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Hit 15 Obliteration 16 To rate 17 Assayers 22 A lateen-rigged vessel 23 An American spotted cat 24 A genus of gastropods 25 To harden 28 An element 30 Boys 33 To move heavily 36 A musical composition 38 A person in authority 40 Mock blow 41 Exhausts 42 Form assumed by certain insects 44 A recital 46 Girl’s name 47 Difficult 49 An area of ground (military) 51 Robbers 52 A part of an antenna 53 Dressed 54 Musical compositions for two performers 56 Farm 57 To lay in surrounding matter 58 Below 60 Away from 62 An American poet and story-writer 64 An age 66 To devour 72 To reiterate 73 To dismiss 74 To gaze 75 A goose 76 On top of 77 Useless adornments 79 A beverage 81 A mixture of gases 83 A plane surface 85 To recover 86 Ethylene 88 Flags 89 Not moving 90 Converse 91 A prefix meaning half 93 To ordain 94 Sea soldiers 96 Dull gray 97 A satellite 99 Biblical name 101 Obsolete, herald 103 Smite (past part.) 105 Not far 108 To subside 109 Rave 110 A jar or pot 111 Identical 114 Beverage 116 Filled pastry 118 The (French pl.)

PUZZLE NO. 91

THAT EXCLUSIVE LINOLEUM PATTERN

By Wilmer H. Koch

Mr. Koch wandered into the kitchen after a doughnut, and saw black and white squares all over the floor. “Aha,” thought he, “like a flash, an idea!” This is it.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Grammatical figure 6 Interchange 11 A negative vote 12 First cause 14 A tetrasyllabic foot 16 The two-toed sloth 18 Fragments 20 Collection of animals 21 To charge with gas 23 Astronomical measuring instrument 25 Bull’s-eyes at archery 27 Compounds having the same composition 29 Spiteful woman 31 Separation of compound words 33 Ornamental border 34 To eject legally 36 Displace 38 The Roman libra 39 A kind of indehiscent fruit 41 Concerning 43 Indefinite nominative 44 Petitioner at law 46 A color 48 River in Germany 50 A second perusal 52 Rather than 53 The rear 55 Layers 57 Coins minted under Charles I 59 Tripod 61 Prefix; the same 63 Scourge 65 A field of granular snow 66 A bid at bridge 68 An evening party 70 Gold color 71 The goober 72 A cognomen

VERTICAL

1 Encircle 2 Ordinary 3 Wend 4 Collection of interesting objects 5 Geometric figure 6 Tolerate 7 Rebels 8 Preposition 9 A soluble ferment 10 River 11 A delicate gradation 13 Lacrosse racket 15 Solicits 17 Frigid 19 Place of detention 22 Falter 24 Aftermaths 26 Cylindrical 28 A click beetle 30 Incarnation 32 Turkish hospice 35 St. Vitus’s dance 37 Month of the Jewish year 40 Strait 42 A grooved wheel 43 A source of synthetic indigo 45 Shakespearean character; a duke 47 Sexless 49 Scene of Napoleon’s defeat of the Austrians, 1796 51 A blood vessel 54 Penal crime 56 Ringworm 58 Inclination 60 Cry of bacchanals 62 Sip 64 Tomcat 67 Note of diatonic scale 69 Printer’s measure

PUZZLE NO. 92

ADAM’S RIB

By E. Pinkerton

If this puzzle were Adam, that central double armed cross would be his rib just before it started turning into Eve. We observe nice fat masses of words at sides and corners.

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HORIZONTAL

1 3.2 grains 5 Wicked 8 Supply food 13 Animal without feet 14 Rectangular piece 16 Female beast of burden 17 Father 18 Reduce 19 Series of heroic events 20 Hermit 22 Zealous 24 Constraint 27 Rested 29 Every one 33 Narrow-minded people 35 Chart 36 Vassal 38 Rage 39 Dregs 40 Unfastens 42 Small egg 43 Handles 44 Move 46 Huge snake 48 Two-faced outwork 52 Hide 55 Studio 59 A game 60 Choose 62 Qualified 63 Entrance to a mine 64 Bargains 65 Furnace 66 Keep back 67 Relieved 68 Set again

