<td>12</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>13</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">14</td> -<td>15</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>16</td> -<td>17</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>18</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>19</td> -<td>20</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">21</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>22</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>23</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">24</td> -<td> </td> -<td>25</td> -<td>26</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>27</td> -<td> </td> -<td>28</td> -<td>29</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>30</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>31</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td>32</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>33</td> -<td> </td> -<td>34</td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td>35</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>36</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>37</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">38</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>39</td> -<td> </td> -<td>40</td> -<td>41</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>42</td> -<td>43</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight">44 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">45</td> -<td>46</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>47</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>48</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">49</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>50</td> -<td> </td> -<td>51</td> -<td>52</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>53</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">54</td> -<td> </td> -<td>55</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>56</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>57</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>58</td> -<td>59</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>60</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>61</td> -<td>62</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom">63</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">64</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e43090">[<a href="#xd31e43090">106</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Motion </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">5</span> A barricade </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">10</span> Goddess of mischief </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">11</span> Disarranged type </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">13</span> Prefix, equal </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">14</span> Distend </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">16</span> Actors </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">19</span> A large bird </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">21</span> A measure of type </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">22</span> The solan goose </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">23</span> An exclamation </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">24</span> An arch </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">27</span> Combine with air </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">30</span> Pert. to atmosphere (comb. form) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> Order </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">32</span> Time </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">33</span> A beverage </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> The egg of a small insect </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">37</span> Coarse cloth made from jute </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">39</span> An alarm </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">42</span> In another direction </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">45</span> Classes of two species </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">47</span> Hereditary </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">49</span> Regarding </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">50</span> The small white heron </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">53</span> Nickname for father </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">54</span> Design </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">56</span> Exclamation of disdain </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">57</span> A fish destitute of ventral fins </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">58</span> A short song </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">60</span> Belonging to me </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">61</span> A tree </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">63</span> Title of address (pl.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">64</span> Obliterates </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -</p> -<p><i>VERTICAL</i> -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> The finest of Indian silk </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">2</span> Scold </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">3</span> And (French) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">4</span> Scanty </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">6</span> Pigment from wood soot </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> Roman weight equal to a pound </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">8</span> Jutting rock </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">9</span> Small bag filled with perfume </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">11</span> Incarcerate </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">12</span> Tavern </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">15</span> Curious scraps of literature </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">17</span> Agallochum </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">18</span> Disrupt </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">20</span> A grain </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">25</span> An adherent of the Zoroastrian religion </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">26</span> A heavy wooden mallet </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">28</span> A stem of a specie of palm </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">29</span> Quadruped of Madagascar </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">32</span> Each </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> Near by </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">36</span> A gentleman’s servant </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">38</span> Departure </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">40</span> An article used to expunge </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">41</span> Predatory incursion </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">43</span> Deteriorate </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">44</span> Hypothetical ape man </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">46</span> Contr. of evening </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">48</span> Mock </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">51</span> Highly finished work of art </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">52</span> Narrow beam of light </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">55</span> Assume </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">57</span> Square of a type body (pl.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">59</span> Trick </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">62</span> Sixth note of scale </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e43378">[<a href="#xd31e43378">109</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -<div class="footnotes"> -<hr class="fnsep"> -<div class="footnote-body"> -<div class="fndiv" id="xd31e42704"> -<p class="footnote"><span class="fnlabel"><a class="noteRef" href="#xd31e42704src">1</a></span> The second square from the right, second row from the bottom, should be black to correspond -with the other corners. <a class="fnarrow" href="#xd31e42704src" title="Return to note 1 in text.">↑</a></p> -</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz43" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz43.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 43</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">NOT SO BLACK AS PAINTED</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Norman Kendy</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">Excellent center, but somewhat loose corner construction, passed, however, under Mr. -Gelett Burgess’ ruling that at least half the letters of a word shall be included -in other words. