Chapter III: Part 3

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

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HORIZONTAL

1 Wigwam 5 Component 11 Proofs 15 Boat propeller 16 Rescuer 17 Thin dress material 18 Headgear 19 Impress 21 Oriental 23 Expiate 25 Additional 27 Scorches 28 Resound 29 Instrument used by Spanish dancers 32 Worshippers of the beautiful 35 Finishes 36 Insect 38 Afresh 39 Brawl 41 English author and critic 43 Perfume made from rose petals 45 Promptly (obs.) 47 Expunge 49 A wasting away 50 Fine-grained, laminated rock 52 Impertinent 53 Novice 54 Affected manners 56 First 57 Heavy cord 58 Man’s name 59 Animate 61 Knot 64 Consanguineous 66 What Eve was made from (pl.) 68 Belonging to an ancient Greek city 70 Narrator 71 Insertion 72 Term of address 73 Pit 75 Anthropoid ape 77 Possesses 78 Discharge 79 Pacifier 81 Shade 83 Selected again 86 Spanish lady 89 Derisive shout 90 Prevent 93 Periods of time 94 Foreigner 96 Metallic element of the chromium group 98 Point of an eccentric orbit nearest or farthest from center of attraction 100 Destroy 101 Alleviates 102 Fish eggs 103 Indian tribe 104 Lance 105 Duplicate of original record 106 Lock of hair

VERTICAL

1 Theme 2 Part of the head 3 Becomes stiffly decorous 4 Alienate 5 First lady of the land 6 Slightest 7 Language of Scottish Highlanders 8 Always 9 Scandinavian 10 A metal 11 Instructors 12 Sprout 13 A color 14 Paces 20 Observe 22 Small mountain lake 24 Sinew 26 Within, combining form 28 Vessel to heat liquids 30 Worship 31 Treatise 33 Woodland deity 34 Ejects 36 Air, combining form 37 Cloth used in the South Sea Islands 39 Meals 40 Soldier 42 Walks in pompous manner 44 Cogitator 45 Discoloration 46 Hates 48 Tale 51 Ascertain 53 Decade 55 Transgression 60 Commonplace 62 To talk publicly 63 Kind of trees 64 Above 65 Incensed 67 Animal 69 Kind of rigged vessel 71 Uninformed 74 Array 76 A number 78 Footgear 80 Unclosed 82 Snare 83 Raises 84 Scold 85 Nostrils 86 A compress of soft material 87 Progeny 88 Projecting parts of a building 91 Immense 92 Ascend 95 Part of the mouth 96 Utilize 97 Floor covering 99 Belonging to it

PUZZLE NO. 120

SANCTA SIMPLICITAS

By John Fasel

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

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HORIZONTAL

2 Iranian language 5 Perverted 7 Reduce from frozen condition 11 Clear from weeds 13 Facility 14 Dark colored layer of the iris 15 A girl’s name 17 A counterstatement 18 Piercing instrument 19 Entrance court 20 Hush 21 A lectern 23 Orient 25 Lick up 26 Otherwise 28 To sow 31 Wrath 32 Beyond (prefix) 35 Cereal 38 The forearm 41 Hatchet 43 Exclamation of pleasure 45 Species of ox 46 Pertaining to the laity 47 Clotted blood 49 To agree 50 Supreme deity 51 Alkaline solution 52 Theory 54 Prefix, oily 55 Haut boy 56 Support 58 Grained sheepskin leather 60 Metal in its natural state 62 Large plant 63 To steep in water 65 To grind the teeth 67 Calm side 69 Novice 71 A cyma 74 Attempt 76 A girl’s name 78 Straightway 79 A land measure 81 Freeholder 82 Priestly vestment 83 A rain cloud 84 A seat in a church 85 Cattle of the bovine genus 86 Mischievous child 87 Even (abbr.) 88 Great quantities 89 Likewise 90 Stained

