Chapter VI: Part 6

1 African spear 7 Language of Semitic origin 11 Climbing 17 Dead (Scotch) 18 Reverie 19 Harangues 20 Title 21 One who bequeaths 23 Ties 25 Too 27 Behold 28 Quality 29 Every third day 33 Fat 34 Bathe 35 Monsters 37 Non-poisonous strangling serpent 39 To sort 41 A kind of pastry 43 Island in the British West Indies 45 Land measure 47 Condition 48 Staggers 50 Half 51 Large volumes 53 Nightfall 54 Friend 55 Roman earth goddess 57 Decay 58 Nickname (female) 60 Royal banner 63 Combined 66 German province 69 Metal 70 Unit 72 Farm 76 Forests 81 Female singer 84 Fine 85 Incite 87 Point of the compass 88 Anger 89 Vehicle 91 College slang for a gathering 93 Horse 95 Vestige 97 Change 99 Bird 100 Drudge 102 Number 103 Dust collector 105 Corrode 106 Exhausted 108 Spanish lady 109 Fears 112 To make indented lines 115 Obstruction 118 Note of scale 120 Appendage 121 Expiate 123 Care 125 Fortify 127 Religious song of praise 128 Avarice 129 Reptile 130 Musical instrument 131 Worthless 132 Main component

VERTICAL

1 Increases 2 Perceive 3 Hindu deity 4 Revises 5 Worshippers 6 Annoy 7 Schedule 8 Pattern 9 A measure 10 Previous 11 Celestial body 12 Pertaining to the Gaels (combining form) 13 Allot 14 Exists 15 Nothing 16 Increase 22 Thorn (Scotch) 24 Mountain top ice 26 Equipped for propulsion 30 Lake in North America 31 At no time 32 Mountains in Eastern U. S. 36 Sandstorm 37 Club 38 Country in the Near East 40 Follower of the Dutch founder of Anabaptists 41 Wealth 42 Girl’s name 44 Rest 46 Scavenger fishes 48 Invade 49 Totals 52 Swamps 54 Assumption 56 Tyro 59 Suffix radical (chem.) 60 Suffix diminutive 61 Tear 62 Prefix, out 63 Tooth 64 Pronoun 65 Article 67 Dim 68 Affirmative 70 Suffix toward 71 Suffix one who 73 Small portable organs 74 Southern state (abbr.) 75 Orient 76 Previously existed 77 Place for the seal on legal papers 78 Southwestern state 79 Murdered 80 Pertaining to Italian volcano 82 Roman emperor 83 Cereal 85 Printer’s measures 86 Fruit of the vine 89 Dirt removers 90 Sharp rejoinder 92 Suffix quality 94 Occurrence 96 Antagonistic 97 Shades 98 Recompenses 101 Employ 103 Quarter in London 104 City in Nevada 107 Quaver 110 Scale 111 Biblical character Old Testament 113 Plant 114 Placed 116 Black 117 Give 119 Weary 122 Dark viscid oil 124 Insect exudation 126 Personal pronoun

PUZZLE NO. 145

WAFFLED WORDS

By Mrs. Eric Crull

Some people mumble their words, but what is more appropriate than this waffling of Mrs. Crull’s? This is medium well done—by which we refer not to quality, but to difficulty. Try it when the simple ones seem too easy and the difficult ones too tough.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Ancient burial place 8 Dormant 15 Metallic rocks 16 Instrument 18 Vegetable 19 Medicinal herb 20 Low 21 Plateau 23 Design 24 Shake 25 Wager 26 Salutation 27 Lair 29 Rider Haggard’s heroine 30 Body organ 31 To add to 33 Small point 35 To rule 38 Stigmatized 40 Mythological queen 43 Hence 44 Pony of India 45 To bite lightly 47 To chastise 48 Clamor 49 Performed 50 A numeral 52 To tangle 54 Compete 55 A tribal symbol 57 A large bird 59 Adventitious sounds (med.) 61 Finery 62 Beyond 63 Girl’s name 64 A measure 66 Boisterous 68 A color 69 Attempt 71 Transgression 72 Piece of connecting pipe 73 Little Eva’s friend 75 A cereal 77 Placed 79 Of equal value 80 Legend 81 Contiguous (poet.) 83 Of greater density 86 Drunkard 87 Sailor 89 Not the same 90 Moisture 91 Pronoun 94 Weight 96 Pitch 97 A metal 98 Denoting three 100 Field 102 Scriptural animals 105 Fold 106 Heroine of a Wagnerian opera 107 Always 108 Cozy spot 109 A girl’s name 110 One who slows up 111 A kind of acid

