Chapter V (4)

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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1 Out of date 7 Poison found in opium 14 Not you 15 A new star 16 Indivisible 17 Beast of burden 18 Existed 20 To disparage 21 Tone of diatonic scale 23 An alcoholic liqueur 26 Mixed type 27 To stop 29 Dandies 30 Glory 32 Soapstone 33 To study 34 Italian coin 35 Letter of Greek alphabet 37 Distinctive areas 39 A species of hickory 40 Named 42 Relief 44 To root up 45 Small skin tumor 47 Harmony 49 Acid formed in vegetable jellies 52 Weird 54 The lowest point 56 Clamber up 58 Frosted 59 Amidst 60 March 15th 61 Machine for cutting metal 63 Having more than usual power 65 Stupid fellows 66 In like manner 67 Immoral conduct 70 Tone of musical scale 71 A prima donna 72 Knobs 73 An interjection 75 Simple 76 A ridge near surface of water 78 Preposition 79 Excluded 80 Instruments for measuring

VERTICAL

1 A toothsome dish 2 Exist 3 Preposition 4 To frown 5 Uniform 6 Ascertained net weight 8 Stops 9 Case for small articles 10 Supported 11 Part of the verb “be” 12 Negative 13 Something that arouses 19 Drawn forth 20 Odors 22 A nurse 23 Having vegetable micro-organisms 24 Object of strong devotion 25 The use of a selective method 26 Fine rubber 28 Internal decay in fruit 31 Parasitic insects 36 Got up 37 A mixture of concrete 38 A planter 39 Sunders 41 Silent 43 A resinous substance 46 A reprint 47 Member of an Indian tribe 48 Fruit of the maple tree 49 Chinese English 50 Vulgar fellows 51 Court sittings 53 Repetition of sound 55 To make foul 57 Shelters 62 Amendment to a document 63 An embankment 64 Come into operation 65 An article of property 68 A whirring sound 69 An Old World goat 74 Any male person 75 Mamma 77 Note of diatonic scale 78 Pronoun

PUZZLE NO. 30

SINGLE SPOTTER

By J. T. Delaney

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

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HORIZONTAL

1 Float 4 Insulting 9 Rim 12 Compass 13 Eskimo hut 14 Annealing oven 16 Sulphide of arsenic 19 Young woman 21 Attract 23 Negative particle 24 Refuting argument 26 Whim 28 Perfume 30 Comedian 32 Discernment 34 Precious stone 37 Always 38 Secondary planet 41 Tailless monkey 42 Offspring 44 Plasterer’s trowel 46 Within 47 Southern fish 48 Man’s name 49 Strum 51 Vestment ribbons 53 Have an obligation 55 Destroy utterly 58 Negative word 60 Nostrils 62 Fit into mortise 63 Animal in embryo 65 Loop of rope 67 Repulse 69 Calm 71 Period 73 Citrus fruit 76 Small songbird 77 Legendary siren 80 Implement 81 Ungulate of South America 82 Compound ether 83 Parti-colored 84 Foreordain 85 Morbid respiratory sound

VERTICAL

1 Artifice 2 Vex 3 System of rates 4 Concur 5 Winged insect 6 Performing alone 7 By way of 8 Heron 9 Short outer waist 10 Bay color mixed with white 11 Netting 15 Happen 17 Lower part of leg 18 Chalice 20 Fragment 22 Hybrid 25 Subsequent 27 Second mowing 29 Hydro carbon of methane series 30 Blessing 31 Waste 33 Proteid 35 Recompense 36 Fanatical partisans 39 Predict 40 Former playing card 43 Interjection 45 Egyptian god of pleasure 50 Exudation of certain plants 52 Allude 54 Sway 56 Restrain 57 Compound polyp 59 Expenditure 61 Plant of the ebony family 64 Snapping beetle 66 Frozen 68 Balance 69 Exchange 70 Plexus 72 Despoiled 74 Ibsen heroine 75 Otherwise 78 Native metal 79 Even

PUZZLE NO. 31

A PRIZE PACKAGE

By H. R. Koegler

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

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HORIZONTAL

1 Container (physiol.) 4 Two-sided 11 Earth 14 River in Virginia 15 Sweet potato 16 Threatens 18 Love 19 Repose 20 Bivouac 21 Aid 25 Disturb 28 Seize 29 Conjunction 30 Italian coin 31 Murmurs softly 32 Preposition 33 Italian particle often used in English 35 Far 37 Preposition 38 Heavy cord 40 Pertaining to square area 42 Body of land 44 Golden one 46 Before 47 Joyed 49 Italian corn-meal cake 52 Rustic 54 Spice 55 Reply 58 Railer 62 War method 63 Things 65 Shouted 67 Against 68 Optical instrument 73 One who utilizes 74 3.14159 75 Strainedly 76 Musical note 77 Symbol for copper 78 Skin disease 79 Roman emperor 81 Conjunction 83 Precious stone 85 Masticate 86 Stands even with 87 Positive command 89 Antillean island 91 Numeral adverb 92 Loving 94 Compound of oxygen and nitrogen 96 Ordered 97 Beverage 98 Organ of public information 99 Written pages (abbr.)