VERTICAL

1 Cloak 2 Aside 3 Cord 4 First man 5 Young children 6 Collection of sayings 7 Restrain 9 So be it 10 Narrow strip 11 Appearing gnawed 12 Cease from motion 14 Eucharist plate 15 Depart 21 The rainbow 23 Actual 25 Scrutinize 26 Dress covering 27 Exists 28 Actor 30 Microscopic hair (pl.) 31 Part of a shoe (pl.) 32 Dirty 34 Knock 37 Obtain 41 A father 43 Sharpen 45 Scolds 46 Posts for cables on a ship 47 Crystal-lined stone 49 Pert. to the palate 50 Lashed 51 Reigning beauty 52 To box 53 Shear 54 Repetition to learn 56 Variety of red 57 Egyptian bird 58 Hire 61 Yale

PUZZLE NO. 93

IN THE CLOVER PATCH

By Minerva

A splendid construction, particularly in its avoidance of the bane of puzzlers—the loose center. Minerva has not hesitated to call upon the deeps of the dictionary for her words; there are some old favorites in the patch, of course, but also some interlopers that will serve to keep your interest for some time.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Phrygian shepherd changed into a fir tree 5 God of love 9 Parched 12 Domesticates 17 Unusual 18 Was contiguous 19 Kind of compass used in surveying 20 Considerable in degree 22 Rounded protuberance 23 A drop of saline fluid 25 Domestic animal 26 Indian tribe 27 To inspire deep reverence 29 Bordered 31 Exist 33 Small mound of earth 34 Goddess of the moon 37 Receptacle for ashes 38 Grecian sub-prefect 40 Obtain 41 Make less bitter 44 Overmuch 46 Pore over 47 One 48 Part of a circle 50 A small hole 53 Ventilate 55 Groups of three 58 Trial impression 60 Loose end 62 Web-footed, tailless amphibian 64 Minor devil 65 Seaman 67 To be obliged for 68 Certain 69 In the direction of 71 Writer of a kind of plaintive verse 74 To seek something lofty 76 Floating vegetation in the Nile 77 Vapid 78 Move 79 Dissipate 81 Pert. to the eyes 83 Federations of workers 86 Hostelries 87 A lizard 89 Unit 90 Propeller 92 A pledge 93 Past 94 One who compiles material for publication 96 Placed at intervals 99 Japanese plant 100 Implore 102 Barrier 104 Abaft 105 Tree 107 Males 109 Well-being 112 Wrath 114 Phœnician princess carried away by Zeus 116 Bronze or copper 117 Tottered 121 Watering place 123 International language 124 Broke 126 Tiny 127 Sharp-pointed tool 129 Vedic god of the sun 131 Not good 133 Persia 135 Pert. to national sea forces 137 Sea eagle 138 Brittle, salty biscuit 139 Languish 140 Irascible 141 Be conscious of 142 Those snaky fish 143 A donkey

VERTICAL

1 Hundred-eyed son of Zeus 2 Acid 3 Instruments for preserving the form of shoes 4 An affirmative 6 Took its way 7 Wind instrument 8 Quiet 9 Heedful 10 Long, slender plant 11 Mountain near ancient Troy 13 Flurry 14 Merriment 15 Comfort 16 Smooth 21 Ancient coin mentioned in the Bible 22 Immediate knowledge 24 Tap 25 The brave 28 Saturated 30 Enlarged 32 Rodent 35 Essential self 36 Elude 38 To implant deeply 39 Demure 42 Marry 43 A discriminating sense of hearing 45 Imbecile 46 Expression of exaltation 47 Intention 49 A female quadruped 51 Case for small articles 52 A kind of molding 54 Smoothing 56 Full of perforations 57 Person with a powerful voice 58 Noblemen of high rank 59 A marked characteristic 61 To adjust 63 Pants 66 Once more 68 A small shoot or twig 70 Regret 72 Edge 73 A high wave 75 Wickedness 79 The moon 80 One who meanly admires wealth or social position 81 One of a tribe of Algonquin Indians 82 Idler 84 Solemn affirmation 85 To shut close 88 Falsehood 91 Deed 94 A nymph who was changed into a fountain 95 Metal-bearing rock 97 Equality as to value 98 Make less light 101 That overworked Australian bird 103 The southwest wind 106 The papal court 108 The land where the sandman lives 110 The bay tree 111 A judicial inquest 112 To chill 113 A piece of property 114 Merits 115 An effervescent drink 118 Possess 119 A king of Israel 120 A narrow passage 122 Unadulterated 124 A tiresome person 125 A large plant 128 Staff 130 Still 132 Open 134 Total 136 Imitate

