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Title: The cross word puzzle book: Third series

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Contributor: Ruth Von Phul

Editor: Margaret Petherbridge Farrar

F. Gregory Hartswick

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THE CROSS WORD

PUZZLE BOOK

Third Series

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ANSWERS

If you wish a copy of The Book of the Correct Answers for The Cross Word Puzzle Book—Third Series, sent with our compliments, use the enclosed postal.

Should you lose the postal, ten cents in stamps, sent to Simon and Schuster (The Plaza Publishing Company), 37 West 57th Street, New York City, will bring a copy of the answers by return mail.

A recent questionnaire shows that the overwhelming majority of cross word puzzle fans prefer to get the answers on application rather than with the book. This makes the solving of the puzzles more entertaining and more instructive.

Please turn to pages 114–121 of this book for announcements of importance to all interested in Cross Word Puzzles.

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THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK

Third Series

A THIRD ANTHOLOGY OF FIFTY NEW CROSS WORD PUZZLES SELECTED AS THE BEST OF THE THOUSANDS SUBMITTED TO THE NEW YORK WORLD, PUBLISHED HERE EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE FIRST TIME, AND EDITED

By

PROSPER BURANELLI

F. GREGORY HARTSWICK

MARGARET PETHERBRIDGE

with a

BALLADE OF CROSS WORDS

by

RUTH FRANC VON PHUL

Cross Word Puzzle Champion of the World

SIMON AND SCHUSTER, INC.

THE PLAZA PUBLISHING COMPANY

NEW YORK ⸬ 1924

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THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOKS

PRINTED BY THE SELECT PRINTING COMPANY, NEW YORK

BOUND BY THE H. WOLFF COMPANY, NEW YORK

Third Series (PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 7, 1924)

First Edition

40,000 copies

Second Edition

25,000 copies

Total Third Series To-date

65,000 copies

Second Series (PUBLISHED AUGUST 10, 1924)

First Edition

10,000 copies

Second Edition

10,000 copies

Third Edition

15,000 copies

Fourth Edition

25,000 copies

Fifth Edition

25,000 copies

Sixth Edition

25,000 copies

Seventh Edition

25,000 copies

Total Second Series To-date

135,000 copies

First Series (PUBLISHED APRIL 18, 1924)

First Edition

3,600 copies

Second Edition

3,600 copies

Third Edition

5,000 copies

Fourth Edition

5,000 copies

Fifth Edition

6,000 copies

Sixth Edition

10,000 copies

Seventh Edition

15,000 copies

Eighth Edition

25,000 copies

Ninth Edition

25,000 copies

Tenth Edition

25,000 copies

Eleventh Edition

25,000 copies

Total First Series To-date

148,200 copies

TOTAL TO-DATE

348,200 copies

Copyright, 1924, and All Rights Reserved by

SIMON AND SCHUSTER, INC.

THE PLAZA PUBLISHING COMPANY

37 WEST 57TH STREET

NEW YORK, N. Y.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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

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OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENT

The original Cross Word Puzzle Books, published by Simon and Schuster, are the only ones officially endorsed by the Amateur Cross Word Puzzle League of America and edited in conformity with the rules of cross word puzzle construction promulgated by the League and printed on page 9 of this book. [1]

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PREFACE

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

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

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

Thus the solvers who revel in the recondite. Opposed to them stand the serried ranks of those whose pleasure lies in the accomplishment; who do not wish their onward march to [2]victory delayed by forests of Javanese shrubs or oceans full of rajidae with enlarged pectoral fins. Nor do they wish words torn far from their daily, or at least semi-weekly, use. A Leer by the river’s brim a simple Sly Glance is to them, and not an Annealing-furnace.

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

Returning a moment to the pundits’ side of the argument, observe a fact. If any solver had been asked, before he took [3]up cross words, to give offhand the name of Egypt’s sun-god, a three-letter word meaning island, a four-letter word for handbag, the name of a large Australian bird, or the sash affected by the ladies of cherry-blossom land, it is odds but that he would have been reduced to stammering evasions. But even a tyro at the glorious game can now rattle off by rote the words Ra, Uit, Etui, Moa, Obi. In running down the definitions of a new puzzle it is not the household words that set him scribbling frantically, but such old friends as the above. So, contend the punditti, a word that may be a nameless horror at the moment becomes through association a friend in time of trouble.

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

Once again the constructor beats on the table and demands to be heard. “Where,” he asks, “do I get off? Am I to be barred from including words that finish my design because a group of you insist that no word not included in everyday vocabularies appear in the little white squares? Or am I to suffer under the lash of scorn because a few of you mock my brilliant construction wherein no exotic letter-combination [4]rears its head?—a construction that cost me more time than if I had allowed a few oddities, I may add. What am I to do?”

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

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

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

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

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

PROSPER BURANELLI

F. GREGORY HARTSWICK

MARGARET PETHERBRIDGE [5]

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BALLADE OF CROSS WORDS

By

RUTH FRANC VON PHUL

(Cross Word Puzzle Champion of the World)1

Once from the world I sought surcease

Between a novel’s covers pressed;

No longer there I look for peace;

Of anodynes I’ve found the best.

So, when the sun sinks in the west

Sunk, too, are husband, friends and cook—

Where do I find my treasure chest?

All in the leaves of the Cross Word Book.

If from ennui you seek release

Purchase this book; don’t beg; invest!

Madame, she will love ze fine service

A caller intrudes? Hein? Kill ze pest!

Oh, Noah Webster, you are blest

When for a clue in your works I look—

Where is all life from “less” to “crest”?

All in the leaves of the Cross Word Book.

What galleon sought the Golden Fleece?

What is the Welsh for “eagle’s nest”?

What is a Flemish tartan crease?

Who was it asked the Erse for “breast”?

Who can define a Baltic jest?

Who ever called it a six-pronged hook!

You will discern them, mixed and messed,

All in the leaves of the Cross Word Book.

L’ENVOI

Prince: if from affairs your soul craves rest,

Hie you to some abandoned nook.

There for your mind seek a gayer test

All in the leaves of the Cross Word Book.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mrs. F.—Stet.

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

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

Mrs. W.—Egad!

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

Mrs. W.—The zany.

Mrs. F.—Joe’s ire was so aroused that he told Dr. Bloop [7]right to his visage that he was a dolt and an ort. Is your offspring well?

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

Mrs. F.—Renal?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(They are interrupted by piercing juvenile shrieks growing rapidly louder and nearer. Junior and Dicky, ages six [8]and seven, burst into view around the corner of the house. They take final kicks at each other before smothering their sobs in the laps of their respective mothers.)

Mrs. F.—Why, Junior, what is this?

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

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

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

Dicky—And that’s what you are.

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

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

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

(Mrs. F. drags Junior away.)

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

Junior—(Not too gently)—MORON!!!

N. D. PLUME+JEAN

—Reprinted by permission from F. P. A.’s Conning Tower, The N. Y. World. [9]

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RULES FOR CONSTRUCTION OF CROSS WORD PUZZLES

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

1. PATTERN

- The pattern shall interlock all over.

- Only approximately one-sixth of the squares shall be black.

- Only approximately one-tenth of the letters shall be unkeyed.

- The design shall be symmetrical.

2. WORDS

- Obsolete, and dialectic words may be used in moderation, if plainly marked and accessible in some standard dictionary, such as Webster’s New International (Merriam’s), Funk & Wagnalls’ and Century.

- Foreign words that are more or less familiar and are easily accessible, may be used, but should be marked with the language to which they belong.

- Technical terms that are found in a standard dictionary may be used.

- Abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes, should be avoided as far as possible. When used they should be plainly marked and must be legitimate.

3. DEFINITIONS

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

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HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS WORD PUZZLE

There are two essential points that must be remembered by initiates into the cross word puzzlers’ fraternity. First, the numbers in the squares refer to the definitions; secondly, there should be but one letter to each white square.

Figure 1 shows a cross word puzzle challenging each and every one of us to solve it. Looking the puzzle over we find that 1 horizontal calls for a seven letter word meaning “disparage.” That is not so easy, so we leave it temporarily. We go on to the next one, which is a three letter word meaning “a cereal grass.” What else could it be but OAT? Therefore we ink in OAT in the proper squares. “Vice Admiral.” That most assuredly must be VA. We place that into position. The ninth, tenth and eleventh do not come to our minds immediately, so we pass them up. We will catch them on the cross check. Twelve is familiar, however, and with a little thought we place LO in the vacant squares. The rest do not come to us, so we leave them also, and turn to the verticals.

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- 6 Cereal grass

- 7 Abbr. Vice Admiral

- 9 An edge-tool

- 10 Urge

- 11 Skill

- 12 Behold

- 14 Prefix: good

- 15 Impair

- 17 Agreement

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- 1 Evolve

- 2 Toward

- 3 A rodent

- 4 Near

- 5 A web

- 8 Gone by

- 9 A land measure

- 13 A male sheep

- 15 Indeed

- 16 Disordered type

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

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From now on the going is easy. We have plenty of clues to the words that we do not know. (See Figure 3.) Rechecking the horizontals, we find that we have the first, third, fourth and fifth letters of “disparage,” and with their aid we easily see that the word is DETRACT. Looking for a two letter word meaning “an edge-tool,” we soon find that there is but one word that will fit. We place AX in position. With nine vertical beginning with an A it is easy to find that ARE is the proper word. Ten horizontal [12]proves to be EGG and eleven becomes ART. We say to ourselves that if we could only get five vertical we would have the puzzle solved. Well, why not? Is the second letter an a, e, i, o, or u? The definition gives it as “a web.” What word will fit but TEXTURE? We place that into position. Now, we find that we have the puzzle almost completed. Fifteen horizontal needs a three letter word meaning “impair.” Its middle letter must be an A. With the A to guide us that is simple. The word is “SAP.” Fifteen and sixteen being two letter words are easily found, and we place SO and PI into position. We now find that we have the puzzle completed with one exception. Seventeen horizontal has to be found. Its first, third, fourth, fifth and seventh letters are P OMI E. A consonant is needed for the second letter, and R seems to be the most logical choice. That gives us the word, which is defined as “agreement.” (See Figure 4.)

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We settle back into our chair with a sigh of content at the thought of a job well done. But that is not the finish. Rather it is but the start. Now that we have tasted the pleasures of cross word puzzling, we are loath to give our time to anything else. What other amusement offers the pleasure, instruction and satisfaction that is to be found in Cross Word Puzzles? There is but one answer to that question, and—foregoing the movies—we settle down to the elusive task of tracking words to their lairs. [13]

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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. [15]

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PUZZLE NO. 101

A CHRISTMAS TREE

By MOBY DICK

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

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HORIZONTAL

- 1 Lover of wisdom

- 9 Exclamation

- 10 Conjunction

- 11 Negative

- 12 Pronoun

- 13 Portent

- 15 Deposited

- 17 Tailless amphibian

- 18 Preposition

- 19 Girl’s name

- 21 Seize in arrest

- 23 Printer’s measure

- 24 Pronoun

- 25 Toward

- 26 Sun god

- 27 Dental filling

- 31 Warble

- 35 Garment

- 36 Italian city

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- 1 Pertaining to measurement of light intensity

- 2 Man

- 3 Material part of the earth

- 4 Bone

- 5 Preposition

- 6 Outdoor sport

- 7 Send out

- 8 Formidable

- 14 Simple

- 16 Presently

- 20 Latin for I love

- 22 Atmosphere

- 28 Not

- 29 Note of scale

- 30 Near

- 32 Conjunction

- 33 Perform

- 34 Printer’s measure

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PUZZLE NO. 102

CHILDSPLAY

By HUGO KLADEVIKO and JAMES MCINTYRE

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

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HORIZONTAL

- 1 Form of literary expression

- 5 Speculation

- 10 Constellation

- 11 To be mistaken

- 12 Thus

- 14 Consumed

- 16 Character in “Peer Gynt”

- 17 Upon

- 18 Tool for cutting threads

- 20 Be

- 22 Humped beast of burden

- 23 Spoken

- 25 Colored fluid

- 26 Cook in oven

- 27 Droop

- 29 Appear

- 31 Behold

- 32 Adverb and conjunction

- 34 Minute particle

- 36 Support

- 39 Undermines

- 41 Be in debt

- 43 Unit of linear measure

- 45 Fasten

- 46 Trapped, cornered (colloq.)

- 48 Caress

- 49 Expression of hesitancy

- 50 Unit of weight

- 51 Jurisprudence

- 53 Preposition, toward

- 54 Utensil

- 55 Used in ancient warfare

- 57 Poor in quality

- 58 Irritate

VERTICAL

- 1 Church dignitary

- 2 Elevated R. R.

- 3 Leaves of a shrub of China

- 4 Repetition

- 6 Request (poet)

- 7 Before

- 8 Either

- 9 Citizen of New England

- 13 Propeller

- 15 Place for egress

- 16 Solicits

- 17 Hard wood

- 19 Foot

- 21 Into

- 22 Tuber

- 24 Sings with spirit

- 26 A broom

- 28 A card game

- 30 Attention

- 33 Regard

- 34 Mimic

- 35 A.M.

- 36 Skin

- 37 Speck

- 38 Long seat with back

- 40 Vent

- 42 You and I

- 44 Pasture

- 46 Sound

- 47 Mend

- 50 Label

- 52 Contest between countries

- 54 Father

- 56 Mother

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PUZZLE NO. 103

LADIES FIRST

By ALBERT BURAN

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

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HORIZONTAL

- 1 Boat hoisting contrivance

- 5 Prosecuting judicially

- 9 A pronoun

- 10 Pertaining to the nose

- 12 A conjunction

- 13 A thin oval board used by an artist

- 15 A pasture

- 17 The first flapper

- 18 A color

- 20 A brownish red stone

- 22 Mentally sound

- 23 Savant

- 24 Notice

- 25 Saucy

- 27 Completely

- 28 Social beginner (slang)

- 30 A cereal grass

- 31 Shelters

- 34 An expression of inquiry

- 36 A parent’s sister

- 37 Bone

- 38 Kingdom

- 39 To give out

VERTICAL

- 1 Face of a timepiece (pl.)

- 2 Near

- 3 A feminine suffix

- 4 Narrative

- 5 Glut

- 6 Ultimo (abbr.)

- 7 A negation

- 8 To class or sort

- 11 XVII

- 13 Packages

- 14 Obliterators

- 16 A wooden frame

- 19 A vestibule

- 21 Achieved

- 22 A slight taste

- 24 A personal enemy

- 26 Rigid

- 28 Sound rhythmically

- 29 Stupid (Fr.)

- 32 Presidential nickname

- 33 Goddess of night (myth.)

- 35 A pronoun

- 37 An alleged force

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PUZZLE NO. 104

THE LAZY MAN’S DELIGHT

By B. BENAS

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

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- 1 Eyelashes

- 6 Foundation

- 11 Decrees

- 13 Occupant

- 14 Titled person

- 15 Through

- 17 Used in games of chance

- 18 Before

- 19 Purport

- 21 Female deer

- 22 Selenium

- 23 Meadow

- 24 Not within

- 26 Degree given physicians

- 27 Clip

- 29 Plural of vegetable

- 31 That thing

- 32 Regarding

- 33 Character of a people

- 36 Fragment

- 39 Article

- 40 Epoch

- 41 Course

- 42 Behold

- 44 Obstruct

- 46 Urchin

- 48 Wager

- 49 Among

- 51 Brownish color

- 52 Make feverish

- 53 European cuttlefish

- 55 Oily matter

- 57 Dirge

- 58 Come into

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- 1 Resigns

- 2 Accustoms

- 3 Body of water

- 4 Frozen dessert

- 5 Near

- 6 Exist

- 7 Conjunction

- 8 Reported

- 9 Annual receipts

- 10 Horse

- 12 Weapon

- 13 Soldiers collectively

- 16 Printer’s measure

- 19 A drink

- 20 Regret

- 23 Mythological stream

- 25 Linger

- 28 To reach exactly

- 30 Ocean

- 33 Hard coating

- 34 Metal bearing rock

- 35 Seasonings

- 36 Oscillate

- 37 Be able

- 38 Give pleasure to

- 39 Humble

- 43 Animal

- 45 Mature

- 47 Note of scale

- 48 Cudgel

- 50 Excavate

- 52 Female bird

- 54 Forever

- 56 Note of scale

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PUZZLE NO. 105

NEAT SYMMETRY

By FRANK A. FORD

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

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- 1 Salted smoked pig’s hip

- 5 An adult swine

- 8 Demesne estate

- 13 Sincere

- 14 Pertaining to a wall

- 16 Back of the neck

- 17 Color in spectrum

- 18 To deface

- 19 A small dram

- 20 A receptacle

- 21 Woodsmen’s implements

- 23 Arrogance

- 25 Famous French writer

- 26 Night moisture

- 28 Devoured

- 29 Yankee Jack tar

- 31 Curved structural member

- 33 Bay or chestnut

- 36 Dobbin’s headpiece

- 39 Slumbers

- 42 A lyric song

- 43 Quite a few

- 44 A pasture

- 45 Folds in cloth

- 47 Played golf

- 49 To interdict

- 51 Large Siberian river

- 53 Accomplished

- 54 To regret

- 56 An honorable title

- 59 Senile

- 61 Concerning the pope

- 63 To serve

- 65 Genus homo

- 66 Racket

- 67 Early man’s abode

- 68 Late man’s consolation

- 69 Every man’s foe

- 71 Pelted with hen fruit

- 73 Fermented malt liquors

- 74 Citrous fruit

- 75 An indeterminate age

- 76 Without active properties

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- 1 Borate of sodium

- 2 Top of pyramid

- 3 Surrendered

- 4 Surmounting

- 5 A shout of triumph

- 6 Alternative

- 7 Mr. Goose

- 9 Indefinite article

- 10 An Indian viceroy

- 11 A precious form of silica

- 12 Kingly

- 14 Representation of earth’s surface

- 15 To deceive

- 22 A place to rest

- 24 Pronoun

- 25 A parcel post district

- 27 Yanked

- 29 Liquid measures

- 30 To dip up

- 32 The peak

- 34 A species of orange wood

- 35 Celerity

- 36 A twining moraceous vine

- 37 Opposite the wind

- 38 A physiological distinction

- 40 A mythical sprite

- 41 Affected with grief

- 46 Greedy

- 48 Deposited by a hen

- 50 Large globose fruit

- 51 Dull gray

- 52 Ship of the desert

- 53 Coarse cotton drilling

- 55 Ascending

- 57 A light firearm

- 58 Box for valuables

- 60 Donated

- 61 American dessert

- 62 Conducted

- 64 An observer

- 70 Behold!

- 72 Proceed

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PUZZLE NO. 106

THE DARLING OF THE GODS

By AMBROSIAN

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

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- 1 French coin

- 3 At a latter time

- 6 High mountain

- 8 Pole-star

- 11 Form of “to be”

- 13 Pedigrees

- 14 Prefix meaning two

- 15 Impersonal pronoun

- 17 Pen

- 18 Parent

- 19 Position-proud person

- 21 Island

- 23 Words parallel to this

- 24 Orient

- 25 Narrow groove

- 26 Negative

- 27 Part of anatomy

- 29 Mountain (abbr.)

