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Title: The cross word puzzle book

Editor: Prosper Buranelli

Margaret Petherbridge Farrar

F. Gregory Hartswick

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THE CROSS WORD

PUZZLE BOOK [3]

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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

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Copyright, 1924, by

THE PLAZA PUBLISHING COMPANY

37 WEST 57TH STREET

NEW YORK, N.Y.

Printed by The Van Rees Press

Bound by H. Wolff & Co.

New York [5]

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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?”

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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 [7]

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THE CROSS WORD

PUZZLE BOOK

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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[10]—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 [11]

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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.

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- 1 Lowest form of life

- 12 Product of coal or pine

- 18 Opponent

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- 1 Gustated

- 2 Divine nourishment

- 3 Before

- 4 Indefinite number

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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.

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So far the sailing has been fairly easy. But trouble waits just around the corner. There are other definitions which [13]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:

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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 [15]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.

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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 [16]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 [17]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 [18]

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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 [19]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 [20]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 [21]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

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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 [23]

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DO’S AND DON’T’S FOR SOLVERS

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

Don’t 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. [25]

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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.

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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

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- 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

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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.

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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

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- 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.)

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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.

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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

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- 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

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PUZZLE NO. 4

TETRACRUCIFORM

By CHARLES W. SNIZEK

A mystical design combined with everyday words shorter than the name it it bears.

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- 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

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- 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

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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.

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- 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

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- 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

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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.

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- 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

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- 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

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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.

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- 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

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- 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

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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.

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- 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

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- 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

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PUZZLE NO. 9

A CHECKERED CAREER

By S. CZURLES

Odd words and even. But good practice for the tough ones coming later on.

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- 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

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- 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

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- 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

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PUZZLE NO. 10

SMALL BUT NEAT

By JOSEPH E. AUSTRIAN

Eight unkeyed letters, but on the whole a very good design. Excellent corner interlock.

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- 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

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- 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

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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.

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- 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

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- 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

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PUZZLE NO. 12

A BLACK BEAUTY

By P. B. GEOTSCH

Anyone who geotsch this one is good. This one shows how hard it is to solve a puzzle with many unkeyed letters.

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- 1 To become insolvent

- 4 A long-legged bird

- 6 Presage

- 9 A bruise

- 11 Not working

- 13 What

- 15 Cautious

- 17 In bed

- 18 Mother

- 19 To lick up

- 21 To waste away

- 23 A sticky substance

- 24 To silence

- 25 Encircled

- 27 Since

- 28 Beast of burden

- 29 Article

- 30 Exclamation

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- 34 Liquid juice of plants

- 36 Assent

- 38 Everything

- 40 To grasp

- 41 Clamp

- 42 Also

- 43 First woman

- 45 A drink

- 47 Organ of body

- 49 Dissent

- 51 Exist

- 52 A beam

- 54 To fall behind

- 55 To squander

- 58 A tree

- 59 Viper

- 61 An automobile

- 63 A card

- 65 Preposition

- 66 A distance

- 68 Ireland

- 71 Exclamation

- 72 A step

- 73 Measure of time

- 75 Remunerated

- 76 To rub off

- 77 A vegetable

VERTICAL

- 1 Combustible material

- 2 Part of “to be”

- 3 Vulgar

- 4 She

- 5 Point of a pen

- 6 Aged

- 7 Myself

- 8 Close to

- 10 A rodent

- 12 Cave

- 14 Very old women

- 16 To make a mistake

- 17 Eaten

- 18 Female horse

- 20 To go ahead

- 22 To do as asked

- 23 To ring a bell

- 25 Upon

- 26 Perform

- 28 To astonish

- 29 A covering on an automobile

- 31 Speed

- 33 A person who dresses fastidiously

- 35 Past

- 36 An animal

- 37 After day

- 39 Sheltered side

- 42 To snare

- 44 An urn-like vessel

- 46 Song

- 48 Too

- 50 Exclamation of pain

- 51 To exist

- 53 Coy

- 56 Part of “to be”

- 57 A digit

- 59 Above

- 60 Sound made by a clock

- 62 A neck ornament

- 64 To gain by toil

- 66 Insane

- 67 Sheltered side

- 69 A liquor

- 70 To catch

- 72 3.141592

- 74 Backwards

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PUZZLE NO. 13

A GRAND OLD PUZZLE

By SYLVAN L. FROELICH

There are some grand old words in this puzzle, and the interlock is something grand also.