PUZZLE NO. 94

LITTLE BUT A BAD ’UN

By Frank C. White

Mr. White must be one of those mild-seeming people who fool you so often—at least that’s the impression his construction gives the editor. It is little. It looks harmless. But don’t start it if you have an appointment two hours hence. But maybe we shouldn’t give this away.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Original man of Horus 6 The first Jewish high priest 11 A genus of Am. plants 13 A member of the Creek Indian tribe 15 Metal for casting in pigs 17 A game played for stakes 18 A valley in N. W. Argolis 20 Sooner than 21 Track of a deer 23 One of a tribe of Algonquians 24 In the thing or individual 25 Permit (3rd per. sing.) (pl.) 27 A workman on shoes 29 Denoting the infinitive 30 An exclamation of surprise 31 Leisurely (obs.) 34 Any sirenian, esp. the rytina 37 A pliable strip of oxhide (So. Africa) 38 Contrary to good in a moral sense 40 A recess in the shore 41 Anything steeped in liquid 42 A wind (musical) instrument 44 A fairy queen 45 A genus of No. Am. herbs 47 A cloud 49 Reprinting and publishing of a work 50 Lamellirostral birds 51 Am. wild plums

VERTICAL

2 Tutor 3 A garden implement 4 Monitor lizard 5 Restores to existence 6 Invoke 7 An Eastern continent 8 To clothe in an odd manner 9 Mien 10 A town in Oklahoma 12 To insinuate contempt 14 Light repast 16 Absence of removal (rare) 19 Objective case of I 22 Natural kind or class, esp. of animals 24 Son of Abraham and Sarah (Bib.) 26 Sorrow 28 A beverage 31 Burning 32 Be present (obs. var.) 33 Long speech 34 Slope (3rd per. sing.) (pl.) 35 Common (obs. var.) 36 A German philosopher 39 Abbr. Life Guards 42 Compounds containing metal 43 An English mathematician 46 A word of command in driving animals 48 Hoot

PUZZLE NO. 95

MODERATION

By Porter R. Lee

Never too much of anything is the slogan of this constructor. He gives you a puzzle of moderate difficulty, but a set of easy words and then a terror hidden among them like a serpent in the grass. The puzzle runs its way at an even tenor, like an honest man’s life.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Snake 4 Rainy 9 Make hum by spinning 12 Russian money 13 Steep 14 Fat 15 Notable period 16 For instance 18 Toward 19 Mend 20 Confronted 22 Lariat 23 Speck 25 Pasturage 27 Impair 30 Public passages 32 Raves 35 Layer 36 Length of the forearm 39 Member of cat family 40 Country in N. America 41 Legendary king 42 Legal science 44 Cause of anything 45 Set again 47 Son of Odin 49 Something to follow 51 Secondary 53 A root 54 Sound 55 In such circumstances 57 Atop 59 You and I 60 Torn piece 62 Unripe 63 Ventilate 65 Product of digestion 66 Slippery fish 67 Bearing buds 68 Influenced

VERTICAL

1 Progeny of one stock 2 Pert. to us 3 Behind 4 Edible drupe 5 Ancient Biblical country 6 Afflict 7 That 8 Release 9 Cleansing agency 10 Conduct oneself toward 11 Cat 17 Prophet 18 Follows closely 21 Discontinue 22 Mistress of a household 24 Obscurity 26 Source of stability 28 Strong appetite 29 Topmost bone of spine 31 Kind of eclipse 32 Gypsy 33 Man’s nickname 34 Distress signal 36 Cage of an elevator 37 Hurtful 38 Strain 42 Hires 43 Fancy 45 Precipitation 46 Suppose 47 Color 48 Toothed wheel 49 Sharp-pointed instrument 50 Relative 51 Precious stone 52 Sharpened 56 Raw metal 58 Fade 61 Beverage 63 Exist 64 Egyptian god

## CHAPTER 96

Puzzle No. 96

JUST FOR TWO!

