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THE CROSS WORD 
PUZZLE BOOK 



THE GROSS WORD 
PUZZLE BOOK 

An Anthology of Fifty Cross Word Puzzles 
Selected as the Best of the Thousands That 
Have Been Submitted to the New York World 
Published Here Exclusively for the First Time 
and Edited 


By 

PROSPER BURANELLI 
F. GREGORY HARTSWICK 

; 

MARGARET PETHERBRIDGE 


THE PLAZA PUBLISHING COMPANY 
New York :: 1924 


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Copyright, 1924, by 

THE PLAZA PUBLISHING COMPANY 

37 West 57th Street 
New York, N. Y. 


Printed by The Van Rees Press 
Bound by H. Wolff & Co. 
New York 

APR 14 ’24 


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THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE 


By Newman Levy 

F OR many years we’ve lived as man and wife, 
As happy now as on the day we wed. 

“We’re more like sweethearts,” I have always said. 
No cloud has dimmed the sunshine of our life, 
Though now and then I’ll seize a rolling pin 
And playfully I’ll clout her on the dome 
Just to preserve domestic discipline 
And demonstrate who’s master in our home. 

At times she’ll hurl with well-directed aim 
A platter or an iron at my bean. 

These slight attentions keep romances green 
And keep alive the hymeneal flame. 

On Sunday, when the evening lamp is lit 

And peace and calm contentment fill our house, 

With pipe and well-loved book at ease I sit, 

And at my side, in earnest thought, my spouse, 
Then fade the cares and troubles of the day; 

With Conrad and Lord Jim I sail the sea, 

When suddenly I hear my wife’s voice say, 
“What word for ‘female child’ begins with G?” 
“The world is ‘Girl’,” I growl. Again I try 
To catch the shattered magic of my tale. 

I find my place. Again with Jim I sail 
Upon the tropic sea. My wife says “My, 

What pronoun in three letters starts with Y?” 
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Calmly I rise and search about the place 
To find a weapon of sufficient weight. 

Aha! Upon our wall an ancient mace, 

Studded with knobs of steel. The very thing. 

I seize it, and with easy, graceful swing 
Wallop my darling wife upon the pate, 

The sconce or bean, or dome, or what you will. 

Silent she tumbles headlong in the grate. 

I take my book and leisurely resume 
My tale, and peace and quiet fill the room. 

From F. P. A.’s Conning Tower 

in The New York World 


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PUZZLE BOOK 



CONFESSIONS OF A CROSS WORD 
PUZZLE EDITOR 



HEN I was first made unwilling Cross Word Puzzle 


T ▼ Editor some two years ago, the procedure in deciding 
what puzzle would be run was limited to picking out a good- 
looking one from among the bunch and sending it upstairs 
to be set. I saw no reason to change this splendid system. 
At that time, I had never taken the trouble to do a puzzle 
and the letters of anathema and condemnation that came in 
by the dozens had small effect on my conscience. They were 
evidently from cranks and couldn’t be avoided. 

I must admit that the dawning of conscience began with 
the arrival of F. P. A., who came to work in the next room. 
When he discovered that I was responsible for the cross 
words, he formed the atrocious habit of stalking in every 
Monday morning bright and early (about eleven o’clock) 
to point out to me in sarcastic tones just what was wrong 
with yesterday’s. Well, to make a long story short, in order 
to avoid the moronish feeling that usually followed such a 
lecture, I decided to reform and find out what a really decent 
puzzle was like. 

I began by trying to do one the next Sunday, and thus 
experienced the throes of acute agony that come to all solvers 
of puzzles on discovering definitions left out, numbers 
wrong, hideously warped definitions, words not to be found 
inside of any known dictionary, foreign words—very foreign 


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—and words that had no right to be dragged out of their 
native obscurity. Then and there, with my left hand repos¬ 
ing on a dictionary and my right raised in air, I took an 
oath to edit the cross words to the essence of perfection. 
From then on, I instituted the procedure of doing the puzzles 
myself on the page proof—sort of trying it on the dog— 
applying the principle, 

“If it be not fair to me, 

What care I how fair it be!” 

Since that momentous day, F. P. A.’s visits have grown less 
frequent—in fact, he has to make up excuses to come in and 
converse on other matters—and the cross words even came 
in for an occasional bouquet in Sam Pepys’s diary. So now 
you all know whom to thank for the perfection (more or 
less) of the cross word puzzle found each Sunday on the 
World Magazine’s Ingenuities Page. 

Margaret Petherbridge 


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HOW TO SOLVE THEM 

S OLVING a cross word puzzle offers numerous enjoyments 
of which the uninitiated are ignorant. There is the 
pure esthetic stimulation of looking at the pattern with 
its neat black and white squares, like a floor in a cathedral 
or a hotel bathroom; there is the challenge of the definitions, 
titillating the combative ganglion that lurks in all of us; 
there is the tantalizing elusiveness of the one little word that 
will satisfactorily fill a space and give clues to others that 
we know not of; and there is the thrill of triumph as the right 
word is found, fitted, and its attendant branches and roots 
spring into being. No better illustration could be used than 
a recent brilliant construction of Mr. Gelett Burgess, pub¬ 
lished in the Sunday World Magazine. 

Consider the solver as he faces his problem. The numbers 
in the squares, he knows, refer to the definitions; in the 
system of numbering used in this book, the first letters only 
are indicated by numbers. Thus 1 horizontal means a word 
that will fill the space following the figure up to the next 
black square. 


Horizontal 

1 Lowest form of life 
12 Product of coal or 
pine 

18 Opponent 

Vertical 

1 Gustated 

2 Divine nourishment 

3 Before 

4 Indefinite number 



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The solver, then, looks the puzzle over. Aha! a friend. 
12 horizontal, three letters long—“product of coal or pine.” 
Triumphantly the solver writes TAR in the spaces and pro¬ 
ceeds with this clue. 2 Vertical is defined as “Divine Nourish¬ 
ment.” It links with TAR at the second letter. A moment 
of thought and MANNA appears as the only possible solution. 
He turns to 1 vertical, the second letter of which is the first 
of 12 horizontal—T. The definition is “gustated,” and the 
word is of three letters. Why hesitate? ATE goes into the 
space. “A cinch!” reflects the solver, and joyously writes 
ENEMY in 18 horizontal, defined as “Opponent.” 3 vertical 
is defined as “Before,” and with -RE staring him in the 
face he would be dull indeed who did not write ERE. And 
now 1 horizontal stands revealed. “Lowest form of life,” 
eh? AMEBA goes down. 4 vertical is “Indefinite number.” 
Well, A-Y cannot be anything but ANY—and there is the 
comer complete, with three clues to the words in other 
sections. 



So far the sailing has been fairly easy. But trouble waits 
just around the comer. There are other definitions which 
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are not so simple as “product of coal or pine.” In the far 
reaches of the puzzle to which the above comer belongs may 
be found such definitions as “Vexation (Provincial British),” 
“Humorous figure of speech,” “One-sided headaches” and 
“Droning dung-beetles.” Is the solver prepared to state that 
he can fill the spaces represented by those words without 
the assistance of the linked horizontals or verticals? 

It is here that one of the greatest charms of the crossword 
puzzle lies: the discovery of new words by the process of 
building them, though entirely ignorant of their actual spell¬ 
ing. Consider another portion of Mr. Burgess’ puzzle. The 
construction of the provincial form of “Vexation” and “Hu¬ 
morous figure of speech” fortunately come in juxtaposition; 
they illustrate at once the vocabulary-building feature of the 
cross word puzzle and a constructional weakness which may 
lead to non-solution. 

The definitions surrounding this precious pair are as fol¬ 
lows: Horizontal, “Series of games,” “Self,” “Means of 
sustenance,” and “Surface of fibres”; Vertical, “Drinking 
vessel” and “Body of cavalry.” When these words are 



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Now the unfortunate part of it is that the section is com¬ 
pleted; there are no more clues, and if one does not know 
what the humorous figure of speech is and what the British 
provincialism is, there is no way of discovering them aside 
from the use of deduction. A little thinking will show that 
the first letter of the provincialism is more likely to be “S” 
than any other letter, and a short search in the dictionary will 
give “Sturm” as the answer; while as for -EUGMA, a brief 
running through the alphabet will so limit the possibilities 
that a very short search will reveal ZEUGMA as correct. 

It is extremely difficult, in the construction of cross word 
puzzles, to avoid the use of such “unkeyed” letters, and effort 
has been used to ensure the presence of common words where 
more than one letter is unkeyed; but the exigencies of con¬ 
struction will not always allow this. Nor should it always 
be done; allowance must be made for erudition on the part 
of the solver. When such a construction appears as 
S-ALE-E, defined as “Unequal sided and angled” and with 
all clues exhausted, it is with a warm sensation of culture 
that one triumphantly fills the blanks with “C” and “N.” 
And the same thrill is present when “One-sided headaches,” 
standing clueless with M-GRI-S, is properly filled in to be¬ 
come MEGRIMS. 

Thus is the solution achieved; in part by the science of de¬ 
duction, in part by mother-wit, in part by erudition; appeals 
to as many as possible of the lobes of the brain. There is 
no nobler satisfaction than the fitting in of the last word that 
makes the pattern complete; one rises to lyric heights in the 
contemplation of the evolution of such a word as one en¬ 
thusiastic constructor included in his design, the definition of 
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which was “Parallel pairs of simulacra in echinoideans.” 
The cross-constructions showed BIVIA as the necessary filler 
and the vocabularies of the solvers were enriched by an addi¬ 
tion of high esthetic value and utter incomprehensibility, to 
be used as occasion demands. 

The cross word solver becomes a collector, a connoisseur 
of words. They lose, to him, their mundane purpose of a 
suitable medium for the exchange of thoughts, and take on 
an esoteric significance, akin to the appeal of slip-ware to 
the collector of pottery or the three-cornered Mauritius to 
the philatelist. He and Hamlet are one. “Words, words, 
words”—except that he has the advantage of the melancholy 
one. Hamlet’s words ran in decorous file, one after the 
other; the solver’s twine and intertwine, each leading to 
others, resulting in a harmonious whole unapproached by 
any except the masterpieces of classic literature. 

5|e 9)c jj« j|c Jf< 

It is generally conceded that as a form of amusement, 
cross words are very instructive, and that as a form of in¬ 
struction, they are very amusing. The first thing that strikes 
the eye is the pattern in which the words are intermingled. 
Our experience teaches that an all-over interlock is an abso¬ 
lute necessity, and except in a few cases you will find that 
the puzzles in this book possess this quality. The advan¬ 
tages sfre obvious; when all the words interlock, you can 
check up the horizontal by the vertical, and vice versa. 

Occasional stunt patterns are interesting, but as a general 
thing they are apt to detract from the value of a puzzle as a 
thing to be solved. 

The numbering system used to be quite intricate and took 

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up a lot of precious space. It required two numbers to each 
definition. On July 22, 1923, at the suggestion of an ardent 
puzzler who calls himself “Radical,” we offered the new 
system of numbering, which calls for only one number to 
a definition. It is quite simple to read either horizontally 
or vertically from one number, and forms a decided improve¬ 
ment over the old style. “Radical” deserves a special vote 
of thanks. All the puzzles in this book use the new system 
of numbering. 

As for the words that find their way into cross words, 
strange as it may seem with the whole of the dictionary to 
choose from, the same old favorites have a way of recurring 
ceaselessly. Of course, all the two letter words are over¬ 
worked, and many have to compromise on abbreviations. 
Our sole objection to abbreviations is that they cannot be 
defined without practically telling what they are. Parts of 
the verb “to be”; prepositions; the Egyptian Sun God, Ra; 
Pi, em, ma, pa, i.e., e.g., so, to, go, do, are to be found in 
almost every cross word puzzle, and the solver gets heartily 
tired of them. So the better patterns avoid these two word 
spaces. The three letters words contain some old favorites, 
too. Eel, emu and gnu are among the most popular. It 
seems that almost nine-tenths of the puzzles we look at have a 
“snake-like fish” wriggling in them somewhere. And who 
hasn’t found err, sin, and erg; cam, moa, tar; pal, ode, nee, 
ace, e’er, o’er, sac; lee and lea; ape and pea; ego, ago and 
age; era and eon; Eli and spa; and all the notes of the scale 
from do to do. Truly, all these words are to the puzzler as 
buttons are to a shirt. 

Among the longer words, the rule seems to hold that words 

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with alternating consonants and vowels can be used more fre¬ 
quently than others. It is evident that a word containing 
three consecutive consonants, for instance, may have to take, 
in the word just below it, three consecutive vowels—and who 
hasn’t heard the cross-word constructor asking plaintively 
for a seven-letter word beginning with e-a-o and ending with 
u? Among the much-used words, you’ll surely find opera, 
onus, tenor, estop, used, ameer, renal, depot, emit, cabal, 
item, sere, lunar, qacre, neve, apse and the rest. 

F. Gregory Hartswick 


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THE SCIENCE AND LORE OF CROSS WORD PUZZLES 


E VERYONE knows the classic Riddle of the Sphinx: 

what is it that walks on four legs in the morning, on 
two at noon and on three in the evening? the answer being 
man, who goes on hands and knees in infancy, with bipedal 
locomotion in after years, and in old age with a cane. 

The posing of such riddles was an important affair with 
ancient peoples. It was a tradition of the archaic Scandi¬ 
navians, among whom it shows clear literary relations. Thus, 
the riddle—what is the name of the horse that flies with up¬ 
right wings across the sea, the answer being ship—becomes 
the metaphor, of a type common in the Sagas—the upright¬ 
winged horse of the sea. 

Old forms of writing take on puzzle forms. In the Maya 
hieroglyphics of Central America is found an element similar 
to the mechanism of the rebus. It is as though the symbol 
meaning “hair” in juxtaposition with the one meaning “ring,” 
might mean “hair and ring” or it might mean herring. This 
makes the decipherment of the Maya writing so very difficult 
for modern scholars. The old fashioned charade has rebus¬ 
like elements. Cryptography, of course, must have begun 
in the earliest times when a literate man had a secret message 
to convey. The most recondite systems of hidden writing 
have been devised both for practical use and literary fantasy, 
remembering only Poe’s ingenious speculations. Much of 
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the “Baconian Theory” has revolved around supposed 
cryptography in Shakespeare. 

Ancient and medieval folk were much given to anagrams; 
that is, to phrases of related meanings and made up of the 
same letters—as the masterpiece, “They see,” answer “The 
eyes,” or “Honor est a Nilo,” answer “Horatio Nelson.” Into 
theological controversy came such damnations as this: The 
Calvinistic opponents of Jacobus Arminius rearranged the 
letters of his name to spell, “vani orbis amicus,”—“friend of 
the false world.” 

A recent “Baconian” argument based itself on an anagram- 
matical treatment of the long dedication of the sonnets. The 
author rearranged the letters of the dedication to form a 
statement that it was Lord Bacon who had written the verse. 
An experienced puzzler might object that he could rearrange 
the numerous letters to spell out a statement of almost any¬ 
thing, that he would rearrange the letters that make up Aris¬ 
totle’s Poetics into a treatise proving that when the Demo¬ 
crats are in office hard times come. Similar to the anagram 
in principle is the transposition, in which you fill blanks in 
a text with words that are made up of the same letters; for 
instance, angered, enraged, derange. 

Of ancient glory, too, is the palindrome, which is prop¬ 
erly not a puzzle at all, but an ingenuity. A palindrome 
reads the same backward and forward, as in the familiar 
“Madam, I’m Adam,” and “Able was I ere I saw Elba.” 
Perhaps the most charming of antique palindromes is the 
Roman legal maxim, “Si nummi immunis,”—“if you pay 
you go free.” 

But perhaps the most fascinating of all word puzzles are 

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the types in which words are to be guessed from definitions. 
There is the well-known acrostic, where with definitions as 
clues you arrive at a set of words of which the initial letters, 
or finals or second letters or third, as may have been deter¬ 
mined, will spell another or other words. During the strug¬ 
gle for Italian freedom an acrostic was seen in the shibboleth, 
Vittorio Emmanuele Re D’ltalia, giving the name of the com¬ 
poser, Verdi. Most august of all is the fish symbol for 
Christ, which was held in much mystic veneration in the early 
Christian centuries. The Greek word for fish, Ichthys 
(IxOye) was seen to be composed of the first letters of the sa¬ 
cred phrase, Iesous Kristos Theou Huios Soter (I/)oo|jc 
XpioToc 0eol Yioc ZuhTjp), meaning “Jesus Christ, Son of 
God, Savior.” 

It is the feature of determining words from definitions 
that has made “word forms” the most popular genus of 
puzzle. A word form is a set of words arranged one under 
the other so that their letters may be read across and down 
to give sensible readings, sometimes the same readings across 
and down and sometimes different readings. They may be 
of many geometric configurations, as square, pyramid, octa¬ 
gon, etc. .Their origin is lost in the mists of time. 

Word forms, especially squares, have a considerable fol¬ 
lowing of very skillful adepts, most of them members of the 
National Puzzlers’ League, who construct and solve them 
with the same sort of devotion that a chess player demon¬ 
states toward chess. Among such the forms take the most 
learned guise and consist of the most unusual sort of words. 
With the adepts any word that has ever been printed in an 
English book is allowable, and thus there is a great selection 
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of exotic words in various spellings from old gazetteers, 
books of travel, etc. The adept delights in words that no 
one has ever heard of before. Here are several examples 
of recondite ingenuities. 


By Mentor, in The Enigma 

By Gemini, in The Enigma 

MALEGAGES 


V 

RES 

ADENOCELE 


I 0 N E S 

LEUCAEMIC 


INSERTS 

ENCORTINE 

R 

OSETREES 

GOARLINGS 

V E 

NETIANRED 

ACETIFIES 

S 

E R R A T I 0 N 

G E M I N I A N I 


S T E N I 0 N 

E L I N G E N I 0 


S E R 0 N 

SECESSION 


SEN 


D 


By Neophyte, in the Sunday Magazine , New York World 


Z I K R 

HOOD 

I X I A 

0 L L A 

KIWI 

OLID 

RAIDYADADO 

Y U 

G A 

A G 

N I 

L E W D A 

I S U S U 

E R I A 

UNIT 

WILL 

SIVA 

DALI 

U T A S 


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By Alec Sander, in The Enigma 
T 

CAL 
KARAT 
R A S E T E S 
BALANISMS 
COMMUTATING 
CONTABULAT ION 
GASTEROL I CHENES 
PENTAGONASTERI DAE 

The great public following goes to the Cross Word Puzzle, 
which is an expanded word form in which, commonly, only 
dictionary words are allowed. It is this simplicity of words, 
together with its larger and more elaborate construction, that 
makes it irresistible to the casual puzzler. A cross word 
square, or other geometric figure, is a logical modern devel¬ 
opment of the ancient word square. The insertion of black 
spaces permits it to be made of any size and gives an in¬ 
teresting variety of inner construction. 

