The cross word puzzle book

Part 3

Chapter 31,470 wordsPublic domain

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HORIZONTAL

1 Tumult 5 Part of harness 9 Thin metal strip 11 Seldom 13 Preposition 15 Small drink 17 Expression 18 Behold 19 Salt (chem.) 21 Proposition to be proved 23 Fabulous bird 24 Sustain 26 Not of the city 27 Spanish dry wine 28 Burlesque 30 Work with thin steel instrument 31 Engrave 32 Old-womanish 34 Miner’s hand-cart 36 Birth 37 Gone 38 Song 40 Organ pipes 42 Small hollows 43 Organ of sight 45 The other 47 Recent 48 Drudge 50 Pertaining to the Celts 52 Time 53 Pertaining to earth disturbances 55 Parent 56 Pronoun 57 A luminary 58 Dull 60 Concerning 61 Ire 62 Issue 64 Large book 65 Indivisible particle of matter

VERTICAL

2 Part of “to be” 3 Long practiced 4 Keen 5 Injury 6 Bodily member 7 Pronoun 8 File 10 Wild goat 11 Dance 12 Counterfeit 14 Sailors 16 World war battle 17 Net 18 Body of water (Scotch) 20 Division of Hindu philosophy 22 Metal as mined 23 Piquant 25 Feather-shaped 27 First of two stanzas 29 Rows 31 Fungus 33 Constellation 35 Cereal 38 Quote 39 American Pioneer 40 Scars 41 Carnelian 42 Sheet, usually paper 44 Opposed to No 46 Sovereign 47 Oil-burning vessel 48 Slave 49 Door of Masonic Lodge 51 Paradise 53 Sound 54 Insensibility 57 Silent 59 Humor 61 Stop 63 Preposition

PUZZLE NO. 6

BABY GRAND MODEL

By Helen V. Christ

Only two long words. This should be pie for the hard-boiled solvers and a pleasant exercise for the beginner.

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HORIZONTAL

1 To praise 5 A storm 8 Part of mouth (Pl.) 11 A conjunction 13 Coarse material 14 Regarding 15 Pin 17 The exertion of power 18 To spread loosely for drying, as newly mown grass 19 To gain 21 The young of various carnivora 22 Put through evolutions; intrigued 23 A ram or male sheep 24 Girl’s name 25 Possessive pronoun 26 A spasm 28 A pen for swine 30 The sixth tone of the diatonic scale 31 Cardium 33 To such a degree 34 Rabbits 36 Fatty tissues 37 Bird

VERTICAL

1 Closed curve 2 Above 3 Papa 4 Inhabitants of a north-east division of China 5 Precious stone 6 So 7 Increased till barely sufficient 9 A grassy field 10 One of various small birds 12 A boat race, or a series of such races 14 Experiences sorrow for sin 16 A group or class embracing subordinate classes or species 18 Becomes sour, or spoiled, as milk; takes a new direction 20 That which is first or highest in rank or degree 21 Vegetable 25 Ailments; worries 26 Swamp 27 Prefix; three; three times; thrice 29 To bring into bondage; enslave 31 Mean dwelling 32 To spread loosely for drying 34 To have existence 35 Provided that; on condition that

PUZZLE NO. 7

A FOUR PETALED ROSE

By M. Francis Cavallon, Jr.

Mostly short words, and not difficult. Good corner masses. Mr. Cavallon is probably our youngest contributor, boasting as he does only fourteen summers.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Turkish coin 4 Country in Asia 7 Number 10 Black 12 Possessive pronoun 14 Cereal plant 16 Equality 18 Tears 20 Resinous substances 21 Wearied 22 Bird 23 South American bird 25 Optic 26 Italian province, famous for wine 27 Trouble 28 Thus 30 Front of an army 32 Sensory organ 34 Pronoun 36 Rhythm 39 Behold 40 Greek letter 41 Coarse file 42 Not at all 44 Small tropical tree 47 Note of musical scale 48 Quadruped 50 Enclosure 51 Biblical character 53 Number 54 Diseases 56 To immerse 58 Blow 60 Pipe 61 Be deserving of 62 Thing 64 Poker term 66 To clear 67 Extreme 68 God of love 70 Precious stone 71 Her own 72 Different 73 Unit of living organism

