Part 5

1 To become insolvent 4 A long-legged bird 6 Presage 9 A bruise 11 Not working 13 What 15 Cautious 17 In bed 18 Mother 19 To lick up 21 To waste away 23 A sticky substance 24 To silence 25 Encircled 27 Since 28 Beast of burden 29 Article 30 Exclamation 32 Guided 34 Liquid juice of plants 36 Assent 38 Everything 40 To grasp 41 Clamp 42 Also 43 First woman 45 A drink 47 Organ of body 49 Dissent 51 Exist 52 A beam 54 To fall behind 55 To squander 58 A tree 59 Viper 61 An automobile 63 A card 65 Preposition 66 A distance 68 Ireland 71 Exclamation 72 A step 73 Measure of time 75 Remunerated 76 To rub off 77 A vegetable

VERTICAL

1 Combustible material 2 Part of “to be” 3 Vulgar 4 She 5 Point of a pen 6 Aged 7 Myself 8 Close to 10 A rodent 12 Cave 14 Very old women 16 To make a mistake 17 Eaten 18 Female horse 20 To go ahead 22 To do as asked 23 To ring a bell 25 Upon 26 Perform 28 To astonish 29 A covering on an automobile 31 Speed 33 A person who dresses fastidiously 35 Past 36 An animal 37 After day 39 Sheltered side 42 To snare 44 An urn-like vessel 46 Song 48 Too 50 Exclamation of pain 51 To exist 53 Coy 56 Part of “to be” 57 A digit 59 Above 60 Sound made by a clock 62 A neck ornament 64 To gain by toil 66 Insane 67 Sheltered side 69 A liquor 70 To catch 72 3.141592 74 Backwards

PUZZLE NO. 13

A GRAND OLD PUZZLE

By Sylvan L. Froelich

There are some grand old words in this puzzle, and the interlock is something grand also.

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HORIZONTAL

1 African antelope 5 By means of 8 Stop 12 Beam 13 Impenetrably hard 14 Secure 15 Adversary 17 Write 18 Produce 20 Woolen material 21 Distribute 24 Female deer 25 Viscous matter of a cell 28 Chalky chemical substance 30 Fracas 31 Preposition 33 Annoy 35 Rhymed composition 36 Live 37 Natural 38 Pendent 39 Edge 40 One 41 Imitated 42 Trimming 44 Suffice 45 Journey 47 Patent 49 Eschew 51 Touch 53 Faith 55 Wanting 56 A drug 59 Be indisposed 60 Matchless 63 Liquid refreshment 64 Malady of the brain 65 Period of time 66 Dropsy 67 Part of verb “to be” 68 Inscription-bearing stone

VERTICAL

1 Before 2 Cut 3 Affirmative 4 Between dawn and evening 5 Essay 6 Boil (Archaic) 7 Roam 8 Filthy place 9 Consumed 10 Sways rhythmically 11 Guided 16 Back tooth 19 Mohammedan world 21 Mode of scenic representation 22 Near 23 Slid 25 Take inconsiderately 26 Affirmative 27 Titanic 29 Used in golf 30 Large volume 32 Cooling device 34 Remnant 35 Domestic animal 36 Assistant 41 Spring up 43 Hazard 45 Toward 46 Basket 48 Negative 50 Sound 51 Headdress 52 Beat 54 Pertaining to sounds 56 Span of time 57 Single 58 Health resort 60 Beast of burden 61 Poem 62 Scrutinize

PUZZLE NO. 14

A QUADRIPUNTAL ASTEROID

By Persephone

A brilliant construction, comprising clever interlocking combined with symmetry of design. Such a combination is difficult and extremely rare. To obtain a picture such as this four-pointed star makes a real treasure of the puzzle.

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HORIZONTAL

1 One of the highest order of mammals 8 Less long 15 Old womanish 16 Little devil 18 Junction 20 Small, explosive report 22 Link 24 Enticed 26 Moisture 28 Aloft 29 A sloth 30 Having three teeth 32 Accomplish 34 Myself 35 Wise counsellor 38 Pertaining to the sister of Osiris 39 To render infamous 41 Anger 42 Observe 44 Between hip bone and false ribs 46 Procure 47 Hub of a wheel 49 A gloomy covering 51 One of a Slavic people of Eastern Germany 52 Location 53 Go in 55 Unclose 57 Faithful 59 Tract on the earth 60 I refuse 62 Belonging to me 63 Paradise 65 Exists 66 Males 67 Proportion; rate 68 Insane 69 Ourselves 70 Vessels for carrying liquids 72 To exist 73 Near 75 Narrow fissure 78 Irritable 80 One indiscriminately 82 Ethyl 85 Weapons 87 African antelope 89 A hairy man 91 Identical 93 Snake that crushes its prey 94 Unfettered 96 Victim 98 Impost 99 A painful swelling 101 Astound 104 Special aptitude 106 The thing 107 Otherwise 108 Sketch 110 Egyptian god represented by lion, cat or hawk 111 Proceed 112 A beverage 114 Lean 116 Different 118 Low, swampy land 119 To consume by using 121 Illimitable period of time 123 Odor 125 To break into fragments 126 Fiscal agent

VERTICAL

2 Knock lightly 3 Inward 4 Hireling 5 A fermented liquor 6 Theme 7 Exist, in the first person 9 Injured 10 Unit 11 Autocratically controlled 12 Toward 13 Termination 14 Foaming 16 Goddess of fecundity 17 Entreaty 19 To make less sour 21 Musical drama 23 “The sharpest sighted spirit of all in heaven” 25 A parent’s brother 27 An ant 29 In, on, near or by 31 Plunge 33 From; out of 36 At no time 37 Twisted strand 39 Founder and queen of Carthage 40 Flexible; dexterous 43 Small mountain lake 45 Single 48 Foes 50 Behold 51 Ourselves 52 Seats 54 Chinese coins 56 Plate bearing the Eucharist 58 Leaven 59 Venomous little snake 61 Natural combination of metals 62 Rabble 64 A fruit 71 The life principle 72 Cowshed 74 A period of time 76 Angry 77 Rodents 79 Disrupted 80 A tool 81 You 83 Hard fat 84 Under-officers of churches 86 Itinerary 88 Long 90 Exhausted 92 Contagious skin disease 94 To lose remembrance of 95 Crude 97 Asteraceous plant having small white blossoms 100 Maiden loved by Zeus 102 Companion; comrade 103 Hill in Jerusalem 105 Exclamation 108 Fop (slang) 109 Landing place with ascending stairs, in India 113 Timber and shade tree 115 A small insect 117 Before 118 Distant 120 Parent 122 Bovine quadruped 124 The other parent

PUZZLE NO. 15

A QUADRUPLEX QUIDDITY

By Person or Persons Unknown

A truly marvelous study in four-letter words, with some notably lengthy side-interlocks. The unknown author is to be congratulated.

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HORIZONTAL