VERTICAL

1 Indian magical plant 2 Groups of electrons 3 Bodily 4 Ordinary 5 Suffix, pertaining to 6 Affirmative 7 Brown 8 Printer’s measure 9 Part of verb “to be” 10 Looks evilly 11 Pertaining to clothes 12 Body of water 13 Writing rest 14 Make of automobile 17 Let stand 22 Wait 23 Ireland 24 Sense 25 Frighten 26 Species of sound 27 Greek letter 34 Closed curve 36 Lateness 37 Man’s nickname 39 Thrust forth 40 Mix 41 Address 43 Dutch coins 45 Prefix, from 48 Behold 50 Measure of weight 51 Conjunction 52 Wager 53 Heroine in Spenser 55 Indian princess 56 Condition 57 Mixed type 59 Negative 60 Bull-shaped 61 Bar 62 Cereal 63 Make over 64 Odor 66 Drawn 69 Engrave 70 Learning, knowledge (obs.) 71 Prefix, pertaining to oil 72 Fire 77 Intrigue 78 Seed of oak 80 Reed 82 Monetary penalties 84 Mountain lion 88 Ones 90 Plunge 93 Pronoun 94 Conjunction 95 Sun-god 96 Prefix, out of

PUZZLE NO. 32

HIC LABOR HIC OPUS EST

By Neophyte

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

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HORIZONTAL

1 A hybrid animal 7 A kind of monoplane, originally designed by an Austrian 9 Cultivated 12 A Knight of the Round Table 13 To march on 14 Three-banded armadillos of S. A. 15 One who edits 17 To stand between 18 French artist 19 A colorless liquid 20 A place to sleep in 21 To demolish 25 Upper part of a hat 29 Heroine of Charlotte Bronte novel 32 To instigate 33 To predestine 35 Sets again 37 Encircles 38 To get up 39 First eight lines of a sonnet 40 A guest at dinner 41 Hurries

VERTICAL

1 A Spanish copper coin 2 Biblical name 3 Stretched tight 4 In pursuit of 5 To fatten 6 An alloy, used in cheap jewelry 7 Relating to type 8 To adjudge 10 To drive an auto 11 Amusement 14 A kind of pack saddle 16 Hunts again 22 Slowly 23 Pertaining to India 24 Lack 26 A dried fruit 27 Fat 28 Water (obs.) 30 The present month (abbr. pl.) 31 Swap 34 Notion 36 Where the River Shannon flows

PUZZLE NO. 33

A SERRATE SYZYGY

By Marcam

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

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HORIZONTAL

4 Garden plat 6 To pull along after 8 Sack 10 Alarm 11 Be indebted to 12 A savage animal 14 The man 15 A cup that cheers 17 Wager 18 Otherwise 20 Frame to support a coffin 22 Applaud 25 A form of ice 26 Stutter 28 Morally improved 30 A dish made with pastry 31 It is so 33 Males or females collectively 34 A parent 36 What the United States is supposed to be 38 The woman 39 Chief deity of historical Egypt 41 Righteous 42 Invest 43 Pulls 44 The thing 45 To exercise power 47 To mimic 49 You 50 A unit 51 Fuss 53 To supply weapons 55 Effusively sentimental 58 Course 62 Hypocrisy 63 Ingenuous 65 To drudge 66 Accomplish 67 Poem 68 To drink little by little 70 In that way 71 A notorious fiddler 73 Gone by 75 To offer for sale 77 Genus homo 78 Stepped rapidly 79 The essential person

VERTICAL

1 Pound 2 Cloth for wiping 3 To stay for 4 Exist 5 Visionary person 6 In the direction of 7 Ourselves 8 Disfigurement 9 Proceed 10 Ends of stockings 13 Not any 14 Belonging to him 16 A very little 17 To command 19 A measure of distance 21 Knock 23 Call out 24 Bronze or copper 25 A half dozen 27 Inland 29 Sources of supply 32 Finished 34 Hawaiian food 35 Skill 37 Still 38 Wave 39 A beam 40 Solemn wonder 46 Pale green 48 Unresisting 50 Forth 51 An insect 52 Unclose 54 Chart 55 Insane 56 Presently 57 Wrath 59 Donkey 60 Joyful 61 Goddess of Dawn 64 Lawful 67 Spoken 69 Wooden or metal pins 72 Type measure 73 A measure of area 74 Over and in contact with 76 A veto

PUZZLE NO. 34

FIVE SPOTS AND RAYS

By R. B. MacMullin, Jr.