VERTICAL

1 Talk in an easy manner 2 Relish 3 Pointed steel instrument 4 Ventures 5 Pliant 6 Christmas 7 Irritate 8 Maker of hats 9 To lament 10 Spring 12 Duty 16 Composed of the number two 22 Congeal 24 Beast of burden 26 Period 27 Goddess of peace 29 Color 30 Delude 31 A viscous material for writing 33 A badger-like animal 34 African blacks 36 To urge 37 Lyric poem 39 Noose used for catching cattle 40 A deep spoon 42 Lowest deck of a ship 44 Eagle’s nest 46 A card game 48 Bud 52 To weary 53 To injure 56 Of the verb “to be” 57 Aqueous vapor 59 Snare 61 Mean dress 62 Nodule of earth 64 Despot 65 Learned 66 Distinguished (abbr.) 67 Humanity 68 Licentious 70 Runic letters 72 A germ gland 73 Correct 74 Symbol 75 Yell 77 Abhor 78 An ecclesiastic 79 In bed 80 Hireling

PUZZLE NO. 121

A ROSE WITH A THORN OR TWO

By Alfred A. Wicklund

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

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HORIZONTAL

1 Market 5 Anything sour 8 Iron or wooden post 12 Farewell 13 One or any 14 Western sport 15 Tax 16 Small insects 17 Usage 18 Mohammedan devil 20 In accordance with 21 Brute 22 A register 27 An occupation 30 Part of dynamos 33 Form of affection 36 Higher knowledge 37 To slip away 38 Sign for giving notice 42 Repeated 45 Intoxicated 47 About 48 Entice 51 A salutation 52 One 53 Hollow tube 54 Extents 55 Proceed 56 Base of a statue 57 Zealous 58 Determined 59 Be full

VERTICAL

1 An equal 2 Mexican brick 3 Small stream 4 Denoting the final end 6 Easy gallop 7 To recite in monotone 8 An arbor 9 Belief 10 Irritate 11 In law any damage 19 Vestry 21 A watch case 23 A young girl (Scotch) 24 Frustrate 25 Therefore 26 Cease 28 Dry by rubbing 29 Emitted blood 31 Upon 32 A bone (Latin) 34 Note of the scale (mus.) 35 A Roman weight 39 A farm 40 Realm 41 A crown 42 Mohammedan religion 43 Warehouse 44 A fruit 45 To melt 46 A wharf 49 Rodents 50 Be full

PUZZLE NO. 122

NINE CROSSES

By Madge Sweeney

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

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HORIZONTAL

1 Talented 4 Lyric poem 8 Child 12 Card game 13 Enlarge 14 Past 15 Mop 17 Ruin 19 Justify 20 Little face 22 Pithy 24 Loose outer garment (Roman) 25 Beams 27 Heavenly body 28 Hirelings 31 Proceed 33 Indian 35 Viscous liquid 36 Jot 37 Drills skull 42 Chatterer 46 Portable chair 47 Gone astray 48 Sacred chamber of Hopi Indians 49 Xmas hymn 51 One who loves to excess 52 Rising and falling of water 55 Ball of thread 57 A system of elementary manual training 59 Further 61 Outcry 62 Measure for cloth 63 Garment 64 Eye 65 Method 66 Bills

VERTICAL

1 As well 2 Curve 3 Lounge 5 Shield-shaped 6 Liquid measure (1⅓ qts.) used in Turkey 7 War horse 9 Rage 10 Mature 11 Civil offense 16 Staff 17 Generate 18 Beg 19 Dolts 21 State of insensibility 23 Iron holding millstone on spindle 26 Landing wharf 27 Troubles 29 Norse singer of heroic poems 30 Apathetic 32 Deface 34 Cool 38 Kind of tea 39 Passage 40 Parts of churches 41 Growler 42 Pagan 43 Pertaining to Arum family 44 Trained 45 To secure by winding rope around cleat 50 Response 51 An affair of honor 53 Metallic vein 54 Quarrel 56 Pull with force 58 Experienced 60 Point of a story