The cross word puzzle began its career only a few decades 
back. It was run for many years in the Sunday Magazine 
of the New York World and has held a considerable and 
steady group of followers. Recently it has come into a 
sudden great vogue and is being printed by many newspapers 
and magazines throughout the country. Cross word puzzles 
are now published for the first time in book form. 

Prosper Buranelli 


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DO'S AND DONTS FOR SOLVERS 


D ON’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 begin¬ 
ning the solution. When you have written in all the words 
you are sure of you will have plenty of clues for the un¬ 
knowns. 

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. Inspira¬ 
tion 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. 


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HORIZONTAL 


1 Pronoun 

3 Albumin from cas¬ 
tor-oil bean 
7 Exist 
9 Aged 

11 Negative 

12 Incite, hasten 

13 Remote 

15 Obstruction 
17 Bivalves 
21 Father 

23 Tree 

24 River in Italy 


25 Owners 

26 Printer’s measure 

27 Tree 

28 Personal pronoun 

29 Legislative bodies 

31 Compact mass 

32 Moved rapidly 

34 Walk about 

35 Toss 

37 Small child 

39 Upon 

40 Small openings 

41 Act 


VERTICAL 


1 Exclamation 

2 Fairy 

4 Preposition 

5 Plotter 

6 Pronoun 

7 Express generally 

8 Pronoun 
10 Obstruct 
12 Owns 

14 Disarranged 

15 Voluble talkativeness 

16 Above 

18 The bow of Vishnu 


19 Choose 

20 Assumed an attitude 
22 Limb 

24 Peer 

29 Sorrowful 

30 Rested 

31 Pale 

33 Incline the head 

34 Move 

35 Behold 

36 Exist 

38 Preposition 


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PoaiE No. i A SOFT BEGINNING 

By Gregorian 

T HE two long central words, if solved at once, will give sufficient clues to permit 
of rapid solution. But should these prove elusive, surely such definitions 
as 9 horizontal and 29 vertical offer no difficulties. Three-letter words meaning re¬ 


spectively “aged” and “sorrowful” should hold few terrors for the beginner^ 





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HORIZONTAL 


1 Choose 
6 Pores 

11 Herb used in soup 

12 Rent 

13 Egyptian god 
15 Serious 

17 Either, else 

18 Colloquial Irish ex¬ 

clamation 

20 Coffins 

21 Fifty-six 

22 Pertaining to the 

mouth 

24 Bog 

25 Viewed 

26 Oriental dish of meat 

and rice 

28 Egyptian goddess 
30 Unclose 


31 As you say 

32 Machine 

35 They go off or out 

38 Digits 

39 Supply with strength 

41 Arguments in favor 

of 

42 Barbarian 

43 Nunnery 

45 Sooner than 

46 Within 

47 Wise sayings 

49 By 

50 The dye indigo 

51 Quietude 

53 Scoundrel, pest 

54 Seek laboriously or 

blindly 


VERTICAL 


1 Harsh sound 

2 Behold 

3 Likewise, also 

4 Sour 

5 Duty 

6 After ends 

7 Agitate 

8 A worthless leaving 

9 Personal pronoun 
10 Reed-pipe 

14 Town in Italy 

16 Born 

17 Used for baking 
19 Chemical group 
21 Spare time 

23 Stone 

25 Domestic animal 


27 Bog 

29 Sacred vessel 

32 Moral science 

33 Part of speech 

34 Preserve 

35 Administered ex¬ 

treme unction to 

36 Character in Ibsen 

play 

37 Bloodsucking fly 
40 Primer 

43 Covering of a seed 

44 Period of time 

47 Unit 

48 Point of compass 
50 Exclamation 

52 Editor (abbr.) 


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Puzzle No. 2 


TRY AND DO IT 

By W. W. Foster 



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HORIZONTAL 


1 Banquet 

39 And not 

5 Lout 

40 A vase 

8 Willow for making 

41 Congealed water 

baskets 

42 An injection 

13 Formerly 

44 There 

14 Domesticated 

46 Class 

16 Genu9 of African 

48 And so forth 

plant 

49 Fen 

17 Lockjaw 

50 Level 

18 Flowing 

52 Short for a physician 

19 For example 

54 Thick cords 

20 Ethiopian 

57 Baby’s first word 

22 French for “of the” 

58 Order 

23 Funeral hymn 

60 Initials of the Rough 

26 Chinese sauce 

Rider 

27 Asiatic animal 

61 Obscurity 

29 Large Australian 

63 Leaves 

bird 

65 Impel 

30 Sick 

66 Consumed 

31 Musical drama 

68 Stupefy with a blow 

33 An enclosure 

69 Prophets 

35 Questioner 

70 Back (French) 

38 Bird 

71 To correct 


VERTICAL 


1 Noisome 

32 Female sheep 

2 Before 

33 To scrutinize 

3 A flower 

34 Woman living in a 

4 Reel 

convent 

5 Fertile spot in des¬ 

36 Relation 

ert 

3? Things 

6 Part of “to be” 

43 Threatener 

7 Broad boat 

45 Aroma 

9 Foot coverings 

47 Self conceit 

10 Troy 

50 Religious 

11 An eternity 

51 Proverb 

12 Royal 

52 Nymph 

14 Fermenting vat 

53 Eating places 

15 Two 

55 To gibber 

21 Blood 

56 To squander 

24 To enroll as for jury 

58 Devoured 

duty 

59 In the distance 

25 To flow forth 

62 Before, prefix 

27 Clamor 

64 Weapon 

28 Accomplish 

67 Towards 

31 Lyric poem 



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Puzzle No. 3 


A SIMPLICITY 

By Isidore Edelstein 

S OME abbreviations may be treated as words, such as “i.e.,” “A.D.,” points of 
the compass and so on. It is not the purest usage, but may be passed to get 
over a difficult spot. This construction has an abbreviation or two beyond these, but 
it is a simple, easy design for a not too energetic moment. 



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HORIZONTAL 


1 Unsteady 

31 A drink made of 

57 Advertisement (ab* 

6 Appoint 

wine, water, and 

breviation) 

12 Remotely 

lemon*juice, sweet¬ 

59 Province of Greece 

13 Besides 

ened 

60 A small deer 

15 Upon 

33 Employ 

61 Energy 

17 Worry 

35 Made of oak 

62 Bony rod attached 

19 Bang 

36 Black 

to the spine 

20 Fourth tone of mu¬ 

38 Practical application 

64 A bird 

sical scale 

of knowledge 

65 One, or any 

21 A bark or yelp 

(plural) 

66 Ornamental plant 

23 Pooh! 

39 Without life 

67 Used to allure a fish 

24 Climbing plant 

41 Temporary quarters 

69 Unit of printer’s 

25 Purpose 

44 Gain 

measure 

26 Poisonous sap of 

49 Foolish 

70 Poison 

Malaysian trees 

51 Priest’s vestment 

71 To invade suddenly 

28 Toward 

53 Heaths (Scot.) 

73 Desist 

29 Perform 

55 Faithful 

74 Medicinal herb 

30 Hireling or serf 

56 Either 



VERTICAL 


2 

God of midday sun 

20 Elegant 

47 

African river 

3 

Aside from a main 

22 Male servant 

48 

Take 


track 

25 Inquires 

50 

Common metal 

4 

Complete dress 

27 Total 

51 

Host 

5 

Vast 

30 Consume 

52 

Sharp point 

7 

Proviso 

32 Therefore 

54 

Element of poetry 

8 

Put to death 

34 Shallow 

56 

Anointed 

9 

Doctrine or system 

35 Else 

58 

Record of daily 

10 

Depart 

37 Surface of fibres 


events 

11 

A large serpent of 

38 Consumed 

61 

Slender plant 


America 

40 Pertaining to stars 

63 

Prejudice 

14 

Mourn 

41 Guide 

66 

Resinous substance 

16 

Back of the neck 

42 Beverage 

68 

It is 

18 

Familiar pronoun 

43 Possessive pronoun 

70 

Happen 

19 

Lateral 

45 Part of “be” 

46 Grieve 

72 

Execute 


[ 22 ] 


Puzzle No. 4 TETRACRUCIFORM 

By Charles W. Snizek 

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



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HORIZONTAL 


1 Tumult 
5 Part of harness 
9 Thin metal strip 
11 Seldom 
13 Preposition 
15 Small drink 

17 Expression 

18 Behold 

19 Salt (chem.) 

21 Proposition to be 
proved 

23 Fabulous bird 


38 Song 
40 Organ pipes 

42 Small hollows 

43 Organ of sight 
45 The other 

47 Recent 

48 Drudge 

50 Pertaining to the 
Celts 

52 Time 

53 Pertaining to earth 

disturbances 


24 Sustain 

55 Parent 

26 Not of the city 

56 Pronoun 

27 Spanish dry wine 

57 A luminary 

28 Burlesque 

58 Dull 

30 Work with thin steel 

60 Concerning 

instrument 

61 Ire 

31 Engrave 

62 Issue 

32 Old-womanish 

64 Large book 

34 Miner’s hand-cart 

65 Indivisible particle 

36 Birth 

of matter 

37 Gone 


VERTICAL 


2 Part of “to be” 

31 Fungus 

3 Long practiced 

33 Constellation 

4 Keen 

35 Cereal 

5 Injury 

38 Quote 

6 Bodily member 

39 American Pioneer 

7 Pronoun 

40 Scars 

8 File 

41 Carnelian 

10 Wild goat 

42 Sheet, usually paper 

11 Dance 

44 Opposed to No 

12 Counterfeit 

46 Sovereign 

14 Sailors 

47 Oil-burning vessel 

16 World war battle 

48 Slave 

17 Net 

49 Door of Masonic 

18 Body of water 

Lodge 

(Scotch) 

51 Paradise 

20 Division of Hindu 

53 Sound 

philosophy 

54 Insensibility 

22 Metal as mined 

57 Silent 

23 Piquant 

59 Humor 

25 Feather-shaped 

61 Stop 

27 First of two stanzas 

63 Preposition 

29 Rows 



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*«“ No - 5 WELL BALANCED 


By Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Waller 


T HIS is a nice study in words of medium length, as was dictated by the two-ply 
“X” construction. The solver will observe that the central interlock is of the 
good, familiar “L” joint sort. 





































































































HORIZONTAL 


1 To praise 
5 A storm 

8 Part of mouth (PI.) 
11 A conjunction 
13 Coarse material 
14t Regarding 
15 Pin 

17 The exertion o f 

power 

18 To spread loosely 

for drying, a s 
newly mown grass 

19 To gain 

21 The young of vari¬ 
ous carnivora 


22 Put through evolu¬ 

tions; intrigued 

23 A ram or male sheep 

24 Girl’s name 

25 Possessive pronoun 

26 A spasm 

28 A pen for swine 

30 The sixth tone of the 

diatonic scale 

31 Cardium 

33 To such a degree 

34 Rabbits 

36 Fatty tissues 

37 Bird 


VERTICAL 


1 Closed curve 

2 Above 

3 Papa 

4 Inhabitants of a 

north-east division 
of China 

5 Precious stone 

6 So 

7 Increased till barely 

sufficient 

9 A grassy field 
10 One of various small 
birds 

12 A boat race, or a se¬ 
ries of such races 
14 Experiences sorrow 
for sin 

16 A group or class em¬ 
bracing subordi¬ 
nate classes or spe¬ 
cies 


18 Becomes sour, or 
spoiled, as milk; 
takes a new direc¬ 
tion 

20 That which is first 

or highest in rank 
or degree 

21 Vegetable 

25 Ailments; worries 

26 Swamp 

27 Prefix; three; three 

times; thrice 
29 To bring into bond¬ 
age; enslave 

31 Mean dwelling 

32 To spread loosely 

for drying 

34 To have existence 

35 Provided that; on 

condition that 


[ 26 ] 


Puzzle No. 6 B ABY GRAND MODEL 

By Helen V. Christ 

O NLY two long words. This should be pie for the hard-boiled solvers and a 
pleasant exercise for the beginner. 



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HORIZONTAL 


1 Turkish coin 
4 Country in Asia 
7 Number 
10 Black 

12 Possessive pronoun 
14 Cereal plant 
16 Equality 
18 Tears 

20 Resinous substances 

21 Wearied 

22 Bird 

23 South American bird 

25 Optic 

26 Italian province, fa¬ 

mous for wine 


27 Trouble 

28 Thus 

30 Front of an army 
32 Sensory organ 
34 Pronoun 
36 Rhythm 

39 Behold 

40 Greek letter 

41 Coarse file 

42 Not at all 

44 Small tropical tree 

47 Note of musical scale 

48 Quapruped 

50 Enclosure 

51 Biblical character 
53 Number 


54 Diseases 
56 To immerse 
58 Blow 

60 Pipe 

61 Be deserving of 

62 Thing 

64 Poker term 

66 To clear 

67 Extreme 

68 God of love 

70 Precious stone 

71 Her own 

72 Different 

73 Unit of living organ¬ 

ism 


1 Bar which falls into 

26 

the teeth of a 

27 

ratchet-wheel 

29 

2 To reverberate 


3 To humble 

31 

4 Preposition 


5 Record 

33 

6 Yes 


7 Combustibles 

35 

8 Richly embellished 

37 

9 Chance 

38 

11 Old Testament 


13 Conjunction 

43 

15 Bold 


16 Fragment 

45 

17 Female of the ruff 


19 Test 

46 

24 Because 



VERTICAL 

Article 

Mingled with 
Picture drawn by 
fancy 

Hangings in woven 
figures 

An ancient imperial 
people 
Marsh 
Beverage 

Large tree of the 
olive family 
Much used as an ar¬ 
ticle of food 
Prefix denoting in¬ 
sufficiency 
Dead, spiritless 


47 Possessing a cutane¬ 
ous disease 

49 Article of apparel 

50 Postscript 

52 Adverb 

53 Reveal a secret 
55 Looks merningly 

57 Native of European 
country 

59 Delightfully scented 

shrub 

60 Owneth 

63 Calcareous earth 
used as fertilizer 
65 Thus 
67 Erect 

69 Such being the case 

70 An alternative 


[ 28 ] 


Puzzle No, 7 A FOUR PETALED ROSE 

By M. Francis Cavallon, Jr. 

OSTLY short words, and not difficult. Good corner masses. Mr. Cavallon 

is probably our youngest contributor, boasting as he does only fourteen 


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HORIZONTAL 


1 Church dignitary 
4 Trouble 
7 Part of church 
9 Irritate 

12 Primary color 

13 Sister 

14 Energy 

15 Falsehoods 

17 Growth on the head 

18 Clotted blood 

19 Move by bounds 
21 Excite 

23 Make ill 

25 Dry stretches of 

land 

26 A collection 

28 Seizes with the teeth 
30 Beam of light 
33 Written slander 
35 A base (math.) 

39 Noting grief 


1 Give out 

2 Open space 

3 Cozy residence (PI.) 

5 Desert-dweller 

6 To enclose 

7 Fisherman 

8 Variety of carnelian 

9 Fresh set of horses 

10 Generous 

11 Borders of the mouth 
16 Not well 

20 Trouble 

22 An elongated fish 

24 Pronoun 

25 Slat e-cutters’ ham¬ 

mer 

27 Italian river 

28 A bunk 

29 Island in Aegean Sea 

30 Religious acts 

31 Yawn 


40 Law profession 

41 Witty saying 

42 Natty 

43 Small depressions 
45 Lavished fondness 

47 Church holiday 

50 Animal’s dens 

52 Obsolete reed instru¬ 

ments 

55 Upon 

56 Ripple against 

57 Else 

58 Unorthodoxy 
61 Regions 

63 Changes 
66 Intent 

68 Domestic animal 

70 Strip of wood 

71 A rodent 

72 Inflamed 

73 Part of a clarinet 

74 Lazy person 

VERTICAL 

32 A planet 
34 To bar 

36 Small point 

37 Oriental vessel 

38 Frozen confections 

43 Stupid 

44 Pertaining to the sun 

45 Profoundness 

46 Wild dog 

48 A mimic 

49 Part of the foot 

51 Etruscan god 

53 Dexterity 

54 To damage 

58 Aid 

59 A price 

60 Unit of length (PI.) 

61 One of the twelve 

apostles 

62 Performances alone 

63 Variety of flower 

64 Revise 


76 Is dull 

79 Call for assistance 

80 Variety of flower 

(PI.) 

82 Set free 

85 That girl from Troy 
88 Abraham’s nephew 
90 Pertaining to N. Pole 

93 A precious stone 

94 Breathing organ of 

fish 

95 Sour 

96 Recently deceased 

97 Same 

98 Unit of measure 

99 Fabulous bird 

100 Part of the head 

(PL) 

101 Variety of fruit 

102 Weaver’s reed 

103 Periodical payment 


65 Mentally sound 
67 Girl 

69 Saw lengthwise 

74 Product of electrical 

decomposition. 

75 Cylindrical device 

76 Elementary sub¬ 

stances 

77 Absorb slowly 

78 Corded fabric 

79 Vends 

81 In this manner 

83 Anguish 

84 Obese 

85 Fine whetstone 

86 Den 

87 Small quantity 
89 Bird of prey 

91 Ornamental fabric 

92 Cessation from mo¬ 

tion 


[ 30 ] 


Puzzle No. 8 


A SPOTTED BORDER 


By E. Pinkerton 



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HORIZONTAL 


1 Instrument of de¬ 
fense 
5 Morsel 
8 African animal 

13 Metal 

14 Pertaining to tone 
16 Prefix-not 

18 Boy 

19 Slang for girl 

20 Seize 

22 Highest part 
24 Produce 

26 A slight coloring 

27 Chew 
29 Lack 

31 Limbs 

32 Heavenly body 

33 Day before event 
35 Perceive 

37 River (Sp.) 

38 Limbs 
40 Made 


2 Particle 

3 Fasten 

4 Upon 

5 Shackled 

6 Inside 

7 Stained 
9 Upon 

10 Negative 

11 Recognize 

12 Before winter 

14 A color 

15 Preserve 

17 To transfer 

18 Appear 

19 Cotton seed sepa¬ 

rators 

21 Deep tone 
23 Separate 

25 Suffix signifying a 

native 

26 Revolve 
28 Cry 

30 Greek island 

32 Fastened with thread 


41 Member of senate 
43 To have 

46 A seed vessel 

47 Heavenly body 
49 Soaked 

53 Need 

56 To coin 

57 Relating to Danes 

58 An exclamation 
60 Water ditch 

62 Beast of burden 

63 Bell 

64 Growl (archaic) 

65 Pronoun 

66 Stakes 
69 Relate 

71 Perished 

72 Demeanor 
74 Destruction 

76 Renders palatable 
78 Incline 
80 Tough timber 
82 Fashion 


VERTICAL 

34 A clinging plant 
36 Enough 
39 Footwear 
42 The first man 

44 Tears 

45 Entreating 

47 Entangled 

48 Over 

49 Decreases 

50 Toward 

51 Prefix again 

52 Danish people 

54 Negative 

55 Domesticated 

56 A crowd 

57 Small mark 
59 Father 

61 Half score 

67 Toward 

68 Carbon 

70 Syllable of the scale 

71 Perform 

72 Encounter 

73 Within 


84 Boat riding 
88 Wicked 
90 Recover 

93 Tavern 

94 Expire 

95 Grain 

96 Noah’s ship 

97 A male human being 

98 Transaction 
100 Narrow fillet 
102 Glory 

104 Burrows 

105 Pure 

107 A line 

108 To tear 

109 Small amount 

110 Short sleep 
112 Propel 

114 Honey gatherer 

115 Disclose 

116 Not moist 

117 Necessary 


75 Female servant 

77 Remain 

78 Protruding tooth 

79 Stands by 

81 Draw together 

82 In this place 

83 Feels 

85 A unit 

86 At once 

87 Auto appliance 

88 Fermented 

89 Expend 

90 To rage 

91 Leave out 

92 An old cloth 
99 Fasting season 

101 A soft drink 

103 To trouble 

104 Perished 

106 Roof covering 
109 Honey gatherer 
111 Father 

113 Doctor (abbr.) 

114 To live 


[ 32 ] 


Pdzzle No. 9 


A CHECKERED CAREER 

By S. Czurles 



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HORIZONTAL 


European nation 
Importance 
Uncouth 
Front 

Reed instrument 
Conjure 

Textile material 
Right for oxen 
Musical instrument 
Consumed 
Debased coin 
High priest of Israel 
Fruit 

Stupid person 
The son of Seth 
Softened bread 
Violin with three 
strings 


34 River flowing 
through Florence 
36 Attempt 
38 Military command 
41 Expand 

43 Pronoun 

44 Make lace 

46 Episcopal headdress 
49 Rumor (French) 

51 Temper 

53 Inalienable inheri¬ 
tance 

55 Variety of palm 

56 Product of electrical 

decomposition. 

