Part 14

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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HORIZONTAL

1 Intellectual dullness 6 A resting place 8 The hair of the Angora goat 13 Bracing 15 Hairy appendages 16 Come together 18 Pertaining to Mars 19 A female bird 21 Drinking vessel 23 Threads that guide through a maze 25 A vase with feet 26 Barren 30 Single 31 Note of scale 32 To vanquish 33 Concise 34 As 36 Us 37 An obstinate person 39 As 41 A game of chance 45 General term for followers of theory 47 To corrode 48 Lessened 49 A soft white metal 50 To take out 52 Aid 55 Regarding 57 Madness 60 Conjunction 62 Near 64 Primp 66 Exposes 68 Towards 69 Consumed 71 To dignify 73 Be indebted to 75 Carries 76 Scented 78 Sick 79 Wearisome 81 Hebrew prophet 82 Anxious 85 An indestructible unit 88 Instruction 89 A lair 90 A drink of hot milk curdled with liquor

VERTICAL

1 Problems in arithmetic 2 To speak 3 River in Italy 4 Forward 5 Edge 7 One who consumes 8 Male 9 Preposition 10 A personal pronoun 11 Pale 12 Flees 14 The air 15 A tree 17 Handbag 20 Female sheep 22 To deduce 24 A pale yellowish clay 26 A male child 27 Period of time 28 Possessive pronoun 29 To make a mistake 31 Personal pronoun 35 Over and above 36 A common liquid 38 Jeer 40 Fur-bearing animal 41 Hobby 42 A lyric poem 43 To freeze 44 Utilize 45 Historic mountain 46 To rest 51 Diseased person 53 Chest 54 A parent 56 A golf term 57 An hotel 58 To recede 59 Metalliferous earth 61 To act 63 An Oriental weight 65 To go into 67 A book for pictures 68 To inform 70 Stories 72 To think 74 Useless plants 75 A bank-note 77 Shade 79 A number 80 To soak in 83 So 84 To depart 86 Negative 87 To wit

PUZZLE NO. 39

FACILE EST DECENSUS AVERNI

By Cerberus

Cerberus was a three-faced dog, and that is what you may think of the progenitors of this bark after you’ve tried it. Averni (which does not mean Arverne) is the unkeyed centre-piece.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Extremities 4 Unchangeable 12 A metal 15 Concerning 16 Digits 17 Variety of wood 18 Therefore 19 Shores 21 Thus 23 Catkins 26 Fruit of common tree 27 And so forth 30 Obliterate 31 Things of secondary importance 33 Sportmen’s lodges (Scot.) 34 A blow 35 Grassy field 37 Part of “to be” 39 Ecclesiastical contribution box 40 Strike 41 Bleak 44 Unoccupied 46 Container for liquids 48 Rip 50 Hindu mendicant 51 Designation 53 Annoy 54 Common breakfast food 55 Lacquer 56 Latin, and 57 Roman magistrate 59 Behold 61 Pert. to 63 Road (abbr.) 64 Eager 65 Indian Cult 67 Black 69 Companion 70 Organs of hearing 71 Legendary Queen of Carthage 72 Toward 74 To eulogize 77 Myself 78 Orange-brown 80 Disordered type 81 Mammal milk bag 83 Toss gently 85 Rational animal 86 Mournful sound 88 Collected mass of eggs (pl.) 89 Kind of fish 90 Engrave 92 Vocal music 93 Before, prefix 94 Head covering 95 Requirement 98 Secreted 100 Possessive pronoun 101 Equal 103 Golf term 105 Fermented drink 107 Severe 108 Fossil lizards 110 African antelope 112 Vend again 114 Latin for “and” 115 Compound of nitrogen 117 Inside 119 Earth 121 Open hall 122 Elevated 123 An injury 124 Association 125 Melt

VERTICAL

1 Roman garment 2 Allowing that 3 Tale 4 Belonging to it 5 Missive 6 Article of apparel (pl.) 7 Like 8 By 9 Wild animal (pl.) 10 A priest 11 Piece out 12 Prefix, within 13 Bone 14 A feature 19 A metallic element 20 Again 21 Prophet 22 Pert. to the ear 24 Lizard 25 Persian ruler 28 Form of limestone 29 Stimulate 32 Juice of a tree 34 Form of male address 35 Written or printed productions 36 Revise 38 To be impelled by wind 40 Old women 42 Substance derived from seaweed 43 Meanderings 45 Lifts 47 Anger 49 Self 50 Captain of Arab vessel (pl.) 52 Literary compiler 55 Shifting sail 58 Conception 59 Kind of soil 60 Giant 62 Man of ancient Asiatic race 64 Form of “to be” 65 You 66 Intransitive verb 68 Word of negation 73 Smell 75 Common woman 76 Measure of weight 78 Perched 79 Measure of length 80 To palpitate 82 More profound 84 African native race 85 Plural of medium 87 Egg-shaped (obs.) 89 Pitch 91 Pronoun 94 Domestic birds 96 Judicial circuit 97 Send forth 99 Wild animal 102 Upright 103 A dinner course 104 Boredom 106 Apart from 107 Utensil for roasting 108 Fruit of a shrub 109 Storehouse for grain 111 Thick liquid 113 Sprite 116 To prepare leather 118 Denial 120 Pronoun 121 Near 122 Plural pronoun

PUZZLE NO. 40

99​-9⁄10 PER CENT PURE

By Kross Korner Knut

They don’t come much better than this one. K.K.K. is an expert of the first water and knows how to put words together in a fascinating pattern.