Part 2

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HORIZONTAL

1 Lover of wisdom 9 Exclamation 10 Conjunction 11 Negative 12 Pronoun 13 Portent 15 Deposited 17 Tailless amphibian 18 Preposition 19 Girl’s name 21 Seize in arrest 23 Printer’s measure 24 Pronoun 25 Toward 26 Sun god 27 Dental filling 31 Warble 35 Garment 36 Italian city

VERTICAL

1 Pertaining to measurement of light intensity 2 Man 3 Material part of the earth 4 Bone 5 Preposition 6 Outdoor sport 7 Send out 8 Formidable 14 Simple 16 Presently 20 Latin for I love 22 Atmosphere 28 Not 29 Note of scale 30 Near 32 Conjunction 33 Perform 34 Printer’s measure

PUZZLE NO. 102

CHILDSPLAY

By Hugo Kladeviko and James McIntyre

These contributors have made one for the tots. Likewise it is a good one for beginners at cross word puzzling. Warm up on this one for the holy terrors that later on will beset you.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Form of literary expression 5 Speculation 10 Constellation 11 To be mistaken 12 Thus 14 Consumed 16 Character in “Peer Gynt” 17 Upon 18 Tool for cutting threads 20 Be 22 Humped beast of burden 23 Spoken 25 Colored fluid 26 Cook in oven 27 Droop 29 Appear 31 Behold 32 Adverb and conjunction 34 Minute particle 36 Support 39 Undermines 41 Be in debt 43 Unit of linear measure 45 Fasten 46 Trapped, cornered (colloq.) 48 Caress 49 Expression of hesitancy 50 Unit of weight 51 Jurisprudence 53 Preposition, toward 54 Utensil 55 Used in ancient warfare 57 Poor in quality 58 Irritate

VERTICAL

1 Church dignitary 2 Elevated R. R. 3 Leaves of a shrub of China 4 Repetition 6 Request (poet) 7 Before 8 Either 9 Citizen of New England 13 Propeller 15 Place for egress 16 Solicits 17 Hard wood 19 Foot 21 Into 22 Tuber 24 Sings with spirit 26 A broom 28 A card game 30 Attention 33 Regard 34 Mimic 35 A.M. 36 Skin 37 Speck 38 Long seat with back 40 Vent 42 You and I 44 Pasture 46 Sound 47 Mend 50 Label 52 Contest between countries 54 Father 56 Mother

PUZZLE NO. 103

LADIES FIRST

By Albert Buran

Here is the puzzle that Mrs. Ruth von Phul did in four minutes and twenty seconds, thereby winning the Ladies’ Championship, at the tournament held in Wanamaker’s Auditorium in September. See if you can clip a second off that record.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Boat hoisting contrivance 5 Prosecuting judicially 9 A pronoun 10 Pertaining to the nose 12 A conjunction 13 A thin oval board used by an artist 15 A pasture 17 The first flapper 18 A color 20 A brownish red stone 22 Mentally sound 23 Savant 24 Notice 25 Saucy 27 Completely 28 Social beginner (slang) 30 A cereal grass 31 Shelters 34 An expression of inquiry 36 A parent’s sister 37 Bone 38 Kingdom 39 To give out

VERTICAL

1 Face of a timepiece (pl.) 2 Near 3 A feminine suffix 4 Narrative 5 Glut 6 Ultimo (abbr.) 7 A negation 8 To class or sort 11 XVII 13 Packages 14 Obliterators 16 A wooden frame 19 A vestibule 21 Achieved 22 A slight taste 24 A personal enemy 26 Rigid 28 Sound rhythmically 29 Stupid (Fr.) 32 Presidential nickname 33 Goddess of night (myth.) 35 A pronoun 37 An alleged force

PUZZLE NO. 104

THE LAZY MAN’S DELIGHT

By B. Benas

After you have struggled with a terror and want to rest your weary brain, here’s the puzzle for you. Nice and easy and well put together.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Eyelashes 6 Foundation 11 Decrees 13 Occupant 14 Titled person 15 Through 17 Used in games of chance 18 Before 19 Purport 21 Female deer 22 Selenium 23 Meadow 24 Not within 26 Degree given physicians 27 Clip 29 Plural of vegetable 31 That thing 32 Regarding 33 Character of a people 36 Fragment 39 Article 40 Epoch 41 Course 42 Behold 44 Obstruct 46 Urchin 48 Wager 49 Among 51 Brownish color 52 Make feverish 53 European cuttlefish 55 Oily matter 57 Dirge 58 Come into

VERTICAL

1 Resigns 2 Accustoms 3 Body of water 4 Frozen dessert 5 Near 6 Exist 7 Conjunction 8 Reported 9 Annual receipts 10 Horse 12 Weapon 13 Soldiers collectively 16 Printer’s measure 19 A drink 20 Regret 23 Mythological stream 25 Linger 28 To reach exactly 30 Ocean 33 Hard coating 34 Metal bearing rock 35 Seasonings 36 Oscillate 37 Be able 38 Give pleasure to 39 Humble 43 Animal 45 Mature 47 Note of scale 48 Cudgel 50 Excavate 52 Female bird 54 Forever 56 Note of scale

PUZZLE NO. 105

NEAT SYMMETRY

By Frank A. Ford

An unusual disposition of blacks and a pretty symmetry. Decorative patterns give an esthetic charm to cross word puzzling. Before you finish you will have brought home the bacon.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Salted smoked pig’s hip 5 An adult swine 8 Demesne estate 13 Sincere 14 Pertaining to a wall 16 Back of the neck 17 Color in spectrum 18 To deface 19 A small dram 20 A receptacle 21 Woodsmen’s implements 23 Arrogance 25 Famous French writer 26 Night moisture 28 Devoured 29 Yankee Jack tar 31 Curved structural member 33 Bay or chestnut 36 Dobbin’s headpiece 39 Slumbers 42 A lyric song 43 Quite a few 44 A pasture 45 Folds in cloth 47 Played golf 49 To interdict 51 Large Siberian river 53 Accomplished 54 To regret 56 An honorable title 59 Senile 61 Concerning the pope 63 To serve 65 Genus homo 66 Racket 67 Early man’s abode 68 Late man’s consolation 69 Every man’s foe 71 Pelted with hen fruit 73 Fermented malt liquors 74 Citrous fruit 75 An indeterminate age 76 Without active properties

VERTICAL

1 Borate of sodium 2 Top of pyramid 3 Surrendered 4 Surmounting 5 A shout of triumph 6 Alternative 7 Mr. Goose 9 Indefinite article 10 An Indian viceroy 11 A precious form of silica 12 Kingly 14 Representation of earth’s surface 15 To deceive 22 A place to rest 24 Pronoun 25 A parcel post district 27 Yanked 29 Liquid measures 30 To dip up 32 The peak 34 A species of orange wood 35 Celerity 36 A twining moraceous vine 37 Opposite the wind 38 A physiological distinction 40 A mythical sprite 41 Affected with grief 46 Greedy 48 Deposited by a hen 50 Large globose fruit 51 Dull gray 52 Ship of the desert 53 Coarse cotton drilling 55 Ascending 57 A light firearm 58 Box for valuables 60 Donated 61 American dessert 62 Conducted 64 An observer 70 Behold! 72 Proceed 73 One or any

PUZZLE NO. 106

THE DARLING OF THE GODS

By Ambrosian

This puzzle was used in the All Comers Contest, held at Wanamaker’s Auditorium in September. The time of the winner, W. F. Hunter of Sound Beach, Conn. was 6 minutes, 40⅕ seconds.

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HORIZONTAL