57 Bank 

58 Mixes 

59 First-born 


VERTICAL 


27 


Formal and forbid¬ 

28 

Skillful 

ding 

29 

Empyrean 

Norse writing 

31 

Unctuous liquid 

Allude 

34 

Assault 

Recent (prefix) 

35 

Observe 

Always 

37 

Made of curled hair 

Peruvian prince 

39 

Roofed stree\ 

Vessel 

40 

Lavatory 

Secure 

42 

Large bird 

Source 

43 

Female bird 

Beliefs 

45 

Soon 

Hill 

47 

Egyptian goddess 

Unit 

48 

Where marriages 

Elastic fluid 


are unmade 

Fabulist 

50 

Costumes 

Water of forgetful¬ 

52 

Australian bird 

ness 

Oxygen and nitrogen 

54 

Spread loosely 


[ 34 ] 


Puzzle No. 10 


SMALL BUT NEAT 

By Joseph E Austrian 

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





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HORIZONTAL 

2 Small boat 

39 Give 

6 Answer 

41 Mesial plane 

11 Anger 

42 Came out 

12 A lament 

46 Make amends 

13 Conjunction 

48 Turret 

15 Rock 

50 Pleased expression 

17 Eligible jurors 

52 Debate 

19 Note in musical scale 

53 Wager 

20 Heavy woolen fabric 

54 Open space 

22 Imitate 

55 School master 

24 A surgeon’s cylin¬ 

58 Before 

drical saw 

59 Large nails 

26 An image 

61 Part of “to be” 

27 Misdeed 

62 Truck 

28 Quintessence 

64 Second cutting of 

29 Glide 

hay 

31 Reason 

66 Provided that 

33 Web-footed birds 

67 Period of time 

34 Wonder 

68 Strife 

36 Lamentation 

69 Drive back 

38 Fabricated 

70 Shelters 


VERTICAL 


1 Assure 

32 An anesthetic 


3 A bird 

33 Groups 


4 A metal 

35 Confusion 


5 Marsh 

37 Part of head 


7 Period of time 

40 A stopper 


8 Flat bottomed boat 

41 Fancy 


9 Lewd smile 

42 Pitcher 


10 One who prints 

43 Measure of length 


14 Stone 

44 Dagger 


15 Emotional 

45 Motives 


16 Artist’s stand 

47 Digits 


17 Enclosures 

49 To comply 


18 Sleight of hand 

51 Sediment 


19 Religious ceremony 

56 Knob 


21 Wander 

57 To ensnare 

■ 

23 A tree 

59 Web-footed bird 


25 Pastries 

60 Saucy 


30 Efface 

63 A grain 


31 Odor 

65 Be indebted 



[ 36 ] 


ru “" "•* 11 KEYS AND CROSSES 

By Harold McKay 

T HE design of this bath mat is much more cryptic than the words you will be 
called upon to fill in. 



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HORIZONTAL 


1 To become insolvent 
4 A long-legged bird 
6 Presage 
9 A bruise 
11 Not working 
13 What 
15 Cautious 

17 In bed 

18 Mother 

19 To lick up 

21 To waste away 

23 A sticky substance 

24 To silence 

25 Encircled 

27 Since 

28 Beast of burden 


1 Combustible mate¬ 

rial 

2 Part of “to be” 

3 Vulgar 

4 She 

5 Point of a pen 

6 Aged 

7 Myself 

8 Close to 
10 A rodent 
12 Cave 

14 Very old women 

16 To make a mistake 

17 Eaten 

18 Female horse 
20 To go ahead 

22 To do as asked 


29 Article 

30 Exclamation 
32 Guided 

34 Liquid juice of 
plants 
36 Assent 
38 Everything 

40 To grasp 

41 Clamp 

42 Also 

43 First woman 
45 A drink 

47 Organ of body 
49 Dissent 

51 Exist 

52 A beam 


VERTICAL 

23 To ring a bell 

25 Upon 

26 Perform 

28 To astonish 

29 A covering on an 

automobile 
31 Speed 

33 A person who 
dresses fastidious¬ 
ly 

35 Past 

36 An animal 

37 After day 

39 Sheltered side 
42 To snare 
44 An urn-like vessel 
46 Song 


54 To fall behind 

55 To squander 

58 A tree 

59 Viper 

61 An automobile 
63 A card 

65 Preposition 

66 A distance 
68 Ireland 

71 Exclamation 

72 A step 

73 Measure of time 

75 Remunerated 

76 To rub off 

77 A vegetable 


48 Too 

50 Exclamation of pain 

51 To exist 
53 Coy 

56 Part of “to be” 

57 A digit 

59 Above 

60 Sound made by a 

clock 

62 A neck ornament 
64 To gain by toil 

66 Insane 

67 Sheltered side 

69 A liquor 

70 To catch 
72 3.141592 
74 Backwards 


[ 38 ] 


Puzzle No, 12 


A BLACK BEAUTY 



By P. B. Geotsch 

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



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HORIZONTAL 


1 African antelope 

38 Pendent 

5 By means of 

39 Edge 

8 Stop 

40 One 

12 Beam 

41 Imitated 

13 Impenetrably hard 

42 Trimming 

14 Secure 

44 Suffice 

15 Adversary 

45 Journey 

17 Write 

47 Patent 

18 Produce 

49 Eschew 

20 Woolen material 

51 Touch 

21 Distribute 

53 Faith 

24 Female deer 

55 Wanting 

25 Viscous matter of a 

56 A drug 

cell 

59 Be indisposed 

28 Chalky chemical 

60 Matchless 

substance 

63 Liquid refreshment 

30 Fracas 

64 Malady of the brain 

31 Preposition 

65 Period of time 

33 Annoy 

66 Dropsy 

35 Rhymed composition 

67 Part of verb “to be” 

36 Live 

68 Inscription-bearing 

37 Natural 

stone 


VERTICAL 


1 Before 

29 Used in golf 

2 Cut 

30 Large volume 

3 Affirmative 

32 Cooling device 

4 Between dawn and 

34 Remnant 

evening 

35 Domestic animal 

5 Essay 

36 Assistant 

6 Boil (Archaic) 

41 Spring up 

7 Roam 

43 Hazard 

8 Filthy place 

45 Toward 

9 Consumed 

46 Basket 

10 Sways rhythmically 

48 Negative 

11 Guided 

50 Sound 

16 Back tooth 

51 Headdress 

19 Mohammedan world 

52 Beat 

21 Mode of scenic rep¬ 

54 Pertaining to sounds 

resentation 

56 Span of time 

22 Near 

57 Single 

23 Slid 

58 Health resort 

25 Take inconsider¬ 

60 Beast of burden 

ately 

61 Poem 

26 Affirmative 

62 Scrutinize 

27 Titanic 



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HORIZONTAL 


1 One of the highest 

41 Anger 

67 Proportion; rate 

101 Astound 

order of mammals 

42 Observe 

68 Insane 

104 Special aptitude 

8 Less long 

44 Between hip bone 

69 Ourselves 

106 The thing 

15 Old womanish 

and false ribs 

70 Vessels for carrying 

107 Otherwise 

16 Little devil 

46 Procure 

liquids 

108 Sketch 

18 Junction 

47 Hub of a wheel 

72 To exist 

110 Egyptian god repre¬ 

20 Small, explosive re¬ 

49 A gloomy covering 

73 Near 

sented by lion, cat 

port 

51 One of a Slavic peo¬ 

75 Narrow fissure 

or hawk 

22 Link 

ple of Eastern 

78 Irritable 

111 Proceed 

24 Enticed 

Germany 

80 One indiscriminately 

112 A beverage 

26 Moisture 

52 Location 

82 Ethyl 

114 Lean 

28 Aloft 

53 Go in 

85 Weapons 

116 Different 

29 A sloth 

55 Unclose 

87 African antelope 

118 Low, swampy land 

30 Having three teeth 

57 Faithful 

89 A hairy man 

119 To consume by using 

32 Accomplish 

59 Tract on the earth 

91 Identical 

121 Illimitable period of 

34 Myself 

60 I refuse 

93 Snake that crushes 

time 

35 Wise counsellor 

62 Belonging to me 

its prey 

123 Odor 

38 Pertaining to the sis¬ 

63 Paradise 

94 Unfettered 

125 To break into frag¬ 

ter of Osiris 

65 Exists 

96 Victim 

ments 

39 To render infamous 

66 Males 

98 Impost 

126 Fiscal agent 



99 A painful swelling 



VERTICAL 


2 Knock lightly 

25 A parent’s brother 

61 Natural combination 

95 Crude 

3 Inward 

27 An ant 

of metals 

97 Asteraceous plant 

4 Hireling 

29 In, on, near or by 

62 Rabble 

having small white 

5 A fermented liquor 

31 Plunge 

64 A fruit 

blossoms 

6 Theme 

33 From; out of 

71 The life principle 

100 Maiden loved by 

7 Exist, in the first 

36 At no time 

72 Cowshed 

Zeus 

person 

37 Twisted strand 

74 A period of time 

102 Companion; c o m- 

9 Injured 

39 Founder and queen 

76 Angry 

rade 

10 Unit 

of Carthage 

77 Rodents 

103 Hill in Jerusalem 

11 Autocratically con¬ 

40 Flexible; dexterous 

79 Disrupted 

105 Exclamation 

trolled 

43 Small mountain lake 

80 A tool 

108 Fop (slang) 

12 Toward 

45 Single 

81 You 

109 Landing place with 

13 Termination 

48 Foes 

83 Hard fat 

ascending stairs. 

14 Foaming 

50 Behold 

84 Under-o fficers of 

in India 

16 Goddess of fecun¬ 

51 Ourselves 

churches 

113 Timber and shade 

dity 

52 Seats 

86 Itinerary 

tree 

17 Entreaty 

54 Chinese coins 

88 Long 

115 A small insect 

19 To make less sour 

56 Plate bearing the 

90 Exhausted 

117 Before 

21 Musical drama 

Eucharist 

92 Contagious skin dis¬ 

118 Distant 

23 “The sharpest sight¬ 

58 Leaven 

ease 

120 Parent 

ed spirit of all in 

59 Venomous little 

94 To lose r e m e m • 

122 Bovine quadruped 

heaven” 

snake 

brance of 

124 The other parent 


[42] 


Puzzle No. 14 


A QUADRIPUNTAL ASTEROID 

By Persephone 

A BRILLIANT construction, comprising clever interlocking combined with 
symmetry of design. Such a combination is difficult and extremely rare. 
To obtain a picture such as this four-pointed star makes a real treasure of the 
puzzle. 




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HORIZONTAL 


1 Amphibious boat 

37 Seasoning 

56 Hostile incursion 

77 Measure of weight 

12 Equipped 

38 Dread 

57 Tardy 

79 Wan 

17 Bustle 

39 Mud 

58 In front 

80 Hear 

18 Worry 

40 Ancient English 

59 Bivouac 

81 Composer 

19 Tardy 

monastery 

60 Utter musical 

82 European River 

20 Insects 

41 Harden by heat 

sounds 

83 Ring slowly 

21 French particle 

42 Particles of stone 

61 Trial of speed 

84 Come to birth 

22 Behold 

43 At liberty 

63 Regret 

85 Particle 

23 Wife of Zeus 

44 Pronoun 

64 Staff 

86 Spring 

24 Walking stick 

45 Conjunction 

65 Search 

87 Rule 

25 Throw 

46 Fruit of pine tree 

66 Light red 

88 Clean 

26 Gruel 

47 Animal group 

67 Pronoun 

89 Frame of animal 

27 Peruse 

48 Carry 

68 Preposition 

90 Pronoun 

28 Uttered 

49 Pedal digit 

69 Bottom 

91 French, here. 

29 Injury 

50 Hybrid animal 

70 Sift 

92 Winged mammals 

30 City in Nevada 

51 Swarm 

71 Generous 

93 Tunes 

31 City in New York 

52 Tympanun of ear 

72 End of day (poet) 

94 Wind 

33 Lake 

53 Related 

73 High nest 

95 Male person 

34 Blood vessel 

* 54 Fat 

74 Send by telegraph 

96 Musical compositions 

35 Leopards 

55 Large stove for hard¬ 

75 Useless plant 

97 Member of new 

36 Wood 

ening 

76 Throw 

school 


VERTICAL 


1 Blessest 

ment 

51 Duration 

74 Welt 

2 Old form of per¬ 

26 Flip 

52 Damp 

75 Part of verb “to be” 

form 

27 Count on 

53 Sharp pointed nail 

76 Bird house 

3 Act 

28 Vending 

54 Oaf 

78 Venomous snake 

4 Body of water 

29 Direct 

55 Vegetable 

79 Utensils 

5 Earth (South Afr.) 

30 Infrequent 

56 Tumult 

80 Early invader of 

6 Period of time 

32 Musical composer 

57 Ground 

England 

7 Thing 

33 Seize 

58 Common Spanish 

81 Baseball slang term 

8 Level place 

34 Sell 

proper name 

83 Children 

9 Earth 

35 Wharf 

59 Snug 

84 Inflection of speech 

10 Consumed 

37 In a sound condition 

60 Solitary 

85 Small animal 

11 Point of compass 

38 Cultivated land 

61 Peel 

87 Rodent 

12 Source 

39 A weight 

62 Feeling 

88 Small part 

13 Snake-like fish 

41 Audacious 

64 Share 

89 Rotten 

14 Similar to 

42 Observed 

65 Erudition 

90 Possesses 

15 African antelope 

43 Fief 

66 Streaked 

92 Have existence 

16 Placed 

44 Butterfly 

67 Mixup 

93 Italian particle, used 

20 Consume by fire 

46 Restoration to health 

69 Carry 

in music 

23 Chief 

47 Assist 

70 Beak 

94 Proceed 

24 Carriage for heavy 

48 Two masted vessel 

71 Sharp 

95 Note in m u s ic a 1 

commodities 

49 Carry 

72 Loosen 

scale 

25 Small tubular fila* 

50 Female horse 

73 Space of ground 


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Puzzle No, 15 


A QUADRUPLEX QUIDDITY 



By Person or Persons Unknown 

TRULY marvelous study in four-letter words, with some notably lengthy side- 
interlocks. The unknown author is to be congratulated. 



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HORIZONTAL 


1 Ancient goblet 
5 Puzzle 
8 Noiseless 

12 Degree 

13 Baking place 

14 Consolidation 

15 Skeleton of certain 

Marine Polyps 

16 Brute 

17 Close with wax 
19 Glen 

21 Proclamation 
24 Felt with pleasure 
27 Cleanse lightly with 
clean water 

30 Uncivil 

31 Tardy 

32 Jewish mystic orna¬ 

ment 


1 Arch 

2 Scared 

3 Upright 

4 Half cooked 

5 Fresh 

6 Donkey 

7 Join 

8 Ocean mammal 

9 Internal 

10 Fur animal 

11 Husbandman 
18 Gather 

20 Passage 

22 Blunt 

23 Assess 

25 Coachman 

26 Christmas 

28 Newspaper para* 
graph 


34 Rent 

35 Stair 

37 Become weary 
39 Seclude 
41 Melted 
44 Unit 

47 Long stuffed seat 

48 High fliers 

49 Personal servant 

50 Half wit 

51 Forcibly concise 

52 Island 

54 Mineralized vege¬ 
table matter 
56 Drink habitually 
59 Compact 

62 R e t a i 1 in small 
quantities 
65 Texas wild cat 


VERTICAL 

29 Mentally sound 
31 Mother of Apollo 
33 Rich source of 
wealth 

36 In a peevish man¬ 
ner 

38 Cattle thief 

39 Long for 

40 Lower deck 

41 Noted 

42 Bewitching 

43 Informal ball 

45 Denuded 

46 Bailiff 

53 Feudal slave 
55 Imitates 

57 Lineal measure 

58 An equal 


67 Dry 

68 Land measure 
70 A liberty 

72 Extends over 
74 Dry 

77 Household task 
79 Gangway aid 

81 Worship 

82 Endure 

84 Object of worship 

86 Circuitous way 

87 Dye 

88 Pertaining to a ray 

89 Presiding dignitary 

90 Garment 

91 Part of the eye 

92 Style of painting 

93 Account book 


60 Paradise 

61 Song 

63 Gone west 

64 Wild beast covert 

66 Soldier equipment 

67 Ran fast 

68 Opposed to basic 

69 Muster roll 
71 Consuming 
73 Each 

75 Wandering 

76 Trader 
78 Escape 

80 Bird 

81 Having winds 
83 Surface 

85 By word of mouth 


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

By Captain F. F. Stewart 

rriHE sea contributes a spacious, ample field of voyage. It is remarkable for the 
X presence of no small units—two or three letter words. You will observe con¬ 
sistent splicing throughout although the center is a trifle loose. 