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 9</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight">10 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">11</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>12</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>13</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>14</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">15</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>16</td> -<td>17</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>18</td> -<td>19</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>20</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>21</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>22</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>23</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">24</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>25</td> -<td>26</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>27</td> -<td> </td> -<td>28</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>29</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>30</td> -<td>31</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>32</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>33</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>34</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>35</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">36</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>37</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>38</td> -<td>39</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>40</td> -<td>41</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>42</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight">43 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">44</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td 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class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">37</span> City of Churches </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">38</span> Clothes </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">39</span> Injections </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">40</span> Coin </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">41</span> Take notice </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">42</span> Automobile </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">43</span> Vaults </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">53</span> Poker term </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">55</span> Just quite </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">57</span> Frost </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">59</span> Pasture </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e44197">[<a href="#xd31e44197">111</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz44" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz44.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 44</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">FINE AND DANDY</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Julie D. Carder</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">A splendid example of what can be done in the waving of long and intricate word patterns. -The author is, as may be guessed, a fan of long standing. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop">10</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop">11</td> -<td class="cellTop">12</td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop">13 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">14</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>15</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> 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class="itemNumber">54</span> Made tender </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">56</span> Disease of grape leaves </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">58</span> What Eve was made of </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">60</span> Stretching (old) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">62</span> An arsenal </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">63</span> A son of Shem </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">66</span> Act of stealing </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">67</span> A worker in wool </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">70</span> Forward </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">72</span> Exist </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">76</span> Cup with four handles </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">77</span> The entire man </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">78</span> One who has extreme political views (slang) </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e45169">[<a href="#xd31e45169">113</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz45" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz45.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 45</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">A LINGUAL LABYRINTH</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Coutance</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">This effort contains one definition which comprises two words, but the all-round excellence -of the construction makes up for this single deficiency. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop">10</td> -<td class="cellTop">11</td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop">12 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">13</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>14</td> -<td> </td> -<td>15</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>16</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">17</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>18</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>19</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>20</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">21</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>22</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>23</td> -<td> </td> -<td>24</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>25</td> 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-<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>59</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>60</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">61</td> -<td> </td> -<td>62</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>63</td> -<td> </td> -<td>64</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>65</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">66</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>67</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>68</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>69</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom">70</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">71</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e45629">[<a href="#xd31e45629">112</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Otalgia </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> Pimple </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">13</span> Soon </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">14</span> Cable-deck </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">16</span> Units </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">17</span> Rested </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">18</span> Terror </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">20</span> Insect </li> -<li 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Portugese">Portuguese</span> coin </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">59</span> Goddess of the dawn </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">60</span> Egyptian sun-god </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">61</span> Tool </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">63</span> Sweetheart </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">65</span> Article </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">66</span> Rare element </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">68</span> French leader assassinated by Charlotte Corday </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">69</span> Expanse </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">70</span> Gathered </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">71</span> Related to Muse of joy </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -</p> -<p><i>VERTICAL</i> -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li 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class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">57</span> German river </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">60</span> A nandu </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">62</span> Collection of animals </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">63</span> Youth </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">64</span> Surface of fibers </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">65</span> Prefix, three </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">67</span> Greek letter </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">68</span> Pronoun </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">69</span> Italian particle </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e46001">[<a href="#xd31e46001">115</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz46" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz46.