- 30 Like

- 31 Girl’s name

- 33 Therefore

- 35 Spanish dances

- 37 Perceive

- 38 Fly

- 39 Possessive pronoun

VERTICAL

- 1 Large body of water

- 2 Ascent

- 3 Exclamation

- 4 Splits up into parties

- 5 Playing card

- 6 Like

- 7 Greek letter

- 9 Alternative

- 10 Exists

- 12 Pertaining to ancient Greek culture (plural)

- 14 Votes

- 16 Trunk

- 18 Religious song

- 19 Personal pronoun

- 20 Morsel

- 21 Possessive pronoun

- 22 Founded (abbr.)

- 27 Stop

- 28 Father (French)

- 30 Beast of burden

- 31 Exclamation

- 32 Behold

- 34 Used in boat

- 35 Exist

- 36 Therefore

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PUZZLE NO. 107

RIBS OF THREE-LETTER WORDS

By LEONARD J. BRIGHTMAN

Over sixty three-letter words here!

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- 1 Branch of medical practice

- 7 Quiet

- 14 Gracious

- 16 Book formed by doubled pages

- 18 Commonly used

- 19 Wrath

- 21 Excluded

- 22 Born

- 23 Mean fellow

- 25 Boy’s nickname

- 26 Unit

- 27 Shade of brown

- 28 Cut

- 30 Female of swine

- 32 Before

- 33 Pinnacle

- 35 Name (Fr.)

- 37 Knock

- 39 Part of verb “to be”

- 40 Fasten

- 41 Old soldier (abbr.)

- 43 Crow-like bird

- 45 Negation

- 46 Short hairs on surface of cloth

- 47 Coffins

- 49 Flap

- 51 Heavenly body

- 53 Fireworks

- 55 Decorate

- 57 Attack

- 58 Prepare the way for

- 59 A precious stone

- 60 Tropical fruit-eating bird (pl.)

- 62 Dissolute man

- 64 Rent

- 66 Holy person

- 67 A color

- 68 Whether

- 70 Bark

- 72 Exclamations

- 73 Concealed

- 74 Unassorted printing type

- 75 Small child

- 77 Species of fish

- 79 Earthen vessel

- 80 Procured

- 81 To notch

- 83 Affirmative

- 85 Wooden tank

- 86 Solution containing alkali

- 88 Decay

- 90 Small headless nail

- 92 Obstruct

- 94 Long narrow sword

- 96 Sensory organ

- 97 End

- 98 Plant of the lily family

- 100 Sacred cantata

- 101 Insect resembling dragon-fly

- 102 Enforced

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- 2 Interest

- 3 Coin of British India

- 4 Small aromatic shrub

- 5 First woman

- 6 A note in music

- 8 Provided that

- 9 Lout

- 10 Ardor

- 11 Baseball teams

- 12 South American bird

- 13 Employment

- 15 Present tense plural of “to be”

- 17 Song

- 19 Hostelry

- 20 Attention

- 23 Devitalize

- 24 Relation

- 26 Fortify

- 27 2000 lbs.

- 29 Shell for seeds

- 31 Pale

- 32 Masticates

- 33 Point

- 34 Steam

- 36 Entangle

- 38 Composition in verse

- 40 Garden vegetable

- 41 Food

- 42 Surgical instrument

- 44 Irrigated

- 46 Pertaining to nose

- 47 Filipino weapons

- 48 Limit

- 50 Livelihood

- 52 Strike gently

- 53 Wagon track

- 54 Call of distress

- 56 Weary

- 59 Overlook

- 61 The soft palate (rare)

- 63 Departure

- 65 Sailor

- 67 Accoutre

- 69 Confusion

- 71 Recompense

- 73 Hovel

- 74 An American author

- 76 A large fish

- 78 Opposed to “no”

- 79 Tooth

- 80 Revolve

- 82 Aim

- 84 Mimic

- 85 Contend

- 86 Narrow roads

- 87 Vase

- 89 Linden tree

- 91 Cereal plant

- 92 Fragments

- 93 Spout

- 95 King (Fr.)

- 97 Enemy

- 99 Opposed to “yes”

- 100 Mister

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PUZZLE NO. 108

THE WHIFFENPOOF

By W. C. BROOKS

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

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- 1 Atone

- 6 Legendary origin of all evil

- 12 Combining form, air

- 14 Instrument of transmission

- 15 Vessel

- 17 Wander

- 20 Incite

- 22 The poor Indian

- 23 Possessive pronoun

- 24 Etruscan title

- 25 Forward!

- 27 Greek diphthong

- 28 Unexciting

- 30 Adverb

- 31 The same (abbr.)

- 33 Ellipse

- 35 Before

- 36 Having oceans

- 38 Arabic title

- 39 Remains

- 41 South African pen

- 43 Query

- 44 Render waterproof

- 46 Biographies

- 49 City in Germany

- 52 Mound

- 54 One who steps

- 55 Signal

- 57 Other

- 59 Year (abbr.)

- 60 Part of “to be”

- 61 Pins

- 62 Note of diatonic scale

- 63 First column in baseball box score

- 65 Us two (obs.)

- 67 Preposition

- 68 Army officer (abbr.)

- 69 Those in power

- 71 Heir

- 74 Inspect

- 75 Olfactory experience

- 77 Shakespearian character

- 79 Basic

- 80 Well

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- 1 Rejoiced

- 2 Wood god

- 3 That is

- 4 Great number

- 5 Step up to

- 7 American humorist

- 8 Latin incendiary

- 9 Concerning (Latin)

- 10 Poem

- 11 Seraphic

- 13 Literary bits

- 16 Vociferate

- 18 Bitter herbs

- 19 Liquor

- 21 End

- 23 Personal pronoun

- 26 None

- 29 Disease

- 30 Background

- 32 Scans

- 34 Upper curtain

- 36 Exclamation

- 37 Obsolete variant of “daw”

- 40 Snowshoe

- 42 Goddess of mischief

- 45 Workshop

- 47 New England state (abbr.)

- 48 Biblical name

- 49 Decree

- 50 Senior (abbr.)

- 51 Occidental

- 53 Dash

- 56 Disagreeable

- 58 Babylonian deity

- 61 River in Italy

- 64 Political unit

- 66 Surface of fibres

- 67 Poises

- 70 Turf

- 72 Period of time

- 73 Yale

- 74 Before

- 76 Greek prefix—two

- 78 Preposition

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PUZZLE NO. 109

MIXED DOUBLES

By GREGORIAN

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

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- 1 Strike sharply

- 5 Russian mountain range

- 9 Trial

- 10 Name of saint given to Spanish watering place

- 11 Preposition

- 12 Small fruits

- 14 Strange

- 16 Soon (plural)

- 17 Emperor

- 19 Pronoun

- 20 Name of queen who was mother of Edward the Confessor

- 21 Dispatched

- 24 Egyptian god

- 25 Alternative conjunction

- 26 Obstruction

- 29 Long

- 31 Prefix—not

- 32 Form of parasitic plant life

- 33 Capital of Croatia

- 36 Edible seed formation

- 37 Hinder

- 39 Italian particle

- 40 Sheltered

- 41 Italian dukedom famous in renaissance

- 43 Forbids

- 44 Sleep (hobo slang)

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- 1 Two wheeled child’s vehicle (pl.)

- 2 Lowest rank in navy

- 3 Conjunction

- 4 Pin

- 5 Planet

- 6 Rest

- 7 Formal close for prayer

- 8 Bereavement

- 13 Egyptian god

- 15 Obstruction

- 18 Sun god

- 22 Disallowed legal claims

- 23 Supports

- 27 Fliers

- 28 Fruits used for making alcoholic beverages

- 29 Afternoon

- 30 Product of dissociation

- 33 King of Israel

- 34 Festive

- 35 Personal pronoun

- 38 Color

- 42 Thus

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PUZZLE NO. 110

LONG AND LANGUID

By H. EMERSON HOUGH

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

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- 1 Not ruddy

- 4 A tank

- 7 Tell

- 9 Man of valor

- 12 Eggs (anat.)

- 14 Domesticates

- 16 Anathematize

- 17 Silvery

- 20 Exactly suitable

- 21 To burden with

- 23 To clothe

- 24 More than enough

- 26 Evergreen tree

- 27 Bring forth young

- 28 Confine

- 30 Larger

- 33 Shred

- 35 Batter

- 37 Started

- 38 Sailor

- 40 Exists

- 42 State of equality

- 44 Limb

- 45 Part of the mouth

- 46 Toward

- 47 A meadow

- 49 Carrying capacity of a ship

- 51 Smart blow

- 53 Cooking vessel

- 54 Skin eruption

- 55 Fish-eagle

- 56 Rock containing metal

- 57 Uncontrolled temper

- 59 Mere repetition

- 60 A cardinal number

- 62 Personal pronoun (pl.)

- 63 Relatives

- 64 A beverage

- 66 Where pigs are confined

- 68 Perform

- 69 A size of coal

- 70 To level

- 72 Fasten with thread

- 74 Endeavor

- 75 Pilgrims

- 77 Did see

- 79 Large body of water

- 80 Bend downward

- 81 Eggs of fish

- 83 A primary color

- 85 A kind of flannel

- 87 Also

- 89 Merchant

- 91 Public conveyance

- 92 External

- 94 Present tense of “was”

- 95 Was sorry for

- 96 The first house-boat

- 97 To keep the hair in control

- 98 The stomach of birds

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- 1 A fruit

- 2 One who cuts timber

- 3 The night before a holiday

- 5 On hand

- 6 Slight blow

- 7 Series

- 8 Similar to

- 9 Did have

- 10 Cause to be loved

- 11 Not shut

- 13 An insect

- 15 To be in charge of

- 16 Obstacle

- 18 To open a seam

- 19 To dress in one’s best

- 21 Title of respect

- 22 To be slow

- 25 Sphere

- 26 Marsh

- 29 A short sleep

- 31 Snake-like fishes

- 32 Shipping tickets

- 33 Knock

- 34 Lubricate

- 36 Substances (Lat.)

- 38 Coverings for the neck

- 39 Witty saying

- 41 Prophets

- 43 Kind of type

- 45 Endures

- 46 Played with

- 48 The one-spot

- 50 Scold

- 52 A card game

- 53 Fondle

- 56 Not in

- 58 A nobleman

- 59 Advise

- 61 At the present time

- 63 That which opens

- 65 Mourn

- 67 Affirmative answer

- 69 A dancing movement

- 70 Silence forcibly

- 71 Fail morally

- 73 Keeper

- 74 A beverage

- 75 Shallow dish

- 76 Drunkard

- 78 Very small

- 79 Mark left by a wound

- 80 Convulsive weeping

- 82 Epoch

- 84 Fall

- 86 Gamin

- 87 A sea bird

- 88 Habitation of wild beasts

- 90 Part of a circle

- 92 Conjunction

- 93 Concerning

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PUZZLE NO. 111

A YULETIDE CHANT

By GREGORIAN

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

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- 2 Allow

- 4 West European capital

- 6 Coincide

- 7 Impersonal pronoun

- 8 Symbol of metallic element

- 10 Talk over

- 13 Garment sellers

- 15 Personal pronoun

- 16 Cunning

- 17 Latin diphthong

- 18 Geometric ratio

- 19 Dry and hard

- 21 Conjunction

- 23 Dionysiac poet

- 25 Fostering

- 27 Believers in basic simplicities

- 29 Customs (Lat.)

- 30 South American dance

- 31 Insectivorous mammals

- 34 Biblical character

- 35 Western world

- 40 Elder

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- 1 Familiar salutation

- 2 Hang behind

- 3 Bind

- 4 Court

- 5 Mode of perception

- 7 Unoccupied

- 9 Member of Arab tribe

- 11 Heavenly body

- 12 Islands

- 13 Fabulous monster

- 14 Belonging to a sailor

- 18 Equestrian game

- 19 Top piece

- 20 Portion (legal)

- 22 Chanted

- 24 Closing apostrophe

- 26 Prevaricator

- 27 Printer’s measure

- 28 Adverb and conjunction

- 32 Devoured

- 33 Implicit

- 35 Since

- 36 Personal pronoun objective case

- 37 Egyptian god

- 38 With (prefix)

- 39 Measure of land

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PUZZLE NO. 112

THE NOVELTY SHOP

By GEORGE E. WILCOX

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

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- 1 City in Bohemia

- 7 Segregate

- 13 Thither (poet.)

- 14 Eighth part of a circle (pl.)

- 15 Vigor

- 16 Reconcile parties

- 18 Shortening of syllable

- 20 Those in power

- 21 Bite

- 23 Part of circle

- 24 Large bag

- 26 Slaves (Anglo Saxon)

- 28 Barks sharply

- 30 Girl’s name

- 31 Manifested

- 33 Die (Scotch)

- 34 River in Western Africa

- 36 Sailors, collectively

- 38 Eagle

- 39 Reposed

- 40 Institute of learning

- 43 Pertaining to the thigh

- 46 Hasten

- 47 Times (Latin)

- 49 Era

- 50 Term in Jewish calendar

- 52 Afraid (slang)

- 53 Stone (Scotch)

- 54 Strike softly

- 56 Cereal grass

- 57 Be sick

- 58 Branch of theology dealing with union among churches

- 61 Annuity shared among a number

- 64 Vehicle

- 65 Sentry

- 66 Negative prefix

- 67 Fifth letter of Greek alphabet

- 68 Ostensible reason

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- 1 Fermentation

- 2 Sorrow

- 3 Glucoside obtained from indigo plant

- 4 Hawaiian trees

- 5 Perform

- 6 Implement

- 7 Examine

- 8 Pen

- 9 Mountain in Greece

- 10 Fruit of tropical tree

- 11 Until

- 12 Rising above a surface, as of water

- 17 Writing fluid

- 19 Attempt

- 22 Hostelry

- 25 Glandular

- 26 Good news

- 27 A seal rookery

- 29 Slavery

- 31 Heron-like bird

- 32 One of the seven arts

- 35 Elongated fish

- 37 Combining form denoting connection with the hyoid bone

- 40 Cup

- 41 Those who guide

- 42 American poet and philosopher

- 43 Platform at head of the foremast

- 44 Small rope used for rope ladder

- 45 Gentle

- 48 Compensate

- 51 Hastened

- 53 Pose

- 55 Statement

- 57 Poker term

- 59 Knock

- 60 Noise made by pigeons

- 62 Belonging to us

- 63 Goddess of night

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PUZZLE NO. 113

A DOODLE BUG

By SAMUEL W. PHILLIPS

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

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- 1 Deserts

- 7 Obese

- 14 Matched

- 16 Establishment of an invader

- 17 Spur

- 18 Beginning of a Nursery Rhyme

- 20 Proclamation

- 21 Erudite

- 24 Vapor

- 26 Direction

- 27 Lubricate

- 29 Rodents

- 31 Slender marine fish

- 34 An article (Fr.)

- 36 An exclamation

- 37 Part of a hanging scale

- 39 River in southern China

- 40 In contact with

- 41 Immediately

- 42 Preposition

- 43 Pertaining to type

- 44 Temple

- 45 A pronoun

- 46 A republic (abbr.)

- 48 Consume

- 50 Hawaiian Islands (abbr.)

- 51 Printers’ measure

- 52 An iota

- 54 One of two or more

- 56 Vehicle

- 57 Lodge

- 60 Eternity

- 62 Current

- 65 To trim

- 68 Number

- 69 Reconcile

- 72 Less difficult

- 74 Loops

- 75 Provokes

- 76 Lists

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- 1 Whirl rapidly

- 2 A tight fitting woolen cap (Scot.)

- 3 A render

- 4 119.6 sq. yds.

- 5 Girl’s name

- 6 A clerical degree

- 8 Of (Fr.)

- 9 Frozen

- 10 A basket (prov.)

- 11 God of light (myth.)

- 12 So

- 13 Part of verb to be (Spanish)

- 15 A sentinel

- 18 Exclude

- 19 One (Scot.)

- 22 Goddess of dawn (myth.)

- 23 Unit of work

- 25 A fruit (pl.)

- 27 Opening

- 28 Simple

- 30 A preposition

- 32 Like

- 33 Concerning

- 35 Insect

- 37 Mimic

- 38 Encountered

- 40 Unit

- 47 To this extent

- 49 Originated

- 50 Half a laugh

- 52 Majestic

- 53 Blot

- 54 Eyes (Scot.)

- 55 Raucous

- 58 Wager

- 59 Lair

- 61 Frank

- 62 Skin

- 63 Philippine men

- 64 A course

- 66 A roe (Scot.)

- 67 The egg of an insect

- 70 Received

- 71 Before (poetical)

- 73 Relating to

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PUZZLE NO. 114

BATTALION ATTENTION!

By MAJOR

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

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- 1 Weapon

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- 12 Satisfied

- 15 Miserly

- 17 Mechanism

- 18 Native hog of old world

- 19 Prevent

- 21 Public

- 22 Boat

- 23 Lightning

- 25 Part of a biped

- 26 Party periodical

- 28 Sweet compound

- 30 Group of native huts

- 32 Note of scale

- 34 Interjection

- 35 Unbounded expanse

- 38 Into

- 39 Note of scale

- 40 High

- 42 Ruler

- 44 Silver coin of Spain

- 46 Spoil

- 47 Retain

- 49 Pusher

- 50 Aid

- 51 Plant

- 52 Cold pendant

- 53 Operated upon with a flat-bladed implement

- 54 Train

- 57 Scrutinize

- 58 Fragment

- 59 Coin

- 60 Insulate

- 62 Play

- 63 Term of endearment

- 64 At

- 65 Value

- 67 Act

- 69 Pronoun

- 70 Small succulent fruit

- 72 Curl

- 75 Ball

- 76 Woman

- 78 Celebrity

- 80 Irritating to the mind

- 81 Kind of oil

- 83 Head

- 85 Kind of lily

- 86 Educate

- 88 Sovereign state

- 89 Low haunt

- 90 Epitomized

- 91 Rent

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- 1 Furthermore

- 2 Wind

- 3 Associates

- 5 Form of “to be”

- 6 Stomach

- 7 Tax

- 8 Exhalt

- 9 Vex

- 10 Poetic name for India

- 11 Negative prefix

- 12 True

- 13 Merit

- 14 Afflict

- 16 Play

- 18 Started

- 20 Privilege

- 22 Basket

- 24 Negative (Scotch)

- 26 Gold

- 27 Swear

- 29 Vociferate

- 30 Joint

- 31 Builder

- 33 City in Pennsylvania

- 36 Producer

- 37 Chemical element

- 39 Delusive reasoning

- 41 Hauled

- 43 Mode of generation

- 45 Water sprite

- 46 Birthplace of a prophet

- 48 Tramp

- 50 Pronoun

- 55 Explore

- 56 Treats

- 59 Entrance to a building

- 61 Law

- 64 Strained

- 66 Unite permanently

- 68 Part of war vessel

- 70 Capitalist

- 71 Matter

- 73 The writer or speaker

- 74 Part of a coat

- 75 Valley

- 76 Tool

- 77 Ireland

- 79 Weary

- 80 Owned

- 81 Native of country

- 82 Abbr. for hand-written book

- 84 Nip off

- 86 Negative

- 87 Any person whatever

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PUZZLE NO. 115

AN OLYMPIAN DELIGHT

By JUPITER

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

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- 1 Rodents of Central and South America

- 6 Stake in any wager

- 9 County in New Jersey

- 14 Biographical and eulogistic panegyric

- 15 Imitate absurdly

- 16 Tawny thrush

- 17 Serpent

- 18 Prohibit

- 19 River in India

- 20 Apprehend

- 21 Perpetual

- 24 Feign

- 25 Gaelic and Irish languages

- 27 Sore

- 28 Pismires

- 29 Liquid or dry measure, used especially in the Netherlands

- 31 Label

- 33 Pale

- 36 Hard, transparent resin

- 40 Hammered

- 41 White, amorphous or slightly crystalline very bitter alkaloid compound

- 42 Be initiated into

- 44 As before

- 45 Adjust

- 47 Beast of burden

- 48 Final

- 51 African giraffoid ruminant

- 54 Organs of hearing

- 58 Part of verb “to be”

- 59 Anything by which something else is secured or fastened

- 61 Allow

- 62 Girl’s name

- 64 Invite

- 65 Animals without feet

- 67 Outcome

- 68 Shelter afforded by any object in a wind

- 69 Measured by revolutions of the moon

- 70 Ladies

- 71 Art (Latin)

- 72 Concerning; in regard to

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- 1 Peas collectively

- 2 Shrub of genus Alnus

- 3 Systems of signals with arbitrary meanings

- 4 Epoch

- 5 Withered

- 6 Tumult; confusion

- 7 Subdivision of a province in modern Greece

- 8 Inferior tin-plate alloyed with much lead

- 9 Of ill repute

- 10 Japanese coin 1⁄100 of yen

- 11 Vehicle of 17th and 18th centuries

- 12 Belch

- 13 Garden walks or terraces (Class. antiq.)