VERTICAL

1 Summoned 2 A space 3 Lacerate 4 Cleopatra’s finish 5 An amphibious mammal 6 Ditch or trench 7 Popular style of hairdressing 8 Salt water 9 Earth 10 Done with 11 Soft food 12 Troubles 13 Biblical character 14 Produce 17 South American animal 18 Mix 22 Dusk 25 Bar 28 Immediately 30 Self 31 Skill 32 Retreat 34 Shoe latchet 36 Latin verb (form of “to be”) 37 A great menace 38 Evil 39 Not bright 41 Perpetual motion (compound word) 42 Raised platform 44 Used in building 46 Associate 49 Relating to debts 50 A green spot 51 Fairylike 53 A beautiful lake 56 One of Dickens’s characters 57 Finish 58 Consume calories 60 Hawaiian decoration 63 Name of a street 65 Kind of cloth 67 Long ago 68 Change 70 Still 72 A black substance 74 Name of a boat (historical) 76 Corrode 78 Also 79 Through 80 Depressed 82 A rodent 84 Extreme 85 A bird 86 A number 88 Dressed 90 Flat plates 92 Robust 93 Once 95 Glacier ice 97 Thunder 98 Relate 99 Branches 101 Common European gull 103 Possessive pronoun 104 Also 105 Chemical base

PUZZLE NO. 146

THE QUESTION MARK

By Mrs. E. I. Ashton

This puzzle is well named, to say the least, and those curving question marks will try the endurance of the solver to the utmost. Some of you will get out your Atlases and love this. Others in despair will throw themselves in the Siberian river and drown their woes. Good luck to all of you!

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HORIZONTAL

1 A science 6 Most loyal 12 A city in Nevada 13 Queen of the fairies 16 Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudarum (abbr.) 18 Paid (abbr.) 20 Ecclesiastical abbreviation 21 A great nation of ancient Syria 23 Prefix meaning together 24 One of the United States (abbr.) 25 Barren open country 27 Conjunction 28 Thou (Ger.) 29 A perfume (obs.) 31 Babylonian goddess 32 Or (Latin) 33 Chinese book of rights and ceremonies 34 One of the Banda Islands 35 A hero of the Trojan war 37 Spanish ecclesiastical historian 39 A fish 40 Any pointed saying 42 Thee (French) 43 Adverb 45 Ancient Roman poet 46 Russian penal colony 48 Female parent 51 Human beings 52 Famous Austrian electrician of 19th century 54 Night (Latin) 56 Preposition 57 To mark with degrees 59 Assyrian god 60 Bromine (abbr.) 61 Native of Turkey 63 Irritating sensation 65 A young dog 66 King of ancient Britain 67 Pronoun 68 Indefinite article 69 Tree 70 Portuguese chronicler 72 Part of the anatomy 73 Prefix meaning “twice” 74 A Hawaiian food 75 Grassy plant 76 River in Siberia 77 Silver (abbr.) 78 Philosophical theory of Hume and Kant 80 Tributary of Drina River 81 Foot coverings 82 Each (abbr.)

VERTICAL

2 Conjunction 3 Bequeath 4 Transformation into human shape 5 Word of refusal 7 One of the United States (abbr.) 8 Unlawful 9 Interrogation point 10 If (French) 11 Monster of Greek mythology 13 A plant 14 Preposition 15 Pandemonium 17 Mountains in Bolivia 19 River in Venetia 21 German political economist of 19th century 22 Night (French) 24 Geological term 26 At suit of (abbr.) 30 To bind 36 Torn asunder 38 Ancient Cappadocian goddess 41 A spirituous liquor 44 A sacred box 46 Prefix, through 47 A town in southeastern Africa 49 Noted American humorist 50 To introduce something new 52 Town in southeastern Slavonia 53 Lymph vessels 55 Cape in Scotland 57 A province in Spain 58 A digraph 60 A famous modern pianist 61 Gratuity (colloq.) 62 Federations 64 A riddle 65 Ecclesiastical term 68 To humble 71 Egyptian god 72 A queen of Navarre 79 No date (abbr.)

