Puzzle No. 75
Locked Up Tight
An all-over double interlock with a triply-locked center and corners. Probably considerably easier to solve than to construct. The words are weak in spots, but the construction passes the few obsoletes.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Alternate passage
6 Incomplete
11 Fruity nut
12 Those who dry by wind
14 Cheerfulness
15 Capable
17 Midday
19 Man’s name
21 Mountain in Greece
22 Passage-way
23 Negative
24 Shaped like a bull
27 Prefix, of
28 Character in Peer Gynt
30 Pits
31 Prefix, footed
32 Pert. to month
34 Settings
36 Plaything
37 Chemical compound
38 Imbecility
41 Sharpshooters
44 Annual Scottish festival
45 Adjusted
47 Consume
48 Ounce (abbr.)
49 Salts of stearic acid
51 Toward
52 Chinese tree
54 Hobo (slang)
55 Pert. to Asian people
57 Jog
58 Flat part of boat’s bottom
60 Color
61 Taxes
63 Mistaken
65 Cook by air and heat
66 Awe-inspiring
VERTICAL
1 Oil
2 Fuse
3 Thus
4 Those in power
5 Naval officer
6 Decanters
7 Furrow
8 Abraham’s birthplace
9 A form of colored cotton
10 God of Love
11 Form of sugar
13 Fuse
14 Ash kokos
16 Entrance
18 In want
20 Empower
22 Compounds of arsenic
25 Mineral
26 Dye
29 Finished
31 Active volcano of West Indies
33 Male descendant
35 Pinch
38 Dejected
39 Famous composer
40 Throw back
41 Knotty
42 Classification
43 Lay in a supply
46 European mountain range
50 Brown pigment
53 Famous Scot
56 Outer coat
58 Egyptian god
59 To make a mistake
62 Exclamation
64 Concerning