Part 12

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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.