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HORIZONTAL 


1 Rank 

34 R 0 0 ffl y , flat-bot¬ 

61 A milk product 

91 The man 

6 Paralysis 

tomed boat 

63 To bar 

92 Insect 

10 Relating to medicine 

35 To be ill 

64 A grain 

93 A principle held as 

or doctors 

36 A measure of area 

65 Frenzy 

true 

15 Single 

37 Unaccustomed 

66 Undermined 

94 Contest by force 

16 Fierce jungle beast 

40 That which serves to 

68 Opposite middle of 

95 I disagree 

18 To brown over a 

solve or explain 

ship’s side 

96 Fraudulent 

blaze 

41 Occupied 

70 Inclosed 

98 Solemn promise 

20 Bustle 

43 A metal 

72 Is company 

99 Tidy; spruce 

21 American Indian of 

44 Corrode 

73 Wield diligently 

101 Close to 

certain tribe 

46 Skill 

74 To bow quickly 

103 One who frees 

23 Vagrants 

47 Pig 

76 Goddess of Dawn 

106 Father of the gods 

25 To pack compactly 

48 Marry 

77 The whole 

108 To call out 

26 Matrons 

50 Instrument of pun¬ 

79 A digit 

109 Less covered 

28 Soft plug 

ishment 

81 Fragment 

110 A rough 

29 Deceives 

52 Unclose 

83 Beast of burden 

112 Wrath 

31 Accomplish 

54 Vigor 

84 Dealt with 

113 Church holiday 

33 A dark, viscous liq¬ 

56 Wind instruments 

86 Convulsive gasp 

114 A small carnivore 

uid 

59 Tranquillity 

88 Sisterhood 

115 Hidden 


VERTICAL 


1 Curves 

25 Word of unknown 

52 Nearly three-quar¬ 

82 In the direction of 

2 An insect 

meaning occurring 

ters of the Earth’s 

83 The great artery 

3 Urgent want 

often in the 

surface 

84 From there 

4 The thing 

Psalms 

53 A scold 

85 To pull vigorously 

5 To extend from a 

27 Genus homo 

55 Repairs 

86 Harsh 

common point in 

30 Swine 

57 Cleopatra’s last re¬ 

87 To have a care for 

different directions 

32 Aquatic, fur-bearing 

sort 

89 Pad worn in a 

6 A wooden pin 

animal 

58 Turf 

woman’s hair 

7 South American In¬ 

36 A shield or protec¬ 

60 An affirmative 

90 A verse form 

dian 

tion 

61 Small vessel 

96 Garlands bestowed 

8 Dull; stupid 

38 Highest horizontal 

62 Illimitable period of 

for victories 

9 At a distance 

timber in a roof 

time 

97 A title of respect 

10 Proceeding 

39 Spike 

67 Conscious 

99 At this time 

11 In, on, by or near 

41 Before 

68 A forbidden drink 

100 The primeval body 

12 Rodents 

42 Woman teacher in 

69 Rabble 

from which the 

13 Artificial language 

private household 

71 A dyestuff 

gods created the 

based on Esper¬ 

45 Highest point 

73 A number of ani¬ 

world 

anto 

46 To mimic 

mals in a group, 

102 Epoch 

14 Craven 

48 Bad in the highest 

herd or flock 

104 Implore 

17 A vapor 

degree 

75 An underworld god 

105 Small child 

19 Augment 

49 Go in 

78 Work 

107 Natural compound 

22 The Devil 

51 Famous English race 

79 Pertaining to tiles 

of metals 

24 Uncovered 


80 Manifestation of re¬ 

109 Exist 



spect or reverence 

111 You 


[48] 


Puzzle No. 17 


A TESSELATED TANGLE 

By Persephone 

ERFECT interlocking and very few unkeyed letters! Technically, this puz¬ 
zle is nearly perfect. Nor should the strain on the vocabulary be unduly severe. 





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HORIZONTAL 


1 The end 
6 Serene 

12 To explore pryingly 

13 God of love 
15 Exists 

17 Herb used in soups 

19 Mediaeval war club 

20 Towards 

21 Related 
23 Eagles 
25 Fate 

27 Place oneself 

28 One of the three 

forms of matter 

29 By way of 

30 To engrave 
32 Virtuous 

34 Pinochle term 

35 Residence 
37 Ireland 
39 Soil 


40 Conduit 
42 Smooth 
44 Enemies 
47 Well ventilated 
49 Sprinkle 
52 Stitched 

54 Anger 

55 Lubricant 

56 Incline the head 

57 Deposits 

59 South African ani¬ 
mal 

61 Lazy 

62 Upon 

63 Veritable 
65 Puts with 

67 Note of scale 

68 Destruction 

69 Puppet 

71 Foot gear 

72 To revere 


VERTICAL 


2 Within 

3 Midday 

4 Inquire 

5 Learned (obs.) 

7 Plains 

8 Portion of curve 

9 Student at coeduca¬ 

tional institution 

10 Part of “to be” 

11 Prejudiced 
14 Ointment 
16 Sketch 

18 Jason's ship 

19 Plateau 

20 Labor 

22 Tickling sensation 
24 Spikenard 
26 Part of stove 

31 Decorative shrub 

32 Edible flesh 

33 Leafy 

34 Sources of minerals 


36 Extinct bird of New 
Zealand 

38 River (Spanish) 

41 Mariner 

42 Victim 

43 Air 

45 Dispatch 

46 To make beloved 
48 Plateau in Asia 

50 Upright support 

51 Girl’s name meaning 

“fostering” 

53 Wild beast 

58 To shock 

59 The moon 

60 Coalesces 

61 Island 

64 Free from 
66 Small spot 
68 Egyptian sun-god 
70 French article 


[50] 


Puzzle No. 18 


HOT CROSS BUNS 

By Everett A. Brown 

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



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HORIZONTAL 


1 To drop or cast down 

34 Rested 

61 Segment, circle 

6 Toughen by use 

35 To draw out and 

63 Spirit 

11 The tails of notes 

twist threads 

64 Deface 

(musical) 

37 Contends with 

65 Inventor of a gas 

16 Secretion of kidneys 

39 Mumble 

burner 

17 Wound about 

42 Reticent 

68 High priest (Bib.) 

18 In regard to 

45 One who releases 

69 Warbles 

19 A waterfall 

48 About 

72 Girl’s name 

21 Private warfare 

49 Painful 

73 Give up 

23 Tree 

50 A sound used to con¬ 

76 Lighted 

24 Wife of a maharaja 

vey meaning 

77 Written laws 

(Hind.) 

51 Act 

79 Cloak 

26 To mark with ridges 

52 One who listens 

81 Oriental guitar 

27 Prisoner server cer¬ 

55 Remunerated 

82 Hinder 

tain term (colloq.) 

57 The burbot 

84 Father’s or mother’s 

92 Headpiece 

58 Diseased person 

brother 

30 Philosophy of morals 

60 Expressions of affir¬ 

85 Musical drama 

32 Assistance 

mation 

86 To eat or wear away 

33 Little devil 


87 One who eats 


VERTICAL 


1 Ancient European 

22 Born 

55 Called to mind 

silver coin 

25 Inclined plane 

56 Abandoned ship 

2 Eradicate 

28 Clergymen 

59 Heap 

3 Pertaining to Mithra 

31 Wood nymph 

62 Pause (poet.) 

4 Mothers: a Tagalog 

35 A booth 

64 House for unknown 

term 

36 Inner court of Span¬ 

dead 

5 Named 

ish dwelling 

65 Singer 

6 Constant teasing de¬ 

37 Willow basket 

66 Remove extremit) 

sire 

38 Drainage pipe 

67 Seed 

7 Act of swimming 

40 Sister of Circe (Gr. 

69 Affirmative 

8 Above 

myth.) 

70 Inventor of sheening 

9 A patcher 

41 Jabs 

process 

10 Earthly paradise 

43 Part of foot 

71 Guide 

11 Pupils of military 

44 Vessel 

74 Advise; counsel 

school 

46 In a humble rank 

(Scot.) 

12 Unit 

47 Period of time 

75 Great 

13 Rubbish 

53 Salt of stannic acid 

78 Sailor 

14 Foolish action 

(chem.) 

80 Heroine in Spenser’s 

15 Poniards 

54 Backturner 

Faerie Queene 

20 Famous Swiss river 


83 At 


Puzzle No. 19 STEPPING STONES 


By D. Weiner 

HIS looks like a rocky road. Don’t trip over it. Constructionists will please 
notice that there is not a single unkeyed letter in this chef d’ouvre. 


/ 

2 

3 

2 

S 

> : ■ 

6 

7 

6 

9 

IO 


II 

\2 

13 

12 

15 

16 






17 






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1 9 





20 



9 

~2l 


22 






2 3 



■ 

2* 




25 






26 



27 



20 



:0. 

26 




30 


31 





32 



' . 

33 





32 

, 

1 



35 

56 




37 




36 



39 j 


20 

21 

22 


- 


23 

22 



• : v. ; 

25 


26 

27 





20 


a 

29 







50 




a 

51 


52 


53 





52 


55 





56 



57 




i£:. ■. 


56 


59 




/Z -V\” 

60 





6 / 


62 

‘ ' • 

*4 . • 

63 



■ 


62 



1 1 I 9 

65 

66 




67 


66 




69 




1 70 

7 / 

72. 




73 


72 




75 



76 



77 



76 





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W~ 




qot 




61 






62 


63 




62 





65 






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HORIZONTAL 


1 An executive 
7 Assaults 

14 Pertaining to tones 

15 24 sheets of paper 
17 Behold 

19 Clothes 

20 Undressed kid 

21 Parent 

22 Give egress 
24 Constellation 

26 Babylonian war-god 

27 Matter in aeriform 

state 

28 Guile 

30 Oscillators 

33 Bundle 

34 Finished 

36 Perspire 

37 Adhesive compound 


2 Near 

3 Mine-roof support 

4 Veins of moth’s wing 

5 Wharves on river 

6 Joints of the arms 

8 Eject stream of water 

9 Suppliants 

10 Opera 

11 Anger 

12 Chinese measure 

13 Blooms 

16 Woven vessels 
18 Believe 
21 Agreements 
23 Church officer 
25 Organs of vision 
27 Aeriform mixtures 


38 Staggered 

40 Beast of burden 

41 Upright 

42 Small furbearing 

animal 

44 English school 

46 Commiseration 

47 Partakes of food 
50 Wild animal 

52 Card game 
55 Fruits of genus mal- 
aceae 
58 Rower 
60 Tyrolean song 

63 Certain tones in 

Greek music 

64 Auctions 

66 Appellations 


VERTICAL 

29 Elongated fish 

31 Apart 

32 Comfort 

33 Utensil 

35 Determines 
37 Vessel used in con¬ 
structing bridges 
39 Adores 
41 White with age 
43 American humorist 
45 Beverage 

48 Edict 

49 Appropriately 

51 Loud noise 

52 Liberate 

53 Commonwealth 

(Antiq.) 


67 Fool 

68 Floor coverings 

70 Change positioi 

71 Some 

72 Cut and dried grass 

73 Amer. Protective 

Assn, (abbr.) 

75 Japanese coin 

76 Nickname of Base¬ 

ball player 

77 Keynote 

78 Bird 

80 Latin conjunction 

81 Name of English 

nobleman 

82 To come into 

84 Surround 

85 Constituent sub¬ 

stance 


54 Agrees 

56 Flower 

57 Permit 

59 Mountain range 

61 Barrier 

62 Dike 

64 Maxim 

65 Gazes 

68 Light boat 

69 Reaches 

72 Tribe of Indians 
74 Poker term 
77 It exists (contr.) 
79 Number 
81 Thing 
83 Red Cross 


[54] 


Puzzle No. 20 


FIVE GREEK CROSSES 


F 


By William Ziegler 

OUR interesting, independent masses with a solid central interlock, 
the kind that leads you merrily on from one section to another. 


This is 



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HORIZONTAL 


1 Portico 

5 Characterizing the 
beginning of a pe¬ 
riod 

11 A language of an¬ 
cient Italy 

15 In case 

16 A color 

18 To strip of rigging 

19 A vase 

20 Not any 

21 Exist 

22 Deeply malignant 
25 An ejaculation of 

pain 

27 A Greek leader in 
the Trojan war 

30 Female sheep 

31 Highest in power 

34 True 

35 Trades (colloquial) 
37 Had business rela¬ 
tions 


38 Because 

39 Cupidity 
41 Analysis 

44 Wary (slang) 

47 Devoured 
43 Unclose 
49 Permit 
51 Bustle 
53 Not even 
55 The foot of a clawed 
animal 

57 A quick bow 
59 Quick to learn 
61 Observed 
63 One of the seven 
daughters of Atlas 
65 Slovenly women 

68 A thread of metal 

69 Statues 

70 A measure of ca¬ 

pacity 

71 To take vengeance 

for 


72 Not any 

73 Primal 

76 Stretched tight 

77 Insect 

78 Jewish Territorial 

Organization 

79 Before 

80 Little devil 

82 Born 

83 A boy 

85 Metal dish 
87 A kind of sweet po¬ 
tato 
89 Decay 

91 Models; standards 
93 Facing toward the 
direction from 
which a glacier 
impinges 
95 More mature 

97 Yes 

98 Fathers 


100 To expiate 
102 Preposition 
104 The language of the 
Frisians 
106 Struck 

108 To surpass in riding 

110 Above and in con¬ 

tact with 

111 Consigns to a spe¬ 

cial category 

114 Bone 

115 The great god of the 

sun 

117 Perish 

119 Get up 

120 The Goddess of 

Dawn 

122 A measure of area 

123 To be 

124 Slapped 

125 Heliograph (collo¬ 

quial) 


1 Religious 

2 From 

3 Iron vessel for hold¬ 

ing an illuminant 

4 The man 

6 A low form of wit 

7 On one occasion 

8 Diadems 

9 Sum paid for service 

10 Past 

11 Otherwise 

12 Forced the air au¬ 

dibly through the 
nose 

13 One, or any 

14 Memoranda 

17 Fear of impending 
evil 

19 Customary 
21 Beside 

23 Cleopatra’s final 

remedy 

24 Employ 
26 You and I 


28 A length of 

shaped timber 

29 To move swiftly 

32 A fold of cloth 

33 Have permission 

36 Undermine 

37 Coloring 
40 Brightly 

42 Emotion 

43 Cattle of a certain 

breed 

45 A mare famed in 

story 

46 Existing in name 

only 

48 Said to be a wise 
bird 

50 Color imparted to 
the skin by the 
sun 

52 Less bitter 
54 A faithful friend 
56 Piece of property 


58 Aquatic, fur-bearing 
animal 

60 Sacred poem 
62 To debate 
64 A stage of life 

66 Forbidden by the 

18th Amendment 

67 To soak 

68 Rainy 

74 To hang down; 

droop 

75 Intention; design 
78 Mental images 

81 To stamp something 
in or on 

84 Adds as an acces¬ 
sory 

86 A patient beast 
88 A king of Judah 

90 Laborious 

91 Sky and war god of 

Teutons 

92 Steeple 

94 That from which 


anything primarily 
proceeds 

95 To excite to activity 

96 Relieved of 

97 In flames 

99 Title bestowed on 
aviators after cer¬ 
tain accomplish¬ 
ments 

101 One end of a shoe 
103 An African 

105 A maiden changed 

into a heifer by 
Hera 

106 The wife of Zeus 

107 Work; undertaking 
109 Exists 

112 To lick up with the 

tongue 

113 A little pile of sand 
116 A tool 

118 The thing 

121 An exclamation 

122 Sloth 


[56] 


VERTICAL 
un- 


Puzzle No, 21 F0UR L EAF CLOVER 

By Marcam 

T HIS lucky design offers two unusual features: an excellent conventionalized figure 
and freedom from excess of black spaces. The solution offers difficulties; how 
much more the construction! The three-by-five interlocks at the sides in especial 
deserve worshipful consideration. 



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HORIZONTAL 


1 Herbivorous fish-like 
mammal of the At¬ 
lantic shores 
7 Quick succession of 
notes from a horn 

13 Minor prophet (8th 

century B.C.) 

14 To conceal or store 

as in the earth; 
hide 

16 A light-yellowish 

brown 

17 A piece of metal that 

holds another in 
place, or adjusts a 
bearing 

19 Regret 

20 Scot.—“to go” 

21 Close to; near by; 

in; within 


23 Little island, espe¬ 
cially in inland 
waters 

25 Have a purpose; en¬ 

deavor earnestly 

26 Copper (Chem.) 

27 Roam idly abroad; 

ramble; stray 
29 Changeling 

31 Priest’s white linen 

vestment 

32 Close; obstruct; 

hinder 

33 Shield or defensive 

armor, as the man¬ 
tle of Minerva 
35 Mountain range in 
N. E. Utah 

37 Constituting a large 


number; numerous 

38 Heavy textile fabric, 

made in one piece, 
to cover a portion 
of a floor 

39 Parasite 

40 Part of the verb “to 

be” 

41 Notify or summon 
43 Showiness of achieve¬ 
ment; brilliancy 

45 Bind to secrecy 

48 Make, grow, or seem 

to grow old 

49 Exclamation of re¬ 

pugnance or dis¬ 
gust 

50 Steep, or soak, as flax 

52 Be slow; tardy; late 

53 Preposition 


54 Suffix used to form 
present participles 
56 Pet or strike softly 

58 Abbreviation for 

“company” 

59 Brief poem charac¬ 

terized by exalted 
feeling 

60 Carryall 

62 Power of compre¬ 
hending and judg¬ 
ing 

64 Slang for “no” 

66 Court 
68 God (Latin) 

70 Betrayal; treachery; 

or breach of alle¬ 
giance 

71 Now going on; cur¬ 

rent 


VERTICAL 


1 Carry out by action, 

effort, or skill of 
any kind 

2 Part of the verb “to 

be” 

3 Square or rectangu¬ 

lar block of wood 

4 Largest continent 

5 Prefix, from, out of; 

used before many 
words beginning 
with a consonant 

6 Auditory organ 

7 Belonging to a par¬ 

ticular genus or 
- class; definite ar¬ 
ticle 

8 Scot: one 

9 Flock; brood 

10 Bad luck; loss; the 
worst; also the 
best 


11 Abbreviation for 

“railroad” 

12 Art or practice of 

foretelling by signs 
or omens 

15 Drinking vessel 
18 From Greek “life”; 

a combining form 
20 Protecting crane- 
arm; jib 

22 Something attached 

24 Letter in the Greek 

alphabet 

25 Biol: A wing, or a 

wing-like part 

26 Be able 

28 Funeral hymn or 
tune 

30 Small seed-eating 
bird, as a bunting, 
sparrow 


31 The fragrant essen¬ 

tial oil extract 
from rose petals 

32 Bark-tanned sheep¬ 

skin for bookbind¬ 
ing 
34 Woo 

36 Nothing 

37 Tangled 

41 Secure a patent for 

42 Gone by; past 

43 Biol: An ovum or 

germ cell 

44 Spread loosely for 

drying, as newly 
mown grass . 