PUZZLE NO. 123

THIS ONE WON’T BREAK YOUR HEAD

By Isidore Edelstein

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

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HORIZONTAL

1 Prostrate 5 Raving insanity 9 Inferred 13 Dread 14 Malicious glance 15 Tradition 16 Pertaining to mouth 18 Kindle 20 Figure of speech 22 Spoliation 24 Overflows 26 Utensil 27 Manners 28 Toward 30 Drift of vessel to leeward 31 Water nymphs 32 Like 33 Central part of wheel 34 Point of compass 35 Disconsolate 37 Monetary unit (abbr.) 38 Remains of fire 39 Restrain 42 Class among Hindus 45 White heron 47 Irritates 50 Ancient 53 Jet of water 55 Pay 56 Carnivore 57 Wrathful 58 Claw 59 Selection 62 Fertile spots in desert 64 Inborn 67 Earth 68 Bears 70 One who lavishes fondness 71 Inspirit 73 Single masted vessel 75 Congealed water 76 Hush 77 A newt 79 Hindu god 80 To catch 82 Obj. case of I 83 Racing horses 85 Aid 88 Exclamation 89 Mendicant monk 90 Portable bedstead 92 Abhors 94 Register 96 That which one does best 98 Despot 100 Achieves 101 Scent 102 Oppress 103 For snow running 104 Strict 105 Upper air 106 Precipitous

VERTICAL

1 Wooden pin 2 Rave 3 Window built out from wall 4 Ingredient 5 Encountered 6 Orders 7 To be imminent 8 Yes 9 Esophagi 10 Vies with 11 Rainbow 12 Yellowish brown 13 Dirt 17 Thong 19 Golf term 21 An animal 23 Unite 25 Range 27 Kinds of isinglass 29 Output 32 Tree 36 Singing voice 39 A month (abbr.) 40 Pertaining to morals 41 Make amends for again 42 Wrinkles 43 Violent storm 44 Shade tree 45 Decree 46 Report passing from person to person 48 Service 49 Go in 51 Finger or toe 52 At no time 54 Before 56 Age 60 Consequently 61 Anger 63 Swell of sea 65 Apex 66 Mercenary 68 The upper air 69 Gash 72 Magic sword 74 Drugs to induce sleep 75 To cover with earth 77 Convoy 78 Blab 81 Eats quickly 83 Of a commonplace character 84 To be sick 86 Pen 87 Concise 89 Agitate 91 Either 93 Behalf 95 Our (Fr.) 96 Enemy 97 Head as of wheat 99 Blight

PUZZLE NO. 124

POLYGON

By Harry R. Torr

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

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HORIZONTAL

1 Skill 4 In that direction 6 Higher 8 A grain 11 An ocean wave 13 A non-existent place 16 Conjunction 17 Long for 18 Street car 19 Correlative of either 20 Vapor 22 Classification of diseases 25 Stripped felled tree 26 Chant 28 You and I 29 Photographic developer (abbr.) 30 Blood 32 Too 33 Attempt 34 Advance 36 Abbr. of city road 37 Tree destroyers 38 Heart 40 Cling to 41 Pastoral poem 42 Heap 43 Brave men 46 Pronoun 48 A cutter 51 So 52 Large snakes 53 True 54 Observes 56 Bone 58 Delineated 60 Period of time 61 Rushing waters 65 Woman of the garden 66 Not out 67 Folk tales 68 Famous for abuse and also a railroad 70 There 71 Civilized tribes 73 Vegetable (pl.) 75 Cut off 76 Latin “and” 77 Southern state (abbr.) 78 Form of “to be”

VERTICAL

1 Censure 2 Concerning 3 Strike gently 4 Male voice 5 Metal bearers 6 Preposition 7 Fish 8 Resistance (elec.) 9 Diphthong 10 Cavalrymen 11 Marshes 12 Family 14 Method 15 Therefore 21 Winter blanket 23 Night birds 24 For fear that 25 Harp 27 Kindly 29 Toughened 31 Rusts 33 The “Almighty” 35 Prohibitionists 37 Tumor 39 Elevated R. R. 40 Abbr. measure of power 44 Perpetual 45 Ostrich 46 Plateau 47 Comfort 49 Worry 50 Raise 54 Net 55 Carried 57 Wander 59 Anti-prohibitionists 61 Also 62 Sleep 63 Head support 64 Respectful salutation 67 Either side of the mouth 69 Period of time 72 Toward 74 Conjunction