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- 1 African antelope

- 5 By means of

- 8 Stop

- 12 Beam

- 13 Impenetrably hard

- 14 Secure

- 15 Adversary

- 17 Write

- 18 Produce

- 20 Woolen material

- 21 Distribute

- 24 Female deer

- 25 Viscous matter of a cell

- 28 Chalky chemical substance

- 30 Fracas

- 31 Preposition

- 33 Annoy

- 35 Rhymed composition

- 36 Live

- 37 Natural

- 38 Pendent

- 39 Edge

- 40 One

- 41 Imitated

- 42 Trimming

- 44 Suffice

- 45 Journey

- 47 Patent

- 49 Eschew

- 51 Touch

- 53 Faith

- 55 Wanting

- 56 A drug

- 59 Be indisposed

- 60 Matchless

- 63 Liquid refreshment

- 64 Malady of the brain

- 65 Period of time

- 66 Dropsy

- 67 Part of verb “to be”

- 68 Inscription-bearing stone

VERTICAL

- 1 Before

- 2 Cut

- 3 Affirmative

- 4 Between dawn and evening

- 5 Essay

- 6 Boil (Archaic)

- 7 Roam

- 8 Filthy place

- 9 Consumed

- 10 Sways rhythmically

- 11 Guided

- 16 Back tooth

- 19 Mohammedan world

- 21 Mode of scenic representation

- 22 Near

- 23 Slid

- 25 Take inconsiderately

- 26 Affirmative

- 27 Titanic

- 29 Used in golf

- 30 Large volume

- 32 Cooling device

- 34 Remnant

- 35 Domestic animal

- 36 Assistant

- 41 Spring up

- 43 Hazard

- 45 Toward

- 46 Basket

- 48 Negative

- 50 Sound

- 51 Headdress

- 52 Beat

- 54 Pertaining to sounds

- 56 Span of time

- 57 Single

- 58 Health resort

- 60 Beast of burden

- 61 Poem

- 62 Scrutinize

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PUZZLE NO. 14

A QUADRIPUNTAL ASTEROID

By PERSEPHONE

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.

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- 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

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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. The unknown author is to be congratulated.

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- 1 Amphibious boat

- 12 Equipped

- 17 Bustle

- 18 Worry

- 19 Tardy

- 20 Insects

- 21 French particle

- 22 Behold

- 23 Wife of Zeus

- 24 Walking stick

- 25 Throw

- 26 Gruel

- 27 Peruse

- 28 Uttered

- 29 Injury

- 30 City in Nevada

- 31 City in New York

- 33 Lake

- 34 Blood vessel

- 35 Leopards

- 36 Wood

- 37 Seasoning

- 38 Dread

- 39 Mud

- 40 Ancient English monastery

- 41 Harden by heat

- 42 Particles of stone

- 43 At liberty

- 44 Pronoun

- 45 Conjunction

- 46 Fruit of pine tree

- 47 Animal group

- 48 Carry

- 49 Pedal digit

- 50 Hybrid animal

- 51 Swarm

- 52 Tympanum of ear

- 53 Related

- 54 Fat

- 55 Large stove for hardening

- 56 Hostile incursion

- 57 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

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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. You will observe consistent splicing throughout although the center is a trifle loose.

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- 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

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PUZZLE NO. 17

A TESSELATED TANGLE

By PERSEPHONE

Perfect interlocking and very few unkeyed letters! Technically, this puzzle is nearly perfect. Nor should the strain on the vocabulary be unduly severe.

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- 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

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- 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

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PUZZLE NO. 18

HOT CROSS BUNS

By EVERETT A. BROWN

This cookie will put you in a Brown study. The 32 horizontal is to 20 vertical and not to 61 horizontal.