46 Resinous substance 
exuded from an 
East-Indian scale- 
insect and used in 
making varnishes 


47 One who advocates 
or practises egoism 
49 French: Fem. gen. 
“one”; an; 

51 Beat; torture; vex; 
also to harden or 
prepare 

54 Any product of men¬ 

tal apprehension 
or activity 

55 Conjunction 
57 Offers 

59 Poetic: to open 

60 Bar 

61 Drink slowly 
63 Golf term 

65 Conjunction 

66 River in Italy 

67 Conjunction 

69 Prefix (negative) 


[58] 


Puzzle No. 22 


AT THE CROSSROADS 


By Helen V. Christ 


S MALL, but plenty of unusual words to tax the lobes of your brain and the pages 
of your dictionary. Do you like difficult words? However, we have one or 
two still harder than this one. 



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HORIZONTAL 


1 To the inside of 
4 Shaft 

7 Otherwise 

8 Globe 

10 A flattish mass of 

anything soft or 
moist 

11 Note of scale 
13 Cheaters 

15 Plans 

17 Exclamation of tri¬ 
umph 

19 Behold 

20 As 

21 Stupefied by medi¬ 

cine 

24 Consumed 

26 A unit of electricity 

27 Egyptian sun god 


29 Mama (abbr.) 

30 None 

31 Transgress 

32 Neuter pronoun 

33 Degrees of speed 
36 Cunning (colloq.) 

39 Remuneration for 

personal service 

40 Else 

41 Hubbub 

42 Act 

43 Indo-Chinese 1 a n - 

guage 

44 Alienate 
48 Societies 

53 Period of time 

54 Second person plural 

55 Animal 

56 Labels 


58 Caught again 

63 Swing off balance 

64 Fondle 

65 Nimbus 

66 Liquor 

67 Peddle 
69 Wrath 
71 Employs 

73 Chum 

74 Personal pronoun 

75 From 

76 Greek prefix -com¬ 

bining form 

77 Paternal parent 

78 Fruit 

83 Begun again 

84 Stood by 

85 Papa 


1 Man’s name 

2 Small child 

3 Mineral 

4 Companion 

5 Japanese shawl 

6 Yale 

7 Instead 
9 Boast 

10 Note of scale 

12 Diphthong 

13 Revel, glut 

14 Pronoun, first person 

singular 

15 Vessel 

16 Grievest 

18 After the birth of 
Christ 


VERTICAL 

19 Note in scale 

20 Grin 

22 Affiliation 

23 Procured 

25 Northern animal 

26 Part of wheat plant 
28 Curtain 

33 Sheds 

34 Female name 

35 Obtain redress by 

law proceedings 

37 Female name 

38 Small cottage 

45 Ready 

46 Snare 

47 Monkeys 
49 Orb 


50 To reverence 

51 Appendages 

52 Small island 
57 Stride 

59 Sewing implements 

60 Not common 

61 Liquor 

62 Italian river 

63 Oriental weight 
68 Fold over 

70 Providing 
72 Ocean 

79 Girl’s name 

80 Ancient Grecian coin 

81 Was indebted to 

82 Male name 


[60] 


Puzzle No. 23 CROSSWORD VALENTINE 



By J. W. Shaw 

HIS contributor has dedicated himself to romance, 
to whom he devoted this valentine. 


We wish we knew the lady 



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HORIZONTAL 


1 Savory 
5 Cuts 

9 Visible moisture 

14 Ladies 

15 Cruel ruler 

17 Part of a Moham¬ 
medan house 

19 On any occasion 

20 Judicious 

22 Priest 

23 Encounter 

25 Constructive Meta¬ 
bolism 

27 Else 

28 Slow (musical term) 

29 Peninsula in East 

Asia 

30 Toward 

31 Downcast 

32 Killer 

35 Utmost possible 
37 Pertaining to eye 


1 Flavor 

2 Expression of hearty 

assent 

3 Blow through 

4 Part of verb “to be” 

5 Regular contraction 

of the heart 

6 Curve 

7 Contest between na¬ 

tions 

8 Cowardly fellow 

10 Exclamation 

11 City in California 

12 Verbal 

13 Forgive 

14 Lure into danger 

15 Colors 

16 Drift 

18 City in Georgia 

20 Put on 

21 Sailor 

24 Re-excavate 


39 Water pitcher 

40 Limb (anat.) 

42 Not lawful 

44 Note of scale 

45 Covered with a cu¬ 

pola 

47 Conical mound of 

earth 

48 Tear 

50 American Protec¬ 

tive Association 

51 Daughter of Cadmus 

(myth.) 

52 Read with attention 

53 Beverage 

54 Transgress 

55 Nothing 

56 Crouches 

59 Interrogation 
61 Shrill, discordant 
whistle 

64 Procreated 

65 Highway 


VERTICAL 

26 Defy 
31 Lustrous 

33 Tool 

34 Affirmative 

36 Body that gives light 

37 Oily 

38 Carried in a wagon 

40 Pineapples 

41 Aged 

42 Disease of the skin 

43 Prevaricates 

45 Noble 

46 Child’s toy 

49 Parent 

50 Like 

57 Interpreter to an em¬ 

bassy 

58 Person afflicted with 

abhorrent disease 

59 Goddess of the dawn 

60 Article of apparel 

62 An opera 

63 Signifies 


67 Beam, set as a prop 

69 Angling term 

70 Go ddess of the 

hearth 
72 One 

74 Conjunction 
76 Public assembly 
78 Forcibly 

80 One 

81 Falsetto tenor voice 
83 Capturing cattle 

85 A special privilege 

86 Of boundless extent 

89 Tune 

90 Wanderer 

92 Philosophers 

93 Engraved circular 

piece of metal 

94 Restore 

95 Term used in print¬ 

ing 

96 Disinfectant 


65 Retaliates 

66 Language as modi¬ 

fied by local pe¬ 
culiarities 
68 Silk fabric 

70 Sharpens 

71 Accumulate 

73 Ministering spirit 
75 Gentleman 
77 Sort of glov^ 

79 Beast of burden 

80 Record of a single 

year 

82 Designate 
84 Indicating presence 
of iodine (comb, 
form) 

87 Pithy saying 

88 Misleading state- 

ment 

91 From (prefix) 

93 Mine 


[62] 


Puzzle No. 24 EIGHTEEN KARAT 


By Harry Friedman 



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HORIZONTAL 


1 Leaves of corolla 
6 Pertaining to par¬ 
ticles 

12 Soda ash 
14 Part of optical or 
surveying instru¬ 
ment 

16 Neighborly gather¬ 

ings for special 
purposes 

17 Drives with blows 

20 Kind of fish 

21 Outside covering 

22 Subdues 

23 Spill 

24 In favor of 

25 Suits 


27 Decay 

28 Kind of walking 

stick 

31 Lost cattle 

34 Entered in political 

contest 

35 Swamp land 

37 Groove 

38 Apparently contrary 

to truth (adverb) 

40 Tavern 

41 Young dog 

42 Form of entertain¬ 

ment 

44 Anything that heals 
47 Tumults 

49 Male of kind of 
mammal 


50 Seamen 

53 Endeavor 

54 Relate 

57 Excretion from kid¬ 

neys 

58 Projecting part of 

building 

60 Dish of many in¬ 

gredients 

61 Allots 

62 Den 

63 Alter, correct 

65 C a s e s of wooden 
slats 

67 Indicate 

68 Laxer 


1 Membrane lining 

thorax of mam¬ 
mals 

2 Pieces out 

3 Stint 

4 Crony 

5 Hearken 

7 Drinking cups 

8 Sun 

9 Omit 

10 Object of devotion 

11 Unit of heat 

12 Avoids 

13 Fondness for one’s 

own sex 


VERTICAL 

15 Displace 

18 Base of shellac 

19 Something prized 

25 “Yes, we have no” 

26 Cloud form 

29 Path 

30 Mountain lakes 

32 Canons 

33 Large size paper 

35 Dude 

36 Pinch 

39 One who puts an 
end to 
43 Willows 


45 Anointed 

46 False god or idol 

47 Painting on plaster 

48 Less difficult 

51 Wrath 

52 Indefinite pronoun 

55 Be alive 

56 Cut of meat 

58 Exclamation of sor¬ 

row 

59 Head 

64 Female of kind of 
pachyderm 
66 Take by force 


[ 64 ] 


Puzzle No. 25 


HONEYMOON HOKUM 

By Mr. and Mrs. William Stern II 

constructed this on their honeymoon, which is a good argument for 
marriage. 



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HORIZONTAL 


1 Layer of bets by 

41 Secret 

64 Strip of wood 

91 

The positive termi¬ 

word 

42 Large cask 

67 Domesticated 


nal of a cell 

8 Severely self-denying 

43 Conjunction 

69 Behind the time 

93 

Snake-like fishes 

15 Exclusively 

45 Intensity of passion 

72 Silver (chemical) 

94 

Recent 

16 Non-poisonous ser¬ 

46 Note of diatonic 

74 Exclamation 

95 

Sojourn 

pent 

scale 

76 Sister 

97 

A Scottish High¬ 

18 The large intestine 

47 Small dram 

77 A heavenly body 


lander 

20 Part of “to be” 

48 In the manner of 

78 Objective pronoun 

100 

Hinder 

22 Entertainment 

49 Agitate 

79 The spawn of fishes 

101 

Edition (abbr.) 

23 On condition that 

50 Humans 

81 King of Norway who 

102 

Cast-off 

24 Automobile 

51 Race 

christened the 

103 

Part of the shoe 

26 Young dog 

53 Prefix meaning 

country 

105 

Christmas (French) 

27 Friendly hint 

“with” 

82 Stretched tight 

107 

Egyptian god 

28 Beverage 

54 Italian composer 

83 Intention 

108 

Genuine 

30 Cloth measure 

55 Pertaining to weight 

84 A bright-colored 

109 

A passageway 

31 Noblewomen 

57 Ardor 

North American 

111 

Ingenuously piquant 

35 Winding about and 

59 Fool 

bird 

113 

To be extremely 

constantly reced¬ 

60 A low fellow 

86 Metal bearing rock 


fond of 

ing from a center 

61 Where animals are 

88 To be agitated 

114 

Strength 

37 In a tilted manner 

kept 

90 An object of wor¬ 

115 

Chief officer of a 

38 Brain-box 

62 A useful insect 

ship 


cathedral 




VERTICAL 




2 Egyptian god 

21 

A conspicuous pas¬ 

55 

Nocturnal flying 

85 

Arabic article 

3 Beverage 


sage 


mammal 

86 

Upon 

4 Behold 

23 

Pertaining to Slavs 

56 

A pod or husk 

87 

Boy’s nickname 

5 River of India 

25 

Germanic god 

58 

Not old 

89 

Pronoun 

6 Trickle (Scotch) 

26 

Small 

63 

A strict disciplina¬ 

91 

Yes 

7 Plant of the parsley 

29 

Terrify 


rian 

92 

For instance 

family 

30 

Ireland 

65 

State of excitement 

95 

Covering of the foot 

9 Native of Scotland 

32 

French for “he” 

66 

Clever 

96 

In the Year of Our 

10 Figures that taper 

33 

Period of time 

68 

Little world 


Lord 

uniformly from a 

34 

Low-bred dog 

69 

A large fish 

98 

Indefinite article 

circular base 

36 

Not (prefix) 

70 

Deceased 

99 

Show the way 

11 Elevated railroad 

39 

Fleets of war vessels 

71 

A school term 

102 

A drunkard 

12 A weight of about 

40 

Decomposes into 

73 

Incited 

103 

Spanish for “aunt” 

28 lbs. 


molecules 

75 

Dare (obs.) 

104 

High priest 

13 Within 

44 

Tree 

77 

Rested 

106 

A falsehood 

14 A coarse, transpar¬ 

46 

Sheltered side 

78 

A pale moth with 

108 

Proceed 

ent muslin 

49 

Black 


floury wings 

109 

By 

16 Pledge 

52 

A small drum 

80 

Enough 

110 

Half a printer’s unit 

17 Venomous serpent 

54 

Secretion 

83 

One of Adam’s sons 

112 

A note of the scale 


19 A kind of candy 


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Puzzle No. 26 


FOR THE ZIGZAG ZEALOT 


By Joseph H. Gersten 



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HORIZONTAL 





1 Sluggish inlets 

37 Unctuous 

70 Bonds 

103 To converse 

6 To flatter grossly 

39 Luminous circle 

71 State in Mexico 

104 So be it 

11 All but 

40 Sailing vessel 

73 Therefore 

106 Fruit juice 

16 A folding frame 

42 Props 

74 That on which one 

107 Arm of the sea 

18 An East Indian tree 

45 H 2 0 

sits 

108 Female rabbit 

19 A fine soft powder 

46 Woodland deity 

75 Spiritual essence of 

109 Infernal regions 

20 Exclamation of sur¬ 

48 Adorns with colors 

Hindus 

112 Solemn promise 

prise 

49 Energy 

76 Grudge 

114 Small insect 

22 High temperature 

51 Measure of length 

78 So 

115 Near 

23 Denial 

53 Tiny 

79 Faculty of sensation 

116 Sway 

24 Vegetables with 

55 Form of verb “to be” 

81 Note of musical 

117 To accomplish 

dressing 

57 Measuring instru¬ 

scale 

118 Elementary sub¬ 

25 Conjunction 

ment 

83 Fish spawn 

stance 

26 Small barrel 

58 Mother 

86 Jurisprudence 

120 On 

28 To make or mend 

60 Stanza 

88 Started 

121 A thin biscuit 

29 Identity 

62 Depart 

90 Balanced 

122 Chief 

31 Compound, as of 

63 Cognomen 

94 Lemon-like fruit 

124 Carouse 

atoms 

65 Indefinite article 

97 Fresh set 

126 Happenings 

32 Term of address 

66 Plural of Asiatic 

98 Pertaining to sea¬ 

127 South American vul¬ 

33 English nobleman 

country 

sons 

ture 

35 Ascent 

68 Encourage 

100 A pattern 

128 Round-about way 



102 Helper 



VERTICAL 


1 Ferns 

30 Two score 

58 Small table-land 

92 Provided that 

2 Personal pronoun 

32 Satisfied 

59 Segments of curves 

93 Female parent 

3 Simpleton 

34 Chance 

60 Six 

95 Cut down 

4 Employs 

36 Sip 

61 Repose 

96 A plant 

5 Cleave asunder 

38 Possessive pronoun 

62 Toothed wheel 

97 Mob 

7 Elevated 

39 Hedge 

64 Myself 

98 Precipitous 

8 Vocal inflection 

41 Funeral pile 

66 Father 

99 A bar to gain power 

9 Implement 

43 Jumbled type 

67 Yes 

101 Epistle 

10 Measure in printing 

44 Forward 

69 To exist 

103 Small bays 

11 Mixture 

45 Griefs 

72 Part of passive aux¬ 

105 Well known 

12 Something lent 

47 A turning 

iliary 

108 Crazy 

13 Mire 

49 Relating to private 

77 Supplicate 

110 Paradise 

14 Gold 

affairs 

80 To float 

111 Burden 

15 Fear 

50 Unrestrained 

82 Abdomen 

113 Billow 

17 A noted American 

52 Signify 

84 Detest 

116 Pale 

explorer 

53 Quadruped of slen¬ 

85 Held for sale 

119 Permit 

19 Leaves undone 

der form 

87 Middle place 

121 Us 

21 Cures 

54 Maker of earthen¬ 

88 Make fast 

122 Halloo 

25 A lubricator 

ware 

89 Merry 

123 N o te of diatonic 

27 Moaning sound 

56 Cripple 

90 A plant food 

scale 

29 Leaf of the calyx 

57 Mixed mass 

91 Part of verb “to be” 

125 Behold 


[ 68 ] 


Puzzle No. 27 


THIS TAKES THE CAKE 

By M. H. Ronzone 



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1 Design on metal 
8 Fixers of teeth 

15 Deck of battleship 

16 Floor cleaner 

17 Signified 

18 One who dispatches 

20 Latin tribe 

21 Parcel of ground 
23 Military leader 
26 City in Armenia 

28 Protuberant tumor 

29 Long 

30 Official of Moham¬ 

medan Church 

31 Foundation 

32 Possessive pronoun 
34 Try 

37 Dip lightly 
39 Frozen pendant 
42 Entomological pre¬ 
fix 


1 Mock 

2 Rear 

3 Metallic rock 

4 Bone of arm 

5 Earth 

6 Exceptional 

7 Stronghold 

9 Proceed 

10 Point 

11 Caudal appendage 

12 Hostelry 

13 Worker on dock 

14 Witnessed (past 

perf.) 

19 Loud talker 

20 Easy 

22 Be indebted to 

24 Stroke 

25 Direct 

27 Girl’s name 

32 Capillary growth 

33 Mottled 


HORIZONTAL 

45 River in Russia 

46 Lift 

49 Arab chief 

50 Altar-screen 

53 Apostrophic poem 

54 Soak 

56 Lachrymal exudations 

57 Conflicts 

58 Female character in 

Acts XI xxxvi 
61 Pedal digit 
63 Fire-opal 

67 Syrian city 

68 Twos 

70 Narrow roadway 

71 Stand for painting 
73 Each 

75 Distress signal 
78 Circuit 


VERTICAL 

35 Girl’s name 

36 American admiral 
38 Circumstance 

40 Crack 

41 Clad 

43 Pendent 

44 Herb 

47 Large artery 

48 Drain 

51 Period of time 

52 Ocean 

54 Unit of work 

55 Self 

58 Receptacles 

59 College degree 

60 Snare 

62 Lubricant 

64 Infrequent 

65 Point of compass 

66 Closed curve 

68 Permission by au¬ 
thority 

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80 Biblical character 

81 Jump 

83 Court 

84 Club 

85 Prefix, right 

87 The sun 

88 Sprite 

90 Completed 
93 Point 
95 Wood 

98 Seaport in Columbia 

99 Sow (Prov. Eng.) 

100 Accustom 

101 Equip 
103 Belch 

105 Artificial ravine 

106 Excellent (superla¬ 

tive) 

107 Simple 

108 Young man 


69 Choose 
72 Passes 
74 Success 

76 Night bird 

77 Border (theatrical) 

79 Through 

80 Before 

81 Largest island of 

Japan 

82 Prefix pertaining to 

oil 

86 Prefix, far 

88 Noble 

89 Beat 

91 Shoot 

92 Obligation 
94 Two together 

96 Upon 

97 Earlier than 
102 Mother 

104 Carbon monoxide 


Puzzle No. 28 


A JERSEY ’SKEETER 

By Henry Kroener 

T HIS comes from Montclair, and it’ll sting you more than once. Get out the 
citronella and go to it. 