- 22 Exclamation to check rashness

- 23 Facility; power

- 26 Most level or uniform

- 28 Torture

- 30 Novel by George Sand

- 32 Sour substances

- 33 Mimic

- 34 Male descendant

- 35 Small dwelling

- 37 Oppose antagonistically

- 38 Insect

- 39 Constellation

- 43 Commoner

- 46 More than sufficiently

- 47 Own (Scot.)

- 48 Disabled

- 49 Land that has been tilled

- 50 Any one of various watery animal fluids

- 52 Australian bear

- 53 Sharp points

- 55 Unparalleled

- 56 V-shaped rampart

- 57 Draw the contents from; tap

- 59 Coarse fabrics of plaited rushes

- 60 Festive

- 63 Refrigerate

- 66 Play on words

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PUZZLE NO. 116

SOME LIKE ’EM HOT

By MADELEINE LUBETTY

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

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- 1 Arched

- 7 Resanctified

- 13 Carnelian

- 14 Virus

- 15 Silk fabric

- 16 Violent ejector of air

- 17 Right of property

- 18 Caesar’s bad day

- 19 Pertaining to a nest

- 21 Found on dice

- 22 Animal’s friend (abbr.)

- 23 A playing card

- 26 A nut

- 28 Combustible matter

- 30 A Mexican blanket

- 32 French Cathedral town

- 34 Guardian

- 35 Card game

- 37 Short instants

- 40 “Let it stand”

- 41 Matted

- 44 The Father

- 45 Biblical name

- 46 And others (Latin)

- 49 Primary

- 51 Halt

- 53 The Czar

- 54 A dress

- 55 African nut

- 56 Famous French writer

- 57 Ardor

- 58 Antagonists

- 59 Fresh hair combing (two words)

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- 1 Co-operates

- 2 Gold district

- 3 A plant

- 4 Relating to (suffix pl.)

- 5 Close of day

- 6 To deduce

- 7 Turn

- 8 Man’s name

- 9 To praise

- 10 Pastoral poem

- 11 A hare

- 12 Pendant ornaments

- 20 Citizen of large American city

- 24 Change form

- 25 Boat

- 26 Harass

- 27 Non-professional

- 28 The end

- 29 Enroll

- 31 Biblical name

- 33 To injure

- 35 Perfume

- 36 Room of the Last Supper

- 38 Small casket

- 39 Reptile

- 42 Gets up

- 43 Native of Tuscany

- 47 Act (suffix)

- 48 Fertile soil

- 49 To travel

- 50 Harmonize

- 51 A stair

- 52 Oriental first name

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PUZZLE NO. 117

A SPECKLED SPECIALTY

By AGNES STEWART

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

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- 1 Fret

- 4 Change

- 12 Period of time

- 15 Near

- 16 Open space

- 17 Wander

- 18 Thus

- 19 Gasoline

- 21 Correlative of either

- 23 Large American lizard

- 26 Air

- 27 Nobility of birth

- 30 Portends

- 31 Member of Sheik’s tribe

- 33 Sharp pointed instrument

- 34 Exceedingly

- 35 Etruscan title

- 37 Golf term

- 39 Tear down

- 40 Assistance

- 41 Contraction of “it is”

- 44 Musical instrument

- 46 Despatch

- 48 Vessel for heating liquids

- 50 Large island near Florida

- 51 Pointed ends

- 53 German for “I”

- 54 A sty

- 55 A Dravidian language

- 56 Old Testament (abbr.)

- 57 Coldly

- 59 Note of musical scale

- 61 Subject

- 63 A continent (abbr.)

- 64 Clothed

- 65 Maker of flour

- 68 Resonance

- 70 Lavish extreme fondness

- 71 Kind of puzzle

- 72 Biblical name

- 73 Toward

- 75 Landing place in India

- 77 Father

- 78 Thick soup

- 80 Promissory note (abbr.)

- 81 Fill

- 83 Toe (Scot.)

- 85 New Zealand bird

- 86 Carried

- 88 Low

- 89 Stable

- 90 West Indian indigo plant

- 92 Exhaust

- 93 Greek letter

- 94 Exclamation of disgust

- 96 Piece of wood

- 98 Atmosphere

- 99 Noddle (Eng. dial.)

- 101 Encircling

- 105 Burial place

- 107 Period of time

- 108 Characterized by absence of power

- 110 Fragrant flower

- 112 Piled

- 114 Waste time

- 116 Indefinite article

- 118 Rod

- 120 Heroine of Lohengrin

- 121 Seventh note of scale

- 122 Satellite

- 123 A spirometer

- 124 Fabulous bird

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- 1 Destiny

- 2 Old form of “do” (mus.)

- 3 Chimney post (Old Eng.)

- 4 Daughters of American Revolution

- 5 Strong metal

- 6 Miscreant

- 7 Note of musical scale

- 8 Denoting hesitation

- 9 Din

- 10 Enclosure

- 11 Large Australian bird

- 12 Regard with esteem

- 13 Ourselves

- 14 Plunders

- 19 Island in Bay of Alexandria

- 20 Snare

- 21 Genus of trees or shrubs, the true olives

- 22 Bolsheviks

- 24 In bed

- 25 The innermost shrine

- 28 Sleeping compartment

- 29 Slumber

- 32 Small loaf of bread (Scot.)

- 34 By way of

- 35 Railway engine

- 36 Border on

- 38 Disturb

- 40 In the year of (Lat.)

- 42 Sacred Egyptian bird

- 43 Amphibious lizard

- 45 Concluding speech

- 47 Mohammedan saber (var.)

- 49 Quadrangle

- 50 Sperm whale

- 52 To injure severely

- 55 Admission card

- 58 Plan

- 59 Impertinent

- 60 A seaweed

- 62 Skin (Fr.)

- 64 Symbol for cadmium

- 66 Within

- 67 Printer’s measure

- 69 Upon

- 74 Leave out

- 76 A western state

- 79 Straight piece of wood

- 80 Persian elf

- 82 To pale

- 84 Ingress

- 85 Mother

- 87 Capable of being tied

- 89 A dance (Fr.)

- 91 Biblical character with famous wife

- 94 Entreaty

- 95 Pacific island owned by U. S.

- 97 Precious metal

- 100 City in New York

- 101 Muddle

- 102 Upon

- 103 New Mexico (abbr.)

- 104 Triangular spade used in ditching

- 106 Opaque whitish fluid

- 107 Bivalve mollusk

- 108 Long space of time

- 109 Hurl

- 111 Smart

- 113 Very softly (mus.)

- 115 Sorrow (Scot.)

- 117 Negative

- 119 Prefix meaning well

- 120 Printer’s measure

- 121 Thus

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PUZZLE NO. 118

A WINGED BEAUTY

By H. R. KOEGLER

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

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- 1 An authoritative command

- 7 A musical instrument

- 13 Conjunction

- 14 Above

- 15 Part in a play

- 16 Upon

- 17 A medicine

- 19 A pilgrim to the Holy Land

- 21 An eagle

- 23 Loud noise

- 25 Unaccompanied

- 26 Poisonous American plant

- 28 To provoke

- 30 Preceded

- 32 Everybody

- 33 Military muster roll

- 35 A sailor

- 36 Prison city in New York

- 37 One who elevates

- 38 Girl’s name

- 39 Throws

- 41 Prevalent

- 43 Of “Inferno” fame

- 45 Pole with foot rest

- 46 Satisfied

- 48 A running knot

- 50 New (Spanish)

- 52 Spring of mineral water

- 53 Enthusiastic

- 55 Conjunction

- 57 A measure of weight

- 60 City in Italy

- 62 A bone

- 63 Boy

- 64 Extraction

- 65 Corpulent

- 66 Man’s nickname

- 67 Close to

- 70 Genial

- 74 Regarding

- 75 Artificial waterway

- 76 Bleat

- 78 Ventures

- 80 Sting

- 82 Begets

- 87 A tree

- 89 Bony cavity of the eye

- 91 Severely simple

- 92 Essential oil

- 93 Assistance

- 94 A child’s toy

- 95 A pinic acid salt

- 96 Recent

- 98 Influenced by money

- 100 Quick of apprehension

- 101 Powerful explosive (abbr.)

- 102 Spell

- 104 Erect

- 105 Shallow vessels

- 107 Prophet

- 109 Deal out

- 110 Tenth part of a Roman legion

- 112 A draftsman

- 114 Aloft

- 116 Fermented grain

- 117 Pain

- 118 Personal pronoun

- 119 Optical atmospheric illusions

- 120 Furnished with stories

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- 1 Powerful

- 2 Railroad (abbr.)

- 3 Celestial body

- 4 Evening

- 5 Oceanic birds

- 6 Three united

- 7 Verbal

- 8 Dyed

- 9 Something bestowed out of charity

- 10 Staggers

- 11 Negative

- 12 Breed of cats

- 17 To dispatch by train

- 18 Cotton cloth

- 19 Mannered

- 20 That which imparts circular motion

- 22 Respond

- 24 To run again

- 25 An inclined plane

- 27 Surrenders

- 29 Written communication

- 31 Small lances

- 32 Place for combat

- 34 Citrous fruit

- 40 Oval bullet

- 42 Penitent

- 44 Denials

- 45 Arctic marine hunters

- 46 To put existing materials in form

- 47 Trusts

- 49 Oriental

- 51 A state (abbr.)

- 54 Man’s name (abbr.)

- 56 Unhappy

- 58 Angry

- 59 Before

- 60 To seize unexpectedly

- 61 To grow old

- 62 Light pole with broad blade

- 67 Sharp point

- 68 Whole

- 69 Continent (abbr.)

- 71 Western state (abbr.)

- 72 Rough surfaced kitchen utensil

- 73 A cozy residence

- 75 Pertaining to the heart

- 76 Besiege

- 77 Skillful

- 79 Wrench for tightening nuts on screws

- 81 Watered silk

- 83 Floating on the surface

- 84 Swallows eagerly

- 85 Belonging to Ireland

- 86 Leased

- 88 Build

- 90 Embryo frog

- 92 To draw toward

- 93 A red ocher

- 97 Freed from weeds

- 99 A light preparation of cocoa

- 103 A Mohammedan ruler

- 106 Branches of academic study

- 108 Periods

- 111 An ugly old woman

- 113 Pronoun

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PUZZLE NO. 119

THE MAN WHO CAME BACK

By JOSEPH A. MARGOLIES

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

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- 1 Wigwam

- 5 Component

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- 15 Boat propeller

- 16 Rescuer

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- 18 Headgear

- 19 Impress

- 21 Oriental

- 23 Expiate

- 25 Additional

- 27 Scorches

- 28 Resound

- 29 Instrument used by Spanish dancers

- 32 Worshippers of the beautiful

- 35 Finishes

- 36 Insect

- 38 Afresh

- 39 Brawl

- 41 English author and critic

- 43 Perfume made from rose petals

- 45 Promptly (obs.)

- 47 Expunge

- 49 A wasting away

- 50 Fine-grained, laminated rock

- 52 Impertinent

- 53 Novice

- 54 Affected manners

- 56 First

- 57 Heavy cord

- 58 Man’s name

- 59 Animate

- 61 Knot

- 64 Consanguineous

- 66 What Eve was made from (pl.)

- 68 Belonging to an ancient Greek city

- 70 Narrator

- 71 Insertion

- 72 Term of address

- 73 Pit

- 75 Anthropoid ape

- 77 Possesses

- 78 Discharge

- 79 Pacifier

- 81 Shade

- 83 Selected again

- 86 Spanish lady

- 89 Derisive shout

- 90 Prevent

- 93 Periods of time

- 94 Foreigner

- 96 Metallic element of the chromium group

- 98 Point of an eccentric orbit nearest or farthest from center of attraction

- 100 Destroy

- 101 Alleviates

- 102 Fish eggs

- 103 Indian tribe

- 104 Lance

- 105 Duplicate of original record

- 106 Lock of hair

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- 1 Theme

- 2 Part of the head

- 3 Becomes stiffly decorous

- 4 Alienate

- 5 First lady of the land

- 6 Slightest

- 7 Language of Scottish Highlanders

- 8 Always

- 9 Scandinavian

- 10 A metal

- 11 Instructors

- 12 Sprout

- 13 A color

- 14 Paces

- 20 Observe

- 22 Small mountain lake

- 24 Sinew

- 26 Within, combining form

- 28 Vessel to heat liquids

- 30 Worship

- 31 Treatise

- 33 Woodland deity

- 34 Ejects

- 36 Air, combining form

- 37 Cloth used in the South Sea Islands

- 39 Meals

- 40 Soldier

- 42 Walks in pompous manner

- 44 Cogitator

- 45 Discoloration

- 46 Hates

- 48 Tale

- 51 Ascertain

- 53 Decade

- 55 Transgression

- 60 Commonplace

- 62 To talk publicly

- 63 Kind of trees

- 64 Above

- 65 Incensed

- 67 Animal

- 69 Kind of rigged vessel

- 71 Uninformed

- 74 Array

- 76 A number

- 78 Footgear

- 80 Unclosed

- 82 Snare

- 83 Raises

- 84 Scold

- 85 Nostrils

- 86 A compress of soft material

- 87 Progeny

- 88 Projecting parts of a building

- 91 Immense

- 92 Ascend

- 95 Part of the mouth

- 96 Utilize

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PUZZLE NO. 120

SANCTA SIMPLICITAS

By JOHN FASEL

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

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- 2 Iranian language

- 5 Perverted

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- 11 Clear from weeds

- 13 Facility

- 14 Dark colored layer of the iris

- 15 A girl’s name

- 17 A counterstatement

- 18 Piercing instrument

- 19 Entrance court

- 20 Hush

- 21 A lectern

- 23 Orient

- 25 Lick up

- 26 Otherwise

- 28 To sow

- 31 Wrath

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- 38 The forearm

- 41 Hatchet

- 43 Exclamation of pleasure

- 45 Species of ox

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- 47 Clotted blood

- 49 To agree

- 50 Supreme deity

- 51 Alkaline solution

- 52 Theory

- 54 Prefix, oily

- 55 Haut boy

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- 58 Grained sheepskin leather

- 60 Metal in its natural state

- 62 Large plant

- 63 To steep in water

- 65 To grind the teeth

- 67 Calm side

- 69 Novice

- 71 A cyma

- 74 Attempt

- 76 A girl’s name

- 78 Straightway

- 79 A land measure

- 81 Freeholder

- 82 Priestly vestment

- 83 A rain cloud

- 84 A seat in a church

- 85 Cattle of the bovine genus

- 86 Mischievous child

- 87 Even (abbr.)

- 88 Great quantities

- 89 Likewise

- 90 Stained

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- 1 Talk in an easy manner

- 2 Relish

- 3 Pointed steel instrument

- 4 Ventures

- 5 Pliant

- 6 Christmas

- 7 Irritate

- 8 Maker of hats

- 9 To lament

- 10 Spring

- 12 Duty

- 16 Composed of the number two

- 22 Congeal

- 24 Beast of burden

- 26 Period

- 27 Goddess of peace

- 29 Color

- 30 Delude

- 31 A viscous material for writing

- 33 A badger-like animal

- 34 African blacks

- 36 To urge

- 37 Lyric poem

- 39 Noose used for catching cattle

- 40 A deep spoon

- 42 Lowest deck of a ship

- 44 Eagle’s nest

- 46 A card game

- 48 Bud

- 52 To weary

- 53 To injure

- 56 Of the verb “to be”

- 57 Aqueous vapor

- 59 Snare

- 61 Mean dress

- 62 Nodule of earth

- 64 Despot

- 65 Learned

- 66 Distinguished (abbr.)

- 67 Humanity

- 68 Licentious

- 70 Runic letters

- 72 A germ gland

- 73 Correct

- 74 Symbol

- 75 Yell

- 77 Abhor

- 78 An ecclesiastic

- 79 In bed

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PUZZLE NO. 121

A ROSE WITH A THORN OR TWO

By ALFRED A. WICKLUND

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

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- 5 Anything sour

- 8 Iron or wooden post

- 12 Farewell

- 13 One or any

- 14 Western sport

- 15 Tax

- 16 Small insects

- 17 Usage

- 18 Mohammedan devil

- 20 In accordance with

- 21 Brute

- 22 A register

- 27 An occupation

- 30 Part of dynamos

- 33 Form of affection

- 36 Higher knowledge

- 37 To slip away

- 38 Sign for giving notice

- 42 Repeated

- 45 Intoxicated

- 47 About

- 48 Entice

- 51 A salutation

- 52 One

- 53 Hollow tube

- 54 Extents

- 55 Proceed

- 56 Base of a statue

- 57 Zealous

- 58 Determined

- 59 Be full

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- 1 An equal

- 2 Mexican brick

- 3 Small stream

- 4 Denoting the final end

- 6 Easy gallop

- 7 To recite in monotone

- 8 An arbor

- 9 Belief

- 10 Irritate

- 11 In law any damage

- 19 Vestry

- 21 A watch case

- 23 A young girl (Scotch)

- 24 Frustrate

- 25 Therefore

- 26 Cease

- 28 Dry by rubbing

- 29 Emitted blood

- 31 Upon

- 32 A bone (Latin)

- 34 Note of the scale (mus.)