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- 1 The end

- 6 Serene

- 12 To explore pryingly

- 13 God of love

- 15 Exists

- 17 Herb used in soups

- 19 Mediaeval war club

- 20 Towards

- 21 Related

- 23 Eagles

- 25 Fate

- 27 Place oneself

- 28 One of the three forms of matter

- 29 By way of

- 30 To engrave

- 32 Virtuous

- 34 Pinochle term

- 35 Residence

- 37 Ireland

- 39 Soil

- 40 Conduit

- 42 Smooth

- 44 Enemies

- 47 Well ventilated

- 49 Sprinkle

- 52 Stitched

- 54 Anger

- 55 Lubricant

- 56 Incline the head

- 57 Deposits

- 59 South African animal

- 61 Lazy

- 62 Upon

- 63 Veritable

- 65 Puts with

- 67 Note of scale

- 68 Destruction

- 69 Puppet

- 71 Foot gear

- 72 To revere

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- 2 Within

- 3 Midday

- 4 Inquire

- 5 Learned (obs.)

- 7 Plains

- 8 Portion of curve

- 9 Student at coeducational institution

- 10 Part of “to be”

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- 14 Ointment

- 16 Sketch

- 18 Jason’s ship

- 19 Plateau

- 20 Labor

- 22 Tickling sensation

- 24 Spikenard

- 26 Part of stove

- 31 Decorative shrub

- 32 Edible flesh

- 33 Leafy

- 34 Sources of minerals

- 36 Extinct bird of New Zealand

- 38 River (Spanish)

- 41 Mariner

- 42 Victim

- 43 Air

- 45 Dispatch

- 46 To make beloved

- 48 Plateau in Asia

- 50 Upright support

- 51 Girl’s name meaning “fostering”

- 53 Wild beast

- 58 To shock

- 59 The moon

- 60 Coalesces

- 61 Island

- 64 Free from

- 66 Small spot

- 68 Egyptian sun-god

- 70 French article

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PUZZLE NO. 19

STEPPING STONES

By D. 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.

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- 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

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- 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

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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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- 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

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- 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

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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.

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- 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)

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- 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

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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.

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- 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

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- 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)

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PUZZLE NO. 23

CROSSWORD VALENTINE

By J. W. SHAW

This contributor has dedicated himself to romance. We wish we knew the lady to whom he devoted this valentine.

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- 1 To the inside of

- 4 Shaft

- 7 Otherwise

- 8 Globe

- 10 A flattish mass of anything soft or moist

- 11 Note of scale

- 13 Cheaters

- 15 Plans

- 17 Exclamation of triumph

- 19 Behold

- 20 As

- 21 Stupefied by medicine

- 24 Consumed

- 26 A unit of electricity

- 27 Egyptian sun god

- 29 Mama (abbr.)

- 30 None

- 31 Transgress

- 32 Neuter pronoun

- 33 Degrees of speed

- 36 Cunning (colloq.)

- 39 Remuneration for personal service

- 40 Else

- 41 Hubbub

- 42 Act

- 43 Indo-Chinese language

- 44 Alienate

- 48 Societies

- 53 Period of time

- 54 Second person plural

- 55 Animal

- 56 Labels

- 58 Caught again

- 63 Swing off balance

- 64 Fondle

- 65 Nimbus

- 66 Liquor

- 67 Peddle

- 69 Wrath

- 71 Employs

- 73 Chum

- 74 Personal pronoun

- 75 From

- 76 Greek prefix-combining form

- 77 Paternal parent

- 78 Fruit

- 83 Begun again

- 84 Stood by

- 85 Papa

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- 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

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PUZZLE NO. 24

EIGHTEEN KARAT

By HARRY FRIEDMAN

The author, a jeweler of Maiden Lane, dragged this from his treasure chest. After you do it, you’ll agree it’s a gem.

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- 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

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- 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)

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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.

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- 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

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- 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

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PUZZLE NO. 26

FOR THE ZIGZAG ZEALOT

By JOSEPH H. GERSTEN

This pattern zigs itself one way and zags itself the other way. Even the most zealous will find some unusual words.

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- 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

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- 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

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- 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

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PUZZLE NO. 27

THIS TAKES THE CAKE

By M. H. RONZONE

Cut yourself a piece of this one. It’s a mouthful. A fine mixture of long and short words.

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- 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

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- 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

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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.

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- 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

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- 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

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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.