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HORIZONTAL 



1 Out of date 
7 Poison found in 
opium 

14 Not you 

15 A new star 

16 Indivisible 

17 Beast of burden 

18 Existed 

20 To disparage 

21 T o n e of diatonic 

scale 

23 An alcoholic liqueur 

26 Mixed type 

27 To stop 

29 Dandies 

30 Glory 

32 Soapstone 

33 To study 


34 Italian coin 

35 Letter of Greek al¬ 

phabet 

37 Distinctive areas 

39 A species of hickory 

40 Named 
42 Relief 

44 To root up 

45 Small skin tumor 
47 Harmony 

49 Acid formed in vege¬ 
table jellies 
52 Weird 

54 The lowest point 
56 Clamber up 

58 Frosted 

59 Amidst 

60 March 15th 

61 Machine for cutting 


metal 

63 Having more than 
usual power 

65 Stupid fellows 

66 In like manner 

67 Immoral conduct 

70 T o n e of musical 

scale 

71 A prima donna 

72 Knobs 

73 An interjection 

75 Simple 

76 A ridge near surface 

of water 

78 Preposition 

79 Excluded 

80 Instruments for 

measuring 


1 A toothsome dish 

2 Exist 

3 Preposition 

4 To frown 

5 Uniform 

6 Ascertained net 

weight 

8 Stops 

9 Case for small ar¬ 

ticles 

10 Supported 

11 Part of the verb 

“be” 

12 Negative 

13 Something that 

arouses 

19 Drawn forth 

20 Odors 

22 A nurse 

23 Having vegetable 

micro-organisms 


VERTICAL 

24 Object of strong de¬ 

votion 

25 The use of a selec¬ 

tive method 

26 Fine rubber 

28 Internal decay in 
fruit 

31 Parasitic insects 

36 Got up 

37 A mixture of con¬ 

crete 

38 A planter 

39 Sunders 
41 Silent 

43 A resinous substance 

46 A reprint 

47 Member of an In¬ 

dian tribe 

48 Fruit of the maple 

tree 


49 Chinese English 

50 Vulgar fellows 

51 Court sittings 

53 Repetition of sound 
55 To make foul 
57 Shelters 

62 Amendment to a 

document 

63 An embankment 

64 Come into operation 

65 An article of prop¬ 

erty 

68 A whirring sound 

69 An Old World goat 

74 Any male person 

75 Mamma 

77 N o t e of diatonic 

scale 

78 Pronoun 


[ 72 ] 


Puzzle No. 29 UNLUCKY 

By Harold H. Hodces 

T HERE are thirteen crosses in this widget and the words around them will make 
you the same. 



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1 Float 
4 Insulting 
9 Rim 

12 Compass 

13 Eskimo hut 

14 Annealing oven 

16 Sulphide of arsenic 
19 Young woman 
21 Attract 

23 Negative particle 

24 Refuting argument 
26 Whim 

28 Perfume 
30 Comedian 
32 Discernment 
34 Precious stone 


1 Artifice 

2 Vex 

3 System of rates 

4 Concur 

5 Winged insect 

6 Performing alone 

7 By way of 

8 Heron 

9 Short outer waist 

10 Bay color mixed 

with white 

11 Netting 
15 Happen 

17 Lower part of leg 

18 Chalice 
20 Fragment 
22 Hybrid 


\ 


HORIZONTAL 

37 Always 

38 Secondary planet 

41 Tailless monkey 

42 Offspring 

44 Plasterer’s trowel 

46 Within 

47 Southern fish 

48 Man’s name 

49 Strum 

51 Vestment ribbons 
53 Have an obligation 
55 Destroy utterly 
58 Negative word 
60 Nostrils 

62 Fit into mortise 

63 Animal in embryo 


65 Loop of rope 
67 Repulse 
69 Calm 
71 Period 
73 Citrus fruit 

76 Small songbird 

77 Legendary siren 

80 Implement 

81 Ungulate of South 

America 

82 Compound ether 

83 Parti-colored 

84 Foreordain 

85 Morbid respiratory 

sound 


VERTICAL 

25 Subsequent 
27 Second mowing 

29 Hydro carbon of 

methane series 

30 Blessing 

31 Waste 
33 Proteid 

35 Recompense 

36 Fanatical partisans 

39 Predict 

40 Former playing card 
43 Interjection 

45 Egyptian god of 
pleasure 

50 Exudation of certain 
plants 
52 Allude 


54 Sway 

56 Restrain 

57 Compound polyp 
59 Expenditure 

61 Plant of the ebony 
family 

64 Snapping beetle 
66 Frozen 

68 Balance 

69 Exchange 

70 Plexus 
72 Despoiled 

74 Ibsen heroine 

75 Otherwise 

78 Native metal 

79 Even 


[ 74 ] 


Puzzle No. 30 


SINGLE SPOTTER 



By J. T. Delaney 

OT so decorative, but a hundred per cent interlock and no two letter words. 
Hats off to Mr. Delaney. 



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HORIZONTAL 


1 Container (physiol.) 
4 Two-sided 
11 Earth 

14 River in Virginia 

15 Sweet potato 

16 Threatens 

18 Love 

19 Repose 

20 Bivouac 

21 Aid 

25 Disturb 

28 Seize 

29 Conjunction 

30 Italian coin 

31 Murmurs softly 

32 Preposition 

33 Italian particle often 

used in English 
35 Far 

37 Preposition 


1 Indian magical plant 

2 Groups of electrons 

3 Bodily 

4 Ordinary 

5 Suffix, pertaining to 

6 Affirmative 

7 Brown 

8 Printer’s measure 

9 Part of verb “to be” 

10 Looks evilly 

11 Pertaining to clothes 

12 Body of water 

13 Writing rest 

14 Make of automobile 
17 Let stand 

22 Wait 

23 Ireland 

24 Sense 

25 Frighten 

26 Species of sound 


38 Heavy cord 
40 Pertaining to square 
area 

42 Body of land 
44 Golden one 

46 Before 

47 Joyed 

49 Italian corn-meal 
cake 
52 Rustic 

54 Spice 

55 Reply 
58 Railer 

62 War method 

63 Things 
65 Shouted 

67 Against 

68 Optical instrument 

73 One who utilizes 

74 3.14159 

75 Strainedly 


VERTICAL 

27 Greek letter 
34 Closed curve 

36 Lateness 

37 Man’s nickname 

39 Thrust forth 

40 Mix 

41 Address 

43 Dutch coins 
45 Prefix, from 
48 Behold 

50 Measure of weight 

51 Conjunction 

52 Wager 

53 Heroine in Spenser 

55 Indian princess 

56 Condition 

57 Mixed type 

59 Negative 

60 Bull-shaped 

61 Bar 

62 Cereal 


76 Musical note 

77 Symbol for copper 

78 Skin disease 

79 Roman emperor 
81 Conjunction 

83 Precious stone 

85 Masticate 

86 Stands even with 

87 Positive command 
89 Antillean island 

91 Numeral adverb 

92 Loving 

94 Compound of oxygen 
and nitrogen 

96 Ordered 

97 Beverage 

98 Organ of public in¬ 

formation 

99 Written pages 

(abbr.) 


63 Make over 

64 Odor 
66 Drawn 

69 Engrave 

70 Learning, knowledge 

(obs.) 

71 Prefix, pertaining to 

oil 

72 Fire 

77 Intrigue 

78 Seed of oak 
80 Reed 

82 Monetary penalties 
84 Mountain lion 
88 Ones 
90 Plunge 

93 Pronoun 

94 Conjunction 

95 Sun-god 

96 Prefix, out of 


[ 76 ] 


Puzzle No. 31 


A PRIZE PACKAGE 



By H. R. Koecler 

HE six, seven and nine letter words in this scintillating 
gray matter, if any. 


set-up will tax your 




IQ 


zo 


33 



6 

7 

Q 

V s 









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HORIZONTAL 


1 A hybrid animal 
7 A kind of mono¬ 
plane, originally 
designed by an 
Austrian 
9 Cultivated 

12 A Knight of the 

Round Table 

13 To march on 

14 Three-banded arma¬ 

dillos of S. A. 

15 One who edits 

17 To stand between 

18 French artist 

19 A colorless liquid 


20 A place to sleep in 

21 To demolish 

25 Upper part of a hat 
29 Heroine of Char¬ 
lotte Bronte novel 

32 To instigate 

33 To predestine 
35 Sets again 

37 Encircles 

38 To get up 

39 First eight lines of 

a sonnet 

40 A guest at dinner 

41 Hurries 


VERTICAL 


1 A Spanish copper 

coin 

2 Biblical name 

3 Stretched tight 

4 In pursuit of 

5 To fatten 

6 An alloy, used in 

cheap jewelry 

7 Relating to type 

8 To adjudge 

10 To drive an auto 

11 Amusement 

14 A kind of pack 
saddle 


16 Hunts again 

22 Slowly 

23 Pertaining to India 

24 Lack 

26 A dried fruit 

27 Fat 

28 Water (obs.) 

30 The present month 

(abbr. pi.) 

31 Swap 
34 Notion 

36 Where the River 
Shannon flows 


[78] 


Puzzle No. 32 


HIC LABOR HIC OPUS EST 


By Neophyte 

T HIS erudite contribution comes from an old-time puzzler who is one of the 
experts on ingenuities. He does not hesitate to delve in the darkest corners 
of the dictionary for words to fill his pattern. 































































4 Garden plat 
6 To pull along after 
8 Sack 

10 Alarm 

11 Be indebted to 

12 A savage animal 

14 The man 

15 A cup that cheers 

17 Wager 

18 Otherwise 

20 Frame to support a 
coffin 
22 Applaud 

25 A form of ice 

26 Stutter 

28 Morally improved 

30 A dish made with 

pastry 

31 It is so 


1 Pound 

2 Cloth for wiping 

3 To stay for 

4 Exist 

5 Visionary person 

6 In the direction of 

7 Ourselves 

8 Disfigurement 

9 Proceed 

10 Ends of stockings 

13 Not any 

14 Belonging to him 

16 A very little 

17 To command 

19 A measure of dis¬ 
tance 
21 Knock 


HORIZONTAL 

33 Males or females 

collectively 

34 A parent 

36 What the United 
States is supposed 
to be 

38 The woman 

39 Chief deity of his¬ 

torical Egypt 

41 Righteous 

42 Invest 

43 Pulls 

44 The thing 

45 To exercise power 
47 To mimic 

49 You 

50 A unit 

51 Fuss 

53 To supply weapons 


VERTICAL 

23 Call out 

24 Bronze or copper 

25 A half dozen 
27 Inland 

29 Sources of supply 
32 Finished 

34 Hawaiian food 

35 Skill 

37 Still 

38 Wave 

39 A beam 

40 Solemn wonder 
46 Pale green 

48 Unresisting 

50 Forth 

51 An insect 

52 Unclose 


( 


55 Effusively senti¬ 
mental 
58 Course 

62 Hypocrisy 

63 Ingenuous 

65 To drudge 

66 Accomplish 

67 Poem 

68 To drink little by- 

little 

70 In that way 

71 A notorious fiddler 
73 Gone by 

75 To offer for sale 

77 Genus homo 

78 Stepped rapidly 

79 The essential per¬ 

son 


54 Chart 

55 Insane 

56 Presently 

57 Wrath 

59 Donkey 

60 Joyful 

61 Goddess of Dawn 
64 Lawful 

67 Spoken 

69 Wooden or metal 
pins 

72 Type measure 

73 A measure of area 

74 Over and in contact 

with 

76 A veto 


[80] 


Puzzle No. 33 


A SERRATE SYZYGY 


By Marcam 

A NOTHER of Marcam’s masterpieces, somewhat simpler of solution than her 
other effort. But not childishly easy; Marcam finds some stiff definitions still 
for interested minds to unravel. 



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1 Vessel used for as¬ 
saying gold 
5 Tertiary 
9 Coral island 
13 Rainbow 

15 Unity 

16 Asterisk 

17 God of sunshine 
19 Discernment 

22 Near 

23 Yale 

25 Seize 

26 Tip 

27 Fear 

28 Melody 

30 Snake 

31 Used for bacterial 

culture 


1 Sign of omission 

2 3.1416 

3 Mistake 

4 Legal security 

6 Pig 

7 Inform 

8 Brazilian coin 

9 Indivisible particle 

10 Brown 

11 Gold 

12 Metric unit of vol¬ 

ume 

14 Sacred beetle 
16 Noiseless 
18 Sulfate of aluminum 

20 King of the fairies 

21 Natural ability 


v 


HORIZONTAL 
32 Plaster 

34 Force times distance 
37 Charcoal 
39 Stag’s horn 
41 Australian ostrich 
43 Evening 
45 Dyne centimeter 

47 Tint 

48 Pedal digit 

49 Negro 

50 Greek exclamation 

51 Decoration 

53 Devoured 

54 Steering lever 
57 Hot egg-nog 
60 Linear 

62 Scottish 


64 Eternity 

65 A fatty acid 

66 Weaving machine 

68 Homo 

69 Herself 

70 Metal-bearing rock 

72 No 

73 One 

74 Necessity 

78 Note on diatonic 

scale 

79 Speculator who sells 

80 Yes (Fr.) 

81 Raised platform 

83 Iron 

84 Armored 

85 Indivisibility 


VERTICAL 

22 Absent 

24 Insertion of virus 
27 Collection 
29 Epoch 

31 Metric land measure 
33 Grief 

35 Planetary orbit 

36 A nut 

38 Saltpeter 

39 In a heap 

40 Heron 

42 Minor (mus.) 

44 Deity 
46 Steep flax 

51 Molten 

52 A saying 
55 Hostelry 


56 Weir 

58 Religious 

59 45 inches 

60 Scrawny 

61 Void space 

63 Common fuel 

64 Accumulate 
67 Farinaceous 

69 Wax impression 
71 Eldest son of Isaac 

74 Born 

75 Because of 

76 Equivocation 

77 Wickedness 
79 Exist 

82 Another note on the 
diatonic scale 


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Puzzle No. 34 


FIVE SPOTS AND RAYS 

By R. B. MacMullin, Jr. 

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



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HORIZONTAL 


1 Foot-gear 

34 Clan 

58 Epistle 

85 Arbor 

6 Every 

36 Hostelry 

59 To enliven 

87 A measure of length 

10 Float 

38 Extremity 

60 Body of land sur¬ 

89 Entrance 

13 The smallest amount 

40 Domestic animal 

rounded by water 

90 Machine which gives 

18 The floor of a fire¬ 

42 Instrument used to 

65 Hastened 

motion 

place 

operate a lock 

66 An edge 

93 At any time 

20 Also 

43 Snare 

67 Rapacious bird 

95 Tells 

21 A kettle 

45 Color 

71 To wind, as a brook 

98 A variety of quartz 

22 One who carries 

46 Bustle 

73 Burdened 

99 Dwells 

something 

47 Marks made by fold¬ 

75 Small dagger 

102 Fastened 

23 Items of record 

ing 

76 To set free of 

103 Bond 

25 Pertaining to a pole 

49 Sort of skeleton 

77 Horse 

104 Tag 

27 To pass from one 

found in the sea 

79 To allow 

106 Recollect 

place to another 

51 Striking gently 

80 Co-relative of 

107 Older 

28 To break short 

54 Piece of instruction 

“neither” 

108 The fruit of the pine 

29 Exhausted 

55 Sort of preserved 

81 Period of time 

tree 

30 Jewel 

fruit 

82 A possessive pronoun 

109 Lyric poems 

31 Rule established by 

56 Pouch 

83 A delicious drink 

110 An aromatic herb 

authority 





VERTICAL 


1 Hard covering 

24 Sees 

49 Artificial waterway 

80 Negative 

2 Female fowl 

26 A bar of metal for 

50 High school subject 

82 Domestic animal 

3 Grain 

raising weight 

52 Delicious nut 

83 To supply food or 

4 Sins 

27 Sacred musical com¬ 

53 Great 

amusement 

5 Provide for meagrely 

position 

55 Receptabie 

84 Furiously 

7 Near 

32 Land measure 

57 Precious stone 

85 A food 

8 Thicket 

33 Troubles 

61 Dry 

86 Set again 

9 Metal or wooden 

35 Beside 

62 Home of a wild beast 

88 Fine lace 

band 

37 Otherwise 

63 A conjunction 

89 Strong wind 

10 Short space of time 

38 To prepare for pub¬ 

64 Indicated 

91 Sort of molding 

11 Merit 

lication 

67 Always 

92 Common name of old 

12 Neuter pronoun 

39 Not any 

68 To recline 

German emperors 

13 According to law 

41 Part of verb “to be” 

69 Anxiety 

94 Wealthy 

14 A nobleman 

43 Existing only in 

70 Spoken 

96 Soft finned fish 

15 A Southern constel¬ 

name 

72 Runs swiftly 

97 Boy 

lation 

44 A silk used for up¬ 

74 A triangular piece of 

100 Span of twenty-four 

16 Fixed 

holstering 

land at the mouth 

hours 

17 Inclination 

46 Expert 

of a river 

101 Kind of tree 

19 Listen 

47 Demand 

75 Potency 

103 Forward 

22 Having two feet 

48 Whole 

78 To depart 

105 Exist 


[84] 


Puzzle No. 35 


A SLOTTED OBLONG 


s 


By Marion Hague 

PLENDID corner solids and easy central islands, 
solve at leisure. 


Good words. 


A nice one to 



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HORIZONTAL 


1 Definite 

7 Cymbals used by 
Hindu dancers 
10 Declares 

16 Vigilant 

17 Publication 

20 Manifest 

21 Plateau 

22 17th century article 

of dress 

24 Concept 

25 Confederations of 

territory 

26 Nightfall 

27 Operator of cotton 

cleaning machine 

28 Restrain 

29 Belonging to Ireland 

31 Conveyed 

32 Insect 


1 Likeness producers 

2 Rudimentary 

3 Postponement 

4 Educate 

5 There 

6 Yields 

7 Afraid 

8 Tendency to revert 

to type 

9 One who issues per¬ 

mits 

10 Again 

11 Therefore 

12 Ills 

13 Returning (rare.) 

14 Wooden pegs 

15 Beginner 

18 Accomplish 

19 Exclamation 
22 Separater 


33 Bloomed again 

34 Scotch for no 

35 Stride 

37 Silenced 

38 Agitate 

39 Lyric poems 

42 Title 

43 Half 

45 Laundry implement 
48 One who lives only 
for pleasure 

51 Nautical diary 

52 Clamor 

53 Delivered 
58 Entanglers 

62 Insects 

63 Wicked 

65 Skin disease 

66 Defense 


VERTICAL 

23 Matured 

29 Shade tree 

30 Turf 
36 Utensil 
38 Err 

40 Couch 

41 Parts of shoes 

43 Medicinal plant 

44 Grieve 

45 Distant 

46 Total 

47 Bow 

48 Belonging to him 

49 Anger 

50 Contraction of “it is” 

54 Conjurors 

55 Corrode 

56 Bombastic 

57 Charm 
59 Salutes 


68 Premise 
70 Plunge 

73 Previous 

74 Quarrel 

75 Anger 

76 Performs 

78 Unsympathetically 

79 Irritated 

80 Harangues 
*82 One of many 

83 Helmsman 

84 Employer 

85 Aversions 

88 Liquid measure 

89 Prepared 

91 Share 

92 A relative 

93 Regards 

94 Assent 

95 Feared 


60 Guided 

61 Homage 

63 Wilful damage to 

ship by mariners 

64 Separation of parts 

previously joined 

66 Characteristic 

67 Refuge 

68 Resting place 

69 Pen 

71 Made like ivory 

72 Exercised 

77 Atlantic right whale 
79 Brown pigment 
81 Tastes 
83 Deliver 

86 This way 

87 Toward 

90 3rd person plural 
92 Nor 


[86] 


Puzzle No. 36 


AN HOUR GLASS 


By Mrs. Henry Wolf 


T HE constructor must have turned her hour glass several times while she was 
building this hour glass. It presents beautiful masses of interlocks. 



