Part 16

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HORIZONTAL

1 Pertaining to images 8 Concealed passengers 15 Blaze 16 Reptile 18 Ancestors 19 Continually 21 Earring 22 Arable land 23 Reward (Fr.) 24 Two (prefix) 25 God of thunder 27 More than enough 28 Evil 29 A color 30 Arabian shrub 31 Sacred symbol 33 Tendered 36 Official seat (leg.) 37 Sailing ship 39 Toward 40 Adjective suffix meaning “of” 41 Word of unknown meaning found in the Bible 42 Side bars of pair of spectacles 44 Support 46 Variety of pyroxene 48 Article 49 Fruits 51 Personal pronoun 52 Measure of weight 56 Peaceful 58 Weights 62 Paradoxical 63 Proportion 64 Crushed 65 Begin 67 Sun god 69 Ricochets 70 Conjunction 71 Pillars 76 Once (obs.) 77 Makes level (Engl. dial.) 81 South American armadillos 82 Exclamation 84 Live 85 Flag 86 The number of muses 87 Respiration 91 Japanese spirit gods 92 To beat (Scot.) 93 Vat 94 Knot 95 Branch 97 Thrice 98 Printing unit 99 Genus of shrubs 100 A large weight 101 Heap (obs.) 103 Egyptian deity 104 Kilns 105 Tavern 106 Hatred 108 Designating a crystalline acid 109 Machine run by mixture of gases

VERTICAL

1 Pertaining to the classification of facts 2 Whether 3 Ancient 4 Separate 5 Company 6 Accounts 7 Mohammedan ruler 8 Temporary cross timber used in shipbuilding 9 Large hawks 10 Telegraphed 11 Barren 12 Irritate (obs.) 13 Because 14 Seamstresses 17 Independence 20 Warble 24 Territory governed by a ban 26 Space 30 Prickly plant of the glasswort family 32 Hew 34 Hawaiian bird 35 Concerning 36 Fruit of India yielding a yellow dye 38 Stages 41 Protected 43 Measure of type 44 Share 45 A worsted yarn 47 Part of verb “to be” 49 Notches 50 Margins 53 Biblical character 54 Soak 55 The first name of a character in the “Arabian Nights” 56 The goddess of dawn 57 Chief (Sp.) 59 Age 60 Dexterity 61 Stain 63 Those who disavow 66 Breathe 68 Article 70 Mystic ejaculation used by Hindus 72 A narcotic 73 Alley 74 Accustom by practice (obs.) 75 Contemptuous irony 77 Member of a legislative body 78 A vessel 79 Handle of a joiner’s plane 80 Greek poet 83 Personal pronoun 84 Prefix denoting two 87 Enough! (It. interj.) 88 Garret 89 Reddish orange dye 90 Order 93 Trough used in smelting 96 Chief 99 Strike 102 Sow (Scot.) 104 Suffix meaning oil 107 A tone of the diatonic scale

PUZZLE NO. 144

OCEAN WAVES

By Mrs. H. A. Wolfe

Don’t get seasick, although it is a little difficult. We have to do something to please those crusty puzzlers who snort with contempt at easy problems.

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HORIZONTAL

1 African spear 7 Language of Semitic origin 11 Climbing 17 Dead (Scotch) 18 Reverie 19 Harangues 20 Title 21 One who bequeaths 23 Ties 25 Too 27 Behold 28 Quality 29 Every third day 33 Fat 34 Bathe 35 Monsters 37 Non-poisonous strangling serpent 39 To sort 41 A kind of pastry 43 Island in the British West Indies 45 Land measure 47 Condition 48 Staggers 50 Half 51 Large volumes 53 Nightfall 54 Friend 55 Roman earth goddess 57 Decay 58 Nickname (female) 60 Royal banner 63 Combined 66 German province 69 Metal 70 Unit 72 Farm 76 Forests 81 Female singer 84 Fine 85 Incite 87 Point of the compass 88 Anger 89 Vehicle 91 College slang for a gathering 93 Horse 95 Vestige 97 Change 99 Bird 100 Drudge 102 Number 103 Dust collector 105 Corrode 106 Exhausted 108 Spanish lady 109 Fears 112 To make indented lines 115 Obstruction 118 Note of scale 120 Appendage 121 Expiate 123 Care 125 Fortify 127 Religious song of praise 128 Avarice 129 Reptile 130 Musical instrument 131 Worthless 132 Main component

VERTICAL

1 Increases 2 Perceive 3 Hindu deity 4 Revises 5 Worshippers 6 Annoy 7 Schedule 8 Pattern 9 A measure 10 Previous 11 Celestial body 12 Pertaining to the Gaels (combining form) 13 Allot 14 Exists 15 Nothing 16 Increase 22 Thorn (Scotch) 24 Mountain top ice 26 Equipped for propulsion 30 Lake in North America 31 At no time 32 Mountains in Eastern U. S. 36 Sandstorm 37 Club 38 Country in the Near East 40 Follower of the Dutch founder of Anabaptists 41 Wealth 42 Girl’s name 44 Rest 46 Scavenger fishes 48 Invade 49 Totals 52 Swamps 54 Assumption 56 Tyro 59 Suffix radical (chem.) 60 Suffix diminutive 61 Tear 62 Prefix, out 63 Tooth 64 Pronoun 65 Article 67 Dim 68 Affirmative 70 Suffix toward 71 Suffix one who 73 Small portable organs 74 Southern state (abbr.) 75 Orient 76 Previously existed 77 Place for the seal on legal papers 78 Southwestern state 79 Murdered 80 Pertaining to Italian volcano 82 Roman emperor 83 Cereal 85 Printer’s measures 86 Fruit of the vine 89 Dirt removers 90 Sharp rejoinder 92 Suffix quality 94 Occurrence 96 Antagonistic 97 Shades 98 Recompenses 101 Employ 103 Quarter in London 104 City in Nevada 107 Quaver 110 Scale 111 Biblical character Old Testament 113 Plant 114 Placed 116 Black 117 Give 119 Weary 122 Dark viscid oil 124 Insect exudation 126 Personal pronoun

PUZZLE NO. 145

WAFFLED WORDS

By Mrs. Eric Crull

Some people mumble their words, but what is more appropriate than this waffling of Mrs. Crull’s? This is medium well done—by which we refer not to quality, but to difficulty. Try it when the simple ones seem too easy and the difficult ones too tough.