By Charley Cinderclass and Stoney Lonesome

These two contributors send in Cross Words by the dozen, so you can imagine what splendid vocabularies they must have. This is one of their best, and it’s not an easy one, either.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Tatter 3 Dressed, as a stone 7 A color 11 Guided 13 State 14 Danger 15 Murmur 16 Jutting rock 18 Weird 20 Select set 22 Fortify 24 Jejune 25 Stranded 27 Single 28 Game at cards 29 Cone bearing tree 30 Scrutinize 32 Cereal grain 34 Craft 35 Mercenary 37 Mohammedan religion 39 Foxy 40 Winnow 41 Darns 43 Racing boat 45 Rhythm 49 Also 50 Six angled figure 53 Throw 54 Wander 56 Cad 57 Desire 58 Rake 59 Plunder 60 Squeeze 61 Planet 62 Silicate of magnesia 63 Note 65 Battering engine 67 Chinese coin 69 Voter 71 Earthwork 73 Newness 75 Invisible fluid 76 Dromedary 78 Meadow 79 Grain 82 Java pepper 84 Cleanser 86 Iniquity 88 Bark 89 Vassal 91 Exclude 92 Trick 93 Disturbance 94 Become acclivitous 97 Protrude 98 Roadhouse 99 Lance 101 Extreme 104 Sore 106 Bond 107 A relative 108 Wing-shaped 109 Edible tuber 110 Toughen 111 Hydrocarbon—radical 112 At a distance

VERTICAL

1 Groove 2 Torniquet 3 Compensation 4 Unit of measure 5 Pithy phrase 6 Ruminant 7 Stead 8 Sickness 9 Likely 10 Hint 11 Grassy plains 12 To fade 17 Scent 19 Precipitation 21 Poem 23 True 26 Bovine 28 Coniferous tree 29 Enclose 31 Earnest 33 Process of washing ores 35 Large wagon 36 Permit 37 A universal language 38 Amalgamate 40 Sailing vessel of the Mediterranean 42 Fop 44 Cotton fabric 46 Pertaining to the ear 47 Clown 48 Mistake 50 Not divine 51 Nepaul antelope 52 Charge 55 Tomfoolery 56 Vehicle 62 Heavy corded pile fabric 63 Large drinking bowl 64 Zzzzzzz 66 Grinder 68 Reclining 70 Neuralgia 71 Tap 72 Nib 74 Irritate 76 Mythical being, half man, half horse 77 Small lug 80 Doubtful story 81 Name of era 83 Foundation 85 Bluster 86 Hasten 87 Bit 90 Exist 95 Bird of prey 96 Whine 98 Evergreen vine 99 Kind of snow shoe 100 Write 102 Beam 103 Total 105 Tumor

PUZZLE NO. 97

A CRISS CROSS

By Jack Barrett

Only eight unkeyed letters in this, so you’ll jolly well have to fill in every white square before the struggle is over. You may chew an inch off your pencil before you finish, though.

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HORIZONTAL

1 A play 6 Certify 11 A dandy 12 Tackle 14 A state 15 To content 17 Melodies 19 Combination of things 21 Exposes 23 Cover 25 Reproachful expression 26 Sincere 28 An ancestor 29 Later 31 Loiters 32 From 34 Rates 36 Window 38 Upon 39 Sprightly 41 A jot 43 Continent 44 Man’s name 46 A stamp 47 Scorches 48 Obtuse 50 Mexican gum tree 51 End 53 Siesta 54 Inquire 55 Rabbit 57 A title 58 A rule 59 Ceremony 60 Away from 63 A strong horse 66 Distant 68 Luminary 69 A stipulation 71 Vigilant 73 Affirmative 75 Sidle 77 Destroy 78 Stay 79 Observe 80 Ourselves 81 Ravishes 83 Mercenary 85 Pair (abbr.) 86 Finished 87 Annoy 91 Passenger car 93 Deduces 96 Constituent of soap 97