Chapter IV: Part 4

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HORIZONTAL

1 Pale 5 Insignificant part 7 A circle 10 Brag 13 A river in Italy 14 Absconders 15 A musical note 17 A size of type 19 To slip 20 Furnished with a guard 22 Not the same 24 Refusal 25 Do not (Scotch) 26 Divided 28 A richly laden ship 29 Performing a service 30 An alloy 32 Wine 34 Places of confinement 35 Conjunction 37 South American ruminant 38 A shield 39 Princes 41 To goad 42 Seed of North American plant 44 Expressing surprise 45 Brown 46 Decay 47 A president of Orange Free State

VERTICAL

1 A coral island 2 A native of Pacific islands 3 A common given name 4 Saltpeter 5 A maiden loved by Jupiter 6 Poem 8 To talk nonsense 9 A hypothetical force 10 American explosive for shells 11 Sacrifice of principle to circumstances 12 Scientific description of races 13 Marrow 16 Compounds of atoms 17 A Government revenue 18 Collecting wives 20 Beckonings 21 The star of dawn 23 Tears 25 Bore 27 (Prefix) through 28 A bow 31 Loiter 33 Large birds 35 A fabric of asbestos 36 Sad 39 A short sword 40 A counter-irritant 42 Perform 43 Spot

PUZZLE NO. 79

WEDDING RING

By Mil-Wal

The contributors of this construction are husband and wife. This fact is symbolized by the wedding ring you see in the middle of the form. Cross-grained cross worders may complain that the ring is not a solid mass of words. Well, is a ring ever a solid mass?

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HORIZONTAL

1 Slender 5 Time 10 Small boat 11 Invades 13 Healing medicine 15 Quicken 16 Termination 17 Wrap 18 Beast of burden 19 To soak in water 21 Preposition 22 Taut 24 Ourselves 25 Highest point 27 Personal pronoun 28 Therefore 30 Employ 31 Garment 33 Stir 35 Vessel 37 Classified 38 Indicate 39 Heavenly body 40 Female deer 42 Born 44 Consumed 45 Exclamation of pain 47 Exist 48 Deer 50 Negative 51 One who dislikes 54 Note of scale 55 Weight 57 To gain success 58 Tank 60 Distant 61 White, translucent 63 Riddle 65 Withers 66 Basket 67 Depressions 68 Polish

VERTICAL

1 Fat 2 Tavern 3 Work 4 Tri-formed Greek goddess 6 Blots out 7 Large number 8 Hole 9 Poems 10 Religious singer 12 Frozen precipitates 14 Anthropoid 15 Possesses 16 Consume 20 An equal 23 Bow 26 The Ottoman court 27 Paris subway 29 Believe 30 Talk 32 Cry of sheep 33 Calculate 34 Open 36 Single unit 39 Crouches 41 Cereal 43 Page of a book 44 Insect 46 Conjunction 47 Part 49 Rubbish 52 Some 53 Time immediately preceding 56 Require 57 A small bird 59 Periphery; cover 60 Sign 62 Part of “to be” 64 A command to draft animals

PUZZLE NO. 80

NOT SO DIFFICULT

By Robert S. Holzman

The beginner should have a good time with this neat construction. There are no lurking terrors in the wood here for the adventurous explorer of cross word puzzledom. Try this one against time.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Father 4 Former Venetian high officials 8 Gambling term 12 Wrath 13 Flowed 14 Clash 16 Be wrong 17 Use 20 Plant of nightshade family 22 Excavation 23 Vegetable 25 Distracted 26 Sober 28 Make plump 31 Distant 32 Typhoon 33 Beaten track 35 Preposition 36 Disposition 37 Batters 39 Sign of negation 40 Perform 41 Astir 42 Silicon 44 Disease of foot 47 Iota 49 Masculine pronoun 50 And so forth 52 Hummed 53 Mien 54 One who carves 56 Suitable for food 59 That bird 60 Haul 62 Lubricate 64 Kind of nail 67 Lower in rank 69 1004 70 Faucet 72 Fluid used for heating 73 Female sheep 74 Search 75 Austerity 76 Plan