PUZZLE NO. 125

FILLIP FOR AN IDLE HOUR

By Captain F. F. Stewart

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

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HORIZONTAL

1 Engagement 5 Mixture of flour and water 8 Wire fastener 12 A good wash 13 Dark colored layer of the iris 14 Usual 15 Mixed with 16 Mien 17 Lacerate 19 Direction 21 Dodge 24 Young aquatic bird 27 Upright 30 Part 31 Birds’ house 32 Wild animal 34 Unemployed 35 Has no feet 37 Unborn plant 39 Choke 41 Old 44 Chooses 47 Or 48 Fabricated 49 Meeting place 50 Propel 51 Without evil 52 Kind of deer 54 Repose 56 A pilgrim to the Holy Land 59 Foe 62 Baby bed 65 Employs 67 Peasant 68 Helps 70 H. M. 72 Place 74 Fill to satiety 77 Guide 79 Well cooked 81 Dishonor 82 Hear ye 84 Kind of duck 86 An Indian monkey 87 African equine 88 Renter 89 Aquatic mammal 90 Flower 91 Literal meaning 92 Having lugs 93 Implement that cuts metal

VERTICAL

1 Collect to a point 2 Fatal 3 Lessen 4 Story 5 A lighthouse 6 Shallow place 7 Famous prince 8 Big waters 9 Savor 10 Skinned 11 Condition of life 18 Old 20 Eras 22 Unit of electrical pressure 23 Unable to hear 25 Let it stand 26 Object of worship 28 Float on 29 Coagulated substance 31 Christmas 33 Specie of grass 36 Gratifies 38 Pertaining to an elemental force 39 Impress 40 Model 41 Swamp grass 42 Thronged 43 An abrasive 45 Belief 46 Understanding 53 Journey 55 Inhabitant of northern country 57 Mine entrance 58 Classical goddess 60 Cobra 61 Major part 63 Of the first rank 64 Soil 66 Father 67 To augur 68 Of the stars 69 Run away 71 Stream directer 73 Military explosive charge 75 Dried fruit 76 Shooting star 78 Excite 80 Unsmiling 81 Reposeful stupor 83 European river 85 Too

PUZZLE NO. 126

GRACEFUL

By Agnes Stewart

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

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HORIZONTAL

1 Let in 5 Back of neck 9 Earliest 14 Large 15 Word 17 Deputy 19 Nurse (Hindu) 20 Shapes 22 103 23 Lowest regions (Gr. myth.) 25 Chinese province 27 Not (prefix) 28 Short pastoral poems 29 Greek theatre 30 Towards 31 With 32 Holding (property) 35 Lair 37 Joints 39 Fleet 40 Foundation 42 Scatter 44 Father 45 Prop 47 Any 48 Spanish hero 50 Mouth 51 River (Sp.) 52 Street (abbr.) 53 One (Scot.) 54 Tree 55 Undivided 56 Slipping 59 Exists 61 Controls 64 Decree 65 Hutch 67 Hubs 69 Bird 70 Middle 72 Large cask 74 The object 76 Life principle in Hinduism 78 Resin 80 Italian river 81 Following 83 Town in Czecho-Slovakia 85 Electricity (abbr.) 86 Small bone in horse’s foot 89 Jot 90 Town in Belgian Congo 92 Icelandish giants 93 Pious 94 Dough for crust of pies 95 Disappeared 96 Coin

