Puzzle No. 76
Big Beauty
This giant may puzzle you in several ways. At the first glance it looks as much like a maze as a cross word puzzle. You’ll find it a cross word puzzle all right.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Others
5 Device to carry a gun
10 Call loudly
14 Bends
16 Possessive pronoun
17 Press for payment
19 Box
20 Abraham’s birthplace
22 Small davenport
24 Sing in a low undertone
26 Average
28 Sun god
29 Female rabbit
31 Close
32 Shrub
34 Change direction
35 Automobile
36 Deliver
38 Geometric ratio
39 Consumed
40 Touch gently
42 Pronoun
43 Paper containers
44 Cut feloniously
46 Den
48 Spank
50 Finished
51 Curves
53 Affectedly precise
55 Render senseless
56 Something granted for temporary use
57 Evil
58 Neuter pronoun
60 Barren
62 Mother
63 Small child
65 Comrade
66 Slipped
68 Rock
69 Printed piece of paste-board
71 Catch (colloq.)
73 For example
74 Changes
76 Prosecute at law
77 Mean, vile
79 Exist
80 Distorted
81 Falling water
83 Units of electrical resistance
84 Egg of insect
86 Pastries
87 Ardor
88 Edible bivalve mollusk
89 Nothing
90 Bend
92 Cad
94 Sketched
96 Past
97 Negative
99 Recesses in walls
101 By
103 Inherent power
105 Mixed type
106 Arid
108 Jogging pace
109 Tramp
111 Genuine, loyal
112 Obtain
113 Beseech
115 By
116 Set free
118 Unit of type
119 Stout
120 Native of Arabia
122 Head
123 Black
125 Wharf
127 Child
128 Vehicle
129 Help
131 Catholic sisters
133 Sinless
134 Note of scale
135 Snake-like fish
137 Before
138 Part of verb “to be”
140 Small secluded valley
142 One, indef.
143 Earth
145 Those who color cloth
147 Small nail
149 River (Spanish)
150 Thing
151 City in Mass.
153 Part of head
154 A boisterous preacher
156 Preposition
157 Mold
158 Plaything
160 Female chicken
161 Frozen particles of vapor
163 Marks
164 Provoked
165 Is full
VERTICAL
1 Thumps
2 Upon
3 Wireless signal for help
4 Paradise
5 To hasten
6 Bone
7 Low district
8 Edition (abbr.)
9 Intoxicating liquor
10 Whirled rapidly
11 Cured pork
12 Else
13 Lachrymose exudations
15 Small distance
16 Fem. pronoun
18 Snare
19 Father
21 Egg masses
23 Appendage
24 Color tint
25 Crazy
27 Unload by tilting
28 Uncontrolled anger
30 Necessitate
32 Walks with affected dignity
33 Fortress
35 Implement of war
37 To mend
39 Desires
41 A color
43 Water conveyance
45 Before Christ
47 Like
49 Indef. article
50 Perform
52 Alluvial detritus
54 Obtains
55 Without
56 Grease for frying
57 Bend
59 Row
61 Uproar
62 Spoils
64 Tag
65 Binder stones
66 Artfully cunning
67 Term used when hunting a criminal
69 Criticism
70 Noise
72 Be of service to
74 Malicious firing of a building
75 Places to store grain
77 Portion
78 Dirty
80 Net
82 The head (slang)
83 Aged
85 Also
91 Humor
92 Bullet
93 Half (prefix)
95 Part of “to be”
96 Time
98 Eye
100 Crustacean
101 A long staff
102 To rage
104 Buttocks
105 Fondle
107 Annually
109 Snared
110 Prevents
112 Gather
114 A color
116 Attempt
117 Loose outer garment
119 A private quarrel
121 By
122 Father
124 Point of compass
126 Within
127 Skeletal piece
128 To incline
130 Marsh
132 Narrow opening
133 Rodents
134 Ultimate
136 Caustic
137 Sin
139 Interweaves
141 Aspects
143 Diminution
144 Small mark
146 Not west
147 Prohibit
148 Depression
151 To obstruct
152 Negative prefix
154 Color
155 Fish eggs
157 Note of scale
159 Pronoun
160 Pronoun
162 Us