- 35 A Roman weight

- 39 A farm

- 40 Realm

- 41 A crown

- 42 Mohammedan religion

- 43 Warehouse

- 44 A fruit

- 45 To melt

- 46 A wharf

- 49 Rodents

- 50 Be full

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PUZZLE NO. 122

NINE CROSSES

By MADGE SWEENEY

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

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- 1 Talented

- 4 Lyric poem

- 8 Child

- 12 Card game

- 13 Enlarge

- 14 Past

- 15 Mop

- 17 Ruin

- 19 Justify

- 20 Little face

- 22 Pithy

- 24 Loose outer garment (Roman)

- 25 Beams

- 27 Heavenly body

- 28 Hirelings

- 31 Proceed

- 33 Indian

- 35 Viscous liquid

- 36 Jot

- 37 Drills skull

- 42 Chatterer

- 46 Portable chair

- 47 Gone astray

- 48 Sacred chamber of Hopi Indians

- 49 Xmas hymn

- 51 One who loves to excess

- 52 Rising and falling of water

- 55 Ball of thread

- 57 A system of elementary manual training

- 59 Further

- 61 Outcry

- 62 Measure for cloth

- 63 Garment

- 64 Eye

- 65 Method

- 66 Bills

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- 1 As well

- 2 Curve

- 3 Lounge

- 5 Shield-shaped

- 6 Liquid measure (1⅓ qts.) used in Turkey

- 7 War horse

- 9 Rage

- 10 Mature

- 11 Civil offense

- 16 Staff

- 17 Generate

- 18 Beg

- 19 Dolts

- 21 State of insensibility

- 23 Iron holding millstone on spindle

- 26 Landing wharf

- 27 Troubles

- 29 Norse singer of heroic poems

- 30 Apathetic

- 32 Deface

- 34 Cool

- 38 Kind of tea

- 39 Passage

- 40 Parts of churches

- 41 Growler

- 42 Pagan

- 43 Pertaining to Arum family

- 44 Trained

- 45 To secure by winding rope around cleat

- 50 Response

- 51 An affair of honor

- 53 Metallic vein

- 54 Quarrel

- 56 Pull with force

- 58 Experienced

- 60 Point of a story

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PUZZLE NO. 123

THIS ONE WON’T BREAK YOUR HEAD

By ISIDORE EDELSTEIN

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

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- 1 Prostrate

- 5 Raving insanity

- 9 Inferred

- 13 Dread

- 14 Malicious glance

- 15 Tradition

- 16 Pertaining to mouth

- 18 Kindle

- 20 Figure of speech

- 22 Spoliation

- 24 Overflows

- 26 Utensil

- 27 Manners

- 28 Toward

- 30 Drift of vessel to leeward

- 31 Water nymphs

- 32 Like

- 33 Central part of wheel

- 34 Point of compass

- 35 Disconsolate

- 37 Monetary unit (abbr.)

- 38 Remains of fire

- 39 Restrain

- 42 Class among Hindus

- 45 White heron

- 47 Irritates

- 50 Ancient

- 53 Jet of water

- 55 Pay

- 56 Carnivore

- 57 Wrathful

- 58 Claw

- 59 Selection

- 62 Fertile spots in desert

- 64 Inborn

- 67 Earth

- 68 Bears

- 70 One who lavishes fondness

- 71 Inspirit

- 73 Single masted vessel

- 75 Congealed water

- 76 Hush

- 77 A newt

- 79 Hindu god

- 80 To catch

- 82 Obj. case of I

- 83 Racing horses

- 85 Aid

- 88 Exclamation

- 89 Mendicant monk

- 90 Portable bedstead

- 92 Abhors

- 94 Register

- 96 That which one does best

- 98 Despot

- 100 Achieves

- 101 Scent

- 102 Oppress

- 103 For snow running

- 104 Strict

- 105 Upper air

- 106 Precipitous

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- 1 Wooden pin

- 2 Rave

- 3 Window built out from wall

- 4 Ingredient

- 5 Encountered

- 6 Orders

- 7 To be imminent

- 8 Yes

- 9 Esophagi

- 10 Vies with

- 11 Rainbow

- 12 Yellowish brown

- 13 Dirt

- 17 Thong

- 19 Golf term

- 21 An animal

- 23 Unite

- 25 Range

- 27 Kinds of isinglass

- 29 Output

- 32 Tree

- 36 Singing voice

- 39 A month (abbr.)

- 40 Pertaining to morals

- 41 Make amends for again

- 42 Wrinkles

- 43 Violent storm

- 44 Shade tree

- 45 Decree

- 46 Report passing from person to person

- 48 Service

- 49 Go in

- 51 Finger or toe

- 52 At no time

- 54 Before

- 56 Age

- 60 Consequently

- 61 Anger

- 63 Swell of sea

- 65 Apex

- 66 Mercenary

- 68 The upper air

- 69 Gash

- 72 Magic sword

- 74 Drugs to induce sleep

- 75 To cover with earth

- 77 Convoy

- 78 Blab

- 81 Eats quickly

- 83 Of a commonplace character

- 84 To be sick

- 86 Pen

- 87 Concise

- 89 Agitate

- 91 Either

- 93 Behalf

- 95 Our (Fr.)

- 96 Enemy

- 97 Head as of wheat

- 99 Blight

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PUZZLE NO. 124

POLYGON

By HARRY R. TORR

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

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- 1 Skill

- 4 In that direction

- 6 Higher

- 8 A grain

- 11 An ocean wave

- 13 A non-existent place

- 16 Conjunction

- 17 Long for

- 18 Street car

- 19 Correlative of either

- 20 Vapor

- 22 Classification of diseases

- 25 Stripped felled tree

- 26 Chant

- 28 You and I

- 29 Photographic developer (abbr.)

- 30 Blood

- 32 Too

- 33 Attempt

- 34 Advance

- 36 Abbr. of city road

- 37 Tree destroyers

- 38 Heart

- 40 Cling to

- 41 Pastoral poem

- 42 Heap

- 43 Brave men

- 46 Pronoun

- 48 A cutter

- 51 So

- 52 Large snakes

- 53 True

- 54 Observes

- 56 Bone

- 58 Delineated

- 60 Period of time

- 61 Rushing waters

- 65 Woman of the garden

- 66 Not out

- 67 Folk tales

- 68 Famous for abuse and also a railroad

- 70 There

- 71 Civilized tribes

- 73 Vegetable (pl.)

- 75 Cut off

- 76 Latin “and”

- 77 Southern state (abbr.)

- 78 Form of “to be”

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- 1 Censure

- 2 Concerning

- 3 Strike gently

- 4 Male voice

- 5 Metal bearers

- 6 Preposition

- 7 Fish

- 8 Resistance (elec.)

- 9 Diphthong

- 10 Cavalrymen

- 11 Marshes

- 12 Family

- 14 Method

- 15 Therefore

- 21 Winter blanket

- 23 Night birds

- 24 For fear that

- 25 Harp

- 27 Kindly

- 29 Toughened

- 31 Rusts

- 33 The “Almighty”

- 35 Prohibitionists

- 37 Tumor

- 39 Elevated R. R.

- 40 Abbr. measure of power

- 44 Perpetual

- 45 Ostrich

- 46 Plateau

- 47 Comfort

- 49 Worry

- 50 Raise

- 54 Net

- 55 Carried

- 57 Wander

- 59 Anti-prohibitionists

- 61 Also

- 62 Sleep

- 63 Head support

- 64 Respectful salutation

- 67 Either side of the mouth

- 69 Period of time

- 72 Toward

- 74 Conjunction

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PUZZLE NO. 125

FILLIP FOR AN IDLE HOUR

By CAPTAIN F. F. STEWART

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

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- 1 Engagement

- 5 Mixture of flour and water

- 8 Wire fastener

- 12 A good wash

- 13 Dark colored layer of the iris

- 14 Usual

- 15 Mixed with

- 16 Mien

- 17 Lacerate

- 19 Direction

- 21 Dodge

- 24 Young aquatic bird

- 27 Upright

- 30 Part

- 31 Birds’ house

- 32 Wild animal

- 34 Unemployed

- 35 Has no feet

- 37 Unborn plant

- 39 Choke

- 41 Old

- 44 Chooses

- 47 Or

- 48 Fabricated

- 49 Meeting place

- 50 Propel

- 51 Without evil

- 52 Kind of deer

- 54 Repose

- 56 A pilgrim to the Holy Land

- 59 Foe

- 62 Baby bed

- 65 Employs

- 67 Peasant

- 68 Helps

- 70 H. M.

- 72 Place

- 74 Fill to satiety

- 77 Guide

- 79 Well cooked

- 81 Dishonor

- 82 Hear ye

- 84 Kind of duck

- 86 An Indian monkey

- 87 African equine

- 88 Renter

- 89 Aquatic mammal

- 90 Flower

- 91 Literal meaning

- 92 Having lugs

- 93 Implement that cuts metal

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- 1 Collect to a point

- 2 Fatal

- 3 Lessen

- 4 Story

- 5 A lighthouse

- 6 Shallow place

- 7 Famous prince

- 8 Big waters

- 9 Savor

- 10 Skinned

- 11 Condition of life

- 18 Old

- 20 Eras

- 22 Unit of electrical pressure

- 23 Unable to hear

- 25 Let it stand

- 26 Object of worship

- 28 Float on

- 29 Coagulated substance

- 31 Christmas

- 33 Specie of grass

- 36 Gratifies

- 38 Pertaining to an elemental force

- 39 Impress

- 40 Model

- 41 Swamp grass

- 42 Thronged

- 43 An abrasive

- 45 Belief

- 46 Understanding

- 53 Journey

- 55 Inhabitant of northern country

- 57 Mine entrance

- 58 Classical goddess

- 60 Cobra

- 61 Major part

- 63 Of the first rank

- 64 Soil

- 66 Father

- 67 To augur

- 68 Of the stars

- 69 Run away

- 71 Stream directer

- 73 Military explosive charge

- 75 Dried fruit

- 76 Shooting star

- 78 Excite

- 80 Unsmiling

- 81 Reposeful stupor

- 83 European river

- 85 Too

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PUZZLE NO. 126

GRACEFUL

By AGNES STEWART

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

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- 1 Let in

- 5 Back of neck

- 9 Earliest

- 14 Large

- 15 Word

- 17 Deputy

- 19 Nurse (Hindu)

- 20 Shapes

- 22 103

- 23 Lowest regions (Gr. myth.)

- 25 Chinese province

- 27 Not (prefix)

- 28 Short pastoral poems

- 29 Greek theatre

- 30 Towards

- 31 With

- 32 Holding (property)

- 35 Lair

- 37 Joints

- 39 Fleet

- 40 Foundation

- 42 Scatter

- 44 Father

- 45 Prop

- 47 Any

- 48 Spanish hero

- 50 Mouth

- 51 River (Sp.)

- 52 Street (abbr.)

- 53 One (Scot.)

- 54 Tree

- 55 Undivided

- 56 Slipping

- 59 Exists

- 61 Controls

- 64 Decree

- 65 Hutch

- 67 Hubs

- 69 Bird

- 70 Middle

- 72 Large cask

- 74 The object

- 76 Life principle in Hinduism

- 78 Resin

- 80 Italian river

- 81 Following

- 83 Town in Czecho-Slovakia

- 85 Electricity (abbr.)

- 86 Small bone in horse’s foot

- 89 Jot

- 90 Town in Belgian Congo

- 92 Icelandish giants

- 93 Pious

- 94 Dough for crust of pies

- 95 Disappeared

- 96 Coin

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- 1 Indo-European

- 2 Valuable

- 3 Strict disciplinarian

- 4 Neuter pronoun

- 5 Explorer

- 6 Skill

- 7 Exclamation of ridicule

- 8 Evasive

- 10 Four

- 11 Wealth

- 12 Greek island

- 13 Stain

- 14 Town in Canal Zone

- 15 Young partridge

- 16 Eat away

- 18 Severity

- 20 Call

- 21 Beg

- 24 Snake

- 26 Pertaining to a system

- 31 Like a goose

- 33 Surface of cloth

- 34 Grape

- 36 Colorless gaseous element

- 37 A hundred weight

- 38 Cutting into two parts

- 40 Archer

- 41 Nets

- 42 Protrusion

- 43 Side building

- 45 Salve

- 46 Fish spawn (pl.)

- 49 Prefix—from

- 50 Myself

- 57 Ancient city

- 58 Mountain in Venezuela

- 59 Chemical unit

- 60 Imbiber

- 62 African country

- 63 Forcible separation

- 65 Telephone exchange

- 66 Sinning

- 68 Having two feet

- 70 Indian bark

- 71 Bellows

- 73 Now

- 75 Flower

- 77 Son (Gaelic prefix)

- 79 Inspect curiously

- 80 Aptly

- 82 Short for Rebecca

- 84 Portend

- 87 Tribe of Sioux Indians

- 88 Numbers (abbr.)

- 91 And (Latin)

- 93 Depart

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PUZZLE NO. 127

SPREADEAGLE

By R. T. and C. K.

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

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- 1 Subtracted

- 8 A written agreement

- 15 Clayey earth

- 16 An imbecile

- 18 A Japanese food

- 20 Adds to

- 23 To marry

- 24 Idle talker

- 26 Wager

- 27 The Devil

- 29 Weird

- 31 A meadow

- 32 Security for liberation

- 34 A bone in the body

- 35 Covered wagon

- 36 Stop

- 37 Spaces

- 39 A color

- 41 Nervous energy (slang)

- 42 Number one

- 43 Face of an instrument

- 45 A drunkard

- 47 Evergreen trees

- 48 Babylonian god

- 50 Of the same age

- 52 Period of time

- 53 Taunt

- 54 Personal pronoun

- 55 Remain

- 57 An avoirdupois measure

- 59 Part of a golf course

- 60 Not living

- 62 Either

- 63 Small waves

- 64 A preposition

- 65 So be it

- 67 Small viper

- 68 Hard shelled fruit

- 70 Distance measured by the foot

- 72 A college degree

- 73 Unoccupied

- 75 Stable

- 77 Indicative of grief

- 79 Seventh note of the musical scale

- 80 To weave

- 81 A weak acid

- 83 Kind of fish

- 85 The elect

- 87 Male child

- 88 Part of a pea

- 90 A town near Bombay

- 92 Member of an ancient Teutonic race

- 93 Short fine hair

- 94 A dolt

- 96 Final purpose

- 97 Opposed to science

- 98 An ocean-going steamship

- 100 A small shoot

- 102 Kind of pastry

- 103 Descriptive of heavy rainfall

- 105 To affect with pain

- 107 Captivates

- 109 Designating title

- 110 That inside

- 112 Exclamation

- 113 Star-like mark

- 114 Lessens

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- 2 Vacated

- 3 A cast

- 4 Bottle-like vessels

- 5 Tree found in swamp land

- 6 Measure (printing)

- 7 Soft feathers

- 8 Classified regulations

- 9 Upon

- 10 Retinue

- 11 Ritual

- 12 Division of play

- 13 Underground apartments

- 14 Herbiferous vegetables

- 17 Regarding

- 19 Talked idly

- 21 A fruit

- 22 Mix

- 24 Snare

- 25 Elongated fishes

- 28 Encourage

- 30 Eternal

- 33 Religious term designating the people

- 36 Engaged

- 38 A cutting instrument

- 40 Feminine of deer

- 41 Leguminous plant with edible seed

- 42 Fabrication

- 44 Lighted

- 46 Supporter

- 47 Expression of contempt

- 49 Smallest particle of matter (pl.)

- 51 Pertaining to Norway

- 53 The Saviour

- 54 Abhors

- 56 Part of the verb “to be”

- 58 Bite

- 59 Decade

- 61 Devour

- 65 To reject

- 66 After the eighth

- 67 High in the scale (mus.)

- 69 Neuralgia

- 70 Movement of the shoulders indicating indifference

- 71 Without commiseration

- 74 To end life

- 75 Species of bean

- 76 Overturn

- 78 Loose talk

- 80 The young of a feline family

- 81 To drill

- 82 Cage

- 84 Suggest

- 86 Learning

- 87 Stopper

- 89 Challenge

- 91 Satisfy with food (Scot.)

- 93 Of better quality

- 95 Decisive

- 98 Calcium compound

- 99 Position

- 100 Toboggan

- 101 Strong wind

- 104 Woven texture

- 106 Within

- 108 Entangle

- 110 Exists

- 111 Note of the musical scale

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PUZZLE NO. 128

YOU’LL HEAR ME CALLING YAHOO

By CHARLOTTE G. DAVIS

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

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- 1 Carrier of goods

- 6 Despicable character

- 10 Sounded through the nose

- 15 African river

- 17 Ugly old woman

- 19 Space between two columns

- 20 Person aforesaid

- 22 White of egg

- 24 Drilled

- 27 Devoted woman

- 28 Denial

- 30 A fungus

- 32 Striking effect

- 33 Burning wood

- 34 Instrument for cooling

- 36 Flies high

- 38 Wicked spirit

- 39 Obscurely

- 40 Metallic element

- 42 Made one

- 44 Imbues

- 46 Untilled land

- 48 Incision

- 50 Solemn statement

- 52 A necessity of civilized society

- 53 Forbid

- 54 European country

- 56 Toward

- 58 Russian political body

- 60 Particles of earth

- 61 To place

- 62 Slender

- 64 Kind of engraving

- 67 Insect

- 68 Dry

- 69 Japanese liquor

- 70 Pretense

- 72 Denoting presence

- 73 Twelve

- 74 Mind

- 77 Form of ownership in English islands

- 78 A game

- 79 Precious stone

- 80 Regular route

- 82 The East

- 84 Hard native iron

- 86 A comfort in winter

- 88 Kind of horse

- 89 A vegetable spike

- 91 Grumble

- 93 Bright saying

- 94 Foreign poet

- 95 Character in Dickens

- 97 Killed

- 99 To exist

- 100 Morbid growth

- 101 Outside the law

- 103 New field of exploration

- 105 In like manner

- 106 A person

- 107 Kind of fish

- 109 Author’s final word

- 111 To join

- 112 Poisonous snake

- 113 East Indian soldier

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- 2 One

- 3 Light carriage

- 4 Side glance

- 5 Comes close

- 7 Exclamation

- 8 Article of wearing apparel

- 9 A monster

- 11 To aid

- 12 Mournful

- 13 Affirmative

- 14 Notorious lawyer

- 16 Stiffness

- 18 Used with camera

- 20 Throws violently

- 21 Improper

- 23 Spotted

- 25 Sharp

- 26 Short slumbers

- 27 Mythological maiden

- 29 A means of propulsion

- 31 Short time

- 33 Reverence for duty

- 35 Pastoral

- 37 To astonish greatly

- 39 Distributed

- 41 Dorsal aspect of thorax in insects

- 43 Study of derivations

- 45 Browns

- 47 Unit of electric measurement

- 49 The South

- 51 Ancient barbarians

- 55 Large cask

- 56 Ancient king (abbr.)