VERTICAL

1 Mottled with various colors 2 Weapon 3 Condiment 4 Period 5 Forward 6 Exclamation 7 Pose 9 Primer 10 Skill 11 Support 13 Revolve 15 Indian drum 18 Cover 19 Exist 21 Border for picture 23 Saucy 24 Distant 26 Rested upon 27 Priestly sign 29 Suited 30 Woman devoted to religious life 31 Counterfeit 34 Drunkard 36 Swamp 38 Total 43 That one’s 45 Secret 46 Civil offense 47 Again 48 Detestable 49 Hurry 51 Adhere 53 United 55 Scamp 57 Receptacle 58 Doctrines 61 Conjunction 63 Tract 65 Fasten 66 Organ 67 Jostle 68 Be indebted to 71 3.14159265358979 72 Depart

PUZZLE NO. 81

THE EIGHT TEES

By M. B. Gillung

One more tee and Mr. Gillung could have a golf links. As it is, he has provided some neatly placed bunkers to trap the unwary. Beware the unkeyed letters that lurk along the fairway! Particularly those near the boundaries.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Acknowledgment of lordship 5 Workmanship 9 To subside 11 Human family 12 Derivations 15 Reputations 17 Young animal 18 Dregs 20 God of Thunder 21 Slimy 22 Short tail 23 Salt 25 Neglect of duty 27 Things 28 Gibe 31 Hollow cylinder 33 Abrupt 34 Aches 35 Half-breed 37 Vision 39 Managed 40 Water 42 To seize 44 Islands 46 Precious stones 47 Skin disease 48 Severe 50 Corroded 51 To bury 52 Free joint 55 Demises 56 High 57 Becoming 58 Weak

VERTICAL

1 Frequents 2 To vary 3 Odd figures 4 A tree 5 Drudgery 6 Sharp 7 Liquors 8 Artifices 10 Place 11 A bird 12 Softened 13 Shining 14 Inviolables 16 Exclamations 19 Providing energy 24 Trick 26 Steeple 29 Do 30 It exists 31 Dolorous 32 Undivided 35 Strength 36 Barren open country 38 Long hair 39 Rubbed 40 Large drops 41 On the look out 43 Chide 45 Pass along 47 Imbecile 49 Rested 51 Island 53 Soak 54 A dolt

PUZZLE NO. 82

THIRD-RAIL CROSSOVER

By I. S. O.

A fine double-cross study in four-letter words. The occasional abbreviation does not mar the general effect. The lateral wedge-masses key well with the central cross. Altogether a nice construction.

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HORIZONTAL

1 A gewgaw 6 A point or beginning (obs.) 9 Herself 12 Bark; investing layer 18 To follow after 19 Stooping low 22 Single; only 23 Concerning 24 A prefix; half 26 A term in billiards 27 Steeps 29 Prefix; not 30 The auditory organ 32 A Hindu God 34 To carry laboriously 35 Teeth of a wheel 36 Prefix; three 37 Step lightly 39 To plunge head-first 41 A theatrical miscellany 42 Space 43 A short sleep 45 The rudimentary leaf of the embryo in plants 48 Period of years 49 To consent 51 A frozen confection 52 An old soldier; a horse doctor 53 To clutch; clench 55 Upon 56 Having narrow strips of cloth 58 Hail 60 Turf 62 Since 64 Mechanical device for irregular rotary motion 66 To bind 67 An anthropoid ape 69 Belonging to him 70 Gone by 71 Down; below 73 Pull along 75 By and by 77 Three in cards 78 To make a speech 79 Remainder 80 One who flies 81 Astir 82 Rodents 84 The Indian bull 86 Wood of a South American tree 88 Electric particle 89 A small devil 90 Vestige 93 Old 95 Limb 96 Lanterloo 97 Rasp 99 Prefix; one 100 Under 102 Thus 103 Backless chair 105 Wild, insane 107 A viscous liquid 109 Brings forth, of lambs 112 A small tumor 113 Transitory 116 Regret 118 A flower 120 A pilaster 121 A pottery slab 123 Wash 125 Equip 126 To influence 127 Upper limb 129 Jackdaws 131 An inclosure 132 Part of “to be” 133 A vegetable 134 Sour 136 Intend 138 Within 139 Prevent 141 Pathological distention with air 144 Illustrious 146 Eats away 147 Die (Scotch) 148 Curve of ship-spiling 149 Dryest