VERTICAL

1 Bar which falls into the teeth of a ratchet-wheel 2 To reverberate 3 To humble 4 Preposition 5 Record 6 Yes 7 Combustibles 8 Richly embellished 9 Chance 11 Old Testament 13 Conjunction 15 Bold 16 Fragment 17 Female of the ruff 19 Test 24 Because 26 Article 27 Mingled with 29 Picture drawn by fancy 31 Hangings in woven figures 33 An ancient imperial people 35 Marsh 37 Beverage 38 Large tree of the olive family 43 Much used as an article of food 45 Prefix denoting insufficiency 46 Dead, spiritless 47 Possessing a cutaneous disease 49 Article of apparel 50 Postscript 52 Adverb 53 Reveal a secret 55 Looks meaningly 57 Native of European country 59 Delightfully scented shrub 60 Owneth 63 Calcareous earth used as fertilizer 65 Thus 67 Erect 69 Such being the case 70 An alternative

PUZZLE NO. 8

A SPOTTED BORDER

By E. Pinkerton

This puzzle possesses the merit of an interesting double central interlock. Good interlock, be it observed, is the soul of cross word puzzling.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Church dignitary 4 Trouble 7 Part of church 9 Irritate 12 Primary color 13 Sister 14 Energy 15 Falsehoods 17 Growth on the head 18 Clotted blood 19 Move by bounds 21 Excite 23 Make ill 25 Dry stretches of land 26 A collection 28 Seizes with the teeth 30 Beam of light 33 Written slander 35 A base (math.) 39 Noting grief 40 Law profession 41 Witty saying 42 Natty 43 Small depressions 45 Lavished fondness 47 Church holiday 50 Animal’s dens 52 Obsolete reed instruments 55 Upon 56 Ripple against 57 Else 58 Unorthodoxy 61 Regions 63 Changes 66 Intent 68 Domestic animal 70 Strip of wood 71 A rodent 72 Inflamed 73 Part of a clarinet 74 Lazy person 76 Is dull 79 Call for assistance 80 Variety of flower (Pl.) 82 Set free 85 That girl from Troy 88 Abraham’s nephew 90 Pertaining to N. Pole 93 A precious stone 94 Breathing organ of fish 95 Sour 96 Recently deceased 97 Same 98 Unit of measure 99 Fabulous bird 100 Part of the head (Pl.) 101 Variety of fruit 102 Weaver’s reed 103 Periodical payment

VERTICAL

1 Give out 2 Open space 3 Cozy residence (Pl.) 5 Desert-dweller 6 To enclose 7 Fisherman 8 Variety of carnelian 9 Fresh set of horses 10 Generous 11 Borders of the mouth 16 Not well 20 Trouble 22 An elongated fish 24 Pronoun 25 Slate-cutters’ hammer 27 Italian river 28 A bunk 29 Island in Aegean Sea 30 Religious acts 31 Yawn 32 A planet 34 To bar 36 Small point 37 Oriental vessel 38 Frozen confections 43 Stupid 44 Pertaining to the sun 45 Profoundness 46 Wild dog 48 A mimic 49 Part of the foot 51 Etruscan god 53 Dexterity 54 To damage 58 Aid 59 A price 60 Unit of length (Pl.) 61 One of the twelve apostles 62 Performances alone 63 Variety of flower 64 Revise 65 Mentally sound 67 Girl 69 Saw lengthwise 74 Product of electrical decomposition. 75 Cylindrical device 76 Elementary substances 77 Absorb slowly 78 Corded fabric 79 Vends 81 In this manner 83 Anguish 84 Obese 85 Fine whetstone 86 Den 87 Small quantity 89 Bird of prey 91 Ornamental fabric 92 Cessation from motion

PUZZLE NO. 9

A CHECKERED CAREER

By S. Czurles