- 57 To try

- 59 A virago

- 61 Toilet unguent

- 63 To grant

- 65 To lengthen

- 66 Greek philosopher

- 67 Courteous form of address

- 69 Pertaining to center of our system

- 71 Color

- 73 English seaport

- 75 Chunk of ice

- 76 African chieftains

- 78 A nut

- 80 On guard

- 81 Later

- 82 Disables

- 83 Water fowl

- 84 Superior fellow

- 85 Uttered

- 87 Small pocket

- 88 A decorative tree

- 90 Ancient

- 92 Rights to retain property

- 95 Disappear

- 96 Aromatic plant

- 98 Hub of wheel

- 101 Tavern

- 102 Youth

- 104 To wipe

- 106 Contact

- 108 A pronoun

- 110 Expressive of effort

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PUZZLE NO. 129

BEDIAMONDED BEAUTY

By P. R. BROWN

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

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- 1 Striking part of a bell

- 8 That which draws

- 15 At right angles to ship’s keel

- 16 Head covering

- 18 Pains

- 20 Pronoun

- 22 To be incorrect

- 23 Procreated (arch.)

- 25 Period of time

- 26 Southern state (abbr.)

- 27 Sign of the Zodiac

- 29 Inferior crown

- 31 An enclosure

- 32 One who applies

- 33 Not permanent

- 34 A uniting force

- 35 Atmospheric conditions

- 37 A digit

- 38 Past tense (suffix)

- 39 Deity (Latin)

- 41 Fathers

- 42 Head covering

- 44 Personal pronoun

- 45 An Oriental shrub or tree

- 47 Also not

- 48 Flies aloft

- 50 Harkens

- 52 A medicinal plant

- 54 A raw hide

- 55 Entrapped again

- 56 Calcium oxide

- 57 An allowance made by court order

- 59 Registers

- 62 Muzzle

- 63 Long church seat

- 65 Light pith helmet

- 67 Land measure

- 69 Periods of time (abbr.)

- 70 Preserved

- 72 Married

- 73 Parent

- 74 A spigot

- 77 Verbal pledges

- 79 Remote

- 80 Teachers

- 81 Corrupt (obs.)

- 82 Pinch

- 83 Primness

- 85 Hazard

- 86 Toward

- 87 Offer of price

- 89 Periods of time

- 90 A domestic animal

- 92 Ahead

- 93 Morning

- 95 Mythical female being (Norse)

- 96 Harbor

- 98 Larynx (combining form)

- 99 One who obliterates

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- 2 Musical syllable

- 3 Man’s name (abbr.)

- 4 Relevant

- 5 Equality of value

- 6 Printer’s measure

- 7 A dark-skinned foreigner (colloq.)

- 9 God of noon-day sun

- 10 One

- 11 Professing a certain religion

- 12 A beverage

- 13 Bone

- 14 Expands

- 16 Beyond question

- 17 Large feline carnivore

- 19 Soldiers’ drinking flask

- 21 Lukewarm

- 23 Removes bones from

- 24 Weeds

- 26 Poisonous fluid

- 28 To open (arch.)

- 29 Cry of a bird

- 30 Dark viscid oily fluid

- 31 Peevish mood

- 36 Former French palace—now museum

- 39 Fate

- 40 Burdensome

- 42 First name of a President of the U. S.

- 43 Cooked on a gridiron

- 45 Elevations

- 46 Concerning

- 48 Odor

- 49 Steps in a fence

- 50 A grassy field

- 51 Filthy habitation

- 52 To mimic

- 53 Squares of type

- 58 Death rate

- 60 Agent

- 61 Government grants

- 63 Followed up

- 64 Uniters of metal

- 66 Heels over

- 68 A popular diversion

- 70 To convey

- 71 Ruminant, possessive

- 73 Open inner court (Sp.)

- 75 Young dog

- 77 A small report

- 78 To explore secretly

- 79 Capricious hobby

- 84 Raised platform

- 87 An obstruction

- 88 Clamor

- 90 Boon companion

- 91 Obtain

- 93 Parent

- 94 Worthless (colloq. abbr.)

- 96 Personal pronoun

- 97 Negative reply

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PUZZLE NO. 130

FOR INSOMNIACS

By DENNIS R. SMITH

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

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- 1 Indian squaws

- 7 Sociable

- 14 Drier

- 16 An injury

- 17 Obtain

- 18 One who slanders

- 21 A broad ferryboat

- 22 A denial

- 23 A lynx

- 25 Symbol of metallic element

- 26 Island connected with life of Napoleon

- 28 To shut in

- 29 Land measure (pl.)

- 31 To wait

- 33 Suffix denoting superlative

- 34 To eat away

- 35 To reward

- 37 Form

- 39 Intentions

- 40 To avoid

- 42 American journalist

- 44 Tail-like plait of hair

- 46 “That is to say” (two words)

- 48 Name of either boy or girl

- 50 Vehicles on runners

- 52 Stop

- 53 Nobleman of lowest grade

- 55 Part of the eye

- 56 Anglo-French (abbr.)

- 57 Impartation of knowledge

- 60 Greek letter

- 61 Egg of a louse

- 63 A country

- 64 A prefix denoting through

- 65 Willows

- 67 Projecting edge in carpentry

- 69 A copper alloy

- 70 Small device for throwing a stream of liquid

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- 1 Loadstones

- 2 A small space

- 3 Strike

- 4 In the year of our Lord

- 5 Mother of Helen of Troy

- 6 Acute crest of a mountain range

- 8 Flower (Fr.)

- 9 Decorative plant

- 10 Denoting equality

- 11 Upper part of apron

- 12 Lent

- 13 Enclosed

- 15 Young sheep

- 19 Noted

- 20 Ditches used as fortifications

- 23 Religious order

- 24 Canvas covered with waterproof material

- 27 Tool used to make holes for small nails

- 30 Smallest European deer

- 32 Fungus used in cooking

- 34 Edge of a roof

- 36 Combining form meaning within (Greek)

- 38 Ejaculation meaning “alas”

- 41 Furnace used by alchemists

- 43 Location

- 44 Proportional share

- 45 Soothe

- 47 Simple

- 49 Mouths (more common as adjective)

- 51 Eating principal meal of the day

- 53 Saclike cavity

- 54 Simpleton

- 58 Loose soil

- 59 Smell

- 62 Fasten

- 64 Confused noise

- 66 Prefix, geological epoch

- 68 Seventh tone of musical scale

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PUZZLE NO. 131

HOCUS POCUS

By M. H. FOSTER

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

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- 1 Proper name

- 5 Lawful

- 10 Freeman of the lowest rank (anc. English)

- 11 Highest mountain in Africa

- 13 King of Bashan (Bib.)

- 14 Common nickname

- 15 Study with care

- 16 One

- 17 A semicircular base

- 20 Combining form for a gaseous element

- 22 Roman god of war

- 23 Good (Fr.)

- 25 Places where two parts come together

- 26 Number

- 27 Malicious burning of another’s house

- 29 Biblical character

- 30 Shocking

- 31 Rested

- 33 Moderately wet

- 34 Entire man, body and mind

- 36 A county seat in Oklahoma

- 38 Bring to court

- 39 Madam (German)

- 40 Smells

- 42 Fertile spot in a waste

- 43 Note of scale

- 44 Negation

- 45 Facility resulting from practice

- 46 Any powerful deity

- 47 To furnish with an engine

- 49 A man who does woman’s work

- 51 Town in Siberia

- 52 Testing of an alloy

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- 1 Part of Mediterranean sea

- 2 Behold

- 3 Songs

- 4 Kinds

- 6 Holy picture

- 7 Mountain between France and Italy

- 8 Preposition

- 9 Headdress (pl.)

- 10 Sound judgment

- 12 Unusually

- 18 Extended written exposition

- 19 Friend of Cicero, Roman comic actor

- 21 Plaguers

- 23 Broth (pl. Scot.)

- 24 Sound

- 27 Limb

- 28 Negative

- 32 Rub oil upon

- 35 Mirth

- 37 Cotton goods used for overalls

- 39 Destiny (pl.)

- 41 Descendants

- 42 Globes

- 48 Leave

- 50 Exclamation used in double as a farewell

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PUZZLE NO. 132

A WORD FEST

By AARD-VARK

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

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- 1 Poisonous tree

- 5 Theme or subject (mus.)

- 10 Color of unbleached stuff

- 14 Style

- 15 Tusks

- 16 Spoils

- 17 Kind of wind

- 19 Man’s name

- 20 Kind of cross shape

- 21 All right

- 22 To offer to verify

- 24 Obstruct

- 26 Roman copper coin

- 27 An arrow poison

- 28 Besides

- 30 The earth (Prov.)

- 32 Kind of scepter

- 36 Separate portion

- 39 Species of duck

- 41 Household utensils

- 42 Empty

- 43 Chinese cash

- 44 Scope

- 46 Prefix, air

- 48 Verb intransitive

- 49 Seed of canary grass

- 51 Anything small

- 53 Offcut

- 55 Knot (rare)

- 56 Contemporary

- 59 Beverage

- 60 Irregularly employed person

- 62 To remove

- 64 First month of Jewish year

- 66 Spanish dollar

- 68 Original sin (symbol.)

- 69 Always

- 71 Passed

- 73 Pass over ridge

- 75 Float of mill wheel

- 77 Dark

- 78 Lowest deck of vessel

- 80 Deer

- 81 Inner sole of a shoe

- 82 The nether world

- 83 Allowance for waste

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- 2 Bring together compactly

- 3 Vessel for consecrated wine

- 4 Covered vehicle

- 5 Syllable of scale

- 6 Crosswise

- 7 To take away (obs.)

- 8 Rainbow

- 9 Suffix signifying “to make”

- 10 Genus of venomous snakes

- 11 Coop or pen

- 12 Ecclesiastical court of Rome

- 13 Indian tribe

- 18 Common newt (obs. Sp.)

- 20 Blow or thump

- 23 Serving to inspire fear

- 25 Rigid

- 27 Artificial international language

- 29 Originally the highest note in scale

- 30 Glory

- 31 Turbid

- 33 Enraged

- 34 To cause

- 35 Growing out

- 37 Window

- 38 Witness (leg.)

- 40 Pertaining to language of Indo-China

- 42 Good

- 45 Snatched away

- 47 Religious book

- 50 Segment of the hind limb

- 52 Bone

- 54 Rested

- 57 A matter

- 58 Unknown land

- 61 To set on end

- 63 To suffer

- 64 The southwest wind

- 65 Kind of plum cake

- 67 An annual plant, good for food

- 68 A genus of succulent plant

- 69 Away from the wind

- 70 Spume

- 72 Name of King Arthur’s lance

- 74 Original

- 76 Joke

- 78 An exclamation

- 79 A paragraph added to a writing

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PUZZLE NO. 133

SMALL BUT MIGHTY

By IRVAN NECKERMAN

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

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- 1 Colossal wooden statue

- 4 Another colossal wooden statue

- 7 Where both statues can now be seen (abbr.)

- 10 A weight of twelve grains

- 11 A medley

- 12 Genus of ruminant quadrupeds

- 13 Domestic fowl

- 14 The highest part

- 15 Shoemaker’s awl

- 17 The appointor

- 19 Large European dormouse

- 20 An alcoholic beverage

- 21 A rude man

- 22 Bill of an anchor

- 24 For each

- 25 Brood of pheasants

- 27 Star of first magnitude in Orion

- 30 Refuse

- 32 Circular

- 34 Clasp to fasten garments in front

- 36 Jade

- 37 A card

- 38 Artificial international language

- 39 As the definite article was often written in old English

- 41 Imitator

- 43 To carve or cut up a fish

- 45 Musical instrument

- 47 The condition of being consumed by a low form of organism

- 50 Actually existing being

- 51 Unique

- 52 Trembling poplar

- 53 The needlefish

- 54 Double

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- 1 Pertaining to tapestry

- 2 Coin in the Ionian Islands

- 3 Prater

- 4 To intend

- 5 Fowl

- 6 A sort of dice, formerly used

- 7 Inhabitants of parts of S. America

- 8 Dealer in unctuous substances

- 9 Billet

- 16 Strong emotion

- 18 Turkish weight

- 23 Recompense formerly given by murderers

- 24 To toil

- 26 Shrub of the holly family

- 28 Mass of ice

- 29 Towering

- 31 To throw again

- 33 Yeast

- 35 Vermillion red

- 36 Blistered

- 40 Measures of linen thread

- 42 Scotch highlanders

- 44 Well-known Japanese

- 46 Seed of a leguminous herb

- 48 Part of head

- 49 Unspent

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PUZZLE NO. 134

THE BUTTERFLY

By MR. and MRS. OTTOKAR T. CADEK

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

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- 1 Boundary

- 8 Conjecture

- 15 Relieves

- 20 Pugnacity

- 24 Fuse

- 25 Repartee

- 26 Pronoun

- 28 Confection

- 29 Responsibility

- 30 High priest

- 31 Digit

- 32 State (abbr.)

- 33 Muck

- 34 Conjunction

- 35 Reply (abbr.)

- 36 Basket (Prov. Eng.)

- 37 Borders

- 39 Swine

- 41 Beverage

- 42 Cleverness

- 44 Concavity

- 45 Candor

- 48 One of an early sect of Christians

- 49 Thrust in fencing

- 52 Automobile

- 54 Discover

- 55 Renounces

- 57 Priestly

- 59 Distinctive characters

- 60 Last (obs.)

- 61 Moths

- 62 Shreds

- 63 Negative

- 64 Pronoun

- 65 Hypothetical natural force

- 66 Pronoun

- 68 Claws

- 72 Of God

- 74 Set

- 78 Gallic priest

- 79 Perpetual

- 82 Cooks

- 84 Keeper of funds

- 86 Spanish hero

- 87 Old French coins

- 90 Female bird

- 91 Diplomatic representative

- 94 Female rabbit

- 95 Surround

- 97 Scratched

- 98 Admonish

- 100 Imitate

- 101 Tinge

- 103 Small crane on a ship

- 104 Consume

- 106 Secretion of the kidneys

- 107 Fowl

- 109 Encircle

- 111 Number

- 112 Unite

- 113 Grating

- 114 Revelry

- 116 Silly

- 117 Eats sparingly

- 119 Projecting

- 121 Old soldier

- 122 Grow slender

- 124 Indian nurse

- 125 Point of compass

- 126 Jot

- 127 Offense

- 128 Wrecks

- 129 Corroded

- 130 Spawn

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- 1 Mohammedan prince

- 2 Blossoming

- 3 Farthest

- 4 Note of the scale

- 5 Wrong

- 6 Hydrometer

- 7 Deceased

- 8 Hip bones

- 9 State of U. S. A.

- 10 Units

- 11 Move

- 12 Sowbug

- 13 Assyrian city

- 14 Study

- 15 Part of “to be”

- 16 Preposition

- 17 Hence

- 18 Become inert

- 19 Love of children

- 20 More intelligent

- 21 Orient

- 22 In the place quoted (abbr.)

- 23 Forked pipes

- 26 Flings (coll.)

- 27 Substance used for polishing

- 38 Woman’s robe (obs.)

- 39 Drove

- 40 Angel

- 42 Compressed

- 43 Young oyster

- 44 Examples

- 46 Voice; used in music

- 47 Split

- 50 Greedy

- 51 Drink

- 53 Punctuation mark

- 56 Slug

- 58 Rest

- 59 Japanese statesman

- 63 Knotted

- 67 Stool

- 68 Wooden plates

- 69 American Unitarian Association (abbr.)

- 70 Childish utterances

- 71 English poet

- 72 Beautiful

- 73 Vague

- 74 Checkered

- 75 Part of a flower

- 76 Obtain with difficulty

- 77 Disinfect

- 78 Flood

- 80 Scandinavian navigator

- 81 Poker term

- 83 Breathed heavily

- 84 Pronoun

- 85 Concerning

- 88 Parent

- 89 Bristle

- 92 Tablet

- 93 Louse egg

- 96 Pertaining to the muses

- 99 Rush

- 102 National reservation

- 105 Accession

- 108 Phoebus

- 110 Suffuse

- 112 Norse pantheon

- 113 Pike (Scot.)

- 115 Coronet

- 118 Vacant

- 120 Identify

- 123 Shed freely

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PUZZLE NO. 135

SAFE AND SANE

By “OLD NICK”

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

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- 1 Antithesis of reverse manner

- 8 Make clear

- 15 Loyal

- 16 Edible grain

- 18 Brother

- 19 Variety of quartz

- 20 Agitate

- 21 Disease

- 23 Ceremonial plate

- 25 Son (Scotch and Irish)

- 27 An arch

- 28 Part of “to be”

- 29 Bulky packages

- 31 Couch

- 32 Evergreen tree

- 34 Otherwise

- 35 Finch-like bird

- 37 Sharer

- 39 Reproach

- 40 Adjustable fronts of armor headpieces

- 41 Dishearten

- 42 Delayed

- 44 Enchantment

- 46 About

- 48 Restrain

- 49 In addition

- 51 Oblique direction

- 52 Energy

- 53 Nevertheless

- 55 Female

- 56 Keen watcher

- 58 One (Scotch)

- 59 Play on words

- 60 Card game

- 62 Hymenopterous insect

- 63 Tibetan antelope

- 65 Bring forth young

- 66 Lay prior claim to

- 67 Condemn

- 68 Metal collar (obs.)

- 69 Foodstuffs container

- 71 Mimic

- 72 Plant moisture

- 74 Term of respectful address

- 75 Man (Latin)

- 77 Wavy

- 79 Precious object

- 81 Immense fabulous bird

- 83 Printer’s type measure

- 84 Part of an ornamental edging

- 86 Toddler

- 87 Fertile spot

- 89 Interjection of surprise

- 90 Nautical rope

- 92 Certifies

- 94 Contemptuous insinuation

- 95 Dangerous snowslide

- 96 Taste

- 97 Originator

- 99 Method of painting

- 101 As far as

- 103 Harden

- 104 Single spot

- 106 Showers

- 107 Close to

- 108 Carp-like fish

- 110 Squares of type sizes

- 111 Unable to move

- 113 Genie

- 114 Japanese waistband

- 115 Exceedingly

- 117 Kind of conveyance

- 118 Rule of action

- 120 A hybrid

- 121 Indispensable

- 122 Adorns

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- 1 Capacity to smell

- 2 Shine

- 3 Large covered wagon

- 4 Mode of metropolitan travel

- 5 Surgical instrument

- 6 Observe

- 7 Bark

- 8 Eagle

- 9 Expression of mild wonder

- 10 Diagram

- 11 Execute

- 12 Literary miscellany

- 13 Novice

- 14 Discharge of waste matter

- 17 Tally

- 18 Nourished

- 21 Cloaks

- 22 Heir

- 24 Trying

- 25 Sicilian wine

- 26 Forgive

- 29 Poisoned

- 30 Cleave asunder

- 32 Invitations

- 33 Attractive woman (slang)

- 35 Small cask

- 36 Anarchistic

- 37 Rough oblong mass of metal

- 38 Title of a recent play

- 43 Physical exercises

- 45 Metallic element

- 47 Apodal fish

- 49 Craft

- 50 Excavated

- 52 Firearm

- 54 Sot

- 56 Prank

- 57 Saponaceous

- 59 Parental pet name

- 61 Metalliferous mineral

- 62 Pertinent

- 64 Took sustenance

- 65 Extremity

- 68 Storage receptacle

- 70 Kind of fruit

- 71 High (musical)

- 73 Court

- 74 Touchy

- 75 Throb

- 76 Turns as on an axis

- 78 Fanciful fiction

- 79 Entrance guard

- 80 Incorrectly forwarded

- 82 Benevolent works

- 84 Versifiers

- 85 Backgammon

- 87 Different

- 88 Prominent stage artists

- 90 Small Roman copper coin

- 91 Gnar

- 92 Performance

- 93 Mineral spring

- 98 Abate

- 100 Softly

- 102 Lofty lyrics

- 104 Somewhat

- 105 King of the elves

- 107 Competent

- 109 Species of vetch

- 111 Evil

- 112 Small street boy

- 114 Exterior

- 116 The (archaic)

- 117 Subdominant tone of the scale

- 119 Editorial pronoun

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PUZZLE NO. 136

THE LITTLE TERROR

By IRVAN NECKERMAN

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

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- 1 Opening in a forest

- 6 Fanatical

- 10 Dealers in small wares

- 11 The name of King Arthur’s lance

- 12 Bag

- 13 Elevate

- 15 Cover

- 16 Feast

- 17 Parts with

- 19 Milestone

- 20 Mild

- 24 The red monkey

- 28 Vessel

- 29 Kind of rubber tree

- 30 Expression of good wishes

- 31 Sheet; surface

- 33 Discarded call

- 34 Importune

- 35 Rectify

- 36 Premonitions

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- 1 Reinforcements

- 2 Counseled

- 3 Confuse

- 4 To prepare for weavers’ use (obs.)