VERTICAL

1 Artists’ caps 2 Opposite of afar 3 Ourselves 4 To sprout 5 Dregs of wine 6 Correlative of either 7 A fabulous bird 8 Two-fold 9 To shake, jog 10 Obj. form of he 11 Measure of type 13 A cereal 14 Author of “Treasure Island” 15 Toward 16 Be available 17 Pert. to hospitality 19 Pert. to a city 20 Pitiless 21 Inguinal region 25 Prefix; middle 28 The self 31 A circlet 33 Shun 35 Coagulates 36 Ensnare 38 Portion 40 And so forth 41 Lyric poem 42 Dry 44 Decomposed vegetable fuel 46 A measure of time 47 Level, uniform 48 Is mistaken 49 Partly corresponding 50 Relating to the cuticle 53 So as to profit 54 Avidity 55 South American plant 57 Ever 59 Papal palace 61 Interrogative pronoun 63 A Chinese bean 65 Mental inferior 67 Art indebted 68 Very thin fabric 70 Pert. to an area 72 A wit 74 Skill 76 Born 77 Until 81 Be ill 83 Likely 85 A valuable insect 87 Gone by 89 A metal 91 Impolite 92 Summon legally 94 One who does 97 Proceeds 98 Vacant 100 Plait, interlace 101 Squall, cry 104 A small branch 106 Exclamation 108 Part of verb “to be” 110 Lowest tide 111 Long, vehement speech 113 Growing out 114 Take for wife 115 South American camel 117 Used to curdle milk 119 One who rhymes 120 Reverential fear 122 Female lamb 124 Hides 126 Dry 127 Pain 128 Fail to hit 130 Level-headed 133 Couch 134 Imitate 135 Lair 137 And not 140 Toward 142 Physician 143 Possessive pronoun 145 To exist

PUZZLE NO. 83

ANOTHER BY A PRACTICED CONSTRUCTOR

By Marcam

Remember Marcam’s neat creations in the First Series of the Cross Word Puzzle Book? We have three by this author this time. For a pretty job, give us Marcam. Neophyte is more prolix and erudite, but Marcam has the graces with her.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Shrew 5 Interval 9 Seeress 13 Enemies 15 Total 16 Engagement 17 Part of “to be” 19 Insert 22 Printers’ measure 23 Bereft 25 Probable 26 Heavy 27 Mud 29 Before 30 Estate of a prince 33 Bow the head 34 Catch sight of 36 Closed compartments 37 Grows older 40 Skin 42 Beam 43 Clock face 45 Seizes roughly 48 Offers 50 Part of “to be” 51 Rope on sailing ship 52 Obtain 53 D.D.S. 55 Exude 57 Fop 58 Distant 60 Residence of David 61 Girl’s name 62 Noted stylist of the ’80s 64 Observe 66 Tumor 67 Thefts 70 Delay 72 To scold 74 Vessel 75 Age 76 Hindu groom 77 Article 78 Breathing 82 That man 83 Monster 84 Belonging to us 85 Hindrance 87 Court card 88 North African plant 89 The after song

VERTICAL

1 Old 2 Belonging to 3 Thigh 4 Lair 6 Associate 7 High mountain 8 Carefully 9 Rested 10 Newspaper article 11 Exist 12 Crippled 14 Be prominent 16 Part of wall 18 Again 20 Narrative poem 21 Boys 22 God of Love 24 Shining brilliantly 28 Ungracefully 30 Colossal 31 Fellow schoolman 32 Holds 35 Comrade 38 Prod 39 Lots (colloq.) 41 Obliterate 43 Believes 44 Flower 46 Metalliferous rock 47 Pose 48 Mound 49 Decay 54 Large vessel 56 Now (Scot.) 58 Party 59 Approaches again 61 Meager 62 Support 63 Revelry 65 Every 66 Anger 68 Part of church 69 Heroine in “Idylls of the King” 71 Fowls 73 Therefore 76 Fasten 79 Mistake 80 Famous British University (abbr.) 81 Native metal 83 Upon 86 Proceed

