Puzzle No. 65
Quiet Comfort
This one stays close to the amenities of English. There are few words you don’t use, if your vocabulary is as ample as a cross word puzzler’s should be. By the way, has your vocabulary expanded since you’ve started puzzling?
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HORIZONTAL
1 To testify under oath
5 Criminal
9 Exceeded
14 Tool
15 Knock
16 Caprice
17 A grain for making malt
20 Allayed
22 Polly wants a cracker
24 Beast of burden
25 To reconcile to a loss
27 Glacial ridges
29 Belonging to us
30 Explain
32 Laboriously
35 To the inside of
36 Closest
38 Specious
40 Hostelries
41 First woman
43 To dress
45 Eagle
46 Privately
48 Nidus
51 To deface
53 Norse deity
55 A weight of Turkey
57 King
59 Feathery
60 Having ten legs
61 Substitute
62 Loose part of coat
63 At another time
65 A presiding officer
67 Bustle
68 Healthy physical state
70 At that place
73 Prepare for publication
75 Culmination
77 Greek mountain
78 Worry
80 Guided
82 Tracked
86 Gratuities
88 A certain unknown quantity
90 To shut up
92 Hastened
93 Way of acting
94 Bag
96 Caustic alkaline solution
97 Presents itself
99 Single things
102 More stately
104 Shelter
105 Individual
106 Article of clothing
107 Fears greatly
108 Mist of condensed vapor
109 Stuffed
VERTICAL
1 To humiliate
2 Clergyman
3 Night bird
4 Killed
6 Period of time
7 Used by cowboys
8 Open
10 From a great distance
11 Title of address
12 Hardy
13 In the way
18 Kind of tree
19 Longed for
20 Terminates
21 Specified quantity
22 Return
23 Away
26 Greek God of War
28 Vehicle on runners
31 Dam in a river
33 Indians of Utah
34 Employed
35 Writing fluids
37 Vexation
39 Inhabitant of northern region
42 Having such a face
44 To infer
45 To eject
46 Concerning
47 Wear away
49 To discourse on
50 Praise
52 Southern state (abbr.)
54 Artificial language
56 Poem
58 Finis
64 Goddess of retributive justice
66 Weapon for airplane
69 Horse food
71 Mask
72 Precipitate
74 Short paragraph
76 Cupid
78 Spring
79 Fearful
80 Aged
81 The emu
83 Pastries
84 Less interesting
85 Looked askance
87 Organ of hearing
89 Belonging to thee
91 Grain
93 Useless plant
95 Jot
98 Body of water
100 Negative
101 Beverage
103 Invitation