Puzzle No. 79
Wedding Ring
The contributors of this construction are husband and wife. This fact is symbolized by the wedding ring you see in the middle of the form. Cross-grained cross worders may complain that the ring is not a solid mass of words. Well, is a ring ever a solid mass?
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HORIZONTAL
1 Slender
5 Time
10 Small boat
11 Invades
13 Healing medicine
15 Quicken
16 Termination
17 Wrap
18 Beast of burden
19 To soak in water
21 Preposition
22 Taut
24 Ourselves
25 Highest point
27 Personal pronoun
28 Therefore
30 Employ
31 Garment
33 Stir
35 Vessel
37 Classified
38 Indicate
39 Heavenly body
40 Female deer
42 Born
44 Consumed
45 Exclamation of pain
47 Exist
48 Deer
50 Negative
51 One who dislikes
54 Note of scale
55 Weight
57 To gain success
58 Tank
60 Distant
61 White, translucent
63 Riddle
65 Withers
66 Basket
67 Depressions
68 Polish
VERTICAL
1 Fat
2 Tavern
3 Work
4 Tri-formed Greek goddess
6 Blots out
7 Large number
8 Hole
9 Poems
10 Religious singer
12 Frozen precipitates
14 Anthropoid
15 Possesses
16 Consume
20 An equal
23 Bow
26 The Ottoman court
27 Paris subway
29 Believe
30 Talk
32 Cry of sheep
33 Calculate
34 Open
36 Single unit
39 Crouches
41 Cereal
43 Page of a book
44 Insect
46 Conjunction
47 Part
49 Rubbish
52 Some
53 Time immediately preceding
56 Require
57 A small bird
59 Periphery; cover
60 Sign
62 Part of “to be”
64 A command to draft animals