PUZZLE NO. 147

NOT A FLIVVER

By Frank A. Ford

Mr. Ford is not one of those puzzle builders, who, grown sated with simple things, grow perverse in their madness for the dark and recondite. And, if you are inclined to call Mr. Ford a Master of Unkeyed Letters—well, just try your hand at constructing a twenty-one square puzzle.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Confirms 6 Ahead 10 Fur-bearing animal 16 On the top of 17 Rodent 18 Possesses 20 Marsh 21 Traffic 23 To whine like a child 24 Retired 26 A balanced stone 28 Concealed 29 Quality of being rigidly perfect 31 To bestow 33 Vessel 34 Otherwise 36 To give a dinner to 38 Fixed allowance 39 Not more than one time 40 Second tone of diatonic scale 41 Projecting ridge 43 Female of the sheep 45 Manner of continuity 47 Pronoun 48 Decline 49 Different 52 Repeats noisily 54 Withdraw 56 To border upon 57 Tract of land surrounded by water 59 Harmonized 60 The hawthorn 62 Appropriate 64 A disciple of Zeno 66 Hymenopterous insects 67 Suitable 68 Measure of yarn 70 Knock lightly 72 Wide mouth pitcher 73 Calm 74 The European hedge sparrow 75 The reverse side of a coin 79 Period of time 80 Before 82 Unite 83 A percoid fish 86 A mistake 88 Name of a letter 90 Sliding weight on a steelyard 91 Dallied 92 Amounts 94 Progeny 97 Impartial 100 A number 101 Protuberant glands 103 Not near 105 Printer’s measure 107 Fur-bearing animal 109 Dread 110 A weight 112 Exclamation 113 Method of preserving 115 Address 117 Mark 118 Was indebted 120 Native metal 121 Annoy 123 Garment 125 Of the verb “to be” 126 Without content 128 Roman garment 129 Letters of ancient Scandinavians 130 Female fox 132 Lime, clay and sand mixture 134 External covering of down, or fiber 135 Quadruped of genus Equus 136 Procreate 137 Loud voiced herald 138 English theologian and philologist 139 To quiet

VERTICAL

1 Pollen containers 2 Species of batrachians 3 Stop 4 To erect a mast (naut.) 5 Preposition 6 Not real 7 An article 8 Species of fish 9 Small drum 11 Of the verb “to be” 12 A plant of the cabbage genus 13 To show affection 14 Musical instrument 15 Cloth of firm texture 17 Destroyed 19 Governing body 22 Stir up 23 Conceited fellow 25 Fruit 27 Curve 30 A mammary gland 32 Inclines 35 Lifts up 37 Differ 39 Finely finished 42 One of Tennyson’s heroines 43 Biblical character 44 Measure of physics 46 Used in painting 48 Of the verb “go” 50 Species of plant 51 The swell of the ocean 53 Crystallized rain 54 Pathway 55 Countries 57 Pertaining to a Latin race 58 Punch block 59 A sense 61 A rich kind of India satin 63 Mature 65 Summary of professed principles 67 Destroyed 68 Caustic 69 Mimic 71 The box containing the Host (obs. Sp.) 76 Application of knowledge 77 Metal 78 Preparation for the skin 81 Saws again 83 Vegetable 84 Inspection of a deed or bond (law) 85 Prefix meaning through 87 Empty declamation 89 Title 90 Lamb brought up by hand 91 Porous stone 93 River of Hades (myth.) 95 Large inland body of salt water 96 Employ 98 Merits 99 Takes a reverse motion 101 Native of Great Britain 102 Descendants 104 Rhythmical flow of language 106 First part of day 108 Cardinal point of compass 111 Disease 112 Hither 114 Obsolete spelling of realm 116 Authorized 117 Mixture of white lead and lime 119 Covered with wax 121 Bold 122 Variety of turnip (obs.) 123 Game of cards 124 Producing injury 127 Girl’s nickname 131 Anger 133 Behold 136 Note on diatonic scale

PUZZLE NO. 148

THE SQUARE ROOT OF CROSS WORDS

By Irvan Neckerman

How does he get that way? Here are some conversational words cheek to cheek with monstrosities dragged forth from their native obscurity. We warn all those to whom an obscure word is as a red flag to a bull to keep away from here.