- 5 Crowds

- 6 Employers

- 7 Crossbeam (Prov.)

- 8 Round shield

- 9 Anoint

- 14 Suffer

- 18 Sanctity (arch.)

- 20 Used up

- 21 An umbelliferous plant

- 22 Born

- 23 One of an ancient order of priests

- 24 Hit (fencing term)

- 25 To disturb

- 26 Tent

- 27 Printers’ marks

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PUZZLE NO. 137

CRUTCHES AND CROSSES

By KNACKER

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

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- 1 Breastwork

- 8 Town, Heard Co., Ga.

- 15 Unproductive

- 22 Cupidity

- 23 Half-free people of the Frankish Empire

- 24 God of Himalaya Mt. (India Myth)

- 25 Sleep; death

- 26 Cotton cloth

- 28 Mt. of California

- 30 Singing girls of Egypt; hired mourners

- 31 Greek God of war

- 32 One who charges exorbitant interest

- 33 Buddhist title

- 34 Fermented liquor

- 35 West African tribe

- 36 Comely

- 37 Terms of respect

- 38 Half the square of a type

- 39 Cymae

- 43 Kidneys

- 46 Instances of disease

- 48 35.31 cubic feet

- 51 Oil of orange blossoms

- 53 Flip

- 54 Among

- 55 Cauterized

- 56 Mexican tree

- 58 Gryphon

- 60 Inner court

- 61 Restrains again

- 64 More arid

- 65 Retracted

- 68 Delightful region

- 69 Minute insect found in cheese

- 71 One-half an em (Pl.)

- 72 Laid hold of

- 73 Prong

- 74 Faction

- 75 Russian Capital under Jenghiz Khan

- 77 Bears young

- 78 Scrutinize

- 79 Supposing that

- 80 Simple rural people

- 81 State (abbr.)

- 82 Concave vessel

- 85 Authority on games

- 87 To travel by auto

- 90 Finely divided carbon

- 92 Reverberate

- 93 Comply

- 94 Chance

- 96 Divorce seekers’ Paradise

- 97 Genuine

- 98 Inured

- 100 Humble

- 102 Abandons hope

- 104 Decorated with climbing plants

- 105 Market basket

- 107 Prophets

- 108 Inflexible

- 110 Plucky

- 111 A chief (Brit. India)

- 113 Consecrate

- 116 Delay

- 117 Tapestry

- 118 Home of the Krupps

- 120 Pertaining to punishment

- 121 Forward

- 122 Narrow aperture

- 123 Hebrew term for world

- 125 Tramp

- 126 Priestly caste of Persians

- 129 Penthouse

- 132 Italian scholar of 15th century

- 134 Sudden fall into water

- 136 Elderly

- 137 Ethers

- 138 Triangular sail

- 139 Olden time

- 140 Cylindrical plant stems

- 142 Blooming

- 144 More fatigued

- 146 Ormazd’s daughter

- 147 Impressed

- 148 Acquiesces

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- 1 Model

- 2 Mean

- 3 Demolish

- 4 Branches of learning

- 5 Jumble

- 6 Town in County Yorkshire, Eng.

- 7 Harasser

- 8 Coquetting

- 9 Cereal

- 10 Scent

- 11 Chinese measure of about ⅓ mile

- 12 Wide mouthed jar

- 13 Approach

- 14 Slayer

- 15 Clips close

- 16 Tinges

- 17 Them (colloq.)

- 18 River in Hungary

- 19 Formerly one of the four divisions of Yeovil

- 20 Well known Brussels professor, authority on Diptera

- 21 Immortalized

- 27 Entices

- 29 Swerved aside

- 40 Corroded

- 41 Lower subdivision of rocks of Tertiary era

- 42 Trail of a deer

- 44 A specie of valerian

- 45 Steeple

- 46 Coffee-houses

- 47 Mohammedan Prince

- 48 Bristle

- 49 Pollutes

- 50 Amorous

- 52 Separate articles

- 55 Pillages

- 57 American R. R.

- 59 Over-subtle

- 60 One in servitude because of debt

- 61 Dwells

- 62 Building

- 63 Wandered

- 65 Ridiculed severely (colloq.)

- 66 To inspire with ardent love

- 67 Indicates

- 70 Before time

- 72 Trend

- 76 Frosting

- 77 Sweet potato (U. S.)

- 83 Lad (colloq.)

- 84 Dealer in stockings

- 85 Flower nectar

- 86 Son of Boaz (Bible)

- 88 Units

- 89 Perfumed

- 90 Famish

- 91 Devotional prayer

- 94 Sharpens

- 95 Equanimity (obs.)

- 99 Solitary

- 100 Buddhist priest

- 101 Portuguese coin

- 103 To look inquiringly

- 105 Accessories

- 106 Repaired

- 108 Pores

- 109 Finch-like bird

- 110 Fourpence

- 112 Hand-to-hand fight

- 114 Stool

- 115 Absconders

- 117 Famous Italian architect (1512–1572)

- 119 Bay on Vanua Levu, Fiji Islands

- 122 Frozen rain

- 124 Explosive charges

- 127 Bacterium

- 128 Conception

- 130 Gait of horse

- 131 Mountain in Thessaly

- 132 Blow delivered with open hand

- 133 Top of the head

- 134 Funeral pile

- 135 Lower part of the back

- 141 Si

- 143 Square type body

- 145 Roman weight

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PUZZLE NO. 138

THAT STRANGE CIRCUS ANIMAL!

By GERTRUDE B. CHESTRESMITH

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

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- 1 Foolish fellow

- 8 Territory of emperor

- 11 Raises

- 15 Racket

- 16 Remark

- 18 Assembly

- 19 Fine powder

- 20 Near

- 21 Maiden changed into heifer by Juno

- 23 Remove surface

- 24 Shove

- 25 Touching at one point

- 27 Point of compass

- 29 100 square meters

- 31 Writer of game book

- 33 Female deer

- 34 Note of scale

- 35 Child’s game

- 37 Paternal relative

- 38 Make or mend

- 40 North River (abbr.)

- 41 Fertile spot

- 43 Popular violinist

- 45 Passage

- 46 Like swine

- 47 Desert

- 48 Cleanse

- 50 Put off

- 52 Conjunction

- 54 Napoleon’s marshal “Bravest of the brave”

- 55 Goddess of mischief

- 57 Turret or high hill

- 58 Exclamation of surprise

- 59 Born

- 61 Grown up

- 63 Bed

- 64 Animal cries

- 66 Eating away

- 67 Wild European plum

- 68 Bursting sounds

- 70 Male designation

- 71 By the grace of God (abbr.)

- 72 Aperture for sliding piece

- 73 Magistrate, ancient Rome

- 75 Scotch for “no”

- 77 Annoy

- 78 Withdraw

- 80 Guard

- 81 Mitigates

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- 1 Suspension of proceedings

- 2 Anger

- 3 Myself

- 4 Meadow

- 5 Tellurium (symbol)

- 6 Anglo-Saxon money

- 7 Horses (obs.)

- 8 Bear

- 9 Lover of cheese

- 10 Exclamation of disgust

- 12 Blast furnace fuel

- 13 Union of three

- 14 Strong man of old

- 16 Ecclesiastical council

- 17 Submit

- 20 Exclamation of dislike

- 22 Single

- 24 Meanness

- 26 Imaginary hillside animal of circus

- 28 End

- 30 Chauffeur’s necessity

- 32 Jewel

- 35 Green and yellow finch

- 36 One of wandering band

- 38 Frozen rain

- 39 Bet

- 41 Over

- 42 Bucket on yoke

- 43 Terminus

- 44 Also not

- 49 Entangle

- 51 Mist

- 53 Harvester

- 55 Decorate

- 56 Cut out

- 58 Plunderer

- 60 Aftersong

- 61 Prepare for war

- 62 To dress up

- 63 Cathedral precinct

- 65 Revolving roasting bar

- 67 Blow

- 69 Skid

- 72 Views

- 74 Reckoning of years

- 76 Keel billed cuckoo

- 77 Golf term

- 79 Deity (Heb.)

- 80 Knights Templar (abbr.)

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PUZZLE NO. 139

NOT SO EASY AS IT LOOKS

By M. B. GILLUNG

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

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- 1 Flow

- 9 Voracious

- 16 Down

- 17 Spiral

- 19 Interstices

- 21 Speak

- 23 Queer (colloq.)

- 24 Boozer

- 26 Whether

- 28 Makes a whirring sound (Scot.)

- 30 He-animals

- 31 Senior (abbr.)

- 32 So

- 34 Chigoe

- 35 Aureolas

- 36 Sediment

- 37 Horde

- 39 Swab

- 41 Supplicate

- 42 Equality

- 43 Liberates

- 45 Rested

- 47 Paramount

- 49 Sea eagle

- 50 Rulers

- 52 Bird

- 53 Mother

- 55 Hesitates

- 58 Denoting presence

- 59 Similitude

- 60 Macerate

- 61 Buddy

- 62 Mold

- 63 Not (Scotch)

- 64 Enslaves

- 67 Forward

- 68 Ardor

- 70 Net

- 71 Heap (obs.)

- 74 Spreaders

- 77 Reams (pl. abbr.)

- 78 King salmon

- 80 Rainbow

- 81 Three-toed sloths

- 83 Silent

- 84 Cab

- 85 Scrap

- 86 Shoot

- 87 Sarcasms (obs.)

- 89 River

- 90 Canadian province (abbr.)

- 91 Irrigate

- 93 Chilling

- 95 Tin

- 96 Initiated

- 97 Flush

- 99 Doorkeeper

- 101 Dispassionate

- 102 Shoe

- 104 Minus quantities

- 106 Reasseverates

- 107 Politicians

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- 2 Note of scale

- 3 Sock

- 4 Vessel for coal

- 5 Couple

- 6 Plain

- 7 Thorium (abbr.)

- 8 Ever

- 9 Verge

- 10 Implement

- 11 Fables

- 12 Contends

- 13 Rages

- 14 Over

- 15 We

- 18 Ear

- 20 Sagacities

- 22 Therefores

- 24 Memoirs

- 25 Predeterminations

- 27 Animate

- 29 Dine

- 30 Queen

- 31 Pretend

- 33 Relinquish

- 36 Stead

- 38 Fines

- 40 Allurement

- 42 Vibrating

- 44 Printer’s measure

- 45 Nimble (obs.)

- 46 Snares (arch.)

- 48 Afternoon

- 50 Countenances

- 51 Vapid

- 54 Receptacle for wine

- 56 Grave

- 57 Wing

- 58 Past

- 64 Fascinate

- 65 Chink

- 66 Blundering

- 68 Prepare for publication

- 69 A Latin diphthong

- 72 Sloth

- 73 Growl (obs.)

- 75 Deviates

- 76 Whistle

- 78 Placidity

- 79 Spindle

- 82 Gentleman

- 83 A drinking cup

- 86 Sapients

- 88 Tanks

- 91 Ensnares

- 92 Boy

- 94 Impression

- 96 Serpent

- 97 Chief

- 98 Joke

- 100 Riddle

- 101 Selenium

- 102 Thoroughfare (abbr.)

- 103 Titanium

- 105 Strontium

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PUZZLE NO. 140

WEARY WILLIE

By MARGARET WADE

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

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- 1 Constructors

- 6 Quarrels

- 12 Nautical

- 13 Crescent shaped

- 15 The actinia

- 17 Near the middle

- 18 Trespass

- 19 Principal commodities in a market

- 21 Conjunction

- 22 Track of a deer

- 24 Stopped

- 25 Moulding

- 26 Alleviated

- 28 Secret watcher

- 29 Waste matter

- 30 Girl’s name

- 32 Vegetable

- 33 Undivided whole

- 34 Examine minutely

- 36 Departs

- 38 Apron for vehicle

- 41 Loudly

- 43 Equal value

- 45 Mistake

- 47 Melts (Scot.)

- 48 Kind of acid

- 50 Dry

- 51 Finis

- 52 Former gold coin of Europe

- 54 Author of “Fables in Slang”

- 55 Vain person

- 57 Moslem enemy of Christendom

- 59 Remains

- 60 Country houses

- 61 To steal workers’ tools

- 62 Small portion of food (Univ. Eng.)

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- 1 Capital of Philippine Islands

- 2 Gritty

- 3 Book by Kipling

- 4 Biblical character, son of Seth

- 5 Hires

- 7 Var. of clead, to clothe (dial. Eng.)

- 8 Hastens

- 9 Insect

- 10 Model

- 11 Stones (Scot.)

- 12 Assembles

- 14 First in origin

- 16 Devours

- 17 To surfeit

- 20 Bishop of Rome

- 23 Subtile

- 25 Speakers

- 27 Ate

- 29 An author

- 31 The infernal regions

- 32 Kind of napkin

- 35 Move rapidly

- 36 Kind of boat

- 37 Vehicle

- 39 Molasses

- 40 To trim feathers

- 42 Hesitate

- 43 Support

- 44 Rivers (Span.)

- 46 Severe trial

- 48 Snake borne as a charge (Fr. Her.)

- 49 Part of brain

- 52 Early inhabitant of Scotland

- 53 Part of “esse” (Lat.)

- 56 Small singing bird

- 58 Higher part of scale

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PUZZLE NO. 141

WORDS AND MUSIC

By MR. and MRS. OTTOKAR T. CADEK

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

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- 1 Froth

- 5 Nimbus

- 9 Number

- 10 Forbid

- 14 Clogs

- 16 Thin

- 18 Article

- 19 Motors

- 22 Point of compass

- 24 Break

- 26 Metrical recantations

- 27 Conducted

- 28 Ages

- 30 Distinguished service order

- 31 Retained

- 32 Hinder

- 33 Scolds

- 35 Golf term

- 37 Excavate

- 38 Surplus

- 40 Distal segment of hind leg

- 42 Near

- 44 Chaste

- 45 Lessen gradually

- 46 Spiritual essence in modern occultism

- 47 Light

- 48 Blank

- 49 Brave

- 50 King of Bashan (Josh. 12)

- 51 Drizzle

- 53 Plunder

- 55 Half an em

- 56 River in Scotland

- 57 Descendants of Shem

- 60 Evil spirit

- 62 State in Germany

- 63 Entrances

- 64 Pays court to

- 66 Book of the Bible

- 68 Single

- 70 U. S. coin

- 71 Contains

- 72 Alienated

- 76 Pinch

- 77 Part of “to be”

- 78 Exposed

- 80 Abbreviation of a coin

- 81 Concealed

- 83 Holding

- 85 Disorder

- 86 Japanese statesman

- 88 Unit of force

- 89 Vast depth

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- 2 River in Italy

- 3 State of being contrary to fundamental law

- 4 Pronoun

- 5 Exclamation

- 6 Sleeveless haircloth garment

- 7 Melt suddenly, as snow

- 8 Perfume

- 10 Roofed

- 11 Beverages

- 12 Conveyance

- 13 Note of Guido’s scale

- 14 Trapped

- 15 Phoebus

- 16 Executed

- 17 Administers extreme unction (obs.)

- 18 Seasoned

- 20 King of Phrygia (myth.)

- 21 Hissed

- 23 Whirlpool

- 25 Parchments written on twice

- 27 Jugglery

- 29 Farinaceous food

- 31 Trust

- 33 Germane

- 34 Junctions of two surfaces

- 36 Prowess

- 38 Rages

- 39 Relieves

- 41 Portents

- 43 Lamb or yearling sheep

- 46 Crude metal

- 52 Inferior

- 54 Strove

- 56 March away

- 58 Irish poet

- 59 City in Italy

- 61 Cellular volcanic lava

- 62 Hedge

- 65 Clan

- 67 Ancient seaport of Cicilia

- 69 Cauterized

- 72 Consequences

- 73 Article

- 74 Acquire

- 75 Disown

- 78 Exercise (obs.)

- 79 Press for payment

- 82 Printers’ unit

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PUZZLE NO. 142

DON’T BE CROSS

By DANIEL O’LEARY

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

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- 1 Thorny

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- 18 Brigand

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- 20 Bring to light

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- 23 Father

- 25 Fall, glide, slip (rare)

- 26 Common metal

- 27 Outburst

- 29 Jewels

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- 32 Lime tree

- 34 Wooden water vessels

- 35 Musical group

- 36 Work slowly through

- 37 Composition

- 39 Satiate

- 41 Wagers

- 42 Give syntax

- 43 Row

- 45 Muscular cords

- 47 Facts

- 48 Adam’s son

- 50 Frighten

- 51 Famous Italian actress

- 53 Room in a house

- 55 Golf term

- 56 Pie

- 59 Water container

- 61 Corrode

- 63 Severed

- 65 Not mad

- 67 Natural metal

- 68 Type of fly

- 69 Elongated fish

- 70 Beverage

- 71 Wax

- 73 Glisten

- 75 Sober; steady

- 77 Gentle

- 78 Anger

- 80 Veteran

- 82 White ant

- 84 Old (Scotch)

- 85 Musical instrument

- 87 Animal fat

- 89 Swell of the sea

- 90 Playthings

- 92 Boy’s name

- 95 Fruit

- 97 Risqué

- 98 Soft drinks

- 100 Not tight

- 102 Island in the Pacific

- 103 Oversatisfy

- 104 Strip of wood

- 106 Sleigh

- 107 Altitude

- 108 Says

- 110 Prizes

- 112 Anglo-Saxon money account

- 113 E. Indian gums

- 115 Direct

- 117 Contriver

- 119 Forever (poet.)