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1 River boundary, an¬ 
cient Italy 

6 Ladies small um¬ 
brella 

12 To weaken 

13 A sailor 

15 An alcoholic drink 

16 Cotton fabric 

18 Part of verb “to be” 
20 To demand the re¬ 
turn of 

22 Act 

23 Disorder 

25 Portions of medicine 
27 Part of verb “to be” 

29 Equip with weapons 

30 A quick blow 

32 Eggs of fish 

33 Indefinite article 


1 To butt 

2 Above 

3 Pronoun 

4 Billiard shot 

5 Raw metals 

7 Dry 

8 Hearsay 

9 Part of verb “to be” 

10 Either 

11 Guided 

12 Glut 
14 Purer 
17 Terse 
19 Part 

21 Noblemen 
24 Skill 
26 Drunkard 
28 Mineral spring 


HORIZONTAL 

34 Separately 
36 Last 
38 A feature 

40 Corn weed 

41 Pertaining to a poet 

of Greece 

43 Faction 

44 Girl’s woolen hat 

45 A fish 

47 An artist of colors 

48 Forwards by post 
50 Numeral 

52 Recent 

54 Bits of materials 
57 Statesman 
60 City in Italy 
62 Interior 
64 Alarm 


65 Malicious crime 

66 Near 

67 By way of 

69 Before 

70 Not bright 

71 Parent 

72 Cuttlefish 

74 Fathers 

75 Behold 

77 Move 

78 Exist 

79 Organ of head 

81 A foundation 

82 Devoured 

84 Strike 

85 Retreated 

86 Do without; refrain 

from 


VERTICAL 

30 Edge 

31 State of equality 
33 Help 

35 Accuse 

36 Abets 

37 Liberty 

39 Purposeless 

41 Loathes 

42 A member of solar 

system 

44 Powerful explosive 
46 A bird of crow family 
49 Easily crumbled 
51 Gazers 
53 Oriental tower 

55 Insect 

56 Separate 


58 Playing card 

59 Rage 

60 Equipped 

61 Vortex 
63 Tear 
65 Tune 

68 Directed 

70 Systematic rules for 
eating 

73 Military assistant 

74 To pierce 

76 Used in small boats 
78 A box or place 

80 In regard to 

81 Part of verb “to be” 

83 Latin for “and” 

84 Exclamation 


[ 88 ] 


DECORATION 

By Anna J. Munro 



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HORIZONTAL 


1 Intellectual dullness 
6 A resting place 
8 The hair of the An¬ 
gora goat 
13 Bracing 

15 Hairy appendages 

16 Come together 

18 Pertaining to Mar* 

19 A female bird 
21 Drinking vessel 

23 Threads that guide 
through a maze 

25 A vase with feet 

26 Barren 

30 Single 

31 Note of scale 

32 To vanquish 

33 Concise 


34 As 

36 Us 

37 An obstinate person 
39 As 

41 A game of chance 
45 General term for 
followers of the¬ 
ory 

47 To corrode 

48 Lessened 

49 A soft white metal 

50 To take out 
52 Aid 

55 Regarding 
57 Madness 
60 Conjunction 
62 Near 
64 Primp 


66 Exposes 

68 Towards 

69 Consumed 
71 To dignify 

73 Be indebted to 

75 Carries 

76 Scented 

78 Sick 

79 Wearisome 

81 Hebrew prophet 

82 Anxious 

85 An indestructible 
unit 

88 Instruction 

89 A lair 

90 A drink of hot milk 

curdled with liq¬ 
uor 


1 Problems in arith¬ 

metic 

2 To speak 

3 River in Italy 

4 Forward 

5 Edge 

7 One who consumes 

8 Male 

9 Preposition 

10 A personal pronoum 

11 Pale 

12 Flees 

14 The air 

15 A tree 
17 Handbag 

20 Female sheep 
22 To deduce 
24 A pale yellowish 
clay 


VERTICAL 

26 A male child 

27 Period of time 

28 Possessive pronoun 

29 To make a mistake 
31 Personal pronoun 

35 Over and above 

36 A common liquid 
38 Jeer 

40 Fur-bearing animal 

41 Hobby 

42 A lyric poem 

43 To freeze 

44 Utilize 

45 Historic mountain 

46 To rest 

51 Diseased person 

53 Chest 

54 A parent 

56 A golf term 


57 An hotel 

58 To recede 

59 Metalliferous earth 
61 To act 

63 An Oriental weight 
65 To go into 

67 A book for pictures 

68 To inform 
70 Stories 

72 To think 

74 Useless plants 

75 A bank-note 
77 Shade 

79 A number 

80 To soak in 

83 So 

84 To depart 

86 Negative 

87 To wit 


[ 90 ] 


Puzzle No. 38 BLACK BEETLE 

By Fred L. Kleinschmidt 

T HIS constructor blocked out a pretty fair beetle form. The center is a little 
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Il)RIZONTAL 


1 Extremities 

37 Part of “to be” 

67 Black 

95 Requirement 

4 Unchangeable 

39 Ecclesiastical contri¬ 

69 Companion 

98 Secreted 

12 A metal 

bution box 

70 Organs of hearing 

100 Possessive pronoun 

15 Concerning 

40 Strike 

71 Legendary Queen of 

101 Equal 

16 Digits 

41 Bleak 

Carthage 

103 Golf term 

17 Variety of wood 

44 Unoccupied 

72 Toward 

105 Fermented drink 

18 Therefore 

46 Container for liquids 

74 To eulogize 

107 Severe 

19 Shores 

48 Rip 

77 Myself 

108 Fossil lizards 

21 Thus 

50 Hindu mendicant 

78 Orange-brown 

110 African antelope 

23 Catkins 

51 Designation 

80 Disordered type 

112 Vend again 

26 Fruit of common 

53 Annoy 

81 Mammal milk bag 

114 Latin for “and” 

tree 

54 Common breakfast 

83 Toss gently 

115 Compound of nitro¬ 

27 And so forth 

food 

85 Rational animal 

gen 

30 Obliterate 

55 Lacquer 

86 Mournful sound 

117 Inside 

31 Things of secondary 

56 Latin, and 

88 Collected mass of 

119 Earth 

importance 

57 Roman magistrate 

eggs (pi.) 

121 Open hall 

33 Sportmen’s lodges 

59 Behold 

89 Kind of fish 

122 Elevated 

(Scot.) 

61 Pert, to 

90 Engrave 

123 An injury 

34 A blow 

63 Road (abbr.) 

92 Vocal music 

124 Association 

35 Grassy field 

64 Eager 

93 Before, prefix 

125 Melt 


65 Indian Cult 

94 Head covering 



VERTICAL 


1 Roman garment 

2 Allowing that 

3 Tale 

4 Belonging to it 

5 Missive 

6 Article of apparel 

(pi.) 

7 Like 

8 By 

9 Wild animal (pi.) 

10 A priest 

11 Piece out 

12 Prefix, within 

13 Bone 

14 A feature 

19 A metallic element 

20 Again 

21 Prophet 

22 Pert, to the ear 
24 Lizard 


25 Persian ruler 

28 Form of limestone 

29 Stimulate 

32 Juice of a tree 

34 Form of male ad¬ 

dress 

35 Written or printed 

productions 

36 Revise 

38 To be impelled by 
wind 

40 Old women 

42 Substance derived 

from seaweed 

43 Meanderings 
45 Lifts 

47 Anger 

49 Self 

50 Captain of Arab ves¬ 

sel (pi.) 


52 Literary compiler 
55 Shifting sail 

58 Conception 

59 Kind of soil 

60 Giant 

62 Man of ancient Asi¬ 
atic race 

64 Form of “to be” 

65 You 

66 Intransitive verb 
68 Word of negation 
73 Smell 

75 Common woman 

76 Measure of weight 

78 Perched 

79 Measure of length 

80 To palpitate 
82 More profound 

84 African native race 

85 Plural of medium 
87 Egg-shaped (obs.) 


89 Pitch 
91 Pronoun 
94 Domestic birds 

96 Judicial circuit 

97 Send forth 
99 Wild animal 

102 Upright 

103 A dinner course 

104 Boredom 

106 Apart from 

107 Utensil for roasting 

108 Fruit of a shrub 

109 Storehouse for grain 
111 Thick liquid 

113 Sprite 

116 To prepare leather 
118 Denial 

120 Pronoun 

121 Near 

122 Plural pronoun 





Puzzle No. 39 


FACILE EST DECENSUS AVERNI 

By Cerebus 

G EREBUS was a three-faced dog, and that is what you may think of the 
progenitors of this bark after you’ve tried it. Averni (which does not mean 
Arverne) is the unkeyed centre-piece. 



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HORIZONTAL 


1 Self contradiction 

43 Cloud 

75 Table-land 

115 

6 Competitor 

45 Annoy 

79 Fondle 

117 

10 Restrict 

47 Any 

80 Shallow vessel 

118 

16 Holly 

48 Slant 

82 Place 


17 Couch 

49 Divide proportion¬ 

83 Medley 

120 

18 Dance step 

ately 

86 Episode 

121 

20 Froth 

52 An auction 

88 Decade 


21 Crow-like bird 

54 Dormant 

90 Bog 

123 

23 Solitary 

56 Obliterate 

91 Endured 

125 

24. Smooth 

57 Austere 

• 92 Diners 

126 

26 Condition 

59 Trite 

94 The end 

128 

28 Prayer 

60 Guided 

97 German 

129 

29 Hard blows 

62 Consume 

100 Baked clay 

130 

31 Infirm 

64 Retorts 

101 Humming 

132 

33 Caoutchouc 

66 Possessive pronoun 

103 Wagon travel 

134 

34 Acquires 

67 Comrade 

105 Printing measure 

135 

36 Again 

68 Precious stone 

107 Climate 

136 

38 Underanged 

70 Small cake 

109 Insect 

137 

39 Completed 

72 Weird 

110 Different one 

138 

40 Either 

73 Fruit 

112 Exclamation 


41 Flavor 

74 Eludes 

113 Bribes 

139 




VERTICAL 


1 Model of excellence 

32 

Let 

67 Baby food 

99 

2 Short bolt 

35 

Silences 

68 Chasm 

101 

3 Beverage 

37 

State of mind, esp. 

69 Humans 

102 

4 Lairs 


of soldiers 

71 Lace 

104 

5 Bovine quadruped 

39 

Dele. 

76 Close of day 

106 

6 Regenerate 

42 

To the sheltered 

77 Locate 

108 

7 Important Roman 


side 

78 Capers 

111 

dates 

43 

Pro 

81 Broad thoroughfare 

112 

8 Mimics 

44 

Aeriform fluid 

83 Weasel-like f u r - 

114 

9 Bathes 

46 

Rescue 

bearing animals 

116 

11 Concerning 

48 

Ex-Emperor 

84 Behold 

117 

12 Snout 

50 

Color 

85 Compound of atoms 


13 Corpulent 

51 

Golf requisite 

and electrons 

119 

14 Adult, mature insect 

53 

Young eagle 

87 Relate 

121 

15 Rudiment 

54 

Corroded 

89 Neither 


17 Nursery rhyme char¬ 

55 

Worlds 

90 Baseball enthusiast 

122 

acter 

57 

Scholar 

91 Certain 

123 

19 Legislative body 

58 

Spike 

93 Govern 

124 

22 Affirm 

59 

Chagrin 

To raise the spirits 

95 Canaille 


23 Cotton fibre 

61 

96 Two-wheeled, one- 

127 

25 Baseball team 

63 

Humble 

seated vehicle 

131 

27 Oceanic fish 

65 

Ecclesiastic council 

98 The upper air 

133 

30 Refuse 



136 


Cabal 

Ancestor 

Proof-reading direc* 
tion 
Wrath 

Inner part of bot¬ 
tom of a shoe 
Penetrates 
Metallic rock 
Restrain 
Remain 
Learning 

Tall, slim structure 
Opposite of aloft 
Before 
Behold 
Uncouth 
Metallic salts 
Ether derived from 
oxygenated acid 
A young seal 


In addition 
Represent 
Neck swelling 
Provider 
Greater 

Church service 
A cross 
In this place 
Leaf of a corolla 
To stare fiercely 
Grimace of con¬ 
tempt 

An altar cloth 
To smooth cloth or 
clothing 
Orbs 

Otherwise 

Button for shirt 
front 
Yale 
Unusual 
Us 

Sun God 


[ 94 ] 


Puzzle No. 40 


99 9/10 PER CENT PURE 

By Kross Korner Knut 

T HEY don’t come much better than this one. K.K.K. is an expert of the first 
water and knows how to put words together in a fascinating pattern. 



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1 Duct 

4 Bird's beak 
7 Assume 

10 Steel-pointed mining 
tool 

13 Hunting shoe 

14 Genus 

16 Equity 

17 Organ 

18 Bituminous shale 
20 Intermittent fever 

22 Four-wheel truck 
supporting the 
front end of a 
locomotive 
24 Coral isle 

26 More or less 

27 Pony 

29 (In poker) stake put 

up 

30 Rich vegetable mold 

31 Energy 

32 Combination of ace¬ 

tic acid with gly¬ 
cerine 


1 Sink 

2 Sharp pointed 

3 Priestly vestment 

5 Revise 

6 Sauce, moisture 

7 Face of a clock 

8 Oil of roses 

9 Comrade 

11 Anaconda 

12 Barrier 

13 Kind of hat 
15 Hawaiian tree 
17 Shade tree 

19 Ancient hymn sung 
at matins 
21 Taste 

23 Small stinging in¬ 
sect 

25 Kiln for drying hops 

26 Title 

28 Door of Masonic 
lodge 


HORIZONTAL 

34 Thick ointment of 

wax, etc. 

35 Splendor 

39 Wanton slaughter of 
unresisting game 
42 Sickness 

46 Pertaining to a foot 

47 Eri or in printing or 

writing 

51 Female rabbit 

52 Mystic ornament 

worn by a Jewish 
high priest 
54 Void 

56 Attention 

57 Period of time 

58 Small cubes that 

know arithmetic 

59 So be it 

60 Floor covering 

61 A mastiff 

64 Grooved metal fas¬ 
tener 


VERTICAL 

31 Wear 

33 Blue titmouse 

34 Cad 

36 Ornamental knob 

37 Narrative 

38 Repair again 

39 Austro-H ungarian 

Territory ruled by 
a Ban 

40 AC K„ (SOJ 4 .' 24 

H,0 

41 Sorrow 

43 Mental image 

44 Forsaken 

45 Meadow 

48 Arial 

49 Snug 

50 Incite 

53 Little stream 
55 Ten armed cepha- 
lopod 

61 Bath house 


65 Specie of duck 

68 Neuter verbal noun 

69 Captivate 

70 In great plenty 

73 Petty officer in 
charge of stores 

76 Wrath 

77 Glacier ice 
80 Prison 

83 Tiny 

84 An island (poetic) 

86 Symbol 

87 Ancient, bygone 
89 Amount 

91 Abroad 

92 Crude, cold and 

damp 

93 Claim of right 

94 Fermenting vat 

95 Sailor 

96 Nonsense 

97 Lair 


62 Monster 

63 Move or stir 

65 Kind of fish sauce 

66 Boats’ company 

67 Boat propelled by 

three 

71 Cadence 

72 Natural metal 

74 Over 

75 Flesh of animals 

77 The present time 

78 Prohibit 

79 Utter 

80 In archery; the 

bull’s eye 

81 Sheltered side 

82 To permit 

85 Total 

86 Headgear 
88 Pile 

90 Hit lightly 


[ 96 ] 


Puzzle No. 41 


A WEST POINTER 



By Corporal Arthur Baisch and Sergeant William M. Munroe 
HE army sends a neat design—and not an easy one. The interlocking is good, 
and the occasional unkeyed letters are well supported by cross-clues. 



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HORIZONTAL 


1 Motion 

5 A barricade 

10 Goddess of mischief 

11 Disarranged type 

13 Prefix, equal 

14 Distend 
16 Actors 

19 A large bird 

21 A measure of type 

22 The solan goose 

23 An exclamation 

24 An arch 

27 Combine with air 


1 The finest of Indian 

silk 

2 Scold 

3 And (French) 

4 Scanty 

6 Pigment from wood 

soot 

7 Roman weight equal 

to a pound 

8 Jutting rock 

9 Small bag filled with 

perfume 

11 Incarcerate 

12 Tavern 

15 Curious scraps of 
literature 
17 Agallochum 


30 Pert, to atmosphere 

50 The small white 

(comb, form) 

heron 

31 Order 

53 Nickname for father 

32 Time 

54 Design 

33 A beverage 

56 Exclamation of dis¬ 

35 The egg of a small 

dain 

insect 

57 A fish destitute of 

37 Coarse cloth made 

ventral fins 

from jute 

58 A short song 

39 An alarm 

60 Belonging to me 

42 In another direction 

61 A tree 

45 Classes of two spe¬ 

63 Title of address 

cies 

(pi.) 