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HORIZONTAL

1 A dissension 5 Expression of pity 9 Any slender bristlelike organ 13 Smooth and transparent 14 Afforded 15 Plain 17 Revolves 18 Passageway 19 Frame for drying clothes 20 Small island 21 Geometrical figure 22 An allotted portion 23 Manifestation 24 Outcry 25 Commands 26 Eastern title of authority 28 One of Rider Haggard’s books 30 To annoy 34 Chinese Buddha 36 Geometrical figure 41 Early name of Ireland 42 Poisonous extract 45 Wander 46 A chink 47 Rubber 48 A throng 49 Cotton or woolen dress goods 51 Old way of spelling “that” 52 Additional 54 Goddess of vengeance 56 Literary fragments 57 Dance 61 A borrowing 64 To name 69 Relating to spaces 70 Father 71 A student (Fr.) 72 Measure of capacity 73 Batrachian 74 Artist’s models 75 Household gods 76 Besides 77 River in England 78 Inclinations 79 To account 80 Commissioned

VERTICAL

1 Wallow 2 A cloth worn by Roman ladies 3 City in France 4 Canopies 5 Mixtures 6 To set out 7 Historical record 8 Shelters (obs.) 9 Random cuts 10 Choice body 11 Darnel 12 Concerning 13 Small ditch or furrow 16 Fragments 27 Eminence 29 Consecrated place 30 Possessive pronoun 31 Enclosed place 32 Fissure 33 Put up 34 Contest 35 Malt kiln 37 Chief; greatest 38 To penetrate 39 Across 40 Information 43 Abraham’s birthplace 44 Syllable of diatonic scale 50 Unwilling to hear 53 Special gifts 55 Transported 56 Chaplet or wreath 57 To invite 58 Ancient heretical sect 59 Combining form, meaning stone 60 Heard 62 Weight of twelve grains 63 To lower 65 A walk or passageway 66 Wild goat of the Bible 67 Conclusion 68 For fear that

PUZZLE NO. 149

THE OLD ARMY GAME

By Charley Cinderglass and Stoney Lonesome

Remember “West Pointer” in Series I? The soldiers are at it again. There ought to be some healthful dictionary practice here. 37 Vertical, by the way, appears to have been conned from some erudite work on natural history. (Might as well tell you that the two unkeyed letters are U and O.)

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HORIZONTAL

1 Spoil or mar 6 Species of rodents 11 Reduces 15 A petty dude 19 The sun god 21 Woe 22 A genus of American monkeys 23 A musical note 24 Belonging to a thing 26 Eat grass 27 Issue 28 Maker of honey 29 Produce designs on metal 31 Small wild ox (zool.) 32 Tidy 33 Stupid 34 The European finch (zool.) 36 Headmen (Hindu.) 38 Foundations (var.) 39 Showing favors 41 Silt (hyd. engine) 43 Exile 44 A compass box (naut.) 46 One who fishes with a net 47 A reptile 48 Scrapes together 50 Amphibians 51 Recital 52 Prominent people 56 Scatter 57 Etheral salt (chem.) 62 A vessel for holding soup 64 Dries by receding tide (reformed spelling) 65 Broil in a covered pan 66 The angel of the bottomless pit 68 Reduce in grade 69 Steeple 70 Crest 73 The carcass of a whale after blubber is removed (var.) 75 A bone of the forearm 76 Deep dislike 77 Crafts 79 At the (obs.) 80 Member 81 Trait 82 A fish 84 Evening (poetical) 85 So 86 Shout 87 Mist (meteorol.) 89 Regarding 90 Species of birds 91 A storehouse for arms 93 Judges 94 Serving as a type