- 120 Period of time

- 121 Far East

- 122 Continued stories

- 123 Melt ore

- 124 Barns

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- 1 Throw out hastily

- 2 Feels sorry for

- 3 Master of a style of literature

- 4 Short sleep

- 5 Pertaining to the ear

- 6 Fastens

- 8 Loud noise

- 9 Insect

- 10 Percolate

- 12 Greeting

- 13 Sickness

- 14 By the way of

- 15 Projection

- 16 Those who get up

- 17 Stopped

- 22 Body of ancient temple

- 23 Mailed

- 24 That which is kept

- 25 Rainbow

- 28 Flesh

- 30 Sciences

- 33 Pertaining to the uninitiated

- 36 Wets

- 38 Cycle of time

- 40 Growing out

- 41 Parts of the body

- 42 Bygone days

- 44 Annoy

- 46 Owing

- 47 Powder

- 49 Turned northward

- 51 Newspapers

- 52 Era

- 53 Docks

- 54 Product of coniferous trees

- 56 Fold

- 57 Gates (obs.)

- 58 Not water-tight

- 60 Part of “to be”

- 62 Lair

- 64 Fondle

- 66 Born

- 72 Shoulder of a bastion

- 73 I

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- 75 Baseless column

- 76 Band instrument

- 77 Metre (Greek)

- 79 Tempt

- 81 Lessen

- 83 Flour

- 85 Speeders

- 86 Vault

- 88 Controls

- 89 Speak confusedly

- 90 Companion

- 91 Sea mammal

- 93 Army officer

- 94 Hurls again

- 96 Biblical character

- 97 Rodents

- 99 Soot from flue of mercury furnace

- 101 Calm

- 103 Metal

- 105 Spartan slave

- 108 Bone of arm

- 109 Part of a plant

- 110 Calf

- 111 Girl’s name

- 114 Three (prefix)

- 116 Before

- 118 Pen point

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PUZZLE NO. 143

A MILITARY SALUTE

By SERGEANT

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

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- 1 Pertaining to images

- 8 Concealed passengers

- 15 Blaze

- 16 Reptile

- 18 Ancestors

- 19 Continually

- 21 Earring

- 22 Arable land

- 23 Reward (Fr.)

- 24 Two (prefix)

- 25 God of thunder

- 27 More than enough

- 28 Evil

- 29 A color

- 30 Arabian shrub

- 31 Sacred symbol

- 33 Tendered

- 36 Official seat (leg.)

- 37 Sailing ship

- 39 Toward

- 40 Adjective suffix meaning “of”

- 41 Word of unknown meaning found in the Bible

- 42 Side bars of pair of spectacles

- 44 Support

- 46 Variety of pyroxene

- 48 Article

- 49 Fruits

- 51 Personal pronoun

- 52 Measure of weight

- 56 Peaceful

- 58 Weights

- 62 Paradoxical

- 63 Proportion

- 64 Crushed

- 65 Begin

- 67 Sun god

- 69 Ricochets

- 70 Conjunction

- 71 Pillars

- 76 Once (obs.)

- 77 Makes level (Engl. dial.)

- 81 South American armadillos

- 82 Exclamation

- 84 Live

- 85 Flag

- 86 The number of muses

- 87 Respiration

- 91 Japanese spirit gods

- 92 To beat (Scot.)

- 93 Vat

- 94 Knot

- 95 Branch

- 97 Thrice

- 98 Printing unit

- 99 Genus of shrubs

- 100 A large weight

- 101 Heap (obs.)

- 103 Egyptian deity

- 104 Kilns

- 105 Tavern

- 106 Hatred

- 108 Designating a crystalline acid

- 109 Machine run by mixture of gases

VERTICAL

- 1 Pertaining to the classification of facts

- 2 Whether

- 3 Ancient

- 4 Separate

- 5 Company

- 6 Accounts

- 7 Mohammedan ruler

- 8 Temporary cross timber used in shipbuilding

- 9 Large hawks

- 10 Telegraphed

- 11 Barren

- 12 Irritate (obs.)

- 13 Because

- 14 Seamstresses

- 17 Independence

- 20 Warble

- 24 Territory governed by a ban

- 26 Space

- 30 Prickly plant of the glasswort family

- 32 Hew

- 34 Hawaiian bird

- 35 Concerning

- 36 Fruit of India yielding a yellow dye

- 38 Stages

- 41 Protected

- 43 Measure of type

- 44 Share

- 45 A worsted yarn

- 47 Part of verb “to be”

- 49 Notches

- 50 Margins

- 53 Biblical character

- 54 Soak

- 55 The first name of a character in the “Arabian Nights”

- 56 The goddess of dawn

- 57 Chief (Sp.)

- 59 Age

- 60 Dexterity

- 61 Stain

- 63 Those who disavow

- 66 Breathe

- 68 Article

- 70 Mystic ejaculation used by Hindus

- 72 A narcotic

- 73 Alley

- 74 Accustom by practice (obs.)

- 75 Contemptuous irony

- 77 Member of a legislative body

- 78 A vessel

- 79 Handle of a joiner’s plane

- 80 Greek poet

- 83 Personal pronoun

- 84 Prefix denoting two

- 87 Enough! (It. interj.)

- 88 Garret

- 89 Reddish orange dye

- 90 Order

- 93 Trough used in smelting

- 96 Chief

- 99 Strike

- 102 Sow (Scot.)

- 104 Suffix meaning oil

- 107 A tone of the diatonic scale

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PUZZLE NO. 144

OCEAN WAVES

By MRS. H. A. WOLFE

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

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- 1 African spear

- 7 Language of Semitic origin

- 11 Climbing

- 17 Dead (Scotch)

- 18 Reverie

- 19 Harangues

- 20 Title

- 21 One who bequeaths

- 23 Ties

- 25 Too

- 27 Behold

- 28 Quality

- 29 Every third day

- 33 Fat

- 34 Bathe

- 35 Monsters

- 37 Non-poisonous strangling serpent

- 39 To sort

- 41 A kind of pastry

- 43 Island in the British West Indies

- 45 Land measure

- 47 Condition

- 48 Staggers

- 50 Half

- 51 Large volumes

- 53 Nightfall

- 54 Friend

- 55 Roman earth goddess

- 57 Decay

- 58 Nickname (female)

- 60 Royal banner

- 63 Combined

- 66 German province

- 69 Metal

- 70 Unit

- 72 Farm

- 76 Forests

- 81 Female singer

- 84 Fine

- 85 Incite

- 87 Point of the compass

- 88 Anger

- 89 Vehicle

- 91 College slang for a gathering

- 93 Horse

- 95 Vestige

- 97 Change

- 99 Bird

- 100 Drudge

- 102 Number

- 103 Dust collector

- 105 Corrode

- 106 Exhausted

- 108 Spanish lady

- 109 Fears

- 112 To make indented lines

- 115 Obstruction

- 118 Note of scale

- 120 Appendage

- 121 Expiate

- 123 Care

- 125 Fortify

- 127 Religious song of praise

- 128 Avarice

- 129 Reptile

- 130 Musical instrument

- 131 Worthless

- 132 Main component

VERTICAL

- 1 Increases

- 2 Perceive

- 3 Hindu deity

- 4 Revises

- 5 Worshippers

- 6 Annoy

- 7 Schedule

- 8 Pattern

- 9 A measure

- 10 Previous

- 11 Celestial body

- 12 Pertaining to the Gaels (combining form)

- 13 Allot

- 14 Exists

- 15 Nothing

- 16 Increase

- 22 Thorn (Scotch)

- 24 Mountain top ice

- 26 Equipped for propulsion

- 30 Lake in North America

- 31 At no time

- 32 Mountains in Eastern U. S.

- 36 Sandstorm

- 37 Club

- 38 Country in the Near East

- 40 Follower of the Dutch founder of Anabaptists

- 41 Wealth

- 42 Girl’s name

- 44 Rest

- 46 Scavenger fishes

- 48 Invade

- 49 Totals

- 52 Swamps

- 54 Assumption

- 56 Tyro

- 59 Suffix radical (chem.)

- 60 Suffix diminutive

- 61 Tear

- 62 Prefix, out

- 63 Tooth

- 64 Pronoun

- 65 Article

- 67 Dim

- 68 Affirmative

- 70 Suffix toward

- 71 Suffix one who

- 73 Small portable organs

- 74 Southern state (abbr.)

- 75 Orient

- 76 Previously existed

- 77 Place for the seal on legal papers

- 78 Southwestern state

- 79 Murdered

- 80 Pertaining to Italian volcano

- 82 Roman emperor

- 83 Cereal

- 85 Printer’s measures

- 86 Fruit of the vine

- 89 Dirt removers

- 90 Sharp rejoinder

- 92 Suffix quality

- 94 Occurrence

- 96 Antagonistic

- 97 Shades

- 98 Recompenses

- 101 Employ

- 103 Quarter in London

- 104 City in Nevada

- 107 Quaver

- 110 Scale

- 111 Biblical character Old Testament

- 113 Plant

- 114 Placed

- 116 Black

- 117 Give

- 119 Weary

- 122 Dark viscid oil

- 124 Insect exudation

- 126 Personal pronoun

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PUZZLE NO. 145

WAFFLED WORDS

By MRS. ERIC CRULL

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

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- 1 Ancient burial place

- 8 Dormant

- 15 Metallic rocks

- 16 Instrument

- 18 Vegetable

- 19 Medicinal herb

- 20 Low

- 21 Plateau

- 23 Design

- 24 Shake

- 25 Wager

- 26 Salutation

- 27 Lair

- 29 Rider Haggard’s heroine

- 30 Body organ

- 31 To add to

- 33 Small point

- 35 To rule

- 38 Stigmatized

- 40 Mythological queen

- 43 Hence

- 44 Pony of India

- 45 To bite lightly

- 47 To chastise

- 48 Clamor

- 49 Performed

- 50 A numeral

- 52 To tangle

- 54 Compete

- 55 A tribal symbol

- 57 A large bird

- 59 Adventitious sounds (med.)

- 61 Finery

- 62 Beyond

- 63 Girl’s name

- 64 A measure

- 66 Boisterous

- 68 A color

- 69 Attempt

- 71 Transgression

- 72 Piece of connecting pipe

- 73 Little Eva’s friend

- 75 A cereal

- 77 Placed

- 79 Of equal value

- 80 Legend

- 81 Contiguous (poet.)

- 83 Of greater density

- 86 Drunkard

- 87 Sailor

- 89 Not the same

- 90 Moisture

- 91 Pronoun

- 94 Weight

- 96 Pitch

- 97 A metal

- 98 Denoting three

- 100 Field

- 102 Scriptural animals

- 105 Fold

- 106 Heroine of a Wagnerian opera

- 107 Always

- 108 Cozy spot

- 109 A girl’s name

- 110 One who slows up

- 111 A kind of acid

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- 1 Summoned

- 2 A space

- 3 Lacerate

- 4 Cleopatra’s finish

- 5 An amphibious mammal

- 6 Ditch or trench

- 7 Popular style of hairdressing

- 8 Salt water

- 9 Earth

- 10 Done with

- 11 Soft food

- 12 Troubles

- 13 Biblical character

- 14 Produce

- 17 South American animal

- 18 Mix

- 22 Dusk

- 25 Bar

- 28 Immediately

- 30 Self

- 31 Skill

- 32 Retreat

- 34 Shoe latchet

- 36 Latin verb (form of “to be”)

- 37 A great menace

- 38 Evil

- 39 Not bright

- 41 Perpetual motion (compound word)

- 42 Raised platform

- 44 Used in building

- 46 Associate

- 49 Relating to debts

- 50 A green spot

- 51 Fairylike

- 53 A beautiful lake

- 56 One of Dickens’s characters

- 57 Finish

- 58 Consume calories

- 60 Hawaiian decoration

- 63 Name of a street

- 65 Kind of cloth

- 67 Long ago

- 68 Change

- 70 Still

- 72 A black substance

- 74 Name of a boat (historical)

- 76 Corrode

- 78 Also

- 79 Through

- 80 Depressed

- 82 A rodent

- 84 Extreme

- 85 A bird

- 86 A number

- 88 Dressed

- 90 Flat plates

- 92 Robust

- 93 Once

- 95 Glacier ice

- 97 Thunder

- 98 Relate

- 99 Branches

- 101 Common European gull

- 103 Possessive pronoun

- 104 Also

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PUZZLE NO. 146

THE QUESTION MARK

By MRS. E. I. ASHTON

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

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- 1 A science

- 6 Most loyal

- 12 A city in Nevada

- 13 Queen of the fairies

- 16 Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudarum (abbr.)

- 18 Paid (abbr.)

- 20 Ecclesiastical abbreviation

- 21 A great nation of ancient Syria

- 23 Prefix meaning together

- 24 One of the United States (abbr.)

- 25 Barren open country

- 27 Conjunction

- 28 Thou (Ger.)

- 29 A perfume (obs.)

- 31 Babylonian goddess

- 32 Or (Latin)

- 33 Chinese book of rights and ceremonies

- 34 One of the Banda Islands

- 35 A hero of the Trojan war

- 37 Spanish ecclesiastical historian

- 39 A fish

- 40 Any pointed saying

- 42 Thee (French)

- 43 Adverb

- 45 Ancient Roman poet

- 46 Russian penal colony

- 48 Female parent

- 51 Human beings

- 52 Famous Austrian electrician of 19th century

- 54 Night (Latin)

- 56 Preposition

- 57 To mark with degrees

- 59 Assyrian god

- 60 Bromine (abbr.)

- 61 Native of Turkey

- 63 Irritating sensation

- 65 A young dog

- 66 King of ancient Britain

- 67 Pronoun

- 68 Indefinite article

- 69 Tree

- 70 Portuguese chronicler

- 72 Part of the anatomy

- 73 Prefix meaning “twice”

- 74 A Hawaiian food

- 75 Grassy plant

- 76 River in Siberia

- 77 Silver (abbr.)

- 78 Philosophical theory of Hume and Kant

- 80 Tributary of Drina River

- 81 Foot coverings

- 82 Each (abbr.)

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- 2 Conjunction

- 3 Bequeath

- 4 Transformation into human shape

- 5 Word of refusal

- 7 One of the United States (abbr.)

- 8 Unlawful

- 9 Interrogation point

- 10 If (French)

- 11 Monster of Greek mythology

- 13 A plant

- 14 Preposition

- 15 Pandemonium

- 17 Mountains in Bolivia

- 19 River in Venetia

- 21 German political economist of 19th century

- 22 Night (French)

- 24 Geological term

- 26 At suit of (abbr.)

- 30 To bind

- 36 Torn asunder

- 38 Ancient Cappadocian goddess

- 41 A spirituous liquor

- 44 A sacred box

- 46 Prefix, through

- 47 A town in southeastern Africa

- 49 Noted American humorist

- 50 To introduce something new

- 52 Town in southeastern Slavonia

- 53 Lymph vessels

- 55 Cape in Scotland

- 57 A province in Spain

- 58 A digraph

- 60 A famous modern pianist

- 61 Gratuity (colloq.)

- 62 Federations

- 64 A riddle

- 65 Ecclesiastical term

- 68 To humble

- 71 Egyptian god

- 72 A queen of Navarre

- 79 No date (abbr.)

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PUZZLE NO. 147

NOT A FLIVVER

By FRANK A. FORD

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

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- 1 Confirms

- 6 Ahead

- 10 Fur-bearing animal

- 16 On the top of

- 17 Rodent

- 18 Possesses

- 20 Marsh

- 21 Traffic

- 23 To whine like a child

- 24 Retired

- 26 A balanced stone

- 28 Concealed

- 29 Quality of being rigidly perfect

- 31 To bestow

- 33 Vessel

- 34 Otherwise

- 36 To give a dinner to

- 38 Fixed allowance

- 39 Not more than one time

- 40 Second tone of diatonic scale

- 41 Projecting ridge

- 43 Female of the sheep

- 45 Manner of continuity

- 47 Pronoun

- 48 Decline

- 49 Different

- 52 Repeats noisily

- 54 Withdraw

- 56 To border upon

- 57 Tract of land surrounded by water

- 59 Harmonized

- 60 The hawthorn

- 62 Appropriate

- 64 A disciple of Zeno

- 66 Hymenopterous insects

- 67 Suitable

- 68 Measure of yarn

- 70 Knock lightly

- 72 Wide mouth pitcher

- 73 Calm

- 74 The European hedge sparrow

- 75 The reverse side of a coin

- 79 Period of time

- 80 Before

- 82 Unite

- 83 A percoid fish

- 86 A mistake

- 88 Name of a letter

- 90 Sliding weight on a steelyard

- 91 Dallied

- 92 Amounts

- 94 Progeny

- 97 Impartial

- 100 A number

- 101 Protuberant glands

- 103 Not near

- 105 Printer’s measure

- 107 Fur-bearing animal

- 109 Dread

- 110 A weight

- 112 Exclamation

- 113 Method of preserving

- 115 Address

- 117 Mark

- 118 Was indebted

- 120 Native metal

- 121 Annoy

- 123 Garment

- 125 Of the verb “to be”

- 126 Without content

- 128 Roman garment

- 129 Letters of ancient Scandinavians

- 130 Female fox

- 132 Lime, clay and sand mixture

- 134 External covering of down, or fiber

- 135 Quadruped of genus Equus

- 136 Procreate

- 137 Loud voiced herald

- 138 English theologian and philologist

- 139 To quiet

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- 1 Pollen containers

- 2 Species of batrachians

- 3 Stop

- 4 To erect a mast (naut.)

- 5 Preposition

- 6 Not real

- 7 An article

- 8 Species of fish

- 9 Small drum

- 11 Of the verb “to be”

- 12 A plant of the cabbage genus

- 13 To show affection

- 14 Musical instrument

- 15 Cloth of firm texture

- 17 Destroyed

- 19 Governing body

- 22 Stir up

- 23 Conceited fellow

- 25 Fruit

- 27 Curve

- 30 A mammary gland

- 32 Inclines

- 35 Lifts up

- 37 Differ

- 39 Finely finished

- 42 One of Tennyson’s heroines

- 43 Biblical character

- 44 Measure of physics

- 46 Used in painting

- 48 Of the verb “go”

- 50 Species of plant

- 51 The swell of the ocean

- 53 Crystallized rain

- 54 Pathway

- 55 Countries

- 57 Pertaining to a Latin race

- 58 Punch block

- 59 A sense

- 61 A rich kind of India satin

- 63 Mature

- 65 Summary of professed principles

- 67 Destroyed

- 68 Caustic

- 69 Mimic

- 71 The box containing the Host (obs. Sp.)

- 76 Application of knowledge

- 77 Metal

- 78 Preparation for the skin

- 81 Saws again

- 83 Vegetable

- 84 Inspection of a deed or bond (law)

- 85 Prefix meaning through

- 87 Empty declamation

- 89 Title

- 90 Lamb brought up by hand

- 91 Porous stone

- 93 River of Hades (myth.)