47 Hereditary 

64 Obliterates 

49 Regarding 


VERTICAL 


18 Disrupt 

40 An article used to 

20 A grain 

expunge 

25 An adherent of the 

41 Predatory incursion 

Zoroastrian reli- 

43 Deteriorate 


gion 

26 A heavy wooden 
mallet 

28 A stem of a specie 

of palm 

29 Quadruped of Mada¬ 

gascar 
32 Each 
34 Near by 

36 A gentleman’s serv¬ 
ant 

38 Departure 


44 Hypothetical ape 
man 

46 Contr. of evening 
48 Mock 

51 Highly finished work 

of art 

52 Narrow beam of 

light 
55 Assume 

57 Square of a type 
body (pi.) 

59 Trick 

62 Sixth note of scale 


[98] 


Puzzle No. 42 


A CENTRAL SWASTIKA * 

By Warren Hannaford 



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HORIZONTAL 

1 Observes 

40 Sharpshooter 

5 Opposes 

44 Indispensable for 

11 Spicy 

animal life 

13 Erect 

45 English college 

14 Egg cells 

46 Corn meal bread 

15 Luck 

47 To be in debt 

16 Sin 

48 A Spanish horse 

18 Garden product 

49 Noose 

20 Crustacea 

50 Theory 

22 Spartan magistrate 

51 Ill-bred fellow 

24 Number 

52 God 

25 Payments 

54 Friend (French) 

27 To chance 

56 Submerged conti¬ 

29 Negative 

nent 

30 Agile 

58 Grain warehouse 

32 Woman’s work 

60 Penetrated 

34 River (Spanish) 

61 Industrial preserva- 

35 To mimic 

lory 

37 Scold 



VERTICAL 


2 Premature birth 

28 

Country gallant 

3 Dressed 

31 

Anger 

4 Testament character 

33 

Born 

6 Orb 

36 

Freight term 

7 Particle 

37 

City of Churches 

8 Amusing 

38 

Clothes 

9 Textile 

39 

Injections 

10 Causing excitement 

40 

Coin 

12 Body 

41 

Take notice 

13 Old name for the 

42 

Automobile 

blues 

43 

Vaults 

17 A dance 

53 

Poker term 

19 Largo lake 

55 

Just quite 

21 Lover 

57 

Frost 

23 Seagoing person 

59 

Pasture 

26 Submarine 




* The second square from the right, second row from the bottom, should 
be black to correspond with the other corners. 

[100] 



Puzzle No. 43 


NOT SO BLACK AS PAINTED 

By Norman Kendy 

E XCELLENT center, but somewhat loose corner construction, passed, however, 
under Mr. Gelett Burgess’ ruling that at least half the letters of a word shall be 
included in other words. 



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HORIZONTAL 


1 Reserved 
3 According to value 
11 Fulfil 

14 Pronoun 

15 Comfortable 

16 The substantive verb 

17 A land measure 
19 Traveler’s bag 

21 A room in a harem 

22 A high hill 

23 Entirely 

24 That Japanese states¬ 

man 

25 By 

26 To become weary 
28 A sounding instru¬ 
ment 

32 A branch 


33 Growing out 

35 Wheat 

36 East Indian climber 

37 Animal coagulant 

39 Conscious being 

40 Wool fabric 

41 A maiden 
43 The tongue 

45 Gratuity 

46 A plant 

48 Expressing pleasure 
51 Corn meal mush 
55 Dilatory 
57 To fortify 
59 Colored glass 

61 Fidelity 

62 Melodies 


64 Invest with a fee 

65 Tramp 

66 A tapering mandrel 

68 Force 

69 Single 

70 Electrical unit 

71 An extinct bird 

73 Point of the compass 

74 Goddess of dawn 

75 That which is recent 

79 Of the Tartar race 

80 What every woman 

adds 

81 A vessel 

82 In regard to 

83 Still 

84 An American lizard 

85 A color 


1 Deranges 

2 The leading lady 

4 Divides 

5 A scoundrel 

6 Serpent 

7 Sheltered side 

8 Many times 

9 Mildew on plants 
10 Excite 

12 An ancient puzzler 

13 Chronicle of a year 

18 Commission 

19 Calcium 

20 Depart 

21 An Asiatic shrub 
27 A volcano 

29 Open space 


VERTICAL 

30 Vehicle 

31 Interested 

32 Lord 

34 Australian catfish 
36 Elements of plant* 
38 Oriental weight 
(pi.) 

40 Ditches 

42 Turn to the right 
44 Fate 

47 Phonology 

48 Emits fumes 

49 Small amount 

50 Defy 

51 Biblical character 

52 Arrive 

53 Weird 

54 Made tender 


56 Disease of grape 

leaves 

58 What Eve was made 
of 

60 Stretching (old) 

62 An arsenal 

63 A son of Shem 

66 Act of stealing 

67 A worker in wool 
70 Forward 

72 Exist 

76 Cup with four han¬ 

dles 

77 The entire man 

78 One who has ex- 

treme political 

views (slang) 


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Puzzle No, 44 



FINE AND DANDY 

By Julie D. Carder 

SPLENDID example of what can be done in the waving of long and intricate 
word patterns. The author is, as may be guessed, a fan of long standing. 



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HORIZONTAL 


1 Otalgia 
7 Pimple 

13 Soon 

14 Cable-deck 

16 Units 

17 Rested 

18 Terror 

20 Insect 

21 Printer’s measure 

22 Prefix before 

23 Child 

25 Preposition 

26 Novice 

30 Bar 

31 Permit 

32 Change 


1 Stand 

2 French Protectorate 

3 Decay 

4 Article 

5 Mountain in Arabia 

6 Before 

7 A capsule 

8 Above 

9 Preposition 

10 Maiden symbolic of 

truth 

11 Period of fast 

12 To impede 
15 Last of two 

18 Arabian beast 

19 Whorl 

22 One who likes better 


34 Elevated railroad 

(abbr.) 

35 Bone 

37 Gypsy 

38 Biblical name 

40 State of ennui 

41 Untruthfully 

42 Exclamation used to 

frighten 

43 Strike 

44 The whole range 

45 French article 

46 Feline vocalism 

48 Fastener 

49 Social functions 

52 Dust on roof of room 
(2 words) 


VERTICAL 

23 Preposition 

24 Drivers 

26 Symbol for Platinum 

27 Astringent mineral 

substance 

28 Pronoun 

29 Railroad 

30 Sailing vessel 

33 Shouts 

34 Slack 

36 A pouting girl 

37 An engine of war 
39 Color 

41 Tooth 
44 Spicy root 
47 On one string (Mus. 
abbr.) 


56 Behold 

58 Portugese coin 

59 Goddess of the dawn 

60 Egyptian sun-god 

61 Tool 

63 Sweetheart 

65 Article 

66 Rare element 

68 French leader ass¬ 

assinated by Char¬ 
lotte Corday 

69 Expanse 

70 Gathered 

71 Related to Muse of 

joy 


48 Geometric function 

50 Preposition 

51 Vernacular 

53 Chinese measure and 

weight 

54 Extinction 

55 Hymn 

57 German river 
60 A nandu 

62 Collection of animals 

63 Youth 

64 Surface of fibers 

65 Prefix, three 

67 Greek letter 

68 Pronoun 

69 Italian particle 


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Puzzle No, 45 


A LINGUAL LABYRINTH 



By Coutance 

HIS effort contains one definition which comprises two words, but the all¬ 
round excellence of the construction makes up for this single deficiency. 



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HORIZONTAL 


1 Tread on 
5 A Biblical character 
9 Erstwhile meeting 
place 
11 Recent 

13 Employ 

14 Musical instrument 

16 Announce 

17 An object 

18 To dress up 

19 Toward 

20 Poetic abbreviation 
22 A municipal power 

24 Very dark 

25 Passage 
27 Sweet 

29 Pull 

30 Chum 


31 Psychological phe¬ 
nomenon 
33 Tree 

35 Hurried 

36 Girl’s name 

38 Pointed instrument 

40 Upon 

41 Debt 

42 Accomplish 

43 Girl’s name 
45 Medicine 

47 Dentist (abbr.) 

48 Obtained again 
50 With facility 

52 Landlord’s delight 

53 To guzzle 


VERTICAL 


1 Pliable 

2 Beverage 

3 Thus 

4 High temperature 

5 Vehicle 

6 Preposition 

7 Possessive article 

8 Better arranged 

9 Habit 

10 Birth 

11 Word 

12 A tiller of the Soil 
15 Youth 

21 Evil 

22 Beyond comprehen¬ 

sion 

23 Money 


24 Strong medicine 
26 Devoted lady 
28 Whip 

31 Procure 

32 Wrap 

33 Mediterranean island 

34 Difficult of solution 

35 Loud noise 

37 A pointed tool 
39 Inquisitive 

44 Disposed of 

45 Hard drinker 

46 Reposed 

47 Incline 

49 Preposition 
51 Therefore 


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Puzzle No, 46 


A HUNDRED PER CENTER 

By R. and R. Williams 



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HORIZONTAL 


1 Species of bird 

39 To saturate 

5 Sacred bird 

41 A medley 

7 Throws 

44 A priestly vestment 

11 Part of the verb “bo” 

46 Rears up 

12 Quick 

49 Termination 

14 Piece 

50 Collection of units 

16 Preposition 

51 Indef. article 

17 Spawn 

52 Oriental sash 

18 A measure 

54 Personal pronoun 

19 Preposition 

56 Exist 

21 Overshadows 

57 Sanctioned 

24 Allowing that 

62 Goddess of Earth 

25 Sun-god 

63 Allow 

26 To mimic 

64 Tribe of Indians 

27 Preposition 

65 Act 

28 Share with 

67 Help 

32 Groove 

68 Meager 

34 Son of Aaron 

70 Part of the verb “be” 

35 Beast of burden 

71 To wipe out 

36 Kingdom of Persia 

72 Situation set apart 

38 Holy picture 

73 Species of elk 


VERTICAL 


1 Character in Genesis 

34 Besides 

2 Measure of type 

37 Wooden pegs 

3 Connected with 

39 Unrighteousness 

4 Species of plant 

40 A limb 

5 Note of entry 

42 Smooth consonant 

6 Small piece 

43 Enclosed 

7 Conceal 

44 The highest point 

8 Above 

45 Used in fishing 

9 Note of scale 

47 Personal pronoun 

10 Support 

48 Narrow-minded per¬ 

13 French coin 

son 

15 Abodes for travellers 

51 Dwell 

20 Deputy of Sultan 

53 Posts for ships* 

21 Resembling a sand- 

cables 

flea 

55 Under strain 

22 Hindu title 

58 River in Germany 

23 Can be drawn to¬ 

59 Beast of burden 

gether 

60 Goddess of Mischief 

24 A small part 

61 Two or more to¬ 

29 A musical note 

gether 

30 Species of bird 

66 Else 

31 To harden 

67 Conjunction 

33 Birthplace of Abra¬ 

69 Denial 

ham 

70 Part of the verb “be” 


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Puzzle No. 47 


CRANK HER UP 

By Frank A. Ford 


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



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HORIZONTAL 

1 To reveal 

39 Sly look 

7 Scrutinizer 

40 Twice 

13 Dissimulation 

41 Uprightly 

14 To request 

45 Bill 

16 To despoil 

47 Passageway 

17 American flycatcher 

49 Ascend 

18 Cereal 

50 A mass 

19 Dwelling 

51 Dexterous 

20 Ridge of sand or 

52 Silicate of magnesia 

gravel 

53 Alleged force of 

21 Assault 

mesmerism 

23 Tone of musical 

55 Netherworld (myth) 

scale 

58 Tone of musical 

24 To opine 

scale 

25 Amorous glance 

59 Shrinking 

27 So be it 

62 To cut 

29 Chosen 

63 To brawl 

32 Feast of the nativity 

65 To eat away 

34 Ribbed fabric 

66 Superficial measure 

35 Hostile persons 

67 Nest of bird of prey 

37 To run wild 

68 Is contingent upon 

38 To cheat 

69 Sorrows 


VERTICAL 


1 Having two poles 

33 Fold in a garment 

2 Strong resentments 

35 Increase 

3 Asseverate 

36 See 

4 Odd 

40 Illiberal 

5 Caustic 

42 A hill or mound 

6 Merit 

43 Burnt material 

7 Toboggan for the 

44 Permits 

foot 

46 Over and above 

8 Part of circle 

48 Sojourn 

9 Almost 

50 Deposit of sand or 

10 To seize 

gravel 

11 Bad 

54 Ill-boding 

12 Changed appellation 

56 Sunken fences 

15 Method 

57 Wide mouthed 

21 Foreshowing 

pitcher 

22 Carry 

58 Long cut 

24 Witnessed 

60 A grimace 

26 Well bred 

61 A haunt 

28 Excellence 

63 To sink 

30 A bar 

64 Raw material 

31 Cinerary urns 



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Puzzle No. 48 A VOCABULARY TESTER 

By Irvan Neckerman 

R. NECKERMAN is apparently never happy till he has filled his construction 
with difficult words. This one is a real trial of verbal strength. 


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HORIZONTAL 


1 Chart 

47 Church bench 

84 Engraving tool 

120 From this place 

4 Eject 

48 Kind of fish 

85 French military cap 

122 Swagger 

7 Undermine 

50 Boastful behavior 

86 Conclude 

124 A Biblical character 

10 Expletive 

51 Viper 

88 Inferior 

126 Exhausted 

13 Yield 

53 Chopping tool 

91 Dispatch 

128 Fascinate 

16 Covered entrance 

54 Kind of cheese 

92 Husband or wife 

130 Pertaining to a di¬ 

17 Search thoroughly 

55 Suitable 

94 Logging boot 

vision of Greeks 

18 Cunning 

56 Repulsive 

96 Excise 

132 Incarnation 

19 Sharpen 

58 Petty quarrel 

98 Caustic 

134 Muscular strength 

21 Breezy 

59 Title 

100 Russian 

137 Storeroom for foods 

23 Suitable 

61 Coin 

101 Beautiful girl 

140 City in Nevada 

24 Black 

63 Dipper 

103 Dam 

141 Black 

26 Title 

65 Heroic poem 

104 Assembled 

144 Corroded 

28 Leguminous plant 

67 Suitable 

106 Small bottle 

145 Take principal meal 

29 Velocity 

69 Soft hat 

107 Instigate 

147 Carry 

31 Enclosure 

71 Happened 

109 Burden 

148 Unit of weight 

32 Same 

72 Cipher 

111 Measure 

149 Obliquely 

35 Wash lightly 

74 Lively (archaic) 

112 Personal pronoun 

150 Waste 

38 Apparent 

76 Swelling due to fluid 

114 Beverage 

151 Depression 

41 Agitate 

78 Harass 

116 Regular 

152 Seaweed 

43 Nonsense 

79 Forage plant 

117 Measurement of 

153 Antiquity 

44 Caustic 

82 Lively 

type (PL) 

154 Herb 


83 Censure 

118 Twitching 

155 Onion-like plant 



VERTICAL 


1 Ratchet check 

36 Object of devotion 

72 Lowest point 

108 Halo 

2 Expand 

37 Body of water 

73 Duty 

110 Boss of a shield 

3 Waver 

38 Composition 

74 Tibetan ox 

113 Handle of ax 

4 Burn with liquid 

39 Wide-mouthed jug 

75 Tear 

115 Common tree 

5 Greek letter 

40 Barter 

77 Mimic 

117 Biblical character 

6 Crooked 

42 Native 

78 Personal pronoun 

119 Entrance 

7 Sudden break 

43 Defect 

80 Unit of surface 

121 Circuit breaker 

8 Kind of poplar 

44 Affected 

81 Conclude 

123 Duty 

9 Head 

45 Large quantity 

86 Slur (music) 

125 Against 

10 Supplement 

46 Indentation 

87 Bones 

127 Entrance 

11 Past 

49 Chemical of am¬ 

89 Intelligence 

128 Muscular spasm 

12 Dullard 

monia type 

90 Rule 

129 Mortal 

13 Clergyman 

52 Kind of cigar 

93 Babble 

131 Split 

14 Raise up 

55 Bare 

94 For trial (as, a 

132 Dry 

15 Head 

57 Unit of time 

jury) 

133 Soon 

20 Raise up 

60 Rhetorical decora¬ 

95 Cleft hoof (dial.) 

135 Search thoroughly 

22 Compassion 

tion 

97 Dense 

136 Proceed on 

25 Front hair 

62 Standard 

98 Luxuriant 

138 Scant portion 

27 Numerical base 

64 Daily 

99 Regular 

139 Heed 

29 Yellowish brown 

66 Intent 

101 Stupefy 

142 Born 

30 Menial servant 

68 Encroach 

102 Cause destruction 

143 Yelp 

33 Cold 

69 Genus of cats 

104 Measure 

145 Condensed moisture 

34 Pipe 

70 Divert 

105 Discrimination 

146 Negative particle 


tH2] 


PU2ZLE No. 49 


IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE 



By J. T. Delaney 

VER read a book in words of one syllable? 
polysyllabic words than that. 


This has no higher percentage of 



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HORIZONTAL 


1 Pertaining to an 
Oceanic race 
6 Mohammedanism 
10 A modern form of 
assembly 
15 Prevent 

17 Cymbals used by 

Hindu dancers 

18 Mountain Lions 

19 Thoroughfares 

21 Ovum 

22 Put back 

24 Child 

25 Beverage 
27 Past 

29 Toss 

30 Chemical radical 

31 Shoed 

34 Cake 

35 Illumined 

36 Additions 

37 Poet 


1. Pertaining to mail 

2. Shakespearian char¬ 

acter 

3. Utilize 

4 Egyptian god 
5. Negative 

7 Oblique 

8 Linger 

9 Sea Life 

10 Beg 

11 Siberian city 

12 A container 

13 Seclude 

14 P e r t a i n in g to a 

Grecian city 
16 Chant 
18 Preface 
20 Understood 
23 Clother 

26 Italian woman * s 
28 Grotto 
name 


39 X 

40 South American 

Animal 
42 Worried 
45 Hoarder 
48 Unfasten 

50 Be ill 

51 Preposition 
53 Frosting 
56 Dispraise 
59 Undo 

62 Boy 

63 City in Chile 

64 Heroine in Spencer 

65 Seize 

67 Proceed 

68 Ties 
70 Place 

72 Run (Scotch) 

73 Labor 
75 Fright 
77 Defeats 


VERTICAL 

31 Mathematical term 

32 Asceticisms 

33 Condemn 
36 Chinese city 

38 Follower of ceremony 
41 Word play 

43 Trumpet call 

44 Graceful 

46 Descendant 

47 Lowest point in a 

ship 

49 Musical composition 

51 Attack 

52 Animal 

54 Vehicle 

55 Mountain in Greece 

57 Uncle (S. Africa) 

58 Entangle 

60 Wine cask 

61 Dark fluid 
66 Spring 

69 Tribe 


79 Requested 

82 Beverage 

83 Therefore 

85 Civil offense 
87 Vigor 

89 Fast 

90 Pedal prints 

93 Opera singer 

94 Piece 

96 Metallic rock 

97 Due 

99 Negative 
100 Angered 
103 Present 
105 Survivors 

108 Curtain 

109 Star 

110 Scient 

111 One who seasons 

112 Concise 

113 Vomiting 


71 Slave 

74 Paddles 

75 Killed 

76 Middle 

77 Lout 

78 Cooked mixture 

80 Shows 

81 Golf Term 

82 Head nun 
84 Merchandise 
86 Musical form 
88 Chateaus 

91 Strained 

92 Cities 
95 Giant 
98 Hit 

101 Skill 

102 Bodily organ 
104 Pronoun 

106 Female sheep 

107 Anger 


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Puzzle No. 50 OF SOMEWHAT ORIENTAL FLAVOR 

By Gregorian 

A N excellent construction, admirable chiefly for the entire absence of two-letter 
words and for the central interlock. As for the words—go ahead and see for 
yourself. 



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