PUZZLE NO. 84

DOWN THE GOLDEN STAIRS

By Konstantynopolitanczyk

We have reason to believe that the name above is a pseudonym. We wish it weren’t, for Mr. Konstantyou-finish-it has made a magnificent construction in five-letter words, with a few long ones to accomplish the interlock.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Erase 6 Procreates 10 Mourn 15 Regard 16 Inclined 18 Lemur 20 Actual 22 Bolt 23 Nostrils 24 Era 25 Debauchees 27 Yale students 28 Savory 29 Struck 30 Imitation satin 31 Destiny 32 Storms 33 In that place 34 Tighten again 35 Hybrid equines 36 Large felines 37 Pig-like mammal of S. A. 38 Pertaining to schedules 41 Vigilant 42 Civil 43 Possessive pronoun 45 Revised 46 Fierce look 47 Celebrated sorceress 48 Chums 49 Uncloses 50 Sufferings 51 Polyp’s skeletons 52 Molten rock 53 Reared 54 Carved gem 55 Jury 56 Signs of omission 58 Guided 59 Morning worship 60 Wed 61 British title 62 Mature 63 Flower nectar 64 Revolt 65 Interprets 68 Writing material 69 Medieval guitars 70 Style 72 Publisher 73 Withers 74 Dromedary 75 Nap 76 Employer 77 Confines 78 Aslant 79 Pastoral pipe 80 Deeds 81 Carries 82 Round-up 83 Male falcon 85 Even so 86 Rash 87 Commenced 88 Genuine 89 Knots or knobs 90 Kind of beer 91 Word of unknown meaning in the Psalms 92 Maker of arms 95 A murænoid eel 96 Even 97 Australian bird 99 Longs 100 Polecat 101 Economical person 102 Dirty street or district 103 Weird 104 Virtuous 105 Scout 106 Raise the spirits 107 Decree 108 As far as 109 Earth 110 Nothing 111 Appropriate 112 Water-nymph 113 Slurred

VERTICAL

1 Crane 2 Pieces out 3 Allow 4 Finch-like bird 5 Stockades 6 Sliding vehicle 7 Possessive pronoun 8 Rudiment 9 Deep, lethargic sleep (pl.) 10 Cause of pediculosis 11 Comminuted lava 12 Eccentric 13 More orderly 14 Removed 15 Fodder storage 17 Rainbow 19 Mechanical repetition without understanding 21 Dregs 22 Narrate 26 Contemptuous insinuations 28 Vegetables with dressing 29 Prop 30 Ink of the cuttlefish 32 Governs 33 Rows 34 Disentangle 35 Silenced 36 Flat, treeless plain 37 Pertaining to tides 39 Worship 40 Two-legged 41 Foreign 42 Sealed with wax 43 Harbor 44 Excite 46 Street urchin 47 Spondulix 48 Verbal 50 Top of the head (pl.) 51 Provide 52 Etruscan gods 53 Grass leaf 54 Antic 55 Panels 56 Junto 57 Rock 59 Secondary 60 Is melancholy 61 Asiatic shrub 62 Religious ceremony 63 Inferno 64 Juliet’s lover 66 Draw out 67 Clenched hands 68 Summons 69 Black and shining 70 Fragment 71 Church officer 73 Destinies 74 Aromatic wood 75 Roost 77 Lid 78 Standard golf score 79 Of the kidneys 80 Madagascar mammal 81 Ebb and flow 82 Royal 83 Layer of tiles 84 Bean 86 Large wasps 87 Impure soda 88 Divers 89 Water raising apparatus (pl.) 90 Town in Ohio 91 Harsh 93 Coral barrier 94 The Madonna 95 Death (Fr.) 96 Den 97 African antelope 98 Dumb 100 Strip of land 101 Hurried 102 The black haw 104 Silent 105 Station (abbr.) 106 Finish

