Part 11

1 Loadstones 2 A small space 3 Strike 4 In the year of our Lord 5 Mother of Helen of Troy 6 Acute crest of a mountain range 8 Flower (Fr.) 9 Decorative plant 10 Denoting equality 11 Upper part of apron 12 Lent 13 Enclosed 15 Young sheep 19 Noted 20 Ditches used as fortifications 23 Religious order 24 Canvas covered with waterproof material 27 Tool used to make holes for small nails 30 Smallest European deer 32 Fungus used in cooking 34 Edge of a roof 36 Combining form meaning within (Greek) 38 Ejaculation meaning “alas” 41 Furnace used by alchemists 43 Location 44 Proportional share 45 Soothe 47 Simple 49 Mouths (more common as adjective) 51 Eating principal meal of the day 53 Saclike cavity 54 Simpleton 58 Loose soil 59 Smell 62 Fasten 64 Confused noise 66 Prefix, geological epoch 68 Seventh tone of musical scale

PUZZLE NO. 131

HOCUS POCUS

By M. H. Foster

Doesn’t this look easy, a simple little pattern that seems certain to be filled with such words as “dog” and “cat?” The editors did not want the solver to have the shock of picking this one as a light ten minutes, and then find himself involved in tormenting perplexities.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Proper name 5 Lawful 10 Freeman of the lowest rank (anc. English) 11 Highest mountain in Africa 13 King of Bashan (Bib.) 14 Common nickname 15 Study with care 16 One 17 A semicircular base 20 Combining form for a gaseous element 22 Roman god of war 23 Good (Fr.) 25 Places where two parts come together 26 Number 27 Malicious burning of another’s house 29 Biblical character 30 Shocking 31 Rested 33 Moderately wet 34 Entire man, body and mind 36 A county seat in Oklahoma 38 Bring to court 39 Madam (German) 40 Smells 42 Fertile spot in a waste 43 Note of scale 44 Negation 45 Facility resulting from practice 46 Any powerful deity 47 To furnish with an engine 49 A man who does woman’s work 51 Town in Siberia 52 Testing of an alloy

VERTICAL

1 Part of Mediterranean sea 2 Behold 3 Songs 4 Kinds 6 Holy picture 7 Mountain between France and Italy 8 Preposition 9 Headdress (pl.) 10 Sound judgment 12 Unusually 18 Extended written exposition 19 Friend of Cicero, Roman comic actor 21 Plaguers 23 Broth (pl. Scot.) 24 Sound 27 Limb 28 Negative 32 Rub oil upon 35 Mirth 37 Cotton goods used for overalls 39 Destiny (pl.) 41 Descendants 42 Globes 48 Leave 50 Exclamation used in double as a farewell

PUZZLE NO. 132

A WORD FEST

By Aard-vark

The gentleman whose nom-de-plume appears above—look it up if you think there ain’t no such word—is a highly trained dictionary hound. He pulls out some amazing words sometimes.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Poisonous tree 5 Theme or subject (mus.) 10 Color of unbleached stuff 14 Style 15 Tusks 16 Spoils 17 Kind of wind 19 Man’s name 20 Kind of cross shape 21 All right 22 To offer to verify 24 Obstruct 26 Roman copper coin 27 An arrow poison 28 Besides 30 The earth (Prov.) 32 Kind of scepter 36 Separate portion 39 Species of duck 41 Household utensils 42 Empty 43 Chinese cash 44 Scope 46 Prefix, air 48 Verb intransitive 49 Seed of canary grass 51 Anything small 53 Offcut 55 Knot (rare) 56 Contemporary 59 Beverage 60 Irregularly employed person 62 To remove 64 First month of Jewish year 66 Spanish dollar 68 Original sin (symbol.) 69 Always 71 Passed 73 Pass over ridge 75 Float of mill wheel 77 Dark 78 Lowest deck of vessel 80 Deer 81 Inner sole of a shoe 82 The nether world 83 Allowance for waste

VERTICAL

1 To 2 Bring together compactly 3 Vessel for consecrated wine 4 Covered vehicle 5 Syllable of scale 6 Crosswise 7 To take away (obs.) 8 Rainbow 9 Suffix signifying “to make” 10 Genus of venomous snakes 11 Coop or pen 12 Ecclesiastical court of Rome 13 Indian tribe 18 Common newt (obs. Sp.) 20 Blow or thump 23 Serving to inspire fear 25 Rigid 27 Artificial international language 29 Originally the highest note in scale 30 Glory 31 Turbid 33 Enraged 34 To cause 35 Growing out 37 Window 38 Witness (leg.) 40 Pertaining to language of Indo-China 42 Good 45 Snatched away 47 Religious book 50 Segment of the hind limb 52 Bone 54 Rested 57 A matter 58 Unknown land 61 To set on end 63 To suffer 64 The southwest wind 65 Kind of plum cake 67 An annual plant, good for food 68 A genus of succulent plant 69 Away from the wind 70 Spume 72 Name of King Arthur’s lance 74 Original 76 Joke 78 An exclamation 79 A paragraph added to a writing

PUZZLE NO. 133

SMALL BUT MIGHTY

By Irvan Neckerman

Mr. Neckerman, well enough known to those that solved the first two Cross Word Puzzle Books, has concocted one of his choice brews. That is to say, he has found some unsuspected words.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Colossal wooden statue 4 Another colossal wooden statue 7 Where both statues can now be seen (abbr.) 10 A weight of twelve grains 11 A medley 12 Genus of ruminant quadrupeds 13 Domestic fowl 14 The highest part 15 Shoemaker’s awl 17 The appointor 19 Large European dormouse 20 An alcoholic beverage 21 A rude man 22 Bill of an anchor 24 For each 25 Brood of pheasants 27 Star of first magnitude in Orion 30 Refuse 32 Circular 34 Clasp to fasten garments in front 36 Jade 37 A card 38 Artificial international language 39 As the definite article was often written in old English 41 Imitator 43 To carve or cut up a fish 45 Musical instrument 47 The condition of being consumed by a low form of organism 50 Actually existing being 51 Unique 52 Trembling poplar 53 The needlefish 54 Double

VERTICAL

1 Pertaining to tapestry 2 Coin in the Ionian Islands 3 Prater 4 To intend 5 Fowl 6 A sort of dice, formerly used 7 Inhabitants of parts of S. America 8 Dealer in unctuous substances 9 Billet 16 Strong emotion 18 Turkish weight 23 Recompense formerly given by murderers 24 To toil 26 Shrub of the holly family 28 Mass of ice 29 Towering 31 To throw again 33 Yeast 35 Vermillion red 36 Blistered 40 Measures of linen thread 42 Scotch highlanders 44 Well-known Japanese 46 Seed of a leguminous herb 48 Part of head 49 Unspent

PUZZLE NO. 134

THE BUTTERFLY

By Mr. and Mrs. Ottokar T. Cadek

This winged masterpiece represents an achievement in the interlocking of long words in a beautiful design. All hats off to the constructors!