VERTICAL

1 Indo-European 2 Valuable 3 Strict disciplinarian 4 Neuter pronoun 5 Explorer 6 Skill 7 Exclamation of ridicule 8 Evasive 10 Four 11 Wealth 12 Greek island 13 Stain 14 Town in Canal Zone 15 Young partridge 16 Eat away 18 Severity 20 Call 21 Beg 24 Snake 26 Pertaining to a system 31 Like a goose 33 Surface of cloth 34 Grape 36 Colorless gaseous element 37 A hundred weight 38 Cutting into two parts 40 Archer 41 Nets 42 Protrusion 43 Side building 45 Salve 46 Fish spawn (pl.) 49 Prefix—from 50 Myself 57 Ancient city 58 Mountain in Venezuela 59 Chemical unit 60 Imbiber 62 African country 63 Forcible separation 65 Telephone exchange 66 Sinning 68 Having two feet 70 Indian bark 71 Bellows 73 Now 75 Flower 77 Son (Gaelic prefix) 79 Inspect curiously 80 Aptly 82 Short for Rebecca 84 Portend 87 Tribe of Sioux Indians 88 Numbers (abbr.) 91 And (Latin) 93 Depart

PUZZLE NO. 127

SPREADEAGLE

By R. T. and C. K.

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

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HORIZONTAL

1 Subtracted 8 A written agreement 15 Clayey earth 16 An imbecile 18 A Japanese food 20 Adds to 23 To marry 24 Idle talker 26 Wager 27 The Devil 29 Weird 31 A meadow 32 Security for liberation 34 A bone in the body 35 Covered wagon 36 Stop 37 Spaces 39 A color 41 Nervous energy (slang) 42 Number one 43 Face of an instrument 45 A drunkard 47 Evergreen trees 48 Babylonian god 50 Of the same age 52 Period of time 53 Taunt 54 Personal pronoun 55 Remain 57 An avoirdupois measure 59 Part of a golf course 60 Not living 62 Either 63 Small waves 64 A preposition 65 So be it 67 Small viper 68 Hard shelled fruit 70 Distance measured by the foot 72 A college degree 73 Unoccupied 75 Stable 77 Indicative of grief 79 Seventh note of the musical scale 80 To weave 81 A weak acid 83 Kind of fish 85 The elect 87 Male child 88 Part of a pea 90 A town near Bombay 92 Member of an ancient Teutonic race 93 Short fine hair 94 A dolt 96 Final purpose 97 Opposed to science 98 An ocean-going steamship 100 A small shoot 102 Kind of pastry 103 Descriptive of heavy rainfall 105 To affect with pain 107 Captivates 109 Designating title 110 That inside 112 Exclamation 113 Star-like mark 114 Lessens

VERTICAL

2 Vacated 3 A cast 4 Bottle-like vessels 5 Tree found in swamp land 6 Measure (printing) 7 Soft feathers 8 Classified regulations 9 Upon 10 Retinue 11 Ritual 12 Division of play 13 Underground apartments 14 Herbiferous vegetables 17 Regarding 19 Talked idly 21 A fruit 22 Mix 24 Snare 25 Elongated fishes 28 Encourage 30 Eternal 33 Religious term designating the people 36 Engaged 38 A cutting instrument 40 Feminine of deer 41 Leguminous plant with edible seed 42 Fabrication 44 Lighted 46 Supporter 47 Expression of contempt 49 Smallest particle of matter (pl.) 51 Pertaining to Norway 53 The Saviour 54 Abhors 56 Part of the verb “to be” 58 Bite 59 Decade 61 Devour 65 To reject 66 After the eighth 67 High in the scale (mus.) 69 Neuralgia 70 Movement of the shoulders indicating indifference 71 Without commiseration 74 To end life 75 Species of bean 76 Overturn 78 Loose talk 80 The young of a feline family 81 To drill 82 Cage 84 Suggest 86 Learning 87 Stopper 89 Challenge 91 Satisfy with food (Scot.) 93 Of better quality 95 Decisive 98 Calcium compound 99 Position 100 Toboggan 101 Strong wind 104 Woven texture 106 Within 108 Entangle 110 Exists 111 Note of the musical scale

PUZZLE NO. 128

YOU’LL HEAR ME CALLING YAHOO

By Charlotte G. Davis

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