PUZZLE NO. 85

DIRTY WORK AT THE CROSS WORDS

By Neophyte

Perhaps you agonized over Neophyte’s creation in the First Series. Here’s its mate. Neophyte, being a hardened veteran of the cryptic art, must have heard the groans from the breasts of puzzlers poring over his brain buster. And he gloated and went at his fell work again. However, this one is a little easier than the other.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Ungainly 7 Malayan animal 9 Simpleton 12 Expiate 13 Fools 14 Stiff mass, esp. of bread 15 Most singular 17 Fruit of Cola acuminata 18 Look rudely 19 Hero of series of books 20 Abounding in ferns 21 Hums 25 Readjusted 29 Learning 32 Affection 33 Ancient weapons 35 Laborer 37 Prevent 38 Venomous serpent 39 Boundary 40 Thin 41 Yields

VERTICAL

1 Footless 2 Wound but not kill 3 Basket or trap for fish 4 Glowing 5 Unit of square measure 6 Trifler 7 Prick designs on skin 8 Coral island 10 Curl the lip 11 German town 14 Writes unskillfully 16 Keeper of an engagement 22 Openings 23 Pert. to Ireland 24 One who rents 26 Cuts out 27 Furnished with guard 28 All possible 30 Poplar 31 Gaze earnestly 34 Blood 36 German river

PUZZLE NO. 86

HEY, THERE!

By Neophyte

Dear Neophyte: Whaddaye mean by those two bare, indecently naked words, each with three unkeyed letters? An expert like you? However, you tried too hard to keep it down to the level of ordinary mankind and restrained yourself from so many outlandish words that you are addicted to—that, we believe, the puzzlers will forgive you.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Outlive 7 Look hard 9 Pert. to ships 12 Spoil 13 Metric cubic unit 14 Storehouse 15 Shelter 17 Bivalve 19 Condition 21 One 22 Parent 23 Twig, spray 24 Explode 25 Behold 27 Conjunction 28 Holy day 32 One who reads 36 Anger 37 Moves slowly 38 Come to fruition 40 Musical drama 42 Give pain 43 Enticed 44 Most profound

VERTICAL

1 Godly person 2 Vessel 3 Come back 4 Part of foot 5 Vessel 6 Happening 7 Continue 8 Sailors 10 Surface 11 That not 14 Support 16 Canopies 18 American bird 20 Kind of sword 26 Fruit 27 American bird 29 Manners 30 Narrow opening 31 Lukewarm 33 Watchful 34 Defy 35 Euphemism for “By God” 39 Point of compass 41 Matter

PUZZLE NO. 87

SPOT

By Irvan Neckerman

The blacks strewn negligently over the form give it an informal look, different from those forms that are studiedly ornamental and almost forbidding in the courtly, mannered preciseness. However, Mr. Neckerman’s construction may make you knit your brows now and then.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Lampoon 6 Key 11 Unit of superficial measure 12 Parisian theater 13 Southern constellation 14 Watched 16 Beetle 18 Visitations 20 Christmas 22 Signal of distress 23 Think 25 Fragment 27 Flowers 28 Small dog 29 Remedied 31 Banked 34 Anglo-Saxon money of account 35 Sovereign 38 Sooner than 39 Change 42 Backward 44 One who escapes 46 Deviate 47 Decline 48 Oil seeds 49 Assistant foreman 50 At stated periods

VERTICAL

1 Silk cloth 2 Part of “to be” 3 Humane 4 Female deer 5 Scandinavian myths 6 Detriment 7 At one time 8 Foot of an insect 9 Fixed point of time 10 Madness 15 Enlarge 17 Branch of heraldry 19 Springs 21 To meet the eye 24 Cut 26 Retailer of small wares 27 Redistribution 29 Magnetic metal 30 Species of palm 32 Preserver 33 Earnestly 36 Inside 37 Fertile (poetic) 40 Tear 41 Green and white monkey 43 Jurisdiction of a bishop 45 Fish

PUZZLE NO. 88

CENTRIFUGAL

By Minerva

Look at this with your eyes half closed and get the effect of rotary motion. Then try and solve it, and see if the rotary motion doesn’t transmit itself to your head. Plenty of short words, but not all of them easy, and the long ones—but go ahead!