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- 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

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- 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

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PUZZLE NO. 30

SINGLE SPOTTER

By J. T. DELANEY

Not so decorative, but a hundred per cent interlock and no two letter words. Hats off to Mr. Delaney.

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- 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

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- 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

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PUZZLE NO. 31

A PRIZE PACKAGE

By H. R. KOEGLER

The six, seven and nine letter words in this scintillating set-up will tax your gray matter, if any.

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- 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.)

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- 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

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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.

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- 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

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- 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

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PUZZLE NO. 33

A SERRATE SYZYGY

By MARCAM

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.

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- 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

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- 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

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PUZZLE NO. 34

FIVE SPOTS AND RAYS

By R. B. MACMULLIN, JR.

Good interlock, but a number of unkeyed letters. These are apt to try the ingenuity of the solver.

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- 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

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- 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

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PUZZLE NO. 35

A SLOTTED OBLONG

By MARION HAGUE

Splendid corner solids and easy central islands. Good words. A nice one to solve at leisure.

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- 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

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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.

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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

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PUZZLE NO. 37

DECORATION

By ANNA J. MUNRO

A good deal of black, but very ornamental. The center, with its outreaching arms, is well built.

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- 1 River boundary, ancient Italy

- 6 Ladies small umbrella

- 12 To weaken

- 13 A sailor

- 15 An alcoholic drink

- 16 Cotton fabric

- 18 Part of verb “to be”

- 20 To demand the return of

- 22 Act

- 23 Disorder

- 25 Portions of medicine

- 27 Part of verb “to be”

- 29 Equip with weapons

- 30 A quick blow

- 32 Eggs of fish

- 33 Indefinite article

- 34 Separately

- 36 Last

- 38 A feature

- 40 Corn weed

- 41 Pertaining to a poet of Greece

- 43 Faction

- 44 Girl’s woolen hat

- 45 A fish

- 47 An artist of colors

- 48 Forwards by post

- 50 Numeral

- 52 Recent

- 54 Bits of materials

- 57 Statesman

- 60 City in Italy

- 62 Interior

- 64 Alarm

- 65 Malicious crime

- 66 Near

- 67 By way of

- 69 Before

- 70 Not bright

- 71 Parent

- 72 Cuttlefish

- 74 Fathers

- 75 Behold

- 77 Move

- 78 Exist

- 79 Organ of head

- 81 A foundation

- 82 Devoured

- 84 Strike

- 85 Retreated

- 86 Do without; 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

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PUZZLE NO. 38

BLACK BEETLE

By FRED L. KLEINSCHMIDT

This constructor blocked out a pretty fair beetle form. The center is a little loose.

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- 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

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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.

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- 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

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- 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

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PUZZLE NO. 40

999⁄10 PER CENT PURE

By KROSS KORNER KNUT

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.

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- 1 Self contradiction

- 6 Competitor

- 10 Restrict

- 16 Holly

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- 18 Dance step

- 20 Froth

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- 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

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- 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

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- 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

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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.

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- 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

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- 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

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PUZZLE NO. 42

A CENTRAL SWASTIKA1

By WARREN HANNAFORD

Small, but by no means so easy as it looks. The words that swirl around the Swastika are splendidly interlocked.

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- 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

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- 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

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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.

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- 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

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- 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

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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. The author is, as may be guessed, a fan of long standing.

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- 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

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- 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)

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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.

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- 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

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- 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

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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. And the words are good!

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- 1 Tread on

- 5 A Biblical character

- 9 Erstwhile meeting place

- 11 Recent

- 13 Employ

- 14 Musical instrument

- 16 Announce

- 17 An object

- 18 To dress up

- 19 Toward

- 20 Poetic abbreviation

- 22 A municipal power

- 24 Very dark

- 25 Passage

- 27 Sweet

- 29 Pull

- 30 Chum

- 31 Psychological phenomenon

- 33 Tree

- 35 Hurried

- 36 Girl’s name

- 38 Pointed instrument

- 40 Upon

- 41 Debt

- 42 Accomplish

- 43 Girl’s name

- 45 Medicine

- 47 Dentist (abbr.)

