Part 9

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HORIZONTAL

1 Let in 5 Back of neck 9 Earliest 14 Large 15 Word 17 Deputy 19 Nurse (Hindu) 20 Shapes 22 103 23 Lowest regions (Gr. myth.) 25 Chinese province 27 Not (prefix) 28 Short pastoral poems 29 Greek theatre 30 Towards 31 With 32 Holding (property) 35 Lair 37 Joints 39 Fleet 40 Foundation 42 Scatter 44 Father 45 Prop 47 Any 48 Spanish hero 50 Mouth 51 River (Sp.) 52 Street (abbr.) 53 One (Scot.) 54 Tree 55 Undivided 56 Slipping 59 Exists 61 Controls 64 Decree 65 Hutch 67 Hubs 69 Bird 70 Middle 72 Large cask 74 The object 76 Life principle in Hinduism 78 Resin 80 Italian river 81 Following 83 Town in Czecho-Slovakia 85 Electricity (abbr.) 86 Small bone in horse’s foot 89 Jot 90 Town in Belgian Congo 92 Icelandish giants 93 Pious 94 Dough for crust of pies 95 Disappeared 96 Coin

VERTICAL

1 Indo-European 2 Valuable 3 Strict disciplinarian 4 Neuter pronoun 5 Explorer 6 Skill 7 Exclamation of ridicule 8 Evasive 10 Four 11 Wealth 12 Greek island 13 Stain 14 Town in Canal Zone 15 Young partridge 16 Eat away 18 Severity 20 Call 21 Beg 24 Snake 26 Pertaining to a system 31 Like a goose 33 Surface of cloth 34 Grape 36 Colorless gaseous element 37 A hundred weight 38 Cutting into two parts 40 Archer 41 Nets 42 Protrusion 43 Side building 45 Salve 46 Fish spawn (pl.) 49 Prefix—from 50 Myself 57 Ancient city 58 Mountain in Venezuela 59 Chemical unit 60 Imbiber 62 African country 63 Forcible separation 65 Telephone exchange 66 Sinning 68 Having two feet 70 Indian bark 71 Bellows 73 Now 75 Flower 77 Son (Gaelic prefix) 79 Inspect curiously 80 Aptly 82 Short for Rebecca 84 Portend 87 Tribe of Sioux Indians 88 Numbers (abbr.) 91 And (Latin) 93 Depart

PUZZLE NO. 127

SPREADEAGLE

By R. T. and C. K.

The spread eagled “X” seems to be one of the most natural ways of disposing blacks in a cross word puzzle. Do you know, by the way, that some of the most fascinating problems in cross word puzzling lie in the difficulty and ease involved in the various designs of the blacks.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Subtracted 8 A written agreement 15 Clayey earth 16 An imbecile 18 A Japanese food 20 Adds to 23 To marry 24 Idle talker 26 Wager 27 The Devil 29 Weird 31 A meadow 32 Security for liberation 34 A bone in the body 35 Covered wagon 36 Stop 37 Spaces 39 A color 41 Nervous energy (slang) 42 Number one 43 Face of an instrument 45 A drunkard 47 Evergreen trees 48 Babylonian god 50 Of the same age 52 Period of time 53 Taunt 54 Personal pronoun 55 Remain 57 An avoirdupois measure 59 Part of a golf course 60 Not living 62 Either 63 Small waves 64 A preposition 65 So be it 67 Small viper 68 Hard shelled fruit 70 Distance measured by the foot 72 A college degree 73 Unoccupied 75 Stable 77 Indicative of grief 79 Seventh note of the musical scale 80 To weave 81 A weak acid 83 Kind of fish 85 The elect 87 Male child 88 Part of a pea 90 A town near Bombay 92 Member of an ancient Teutonic race 93 Short fine hair 94 A dolt 96 Final purpose 97 Opposed to science 98 An ocean-going steamship 100 A small shoot 102 Kind of pastry 103 Descriptive of heavy rainfall 105 To affect with pain 107 Captivates 109 Designating title 110 That inside 112 Exclamation 113 Star-like mark 114 Lessens

VERTICAL

2 Vacated 3 A cast 4 Bottle-like vessels 5 Tree found in swamp land 6 Measure (printing) 7 Soft feathers 8 Classified regulations 9 Upon 10 Retinue 11 Ritual 12 Division of play 13 Underground apartments 14 Herbiferous vegetables 17 Regarding 19 Talked idly 21 A fruit 22 Mix 24 Snare 25 Elongated fishes 28 Encourage 30 Eternal 33 Religious term designating the people 36 Engaged 38 A cutting instrument 40 Feminine of deer 41 Leguminous plant with edible seed 42 Fabrication 44 Lighted 46 Supporter 47 Expression of contempt 49 Smallest particle of matter (pl.) 51 Pertaining to Norway 53 The Saviour 54 Abhors 56 Part of the verb “to be” 58 Bite 59 Decade 61 Devour 65 To reject 66 After the eighth 67 High in the scale (mus.) 69 Neuralgia 70 Movement of the shoulders indicating indifference 71 Without commiseration 74 To end life 75 Species of bean 76 Overturn 78 Loose talk 80 The young of a feline family 81 To drill 82 Cage 84 Suggest 86 Learning 87 Stopper 89 Challenge 91 Satisfy with food (Scot.) 93 Of better quality 95 Decisive 98 Calcium compound 99 Position 100 Toboggan 101 Strong wind 104 Woven texture 106 Within 108 Entangle 110 Exists 111 Note of the musical scale

PUZZLE NO. 128

YOU’LL HEAR ME CALLING YAHOO

By Charlotte G. Davis

Good design, good words, good puzzle. Bring forth the Venus Pencil. This one will give you the time of your life.