The Cross Word Puzzle Book: Second Series

Puzzle No. 60

Not Too Hard

By Saul Berman

This constructor built a form that gave himself a lot of two-letter words. Are two-letter words permitted in English? They are. But there are only a few of them in existence and, consequently, they are repeated often.

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29			30		31			32	33				34
35			36					37					38
39	40		41	42		43		44		45	46		47	48
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53		54				55	56			57		58
59					60				61		62
63			64	65						66			67
		68							69			70
		71						72

HORIZONTAL

1 Signify

5 Appointments

10 Nimbus

12 Mexican dollar

13 Negation

15 Timid

18 Exclam. of surprise

20 Above

22 Moderates

23 White

25 Legendary character

27 Chill

28 Violent strains

29 By

30 Salutations

32 Prescribed regimen

34 Exclamation

35 French article

36 Passage out

37 Certain quantity

38 Printers’ measure

39 Parent

41 Deposited

44 Holds a session

47 Another parent

49 One or any

50 On the top

51 Imitate

52 A reëntrant angle

53 Primeval deity

55 Rent

57 Wear away

59 Musical character

60 Acts involving civil action

62 By word of mouth

63 The man or person

64 Head hunters of Luzon

67 Selenium (symbol)

68 Break

69 Rate of exchange

71 City in Utah

72 Angry

VERTICAL

1 Hush (exclam.)

2 Master

3 Man’s name

4 Floor in a warehouse

6 Mimics

7 Cardinal number

8 One sensible of the beautiful

9 Consequently

11 Galvanize

13 Pert. to knots

14 Egg shaped

16 Impose

17 Exploits

18 Turning machine

19 Flagrant crime

21 Unit of measure

24 Relating to

26 Goddess of night

28 Enclose

31 Toe or finger

33 Style of capital

39 Repair

40 Imbecile

41 Lounging

42 Cape on Atlantic Coast

43 Distress

44 Vigorous argument

45 Definite article

46 Woman’s club

47 Greedy king (myth.)

48 Anoint

54 Symbol for tellurium

56 Misses

58 Marking an alternative

60 Drink

61 Asterisk

65 To go about idly

66 Self

68 Thus

70 Bone