VERTICAL

2 Force of mesmerism 3 Contraction meaning “the thing exists” 4 Obstruct 5 A cry of joy 6 The European owl (zool.) 7 Rank 8 Those who are in 9 The euphonic form of ad before g 10 Attempts 12 An instrument used by engineers 13 Pertaining to the Upper Archaean rocks 14 To affirm solemnly 15 The animals of any given period 16 Fur bearing animals 17 The winged cap of mercury 18 Celts 20 Looks after 23 Machines for cutting down trees 25 Shade 28 Bent outward 30 A genus of marine decapod crustaceans 33 The goddess of the hunt 35 Cozy corner 37 Small S. African antelope 38 The muse who presided over history 40 Having tresses 42 Epistles 44 Cross shaped 45 Arctic forked-tailed gulls (zool.) 48 Abyssinian title 49 Unite by stitches 52 Fasteners 53 A series of tubes 54 The palm cockatoo (zool.) 55 Advise (Scot.) 58 Shirt (Scot.) 59 Head-dress 60 Social standing 61 Enter again 63 Noticeable 65 A spirituous liquor 67 Idea 68 A window in a roof 69 Sea birds 71 Wahoo 72 Marine gastropod (zool.) 74 A pony 76 Stops 78 Rain, wind and snow 81 Rodent 83 Small 86 Head covering 88 Short sleep 90 Mother 92 Note of musical scale

PUZZLE NO. 150

AN INDENTED TERROR

By J. T. Delaney

“With such friends one does not need enemies,” an old proverb goes. Mr. Delaney is a familiar friend to followers of The Cross Word Puzzle Books, but the editors will bet that many a one has said that his worst enemy could not have given him more cold sweats.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Contraction of common New England first name 5 Fragment of earthenware 10 Slight coloring 14 Shriek 15 Linen cloth once worn in a head-dress 16 River in Germany 17 Edible root 20 East Indian cereal 21 Distribute (obs.) 24 Philippine tree, blind-your-eyes 25 Moving company 27 Profuse talk 28 European burbot 29 Submerged marine plant 31 Purgative principle of rhubarb, etc. 33 Sharp flavor 34 Physician or surgeon 36 Equable 37 Secular 38 Italian sou 39 Stalk 41 Cuchullin’s wife in Celtic mythology 43 Steal 44 Simple 45 Bellow 47 Exudation from certain plants 49 Obstruct 51 Flow in a stream 52 Property 54 Greek letter 56 Outlying districts 60 Inner bark of trees 61 Wilful disobedience 66 Avail 67 Philippine date plum 69 Struggle 70 Round hill or point of land 71 Auditory 72 Heelless slipper 73 Move suddenly and rapidly 74 Interpret writing 75 Assign 77 Clever 78 Fall of earth into a mine, etc. 80 Path 81 Globular flask once used for ointments, etc. 83 Comfortable 84 Revolving platform with seats for children 86 Native amorphous silica 87 Significant date 89 Play on words (pl.) 90 Pastoral composition 92 Cannon 94 Inclination 95 Rabbit 97 Entrance 99 Dry 101 Trial 104 Worship 106 Chart 107 Variety of chalcedony 109 Household deities 112 Assuredly (slang) 113 Spanish copper coin 115 Terrible woman 117 Erudition 118 Tuneful 120 Italian game resembling tennis 122 Typical genus of the mustards 124 Remove hair 125 Silk cotton tree 126 Itch 127 Satiate 128 Dishearten 129 Furnace 130 Swarm (Eng.) 131 Sudden involuntary movement 132 Footgear for snow travel