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

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HORIZONTAL

1 Vessel used for assaying gold 5 Tertiary 9 Coral island 13 Rainbow 15 Unity 16 Asterisk 17 God of sunshine 19 Discernment 22 Near 23 Yale 25 Seize 26 Tip 27 Fear 28 Melody 30 Snake 31 Used for bacterial culture 32 Plaster 34 Force times distance 37 Charcoal 39 Stag’s horn 41 Australian ostrich 43 Evening 45 Dyne centimeter 47 Tint 48 Pedal digit 49 Negro 50 Greek exclamation 51 Decoration 53 Devoured 54 Steering lever 57 Hot egg-nog 60 Linear 62 Scottish 64 Eternity 65 A fatty acid 66 Weaving machine 68 Homo 69 Herself 70 Metal-bearing rock 72 No 73 One 74 Necessity 78 Note on diatonic scale 79 Speculator who sells 80 Yes (Fr.) 81 Raised platform 83 Iron 84 Armored 85 Indivisibility

VERTICAL

1 Sign of omission 2 3.1416 3 Mistake 4 Legal security 6 Pig 7 Inform 8 Brazilian coin 9 Indivisible particle 10 Brown 11 Gold 12 Metric unit of volume 14 Sacred beetle 16 Noiseless 18 Sulfate of aluminum 20 King of the fairies 21 Natural ability 22 Absent 24 Insertion of virus 27 Collection 29 Epoch 31 Metric land measure 33 Grief 35 Planetary orbit 36 A nut 38 Saltpeter 39 In a heap 40 Heron 42 Minor (mus.) 44 Deity 46 Steep flax 51 Molten 52 A saying 55 Hostelry 56 Weir 58 Religious 59 45 inches 60 Scrawny 61 Void space 63 Common fuel 64 Accumulate 67 Farinaceous 69 Wax impression 71 Eldest son of Isaac 74 Born 75 Because of 76 Equivocation 77 Wickedness 79 Exist 82 Another note on the diatonic scale

PUZZLE NO. 35

A SLOTTED OBLONG

By Marion Hague

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

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HORIZONTAL

1 Foot-gear 6 Every 10 Float 13 The smallest amount 18 The floor of a fireplace 20 Also 21 A kettle 22 One who carries something 23 Items of record 25 Pertaining to a pole 27 To pass from one place to another 28 To break short 29 Exhausted 30 Jewel 31 Rule established by authority 34 Clan 36 Hostelry 38 Extremity 40 Domestic animal 42 Instrument used to operate a lock 43 Snare 45 Color 46 Bustle 47 Marks made by folding 49 Sort of skeleton found in the sea 51 Striking gently 54 Piece of instruction 55 Sort of preserved fruit 56 Pouch 58 Epistle 59 To enliven 60 Body of land surrounded by water 65 Hastened 66 An edge 67 Rapacious bird 71 To wind, as a brook 73 Burdened 75 Small dagger 76 To set free of 77 Horse 79 To allow 80 Co-relative of “neither” 81 Period of time 82 A possessive pronoun 83 A delicious drink 85 Arbor 87 A measure of length 89 Entrance 90 Machine which gives motion 93 At any time 95 Tells 98 A variety of quartz 99 Dwells 102 Fastened 103 Bond 104 Tag 106 Recollect 107 Older 108 The fruit of the pine tree 109 Lyric poems 110 An aromatic herb

VERTICAL

1 Hard covering 2 Female fowl 3 Grain 4 Sins 5 Provide for meagrely 7 Near 8 Thicket 9 Metal or wooden band 10 Short space of time 11 Merit 12 Neuter pronoun 13 According to law 14 A nobleman 15 A Southern constellation 16 Fixed 17 Inclination 19 Listen 22 Having two feet 24 Sees 26 A bar of metal for raising weight 27 Sacred musical composition 32 Land measure 33 Troubles 35 Beside 37 Otherwise 38 To prepare for publication 39 Not any 41 Part of verb “to be” 43 Existing only in name 44 A silk used for upholstering 46 Expert 47 Demand 48 Whole 49 Artificial waterway 50 High school subject 52 Delicious nut 53 Great 55 Receptacle 57 Precious stone 61 Dry 62 Home of a wild beast 63 A conjunction 64 Indicated 67 Always 68 To recline 69 Anxiety 70 Spoken 72 Runs swiftly 74 A triangular piece of land at the mouth of a river 75 Potency 78 To depart 80 Negative 82 Domestic animal 83 To supply food or amusement 84 Furiously 85 A food 86 Set again 88 Fine lace 89 Strong wind 91 Sort of molding 92 Common name of old German emperors 94 Wealthy 96 Soft finned fish 97 Boy 100 Span of twenty-four hours 101 Kind of tree 103 Forward 105 Exist

