Puzzle No. 66
Diamonds Within Diamonds
Plenty of trouble ahead here for the unwary solver. The four-letter word border is a tricky thing to monkey with, for often the wrong word contains the same number of letters and answers the definition perfectly. A good many unkeyed letters, but none in critical places.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Mountain range between Italy and Switzerland
4 Minute particle
8 Affirmative votes
12 Steep eminence
16 Evergreen
17 Skill
20 Since
21 Substitute
23 Correlative of neither
24 Net to be drawn along bottom
26 To mock
27 Rough cloth
29 Issue forth
30 Kind of muffin
31 Close by
32 Not anything
33 Mournful
35 Fairly good
37 A modern dance
39 Speckled
42 Industrious insect
43 Musical instrument
45 Orang-outang
46 The thing
47 Equipped
49 To deprive
52 Similar to
53 To calumniate
55 Sick
57 A bird
59 Evening
60 Regained
61 A decree
62 Feeble-mindedness
64 Source
65 Crested Brazilian bird
68 Sun God
69 A right
71 A brace
72 Square of type
73 Incorporated (abbr.)
75 Married male Indian
78 Literary collection
79 Joins
82 A drop
83 Scarcity
85 Ox-like animal
86 Lake
87 Row
88 Owns
90 Girl’s name
92 Consumed
94 Hebrew measure of capacity
97 To originate
100 Sailor
101 In style (Fr.)
103 Transgress
104 For all time
107 Requested
108 Branches of learning
109 Look for
110 Female deer
111 Arrived
VERTICAL
1 Distant
2 Brim
3 Hurl
4 Silvery
5 To play with
6 Belonging to
7 Inorganic natural substance
8 Constitutionals
9 You
10 Termination
11 Writing
13 Musical composition
14 Affirmative
15 Rule
17 Soft drink
18 Study
19 Sweet potato
22 Halting
25 Essence
27 Fixed as to time
28 Argues
30 Polite
34 Branches
35 Raised platform
36 Ointment
38 Remiss
40 Leave out
41 Article of furniture
43 Grains
44 Witnesses
47 Concerning
48 Deserve
50 Addition to a document
51 Weave
54 Hail
55 Wrath
56 Support
58 Playing card
62 Song
63 Opportunity
66 Rough
67 Indian servant
70 Anxious (alternate spelling)
71 Country in Europe
74 Crying earnestly
76 Crag rising above glacier
77 Said
78 Compound yielding chrysphanic acid
80 Sacred image
81 Says
83 Clowns
84 Interjection
89 Plateau
91 Surface of fibers
93 Harden
95 Springtime of life
96 Yield
98 Russian village
99 Before
101 Consumed
102 Dull
105 Myself
106 Negative