VERTICAL

1 Sulphide of iron, copper, etc. 2 Esteem 3 Bone of the arm 4 Select group 5 Sieve 6 Detected by the ear 7 Seaweed 8 Pass a rope through 9 Region of fancies 10 Gateway to Buddhist temple 11 Adored one 12 Anarchist of most extreme type 13 Vibrant effect on a tambourine 17 Satiate 18 African medicinal plant 19 Panel 21 Of heroic proportions 22 Give heed 23 Consequently 25 Famish (Eng.) 26 Bullfinch (Eng. and Scot.) 30 Affirm 32 Metal blocks for stamping, etc. 35 Epistle in dactylic hexameters 38 Partition 40 Petulant grimace 42 Gratify 43 Disturbance 44 Debate 46 Plant with large spathe and starchy corn 48 Passable 50 Prong 51 Prescription given merely to satisfy a patient 53 Tally 55 Affectionate 56 Itch 57 Absolute 58 Consider the subjective objectively 59 Negro name 60 Trunk 62 Pertaining to the eye 63 Biblical name 64 Box of wooden slats 65 Warble 68 Parcel of jewels 69 Guinea pig 73 Moves with rapidity 76 Plunder 77 Associate 78 Faucet 79 Back part of the neck 80 Small beak-like process 82 Title of nobility 83 Outer garment 85 Dwarf 88 Typical genus of parrots 91 Passable 93 Resounding 94 Mass of ice 95 Designating a certain valve gear and engines so equipped 96 European bunting 98 Hamlet 100 Unusual 102 Marketable 103 Derivative of atropine 104 Culmination 105 Ocean 106 Brownish purple 108 Place to sleep (slang) 110 Indian of an Iroquoian tribe 111 Bar of a soap frame 113 One summoned 114 Fragrant 115 Designating the numerals from which Arabic numbers are derived 116 Notches 119 Point in time 121 Designating a common bean 123 Native corporal in India

ADONIS’ DREAM

By Mrs. E. I. Ashton

Hoboken proves that it not only can manufacture Venus, the largest selling quality pencil in the world, but also some of the hardest puzzles. As a special reward for solving this puzzle you can receive a Venus Perfect Colored Pencil by sending the correct solution to the American Lead Pencil Co., 220 Fifth Avenue, New York.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Latin for “I love” 4 Opera by Verdi 8 Tragedy by Sardou 13 Transgression 14 French for “Mrs.” 16 Prejudice 17 Instrument for writing 18 Adverb 19 Bales (abbr.) 21 French for “bone” 22 A quality pencil or a planet 23 Ancient state in Asia Minor 27 Lair 29 Anew 30 Gold (abbr.) 32 Any cleaning agent 34 Name of one of the British Isles 35 South African antelope 37 Pronoun 39 That is (abbr.) 40 Royal mail (abbr.) 41 A color 43 Indefinite article 44 Ancient worshippers of Venus 47 Not (French) 48 Section of a foot (abbr.) 49 Tincture for wounds 50 Preposition 51 God willing (abbr.) 52 Cipher of several letters 53 Preposition 54 Preposition 56 Form of verb “to be” 57 River in Nevada 58 Lament, complaint (French) 60 Means of travel 65 Obliterators 69 Waterfall 70 Exclude 73 A dignitary 74 American temperance society (abbr.) 75 Rage 76 Liable 77 Comrade (coll.) 79 An organ 81 Lake in Galway 82 Pronoun 84 Unit 86 Consumption (coll.) 87 Adverb 88 A parent (coll.) 89 Post scriptum (abbr.) 90 A Phoenician god

VERTICAL

1 A Roman coin 2 An island in the Aegean Sea 3 Preposition 4 Entertains, diverts 5 A wicked spirit 6 French for “of” 7 Indefinite article 9 Bay in Siberia 10 Arabian seaport 11 One of the United States 12 Variety 15 Goddess of love 20 Pull roughly 21 A form of poetry 24 New England (abbr.) 25 Form of verb “to be” 26 An exclamation 28 Word of refusal 29 “Pertaining to” (suffix) 31 Spanish feminine for “a” 33 Reflector 34 An annual plant of southern Asia 36 Affecting the whole 38 Tint, color 39 Ancient Indians 41 Opera by Verdi 42 Prefix meaning “in” 45 Household dish 46 Town in south of France 51 River in Morocco 55 A game of chance 56 Receive 59 A kingdom of antiquity 61 Deed 62 Ornamental vessel 63 To, at (prefix) 64 African 65 Hinder 66 Italian historian 67 Town in central Persia 68 Undermine 70 Species of animal 71 Any plane surface 72 Peruse 78 From (Latin) 80 Conjunction 83 Pronoun 85 Northeast (abbr.)

NOTE

[1] Winner of the Woman’s Singles and of Challenge Round, First National All-Comers Cross Word Puzzle Tournament, held at the Wanamaker Auditorium, September 26th–27th, 1924.