PUZZLE NO. 36

AN HOUR GLASS

By Mrs. Henry Wolf

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

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HORIZONTAL

1 Definite 7 Cymbals used by Hindu dancers 10 Declares 16 Vigilant 17 Publication 20 Manifest 21 Plateau 22 17th century article of dress 24 Concept 25 Confederations of territory 26 Nightfall 27 Operator of cotton cleaning machine 28 Restrain 29 Belonging to Ireland 31 Conveyed 32 Insect 33 Bloomed again 34 Scotch for no 35 Stride 37 Silenced 38 Agitate 39 Lyric poems 42 Title 43 Half 45 Laundry implement 48 One who lives only for pleasure 51 Nautical diary 52 Clamor 53 Delivered 58 Entanglers 62 Insects 63 Wicked 65 Skin disease 66 Defense 68 Premise 70 Plunge 73 Previous 74 Quarrel 75 Anger 76 Performs 78 Unsympathetically 79 Irritated 80 Harangues 82 One of many 83 Helmsman 84 Employer 85 Aversions 88 Liquid measure 89 Prepared 91 Share 92 A relative 93 Regards 94 Assent 95 Feared

VERTICAL

1 Likeness producers 2 Rudimentary 3 Postponement 4 Educate 5 There 6 Yields 7 Afraid 8 Tendency to revert to type 9 One who issues permits 10 Again 11 Therefore 12 Ills 13 Returning (rare.) 14 Wooden pegs 15 Beginner 18 Accomplish 19 Exclamation 22 Separater 23 Matured 29 Shade tree 30 Turf 36 Utensil 38 Err 40 Couch 41 Parts of shoes 43 Medicinal plant 44 Grieve 45 Distant 46 Total 47 Bow 48 Belonging to him 49 Anger 50 Contraction of “it is” 54 Conjurors 55 Corrode 56 Bombastic 57 Charm 59 Salutes 60 Guided 61 Homage 63 Wilful damage to ship by mariners 64 Separation of parts previously joined 66 Characteristic 67 Refuge 68 Resting place 69 Pen 71 Made like ivory 72 Exercised 77 Atlantic right whale 79 Brown pigment 81 Tastes 83 Deliver 86 This way 87 Toward 90 3rd person plural 92 Nor

PUZZLE NO. 37

DECORATION

By Anna J. Munro

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

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HORIZONTAL

1 River boundary, ancient Italy 6 Ladies small umbrella 12 To weaken 13 A sailor 15 An alcoholic drink 16 Cotton fabric 18 Part of verb “to be” 20 To demand the return of 22 Act 23 Disorder 25 Portions of medicine 27 Part of verb “to be” 29 Equip with weapons 30 A quick blow 32 Eggs of fish 33 Indefinite article 34 Separately 36 Last 38 A feature 40 Corn weed 41 Pertaining to a poet of Greece 43 Faction 44 Girl’s woolen hat 45 A fish 47 An artist of colors 48 Forwards by post 50 Numeral 52 Recent 54 Bits of materials 57 Statesman 60 City in Italy 62 Interior 64 Alarm 65 Malicious crime 66 Near 67 By way of 69 Before 70 Not bright 71 Parent 72 Cuttlefish 74 Fathers 75 Behold 77 Move 78 Exist 79 Organ of head 81 A foundation 82 Devoured 84 Strike 85 Retreated 86 Do without; refrain from

VERTICAL

1 To butt 2 Above 3 Pronoun 4 Billiard shot 5 Raw metals 7 Dry 8 Hearsay 9 Part of verb “to be” 10 Either 11 Guided 12 Glut 14 Purer 17 Terse 19 Part 21 Noblemen 24 Skill 26 Drunkard 28 Mineral spring 30 Edge 31 State of equality 33 Help 35 Accuse 36 Abets 37 Liberty 39 Purposeless 41 Loathes 42 A member of solar system 44 Powerful explosive 46 A bird of crow family 49 Easily crumbled 51 Gazers 53 Oriental tower 55 Insect 56 Separate 58 Playing card 59 Rage 60 Equipped 61 Vortex 63 Tear 65 Tune 68 Directed 70 Systematic rules for eating 73 Military assistant 74 To pierce 76 Used in small boats 78 A box or place 80 In regard to 81 Part of verb “to be” 83 Latin for “and” 84 Exclamation

PUZZLE NO. 38

BLACK BEETLE

By Fred L. Kleinschmidt

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

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