- 95 Large inland body of salt water

- 96 Employ

- 98 Merits

- 99 Takes a reverse motion

- 101 Native of Great Britain

- 102 Descendants

- 104 Rhythmical flow of language

- 106 First part of day

- 108 Cardinal point of compass

- 111 Disease

- 112 Hither

- 114 Obsolete spelling of realm

- 116 Authorized

- 117 Mixture of white lead and lime

- 119 Covered with wax

- 121 Bold

- 122 Variety of turnip (obs.)

- 123 Game of cards

- 124 Producing injury

- 127 Girl’s nickname

- 131 Anger

- 133 Behold

- 136 Note on diatonic scale

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PUZZLE NO. 148

THE SQUARE ROOT OF CROSS WORDS

By IRVAN NECKERMAN

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

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- 1 A dissension

- 5 Expression of pity

- 9 Any slender bristlelike organ

- 13 Smooth and transparent

- 14 Afforded

- 15 Plain

- 17 Revolves

- 18 Passageway

- 19 Frame for drying clothes

- 20 Small island

- 21 Geometrical figure

- 22 An allotted portion

- 23 Manifestation

- 24 Outcry

- 25 Commands

- 26 Eastern title of authority

- 28 One of Rider Haggard’s books

- 30 To annoy

- 34 Chinese Buddha

- 36 Geometrical figure

- 41 Early name of Ireland

- 42 Poisonous extract

- 45 Wander

- 46 A chink

- 47 Rubber

- 48 A throng

- 49 Cotton or woolen dress goods

- 51 Old way of spelling “that”

- 52 Additional

- 54 Goddess of vengeance

- 56 Literary fragments

- 57 Dance

- 61 A borrowing

- 64 To name

- 69 Relating to spaces

- 70 Father

- 71 A student (Fr.)

- 72 Measure of capacity

- 73 Batrachian

- 74 Artist’s models

- 75 Household gods

- 76 Besides

- 77 River in England

- 78 Inclinations

- 79 To account

- 80 Commissioned

VERTICAL

- 1 Wallow

- 2 A cloth worn by Roman ladies

- 3 City in France

- 4 Canopies

- 5 Mixtures

- 6 To set out

- 7 Historical record

- 8 Shelters (obs.)

- 9 Random cuts

- 10 Choice body

- 11 Darnel

- 12 Concerning

- 13 Small ditch or furrow

- 16 Fragments

- 27 Eminence

- 29 Consecrated place

- 30 Possessive pronoun

- 31 Enclosed place

- 32 Fissure

- 33 Put up

- 34 Contest

- 35 Malt kiln

- 37 Chief; greatest

- 38 To penetrate

- 39 Across

- 40 Information

- 43 Abraham’s birthplace

- 44 Syllable of diatonic scale

- 50 Unwilling to hear

- 53 Special gifts

- 55 Transported

- 56 Chaplet or wreath

- 57 To invite

- 58 Ancient heretical sect

- 59 Combining form, meaning stone

- 60 Heard

- 62 Weight of twelve grains

- 63 To lower

- 65 A walk or passageway

- 66 Wild goat of the Bible

- 67 Conclusion

- 68 For fear that

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PUZZLE NO. 149

THE OLD ARMY GAME

By CHARLEY CINDERGLASS and STONEY LONESOME

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

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HORIZONTAL

- 1 Spoil or mar

- 6 Species of rodents

- 11 Reduces

- 15 A petty dude

- 19 The sun god

- 21 Woe

- 22 A genus of American monkeys

- 23 A musical note

- 24 Belonging to a thing

- 26 Eat grass

- 27 Issue

- 28 Maker of honey

- 29 Produce designs on metal

- 31 Small wild ox (zool.)

- 32 Tidy

- 33 Stupid

- 34 The European finch (zool.)

- 36 Headmen (Hindu.)

- 38 Foundations (var.)

- 39 Showing favors

- 41 Silt (hyd. engine)

- 43 Exile

- 44 A compass box (naut.)

- 46 One who fishes with a net

- 47 A reptile

- 48 Scrapes together

- 50 Amphibians

- 51 Recital

- 52 Prominent people

- 56 Scatter

- 57 Etheral salt (chem.)

- 62 A vessel for holding soup

- 64 Dries by receding tide (reformed spelling)

- 65 Broil in a covered pan

- 66 The angel of the bottomless pit

- 68 Reduce in grade

- 69 Steeple

- 70 Crest

- 73 The carcass of a whale after blubber is removed (var.)

- 75 A bone of the forearm

- 76 Deep dislike

- 77 Crafts

- 79 At the (obs.)

- 80 Member

- 81 Trait

- 82 A fish

- 84 Evening (poetical)

- 85 So

- 86 Shout

- 87 Mist (meteorol.)

- 89 Regarding

- 90 Species of birds

- 91 A storehouse for arms

- 93 Judges

- 94 Serving as a type

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- 2 Force of mesmerism

- 3 Contraction meaning “the thing exists”

- 4 Obstruct

- 5 A cry of joy

- 6 The European owl (zool.)

- 7 Rank

- 8 Those who are in

- 9 The euphonic form of ad before g

- 10 Attempts

- 12 An instrument used by engineers

- 13 Pertaining to the Upper Archaean rocks

- 14 To affirm solemnly

- 15 The animals of any given period

- 16 Fur bearing animals

- 17 The winged cap of mercury

- 18 Celts

- 20 Looks after

- 23 Machines for cutting down trees

- 25 Shade

- 28 Bent outward

- 30 A genus of marine decapod crustaceans

- 33 The goddess of the hunt

- 35 Cozy corner

- 37 Small S. African antelope

- 38 The muse who presided over history

- 40 Having tresses

- 42 Epistles

- 44 Cross shaped

- 45 Arctic forked-tailed gulls (zool.)

- 48 Abyssinian title

- 49 Unite by stitches

- 52 Fasteners

- 53 A series of tubes

- 54 The palm cockatoo (zool.)

- 55 Advise (Scot.)

- 58 Shirt (Scot.)

- 59 Head-dress

- 60 Social standing

- 61 Enter again

- 63 Noticeable

- 65 A spirituous liquor

- 67 Idea

- 68 A window in a roof

- 69 Sea birds

- 71 Wahoo

- 72 Marine gastropod (zool.)

- 74 A pony

- 76 Stops

- 78 Rain, wind and snow

- 81 Rodent

- 83 Small

- 86 Head covering

- 88 Short sleep

- 90 Mother

- 92 Note of musical scale

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PUZZLE NO. 150

AN INDENTED TERROR

By J. T. DELANEY

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

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HORIZONTAL

- 1 Contraction of common New England first name

- 5 Fragment of earthenware

- 10 Slight coloring

- 14 Shriek

- 15 Linen cloth once worn in a head-dress

- 16 River in Germany

- 17 Edible root

- 20 East Indian cereal

- 21 Distribute (obs.)

- 24 Philippine tree, blind-your-eyes

- 25 Moving company

- 27 Profuse talk

- 28 European burbot

- 29 Submerged marine plant

- 31 Purgative principle of rhubarb, etc.

- 33 Sharp flavor

- 34 Physician or surgeon

- 36 Equable

- 37 Secular

- 38 Italian sou

- 39 Stalk

- 41 Cuchullin’s wife in Celtic mythology

- 43 Steal

- 44 Simple

- 45 Bellow

- 47 Exudation from certain plants

- 49 Obstruct

- 51 Flow in a stream

- 52 Property

- 54 Greek letter

- 56 Outlying districts

- 60 Inner bark of trees

- 61 Wilful disobedience

- 66 Avail

- 67 Philippine date plum

- 69 Struggle

- 70 Round hill or point of land

- 71 Auditory

- 72 Heelless slipper

- 73 Move suddenly and rapidly

- 74 Interpret writing

- 75 Assign

- 77 Clever

- 78 Fall of earth into a mine, etc.

- 80 Path

- 81 Globular flask once used for ointments, etc.

- 83 Comfortable

- 84 Revolving platform with seats for children

- 86 Native amorphous silica

- 87 Significant date

- 89 Play on words (pl.)

- 90 Pastoral composition

- 92 Cannon

- 94 Inclination

- 95 Rabbit

- 97 Entrance

- 99 Dry

- 101 Trial

- 104 Worship

- 106 Chart

- 107 Variety of chalcedony

- 109 Household deities

- 112 Assuredly (slang)

- 113 Spanish copper coin

- 115 Terrible woman

- 117 Erudition

- 118 Tuneful

- 120 Italian game resembling tennis

- 122 Typical genus of the mustards

- 124 Remove hair

- 125 Silk cotton tree

- 126 Itch

- 127 Satiate

- 128 Dishearten

- 129 Furnace

- 130 Swarm (Eng.)

- 131 Sudden involuntary movement

- 132 Footgear for snow travel

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- 1 Sulphide of iron, copper, etc.

- 2 Esteem

- 3 Bone of the arm

- 4 Select group

- 5 Sieve

- 6 Detected by the ear

- 7 Seaweed

- 8 Pass a rope through

- 9 Region of fancies

- 10 Gateway to Buddhist temple

- 11 Adored one

- 12 Anarchist of most extreme type

- 13 Vibrant effect on a tambourine

- 17 Satiate

- 18 African medicinal plant

- 19 Panel

- 21 Of heroic proportions

- 22 Give heed

- 23 Consequently

- 25 Famish (Eng.)

- 26 Bullfinch (Eng. and Scot.)

- 30 Affirm

- 32 Metal blocks for stamping, etc.

- 35 Epistle in dactylic hexameters

- 38 Partition

- 40 Petulant grimace

- 42 Gratify

- 43 Disturbance

- 44 Debate

- 46 Plant with large spathe and starchy corn

- 48 Passable

- 50 Prong

- 51 Prescription given merely to satisfy a patient

- 53 Tally

- 55 Affectionate

- 56 Itch

- 57 Absolute

- 58 Consider the subjective objectively

- 59 Negro name

- 60 Trunk

- 62 Pertaining to the eye

- 63 Biblical name

- 64 Box of wooden slats

- 65 Warble

- 68 Parcel of jewels

- 69 Guinea pig

- 73 Moves with rapidity

- 76 Plunder

- 77 Associate

- 78 Faucet

- 79 Back part of the neck

- 80 Small beak-like process

- 82 Title of nobility

- 83 Outer garment

- 85 Dwarf

- 88 Typical genus of parrots

- 91 Passable

- 93 Resounding

- 94 Mass of ice

- 95 Designating a certain valve gear and engines so equipped

- 96 European bunting

- 98 Hamlet

- 100 Unusual

- 102 Marketable

- 103 Derivative of atropine

- 104 Culmination

- 105 Ocean

- 106 Brownish purple

- 108 Place to sleep (slang)

- 110 Indian of an Iroquoian tribe

- 111 Bar of a soap frame

- 113 One summoned

- 114 Fragrant

- 115 Designating the numerals from which Arabic numbers are derived

- 116 Notches

- 119 Point in time

- 121 Designating a common bean

- 123 Native corporal in India

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ADONIS’ DREAM

By MRS. E. I. ASHTON

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

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HORIZONTAL

- 1 Latin for “I love”

- 4 Opera by Verdi

- 8 Tragedy by Sardou

- 13 Transgression

- 14 French for “Mrs.”

- 16 Prejudice

- 17 Instrument for writing

- 18 Adverb

- 19 Bales (abbr.)

- 21 French for “bone”

- 22 A quality pencil or a planet

- 23 Ancient state in Asia Minor

- 27 Lair

- 29 Anew

- 30 Gold (abbr.)

- 32 Any cleaning agent

- 34 Name of one of the British Isles

- 35 South African antelope

- 37 Pronoun

- 39 That is (abbr.)

- 40 Royal mail (abbr.)

- 41 A color

- 43 Indefinite article

- 44 Ancient worshippers of Venus

- 47 Not (French)

- 48 Section of a foot (abbr.)

- 49 Tincture for wounds

- 50 Preposition

- 51 God willing (abbr.)

- 52 Cipher of several letters

- 53 Preposition

- 54 Preposition

- 56 Form of verb “to be”

- 57 River in Nevada

- 58 Lament, complaint (French)

- 60 Means of travel

- 65 Obliterators

- 69 Waterfall

- 70 Exclude

- 73 A dignitary

- 74 American temperance society (abbr.)

- 75 Rage

- 76 Liable

- 77 Comrade (coll.)

- 79 An organ

- 81 Lake in Galway

- 82 Pronoun

- 84 Unit

- 86 Consumption (coll.)

- 87 Adverb

- 88 A parent (coll.)

- 89 Post scriptum (abbr.)

- 90 A Phoenician god

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- 1 A Roman coin

- 2 An island in the Aegean Sea

- 3 Preposition

- 4 Entertains, diverts

- 5 A wicked spirit

- 6 French for “of”

- 7 Indefinite article

- 9 Bay in Siberia

- 10 Arabian seaport

- 11 One of the United States

- 12 Variety

- 15 Goddess of love

- 20 Pull roughly

- 21 A form of poetry

- 24 New England (abbr.)

- 25 Form of verb “to be”

- 26 An exclamation

- 28 Word of refusal

- 29 “Pertaining to” (suffix)

- 31 Spanish feminine for “a”

- 33 Reflector

- 34 An annual plant of southern Asia

- 36 Affecting the whole

- 38 Tint, color

- 39 Ancient Indians

- 41 Opera by Verdi

- 42 Prefix meaning “in”

- 45 Household dish

- 46 Town in south of France

- 51 River in Morocco

- 55 A game of chance

- 56 Receive

- 59 A kingdom of antiquity

- 61 Deed

- 62 Ornamental vessel

- 63 To, at (prefix)

- 64 African

- 65 Hinder

- 66 Italian historian

- 67 Town in central Persia

- 68 Undermine

- 70 Species of animal

- 71 Any plane surface

- 72 Peruse

- 78 From (Latin)

- 80 Conjunction

- 83 Pronoun

- 85 Northeast (abbr.)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ANSWERS

THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOKS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENT

PREFACE

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BALLADE OF CROSS WORDS

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

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RULES FOR CONSTRUCTION OF CROSS WORD PUZZLES

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HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS WORD PUZZLE

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DO’S AND DON’T’S FOR SOLVERS

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A CHRISTMAS TREE

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CHILDSPLAY

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LADIES FIRST

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THE LAZY MAN’S DELIGHT

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NEAT SYMMETRY

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THE DARLING OF THE GODS

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RIBS OF THREE-LETTER WORDS

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THE WHIFFENPOOF

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MIXED DOUBLES

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LONG AND LANGUID

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A YULETIDE CHANT

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THE NOVELTY SHOP

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A DOODLE BUG

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BATTALION ATTENTION!

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AN OLYMPIAN DELIGHT

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SOME LIKE ’EM HOT

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A SPECKLED SPECIALTY

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A WINGED BEAUTY

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THE MAN WHO CAME BACK

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SANCTA SIMPLICITAS

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A ROSE WITH A THORN OR TWO

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NINE CROSSES

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THIS ONE WON’T BREAK YOUR HEAD

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POLYGON

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FILLIP FOR AN IDLE HOUR

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GRACEFUL

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SPREADEAGLE

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YOU’LL HEAR ME CALLING YAHOO

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BEDIAMONDED BEAUTY

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FOR INSOMNIACS

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HOCUS POCUS

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A WORD FEST

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SMALL BUT MIGHTY

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THE BUTTERFLY

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SAFE AND SANE

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THE LITTLE TERROR

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CRUTCHES AND CROSSES

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THAT STRANGE CIRCUS ANIMAL!

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NOT SO EASY AS IT LOOKS

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WEARY WILLIE

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WORDS AND MUSIC

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DON’T BE CROSS

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A MILITARY SALUTE

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OCEAN WAVES

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WAFFLED WORDS

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THE QUESTION MARK

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NOT A FLIVVER

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THE SQUARE ROOT OF CROSS WORDS

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THE OLD ARMY GAME

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AN INDENTED TERROR

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ADONIS’ DREAM

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COLOPHON

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Title:

The cross word puzzle book: third series

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Prosper Buranelli (1890–1960)

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Frederic Gregory Hartswick (1891–)

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1924

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Table of Contents

Answers

The Cross Word Puzzle Books

Acknowledgement

Official Endorsement

PREFACE

BALLADE OF CROSS WORDS

L’envoi

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

RULES FOR CONSTRUCTION OF CROSS WORD PUZZLES

HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS WORD PUZZLE

DO’S AND DON’T’S FOR SOLVERS

Puzzle No. 101 A CHRISTMAS TREE

Puzzle No. 102 CHILDSPLAY

Puzzle No. 103 LADIES FIRST

Puzzle No. 104 THE LAZY MAN’S DELIGHT

Puzzle No. 105 NEAT SYMMETRY

Puzzle No. 106 THE DARLING OF THE GODS

Puzzle No. 107 RIBS OF THREE-LETTER WORDS

Puzzle No. 108 THE WHIFFENPOOF

Puzzle No. 109 MIXED DOUBLES

Puzzle No. 110 LONG AND LANGUID

Puzzle No. 111 A YULETIDE CHANT

Puzzle No. 112 THE NOVELTY SHOP

Puzzle No. 113 A DOODLE BUG

Puzzle No. 114 BATTALION ATTENTION!

Puzzle No. 115 AN OLYMPIAN DELIGHT

Puzzle No. 116 SOME LIKE ’EM HOT

Puzzle No. 117 A SPECKLED SPECIALTY

Puzzle No. 118 A WINGED BEAUTY

Puzzle No. 119 THE MAN WHO CAME BACK

Puzzle No. 120 SANCTA SIMPLICITAS

Puzzle No. 121 A ROSE WITH A THORN OR TWO

Puzzle No. 122 NINE CROSSES

Puzzle No. 123 THIS ONE WON’T BREAK YOUR HEAD

Puzzle No. 124 POLYGON

Puzzle No. 125 FILLIP FOR AN IDLE HOUR

Puzzle No. 126 GRACEFUL

Puzzle No. 127 SPREADEAGLE

Puzzle No. 128 YOU’LL HEAR ME CALLING YAHOO

Puzzle No. 129 BEDIAMONDED BEAUTY

Puzzle No. 130 FOR INSOMNIACS

Puzzle No. 131 HOCUS POCUS

Puzzle No. 132 A WORD FEST

Puzzle No. 133 SMALL BUT MIGHTY

Puzzle No. 134 THE BUTTERFLY

Puzzle No. 135 SAFE AND SANE

Puzzle No. 136 THE LITTLE TERROR

Puzzle No. 137 CRUTCHES AND CROSSES

Puzzle No. 138 THAT STRANGE CIRCUS ANIMAL!

Puzzle No. 139 NOT SO EASY AS IT LOOKS

Puzzle No. 140 WEARY WILLIE

Puzzle No. 141 WORDS AND MUSIC

Puzzle No. 142 DON’T BE CROSS

Puzzle No. 143 A MILITARY SALUTE

Puzzle No. 144 OCEAN WAVES

Puzzle No. 145 WAFFLED WORDS

Puzzle No. 146 THE QUESTION MARK

Puzzle No. 147 NOT A FLIVVER

Puzzle No. 148 THE SQUARE ROOT OF CROSS WORDS

Puzzle No. 149 THE OLD ARMY GAME

Puzzle No. 150 AN INDENTED TERROR

Why Not Give a Cross Word Puzzle Party?

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