- 48 Obtained again

- 50 With facility

- 52 Landlord’s delight

- 53 To guzzle

VERTICAL

- 1 Pliable

- 2 Beverage

- 3 Thus

- 4 High temperature

- 5 Vehicle

- 6 Preposition

- 7 Possessive article

- 8 Better arranged

- 9 Habit

- 10 Birth

- 11 Word

- 12 A tiller of the Soil

- 15 Youth

- 21 Evil

- 22 Beyond comprehension

- 23 Money

- 24 Strong medicine

- 26 Devoted lady

- 28 Whip

- 31 Procure

- 32 Wrap

- 33 Mediterranean island

- 34 Difficult of solution

- 35 Loud noise

- 37 A pointed tool

- 39 Inquisitive

- 44 Disposed of

- 45 Hard drinker

- 46 Reposed

- 47 Incline

- 49 Preposition

- 51 Therefore

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PUZZLE NO. 47

CRANK HER UP

By FRANK A. FORD

In spite of much black and a complicated design, which compels the use of some unkeyed letters, this puzzle gets by with colors flying.

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- 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

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- 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”

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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.

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- 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

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- 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

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PUZZLE NO. 49

IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE

By J. T. DELANEY

Ever read a book in words of one syllable? This has no higher percentage of polysyllabic words than that.

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- 1 Chart

- 4 Eject

- 7 Undermine

- 10 Expletive

- 13 Yield

- 16 Covered entrance

- 17 Search thoroughly

- 18 Cunning

- 19 Sharpen

- 21 Breezy

- 23 Suitable

- 24 Black

- 26 Title

- 28 Leguminous plant

- 29 Velocity

- 31 Enclosure

- 32 Same

- 35 Wash lightly

- 38 Apparent

- 41 Agitate

- 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

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- 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

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[Contents]

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.

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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

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- 1 Pertaining to mail

- 2 Shakespearian character

- 3 Utilize

- 4 Egyptian god

- 5 Negative

- 7 Oblique

- 8 Linger

- 9 Sea Life

- 10 Beg

- 11 Siberian city

- 12 A container

- 13 Seclude

- 14 Pertaining to a Grecian city

- 16 Chant

- 18 Preface

- 20 Understood

- 23 Clother

- 26 Italian woman’s

- 28 Grotto name

- 31 Mathematical term

- 32 Asceticisms

- 33 Condemn

- 36 Chinese city

- 38 Follower of ceremony

- 41 Word play

- 43 Trumpet call

- 44 Graceful

- 46 Descendant

- 47 Lowest point in a ship

- 49 Musical composition

- 51 Attack

- 52 Animal

- 54 Vehicle

- 55 Mountain in Greece

- 57 Uncle (S. Africa)

- 58 Entangle

- 60 Wine cask

- 61 Dark fluid

- 66 Spring

- 69 Tribe

- 71 Slave

- 74 Paddles

- 75 Killed

- 76 Middle

- 77 Lout

- 78 Cooked mixture

- 80 Shows

- 81 Golf Term

- 82 Head nun

- 84 Merchandise

- 86 Musical form

- 88 Chateaus

- 91 Strained

- 92 Cities

- 95 Giant

- 98 Hit

- 101 Skill

- 102 Bodily organ

- 104 Pronoun

- 106 Female sheep

- 107 Anger

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[Contents]

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE

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CONFESSIONS OF A CROSS WORD PUZZLE EDITOR

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HOW TO SOLVE THEM

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THE SCIENCE AND LORE OF CROSS WORD PUZZLES

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DO’S AND DON’T’S FOR SOLVERS