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 46</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">A HUNDRED PER CENTER</h2> -<p class="byline">By R. and <span class="sc">R. Williams</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">This is the simplest form for securing an all-over interlock with no unkeyed letters. -And the words are good! -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 9</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>10</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>11</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight">12 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">13</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>14</td> -<td> </td> 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class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>30</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td>31</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>32</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>33</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>34</td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">35</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>36</td> -<td> </td> -<td>37</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>38</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight">39 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">40</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>41</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>42</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">43</td> -<td> </td> -<td>44</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>45</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>46</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>47</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">48</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>49</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>50</td> -<td> </td> -<td>51</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">52</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">53</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom black"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e46341">[<a href="#xd31e46341">114</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Tread on </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">5</span> A Biblical character </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">9</span> Erstwhile meeting place </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">11</span> Recent </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">13</span> Employ </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">14</span> Musical instrument </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">16</span> Announce </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">17</span> An object </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">18</span> To dress up </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">19</span> Toward </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">20</span> Poetic abbreviation </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">22</span> A municipal power </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">24</span> Very dark </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">25</span> Passage </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">27</span> Sweet </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">29</span> Pull </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">30</span> Chum </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> Psychological phenomenon </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">33</span> Tree </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> Hurried </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">36</span> Girl’s name </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">38</span> Pointed instrument </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">40</span> Upon </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">41</span> Debt </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">42</span> Accomplish </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">43</span> Girl’s name </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">45</span> Medicine </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">47</span> Dentist (abbr.) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">48</span> Obtained again </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">50</span> With facility </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">52</span> Landlord’s delight </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">53</span> To guzzle </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -</p> -<p><i>VERTICAL</i> -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Pliable </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">2</span> Beverage </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">3</span> Thus </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">4</span> High temperature </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">5</span> Vehicle </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">6</span> Preposition </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> Possessive article </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">8</span> Better arranged </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">9</span> Habit </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">10</span> Birth </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">11</span> Word </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">12</span> A tiller of the Soil </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">15</span> Youth </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">21</span> Evil </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">22</span> Beyond comprehension </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">23</span> Money </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">24</span> Strong medicine </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">26</span> Devoted lady </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">28</span> Whip </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> Procure </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">32</span> Wrap </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">33</span> Mediterranean island </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> Difficult of solution </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> Loud noise </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">37</span> A pointed tool </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">39</span> Inquisitive </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">44</span> Disposed of </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">45</span> Hard drinker </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">46</span> Reposed </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">47</span> Incline </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">49</span> Preposition </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">51</span> Therefore </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e46611">[<a href="#xd31e46611">117</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz47" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz47.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 47</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">CRANK HER UP</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Frank A. Ford</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">In spite of much black and a complicated design, which compels the use of some unkeyed -letters, this puzzle gets by with colors flying. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop">10 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">11</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>12</td> -<td> </td> -<td>13</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>14</td> -<td>15</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>16</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>17</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>18</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">19</td> -<td>20</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>21</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>22</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>23</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>24</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">25</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>26</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>27</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td>28</td> -<td>29</td> -<td> </td> -<td>30</td> -<td> </td> -<td>31</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>32</td> -<td>33</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">34</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>35</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>36</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight">37 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>38</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>39</td> -<td> </td> -<td>40</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">41</td> -<td>42</td> -<td>43</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>44</td> -<td> </td> -<td>45</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>46</td> -<td> </td> -<td>47</td> -<td>48</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td>49</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>50</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">51</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>52</td> -<td>53</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>54</td> -<td class="cellRight">55 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">56</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>57</td> -<td>58</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>59</td> -<td>60</td> -<td>61</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>62</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>63</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>64</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">65</td> -<td>66</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>67</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>68</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>69</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>70</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom">71</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">72</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">73</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e47093">[<a href="#xd31e47093">116</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Species of bird </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">5</span> Sacred bird </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> Throws </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">11</span> Part of the verb “be” </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">12</span> Quick </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">14</span> Piece </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">16</span> Preposition </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">17</span> Spawn </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">18</span> A measure </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">19</span> Preposition </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">21</span> Overshadows </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">24</span> Allowing that </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">25</span> Sun-god </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">26</span> To mimic </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">27</span> Preposition </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">28</span> Share with </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">32</span> Groove </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> Son of Aaron </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> Beast of burden </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">36</span> Kingdom of Persia </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">38</span> Holy picture </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">39</span> To saturate </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">41</span> A medley </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">44</span> A priestly vestment </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">46</span> Rears up </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">49</span> Termination </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">50</span> Collection of units </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">51</span> Indef. article </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">52</span> Oriental sash </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">54</span> Personal pronoun </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">56</span> Exist </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">57</span> Sanctioned </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">62</span> Goddess of Earth </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">63</span> Allow </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">64</span> Tribe of Indians </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">65</span> Act </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">67</span> Help </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">68</span> Meager </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">70</span> Part of the verb “be” </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">71</span> To wipe out </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">72</span> Situation set apart </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">73</span> Species of elk </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -</p> -<p><i>VERTICAL</i> -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Character in Genesis </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">2</span> Measure of type </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">3</span> Connected with </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">4</span> Species of plant </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">5</span> Note of entry </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">6</span> Small piece </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> Conceal </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">8</span> Above </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">9</span> Note of scale </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">10</span> Support </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">13</span> French coin </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">15</span> Abodes for <span class="corr" id="xd31e47322" title="Source: travellers">travelers</span> </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">20</span> Deputy of Sultan </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">21</span> Resembling a sandflea </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">22</span> Hindu title </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">23</span> Can be drawn together </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">24</span> A small part </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">29</span> A musical note </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">30</span> Species of bird </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> To harden </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">33</span> Birthplace of Abraham </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> Besides </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">37</span> Wooden pegs </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">39</span> Unrighteousness </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">40</span> A limb </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">42</span> Smooth consonant </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">43</span> Enclosed </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">44</span> The highest point </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">45</span> Used in fishing </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">47</span> Personal pronoun </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">48</span> Narrow-minded person </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">51</span> Dwell </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">53</span> Posts for ships’ cables </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">55</span> Under strain </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">58</span> River in Germany </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">59</span> Beast of burden </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">60</span> Goddess of Mischief </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">61</span> Two or more together </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">66</span> Else </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">67</span> Conjunction </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">69</span> Denial </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">70</span> Part of the verb “be” </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e47448">[<a href="#xd31e47448">119</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz48" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz48.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 48</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">A VOCABULARY TESTER</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">Irvan Neckerman</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">Mr. Neckerman is apparently never happy till he has filled his construction with difficult -words. This one is a real trial of verbal strength. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop">10</td> -<td class="cellTop">11</td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop">12 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">13</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>14</td> -<td>15</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>16</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">17</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>18</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>19</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">20</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>21</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>22</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>23</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>24</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>25</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>26</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">27</td> -<td>28</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>29</td> -<td>30</td> -<td> </td> -<td>31</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>32</td> -<td> </td> -<td>33</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">34</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>35</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>36</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>37</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td>38</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>39</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">40</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>41</td> -<td>42</td> -<td> </td> -<td>43</td> -<td> </td> -<td>44</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>45</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight">46 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">47</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td>48</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>49</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>50</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>51</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>52</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">53</td> -<td>54</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>55</td> -<td>56</td> -<td> </td> -<td>57</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>58</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">59</td> -<td> </td> -<td>60</td> -<td> </td> -<td>61</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>62</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>63</td> -<td> </td> -<td>64</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft">65</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>66</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td>67</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellBottom">68</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom black"></td> -<td class="cellBottom">69</td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellBottom"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellBottom"> </td> -</tr> -</table> -</div><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e47906">[<a href="#xd31e47906">118</a>]</span></p> -<p>HORIZONTAL -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> To reveal </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> Scrutinizer </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">13</span> Dissimulation </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">14</span> To request </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">16</span> To despoil </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">17</span> American flycatcher </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">18</span> Cereal </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">19</span> Dwelling </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">20</span> Ridge of sand or gravel </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">21</span> Assault </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">23</span> Tone of musical scale </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">24</span> To opine </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">25</span> Amorous glance </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">27</span> So be it </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">29</span> Chosen </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">32</span> Feast of the nativity </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">34</span> Ribbed fabric </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> Hostile persons </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">37</span> To run wild </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">38</span> To cheat </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">39</span> Sly look </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">40</span> Twice </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">41</span> Uprightly </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">45</span> Bill </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">47</span> Passageway </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">49</span> Ascend </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">50</span> A mass </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">51</span> Dexterous </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">52</span> Silicate of magnesia </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">53</span> Alleged force of mesmerism </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">55</span> Nether world (myth) </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">58</span> Tone of musical scale </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">59</span> Shrinking </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">62</span> To cut </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">63</span> To brawl </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">65</span> To eat away </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">66</span> Superficial measure </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">67</span> Nest of bird of prey </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">68</span> Is contingent upon </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">69</span> Sorrows </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -</p> -<p><i>VERTICAL</i> -</p> -<table class="splitListTable"> -<tr> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">1</span> Having two poles </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">2</span> Strong resentments </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">3</span> Asseverate </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">4</span> Odd </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">5</span> Caustic </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">6</span> Merit </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">7</span> Toboggan for the foot </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">8</span> Part of circle </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">9</span> Almost </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">10</span> To seize </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">11</span> Bad </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">12</span> Changed appellation </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">15</span> Method </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">21</span> Foreshowing </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">22</span> Carry </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">24</span> Witnessed </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">26</span> Well bred </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">28</span> Excellence </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">30</span> A bar </li> -</ul> -</td> -<td> -<ul> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">31</span> Cinerary urns </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">33</span> Fold in a garment </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">35</span> Increase </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">36</span> See </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">40</span> Illiberal </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">42</span> A hill or mound </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">43</span> Burnt material </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">44</span> Permits </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">46</span> Over and above </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">48</span> Sojourn </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">50</span> Deposit of sand or gravel </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">54</span> Ill-boding </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">56</span> Sunken fences </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">57</span> Wide mouthed pitcher </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">58</span> Long cut </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">60</span> A grimace </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">61</span> A haunt </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">63</span> To sink </li> -<li class="numberedItem"><span class="itemNumber">64</span> Raw material </li> -</ul> -</td> -</tr> -</table><p> -<span class="pageNum" id="xd31e48234">[<a href="#xd31e48234">121</a>]</span> </p> -</div> -</div> -<div id="pz49" class="div1 puzzle"><span class="pageNum">[<a href="#pz49.toc">Contents</a>]</span><div class="divHead"> -<h2 class="label"><span class="sc">Puzzle No. 49</span></h2> -<h2 class="main">IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE</h2> -<p class="byline">By <span class="sc">J. T. Delaney</span></p> -</div> -<div class="divBody"> -<p class="first">Ever read a book in words of one syllable? This has no higher percentage of polysyllabic -words than that. -</p> -<div class="table"> -<table class="crossword"> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft cellTop"> 1</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 2</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 3</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 4</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 5</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 6</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 7</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 8</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 9</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 10</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellTop"> 11</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 12</td> -<td class="cellTop black"></td> -<td class="cellTop"> 13</td> -<td class="cellTop"> 14</td> -<td class="cellTop"> </td> -<td class="cellRight cellTop"> 15 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 16</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 17</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 18</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 19</td> -<td> 20</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 21</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 22</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 23</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 24</td> -<td> 25</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 26</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 27</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 28</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 29</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 30</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 31</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 32</td> -<td> 33</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 34</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 35</td> -<td> 36</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 37</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 38</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 39</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 40</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 41</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 42</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 43</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 44</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 45</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> 46 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 47</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 48</td> -<td> 49</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 50</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 51</td> -<td> 52</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 53</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 54</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 55</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 56</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 57</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 58</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 59</td> -<td> 60</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 61</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 62</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 63</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 64</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 65</td> -<td> 66</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 67</td> -<td> 68</td> -<td class="cellRight"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 69</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 70</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 71</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 72</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 73</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight black"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 74</td> -<td> </td> -<td> 75</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 76</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> 77</td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 78</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 79</td> -<td> 80</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cellRight"> 81 </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="cellLeft"> 82</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="black"></td> -<td> 83</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> 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Utterly impossible to accomplish success without -the NEW INTERNATIONAL.