Part 15

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HORIZONTAL

1 Phrygian shepherd changed into a fir tree 5 God of love 9 Parched 12 Domesticates 17 Unusual 18 Was contiguous 19 Kind of compass used in surveying 20 Considerable in degree 22 Rounded protuberance 23 A drop of saline fluid 25 Domestic animal 26 Indian tribe 27 To inspire deep reverence 29 Bordered 31 Exist 33 Small mound of earth 34 Goddess of the moon 37 Receptacle for ashes 38 Grecian sub-prefect 40 Obtain 41 Make less bitter 44 Overmuch 46 Pore over 47 One 48 Part of a circle 50 A small hole 53 Ventilate 55 Groups of three 58 Trial impression 60 Loose end 62 Web-footed, tailless amphibian 64 Minor devil 65 Seaman 67 To be obliged for 68 Certain 69 In the direction of 71 Writer of a kind of plaintive verse 74 To seek something lofty 76 Floating vegetation in the Nile 77 Vapid 78 Move 79 Dissipate 81 Pert. to the eyes 83 Federations of workers 86 Hostelries 87 A lizard 89 Unit 90 Propeller 92 A pledge 93 Past 94 One who compiles material for publication 96 Placed at intervals 99 Japanese plant 100 Implore 102 Barrier 104 Abaft 105 Tree 107 Males 109 Well-being 112 Wrath 114 Phœnician princess carried away by Zeus 116 Bronze or copper 117 Tottered 121 Watering place 123 International language 124 Broke 126 Tiny 127 Sharp-pointed tool 129 Vedic god of the sun 131 Not good 133 Persia 135 Pert. to national sea forces 137 Sea eagle 138 Brittle, salty biscuit 139 Languish 140 Irascible 141 Be conscious of 142 Those snaky fish 143 A donkey

VERTICAL

1 Hundred-eyed son of Zeus 2 Acid 3 Instruments for preserving the form of shoes 4 An affirmative 6 Took its way 7 Wind instrument 8 Quiet 9 Heedful 10 Long, slender plant 11 Mountain near ancient Troy 13 Flurry 14 Merriment 15 Comfort 16 Smooth 21 Ancient coin mentioned in the Bible 22 Immediate knowledge 24 Tap 25 The brave 28 Saturated 30 Enlarged 32 Rodent 35 Essential self 36 Elude 38 To implant deeply 39 Demure 42 Marry 43 A discriminating sense of hearing 45 Imbecile 46 Expression of exaltation 47 Intention 49 A female quadruped 51 Case for small articles 52 A kind of molding 54 Smoothing 56 Full of perforations 57 Person with a powerful voice 58 Noblemen of high rank 59 A marked characteristic 61 To adjust 63 Pants 66 Once more 68 A small shoot or twig 70 Regret 72 Edge 73 A high wave 75 Wickedness 79 The moon 80 One who meanly admires wealth or social position 81 One of a tribe of Algonquin Indians 82 Idler 84 Solemn affirmation 85 To shut close 88 Falsehood 91 Deed 94 A nymph who was changed into a fountain 95 Metal-bearing rock 97 Equality as to value 98 Make less light 101 That overworked Australian bird 103 The southwest wind 106 The papal court 108 The land where the sandman lives 110 The bay tree 111 A judicial inquest 112 To chill 113 A piece of property 114 Merits 115 An effervescent drink 118 Possess 119 A king of Israel 120 A narrow passage 122 Unadulterated 124 A tiresome person 125 A large plant 128 Staff 130 Still 132 Open 134 Total 136 Imitate

PUZZLE NO. 94

LITTLE BUT A BAD ’UN

By Frank C. White

Mr. White must be one of those mild-seeming people who fool you so often—at least that’s the impression his construction gives the editor. It is little. It looks harmless. But don’t start it if you have an appointment two hours hence. But maybe we shouldn’t give this away.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Original man of Horus 6 The first Jewish high priest 11 A genus of Am. plants 13 A member of the Creek Indian tribe 15 Metal for casting in pigs 17 A game played for stakes 18 A valley in N. W. Argolis 20 Sooner than 21 Track of a deer 23 One of a tribe of Algonquians 24 In the thing or individual 25 Permit (3rd per. sing.) (pl.) 27 A workman on shoes 29 Denoting the infinitive 30 An exclamation of surprise 31 Leisurely (obs.) 34 Any sirenian, esp. the rytina 37 A pliable strip of oxhide (So. Africa) 38 Contrary to good in a moral sense 40 A recess in the shore 41 Anything steeped in liquid 42 A wind (musical) instrument 44 A fairy queen 45 A genus of No. Am. herbs 47 A cloud 49 Reprinting and publishing of a work 50 Lamellirostral birds 51 Am. wild plums

VERTICAL

2 Tutor 3 A garden implement 4 Monitor lizard 5 Restores to existence 6 Invoke 7 An Eastern continent 8 To clothe in an odd manner 9 Mien 10 A town in Oklahoma 12 To insinuate contempt 14 Light repast 16 Absence of removal (rare) 19 Objective case of I 22 Natural kind or class, esp. of animals 24 Son of Abraham and Sarah (Bib.) 26 Sorrow 28 A beverage 31 Burning 32 Be present (obs. var.) 33 Long speech 34 Slope (3rd per. sing.) (pl.) 35 Common (obs. var.) 36 A German philosopher 39 Abbr. Life Guards 42 Compounds containing metal 43 An English mathematician 46 A word of command in driving animals 48 Hoot

PUZZLE NO. 95

MODERATION

By Porter R. Lee

Never too much of anything is the slogan of this constructor. He gives you a puzzle of moderate difficulty, but a set of easy words and then a terror hidden among them like a serpent in the grass. The puzzle runs its way at an even tenor, like an honest man’s life.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Snake 4 Rainy 9 Make hum by spinning 12 Russian money 13 Steep 14 Fat 15 Notable period 16 For instance 18 Toward 19 Mend 20 Confronted 22 Lariat 23 Speck 25 Pasturage 27 Impair 30 Public passages 32 Raves 35 Layer 36 Length of the forearm 39 Member of cat family 40 Country in N. America 41 Legendary king 42 Legal science 44 Cause of anything 45 Set again 47 Son of Odin 49 Something to follow 51 Secondary 53 A root 54 Sound 55 In such circumstances 57 Atop 59 You and I 60 Torn piece 62 Unripe 63 Ventilate 65 Product of digestion 66 Slippery fish 67 Bearing buds 68 Influenced

VERTICAL

1 Progeny of one stock 2 Pert. to us 3 Behind 4 Edible drupe 5 Ancient Biblical country 6 Afflict 7 That 8 Release 9 Cleansing agency 10 Conduct oneself toward 11 Cat 17 Prophet 18 Follows closely 21 Discontinue 22 Mistress of a household 24 Obscurity 26 Source of stability 28 Strong appetite 29 Topmost bone of spine 31 Kind of eclipse 32 Gypsy 33 Man’s nickname 34 Distress signal 36 Cage of an elevator 37 Hurtful 38 Strain 42 Hires 43 Fancy 45 Precipitation 46 Suppose 47 Color 48 Toothed wheel 49 Sharp-pointed instrument 50 Relative 51 Precious stone 52 Sharpened 56 Raw metal 58 Fade 61 Beverage 63 Exist 64 Egyptian god

CHAPTER 96

Puzzle No. 96

JUST FOR TWO!

By Charley Cinderclass and Stoney Lonesome

These two contributors send in Cross Words by the dozen, so you can imagine what splendid vocabularies they must have. This is one of their best, and it’s not an easy one, either.