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A SOFT BEGINNING

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TRY AND DO IT

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A SIMPLICITY

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TETRACRUCIFORM

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WELL BALANCED

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BABY GRAND MODEL

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A FOUR PETALED ROSE

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A CHECKERED CAREER

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SMALL BUT NEAT

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KEYS AND CROSSES

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A BLACK BEAUTY

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A GRAND OLD PUZZLE

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A QUADRIPUNTAL ASTEROID

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A QUADRUPLEX QUIDDITY

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A WELL-TIED SAILOR’S KNOT

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A TESSELATED TANGLE

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HOT CROSS BUNS

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STEPPING STONES

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FIVE GREEK CROSSES

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FOUR LEAF CLOVER

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AT THE CROSSROADS

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CROSSWORD VALENTINE

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EIGHTEEN KARAT

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HONEYMOON HOKUM

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FOR THE ZIGZAG ZEALOT

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THIS TAKES THE CAKE

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A JERSEY ’SKEETER

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UNLUCKY

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SINGLE SPOTTER

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A PRIZE PACKAGE

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HIC LABOR HIC OPUS EST

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A SERRATE SYZYGY

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FIVE SPOTS AND RAYS

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A SLOTTED OBLONG

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AN HOUR GLASS

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DECORATION

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BLACK BEETLE

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FACILE EST DECENSUS AVERNI

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999⁄10 PER CENT PURE

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A WEST POINTER

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A CENTRAL SWASTIKA

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NOT SO BLACK AS PAINTED

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FINE AND DANDY

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A LINGUAL LABYRINTH

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A HUNDRED PER CENTER

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CRANK HER UP

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A VOCABULARY TESTER

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IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE

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OF SOMEWHAT ORIENTAL FLAVOR

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COLOPHON

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The cross word puzzle book: first series

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Prosper Buranelli (1890–1960)

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Table of Contents

THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE

THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK

CONFESSIONS OF A CROSS WORD PUZZLE EDITOR

HOW TO SOLVE THEM

THE SCIENCE AND LORE OF CROSS WORD PUZZLES

DO’S AND DON’T’S FOR SOLVERS

Puzzle No. 1 A SOFT BEGINNING

Puzzle No. 2 TRY AND DO IT

Puzzle No. 3 A SIMPLICITY

Puzzle No. 4 TETRACRUCIFORM

Puzzle No. 5 WELL BALANCED

Puzzle No. 6 BABY GRAND MODEL

Puzzle No. 7 A FOUR PETALED ROSE

Puzzle No. 8 A SPOTTED BORDER

Puzzle No. 9 A CHECKERED CAREER

Puzzle No. 10 SMALL BUT NEAT

Puzzle No. 11 KEYS AND CROSSES

Puzzle No. 12 A BLACK BEAUTY

Puzzle No. 13 A GRAND OLD PUZZLE

Puzzle No. 14 A QUADRIPUNTAL ASTEROID

Puzzle No. 15 A QUADRUPLEX QUIDDITY

Puzzle No. 16 A WELL-TIED SAILOR’S KNOT

Puzzle No. 17 A TESSELATED TANGLE

Puzzle No. 18 HOT CROSS BUNS

Puzzle No. 19 STEPPING STONES

Puzzle No. 20 FIVE GREEK CROSSES

Puzzle No. 21 FOUR LEAF CLOVER

Puzzle No. 22 AT THE CROSSROADS

Puzzle No. 23 CROSSWORD VALENTINE

Puzzle No. 24 EIGHTEEN KARAT

Puzzle No. 25 HONEYMOON HOKUM

Puzzle No. 26 FOR THE ZIGZAG ZEALOT

Puzzle No. 27 THIS TAKES THE CAKE

Puzzle No. 28 A JERSEY ’SKEETER

Puzzle No. 29 UNLUCKY

Puzzle No. 30 SINGLE SPOTTER

Puzzle No. 31 A PRIZE PACKAGE

Puzzle No. 32 HIC LABOR HIC OPUS EST

Puzzle No. 33 A SERRATE SYZYGY

Puzzle No. 34 FIVE SPOTS AND RAYS

Puzzle No. 35 A SLOTTED OBLONG

Puzzle No. 36 AN HOUR GLASS

Puzzle No. 37 DECORATION

Puzzle No. 38 BLACK BEETLE

Puzzle No. 39 FACILE EST DECENSUS AVERNI

Puzzle No. 40 999⁄10 PER CENT PURE

Puzzle No. 41 A WEST POINTER

Puzzle No. 42 A CENTRAL SWASTIKA1

Puzzle No. 43 NOT SO BLACK AS PAINTED

Puzzle No. 44 FINE AND DANDY

Puzzle No. 45 A LINGUAL LABYRINTH

Puzzle No. 46 A HUNDRED PER CENTER

Puzzle No. 47 CRANK HER UP

Puzzle No. 48 A VOCABULARY TESTER

Puzzle No. 49 IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE

Puzzle No. 50 OF SOMEWHAT ORIENTAL FLAVOR

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