</i>” -</p> -<p>WRITE for specimen pages and prices. Free pocket maps if you name this publication. -</p> -<p class="center"><i>Why not be in the Winning Class?</i> <br>Let the <i>New International</i> serve you -</p> -<p class="center">G. & C. Merriam Co., Springfield, Mass. -</p> -</div> -</div> -<div class="div1" id="toc"> -<h2 class="main">Table of Contents</h2> -<table summary="Table of Contents"> -<tr id="cwp.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum"></td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#cwp">THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#cwp">5</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="foreword.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum"></td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#foreword"><i>CONFESSIONS OF A CROSS WORD PUZZLE EDITOR</i></a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#foreword">7</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="solve.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum"></td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#solve"><i>HOW TO SOLVE THEM</i></a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#solve">11</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="science.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum"></td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#science"><i>THE SCIENCE AND LORE OF CROSS WORD PUZZLES</i></a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#science">18</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="dosdonts.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum"></td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#dosdonts"><i>DO’S AND DON’T’S FOR SOLVERS</i></a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#dosdonts">23</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz1.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">1. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz1">A SOFT BEGINNING</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz1">25</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz2.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">2. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz2">TRY AND DO IT</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz2">27</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz3.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">3. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz3">A SIMPLICITY</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz3">29</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz4.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">4. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz4">TETRACRUCIFORM</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz4">31</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz5.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">5. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz5">WELL BALANCED</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz5">33</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz6.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">6. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz6">BABY GRAND MODEL</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz6">35</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz7.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">7. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz7">A FOUR PETALED ROSE</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz7">37</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz8.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">8. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz8">A SPOTTED BORDER</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz8">39</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz9.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">9. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz9">A CHECKERED CAREER</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz9">41</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz10.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">10. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz10">SMALL BUT NEAT</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz10">43</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz11.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">11. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz11">KEYS AND CROSSES</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz11">45</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz12.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">12. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz12">A BLACK BEAUTY</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz12">47</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz13.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">13. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz13">A GRAND OLD PUZZLE</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz13">49</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz14.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">14. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz14">A QUADRIPUNTAL ASTEROID</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz14">51</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz15.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">15. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz15">A QUADRUPLEX QUIDDITY</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz15">53</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz16.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">16. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz16">A WELL-TIED SAILOR’S KNOT</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz16">55</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz17.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">17. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz17">A TESSELATED TANGLE</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz17">57</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz18.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">18. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz18">HOT CROSS BUNS</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz18">59</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz19.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">19. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz19">STEPPING STONES</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz19">61</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz20.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">20. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz20">FIVE GREEK CROSSES</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz20">63</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz21.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">21. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz21">FOUR LEAF CLOVER</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz21">65</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz22.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">22. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz22">AT THE CROSSROADS</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz22">67</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz23.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">23. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz23">CROSSWORD VALENTINE</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz23">69</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz24.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">24. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz24">EIGHTEEN KARAT</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz24">71</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz25.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">25. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz25">HONEYMOON HOKUM</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz25">73</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz26.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">26. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz26">FOR THE ZIGZAG ZEALOT</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz26">75</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz27.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">27. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz27">THIS TAKES THE CAKE</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz27">77</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz28.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">28. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz28">A JERSEY ’SKEETER</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz28">79</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz29.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">29. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz29">UNLUCKY</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz29">81</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz30.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">30. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz30">SINGLE SPOTTER</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz30">83</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz31.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">31. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz31">A PRIZE PACKAGE</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz31">85</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz32.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">32. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz32">HIC LABOR HIC OPUS EST</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz32">87</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz33.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">33. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz33">A SERRATE SYZYGY</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz33">89</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz34.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">34. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz34">FIVE SPOTS AND RAYS</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz34">91</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz35.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">35. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz35">A SLOTTED OBLONG</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz35">93</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz36.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">36. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz36">AN HOUR GLASS</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz36">95</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz37.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">37. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz37">DECORATION</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz37">97</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz38.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">38. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz38">BLACK BEETLE</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz38">99</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz39.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">39. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz39">FACILE EST DECENSUS AVERNI</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz39">101</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz40.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">40. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz40">999⁄10 PER CENT PURE</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz40">103</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz41.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">41. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz41">A WEST POINTER</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz41">105</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz42.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">42. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz42">A CENTRAL SWASTIKA</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz42">107</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz43.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">43. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz43">NOT SO BLACK AS PAINTED</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz43">109</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz44.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">44. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz44">FINE AND DANDY</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz44">111</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz45.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">45. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz45">A LINGUAL LABYRINTH</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz45">113</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz46.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">46. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz46">A HUNDRED PER CENTER</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz46">115</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz47.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">47. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz47">CRANK HER UP</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz47">117</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz48.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">48. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz48">A VOCABULARY TESTER</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz48">119</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz49.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">49. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz49">IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz49">121</a></td> -</tr> -<tr id="pz50.toc"> -<td class="tocDivNum">50. </td> -<td class="tocDivTitle" colspan="8"><a href="#pz50">OF SOMEWHAT ORIENTAL FLAVOR</a></td> -<td class="tocPageNum"><a class="pageref" href="#pz50">123</a></td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<div class="transcriberNote"> -<h2 class="main">Colophon</h2> -<h3 class="main">Availability</h3> -<p class="first">This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. 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To better work in unpaged media, this order has been -changed.</p> -<h3 class="main">Revision History</h3> -<ul> -<li>2022-06-06 Started. </li> -</ul> -<h3 class="main">Corrections</h3> -<p>The following corrections have been applied to the text:</p> -<table class="correctionTable" summary="Overview of corrections applied to the text."> -<tr> -<th>Page</th> -<th>Source</th> -<th>Correction</th> -<th>Edit distance</th> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="width20"><a class="pageref" href="#xd31e218">5</a></td> -<td class="width40 bottom">world</td> -<td class="width40 bottom">word</td> -<td class="bottom">1</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="width20"><a class="pageref" href="#xd31e642">20</a></td> -<td class="width40 bottom">Ιχθγε</td> -<td class="width40 bottom">Ιχθυς</td> -<td class="bottom">2</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="width20"><a class="pageref" href="#xd31e653">20</a></td> -<td class="width40 bottom">Kristos</td> -<td class="width40 bottom">Christos</td> -<td class="bottom">2</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="width20"><a class="pageref" href="#xd31e660">20</a></td> -<td class="width40 bottom">Ιησομς Χριστος Θεοῖ Υιος Σῷτηρ</td> -<td class="width40 bottom">Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς Θεοῦ Υἱὸς Σῷτήρ</td> -<td class="bottom">7 / 2</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="width20"><a class="pageref" href="#xd31e6145">36</a></td> -<td class="width40 bottom">Quapruped</td> -<td class="width40 bottom">Quadruped</td> -<td class="bottom">1</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="width20"><a class="pageref" href="#xd31e9306">42</a>, <a class="pageref" href="#xd31e14272">52</a>, <a class="pageref" href="#xd31e40966">102</a>, <a class="pageref" href="#xd31e50991">122</a>, <a class="pageref" href="#xd31e50996">122</a>, <a class="pageref" href="#xd31e51001">122</a>, <a class="pageref" href="#xd31e51010">122</a></td> -<td class="width40 bottom">.</td> -<td class="width40 bottom"> -[<i>Deleted</i>] -</td> -<td class="bottom">1</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="width20"><a class="pageref" href="#xd31e10286">47</a></td> -<td class="width40 bottom">whose</td> -<td class="width40 bottom">who</td> -<td class="bottom">2</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="width20"><a class="pageref" href="#xd31e14118">52</a></td> -<td class="width40 bottom">Tympanun</td> -<td class="width40 bottom">Tympanum</td> -<td class="bottom">1</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="width20"><a class="pageref" href="#xd31e18446">60</a></td> -<td class="width40 bottom">92</td> -<td class="width40 bottom">29</td> -<td class="bottom">2</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="width20"><a class="pageref" href="#xd31e27016">76</a></td> -<td class="width40 bottom">H<sup>2</sup>O</td> -<td class="width40 bottom">H<sub>2</sub>O</td> -<td class="bottom">0</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="width20"><a class="pageref" href="#xd31e35388">92</a></td> -<td class="width40 bottom">Receptable</td> -<td class="width40 bottom">Receptacle</td> -<td class="bottom">1</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="width20"><a class="pageref" href="#xd31e38682">101</a>, <a class="pageref" href="#xd31e38685">101</a></td> -<td class="width40 bottom">Cerebus</td> -<td class="width40 bottom">Cerberus</td> -<td class="bottom">2</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="width20"><a class="pageref" href="#xd31e45763">112</a></td> -<td class="width40 bottom">Portugese</td> -<td class="width40 bottom">Portuguese</td> -<td class="bottom">1</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="width20"><a class="pageref" href="#xd31e47322">116</a></td> -<td class="width40 bottom">travellers</td> -<td class="width40 bottom">travelers</td> -<td class="bottom">1</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -</div> -<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK ***</div> -<div style='text-align:left'> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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