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Puzzle No. 72

Round and Round

The double round of blacks outlines four good corners and a center which, while bearing an unenviable five-spot, would have been virtually impossible of construction without it. The unkeyed letters should not cause any trouble.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Unremittingly

7 Teach

13 Smirch

14 Forth

16 By word of mouth

17 Examine thoroughly

19 Private instructor

21 Active being or quality

23 A writer’s style

24 Crafty

26 A tuberous root

28 A dull finish

29 Deposits

31 Commanded

34 Gambling game

35 Exist

36 Long, fixed bench

38 Wrath

39 Unclose

41 Accomplish

42 Ancient goddess, personifying night

43 Single performances

45 Pointed instrument

47 End

49 Animal

51 Appropriate

53 Terminal

55 Erases

56 Mean proportion

57 Augment

58 Fish without pelvic fins

60 The entire men

61 To move to deep reverence

63 Turf

65 Official garment of Jewish high priest

68 Said to be a wise bird

70 In the direction of

72 A distinctive doctrine or theory

74 Pole having a flat end

75 Personification of Truth in “Faerie Queen”

76 The man

77 Worshiped image

79 To speak to

82 Close

84 Dandy

85 Arid

86 Bronze or copper

88 Equipage

89 Angry

91 One chosen, or set apart

94 Worship

96 Fluid rock

98 Period

99 In the midst of

100 To bind with a bandage

101 Abode; habitation

VERTICAL

1 Supersede

2 Black

3 A white linen vestment

4 Performs

5 That thing

6 Yourself

7 Jewish territorial organization

8 Thus

9 Street car

10 Tattered fragment

11 A Mohammedan college, or body composed of imams, muftis and cadis

12 Marked by indelible coloring matter, pricked in

15 Wholly

18 A measure of paper

19 Teutonic war god

20 A grain

22 Spikenard

25 Inferior

27 Fuss

30 To discover by close search

32 God (Ital.)

33 Make of automobile

37 Goes beyond the limit of

40 A proprietor under old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey

42 Requires

43 Tablet

44 Rescued

46 Lawful

48 Singular

50 Consumed

52 A pin of wood or metal

54 Of recent origin

57 Crafty device

59 Keener

62 Arising unexpectedly

64 Lubricant

66 A legume

67 Natural combination of metals

69 Pale

71 Smell

73 To deface

75 Employ

76 Hairbreadth

78 Gems

80 Color

81 Rested

83 To destroy by slow disintegration

85 A god

87 Identical

90 Marble

92 Shelter

93 Carnivorous domesticated quadruped

95 Dull

97 In, on, near or by

99 One or any

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