Puzzle No. 82
Third-Rail Crossover
A fine double-cross study in four-letter words. The occasional abbreviation does not mar the general effect. The lateral wedge-masses key well with the central cross. Altogether a nice construction.
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HORIZONTAL
1 A gewgaw
6 A point or beginning (obs.)
9 Herself
12 Bark; investing layer
18 To follow after
19 Stooping low
22 Single; only
23 Concerning
24 A prefix; half
26 A term in billiards
27 Steeps
29 Prefix; not
30 The auditory organ
32 A Hindu God
34 To carry laboriously
35 Teeth of a wheel
36 Prefix; three
37 Step lightly
39 To plunge head-first
41 A theatrical miscellany
42 Space
43 A short sleep
45 The rudimentary leaf of the embryo in plants
48 Period of years
49 To consent
51 A frozen confection
52 An old soldier; a horse doctor
53 To clutch; clench
55 Upon
56 Having narrow strips of cloth
58 Hail
60 Turf
62 Since
64 Mechanical device for irregular rotary motion
66 To bind
67 An anthropoid ape
69 Belonging to him
70 Gone by
71 Down; below
73 Pull along
75 By and by
77 Three in cards
78 To make a speech
79 Remainder
80 One who flies
81 Astir
82 Rodents
84 The Indian bull
86 Wood of a South American tree
88 Electric particle
89 A small devil
90 Vestige
93 Old
95 Limb
96 Lanterloo
97 Rasp
99 Prefix; one
100 Under
102 Thus
103 Backless chair
105 Wild, insane
107 A viscous liquid
109 Brings forth, of lambs
112 A small tumor
113 Transitory
116 Regret
118 A flower
120 A pilaster
121 A pottery slab
123 Wash
125 Equip
126 To influence
127 Upper limb
129 Jackdaws
131 An inclosure
132 Part of “to be”
133 A vegetable
134 Sour
136 Intend
138 Within
139 Prevent
141 Pathological distention with air
144 Illustrious
146 Eats away
147 Die (Scotch)
148 Curve of ship-spiling
149 Dryest
VERTICAL
1 Artists’ caps
2 Opposite of afar
3 Ourselves
4 To sprout
5 Dregs of wine
6 Correlative of either
7 A fabulous bird
8 Two-fold
9 To shake, jog
10 Obj. form of he
11 Measure of type
13 A cereal
14 Author of “Treasure Island”
15 Toward
16 Be available
17 Pert. to hospitality
19 Pert. to a city
20 Pitiless
21 Inguinal region
25 Prefix; middle
28 The self
31 A circlet
33 Shun
35 Coagulates
36 Ensnare
38 Portion
40 And so forth
41 Lyric poem
42 Dry
44 Decomposed vegetable fuel
46 A measure of time
47 Level, uniform
48 Is mistaken
49 Partly corresponding
50 Relating to the cuticle
53 So as to profit
54 Avidity
55 South American plant
57 Ever
59 Papal palace
61 Interrogative pronoun
63 A Chinese bean
65 Mental inferior
67 Art indebted
68 Very thin fabric
70 Pert. to an area
72 A wit
74 Skill
76 Born
77 Until
81 Be ill
83 Likely
85 A valuable insect
87 Gone by
89 A metal
91 Impolite
92 Summon legally
94 One who does
97 Proceeds
98 Vacant
100 Plait, interlace
101 Squall, cry
104 A small branch
106 Exclamation
108 Part of verb “to be”
110 Lowest tide
111 Long, vehement speech
113 Growing out
114 Take for wife
115 South American camel
117 Used to curdle milk
119 One who rhymes
120 Reverential fear
122 Female lamb
124 Hides
126 Dry
127 Pain
128 Fail to hit
130 Level-headed
133 Couch
134 Imitate
135 Lair
137 And not
140 Toward
142 Physician
143 Possessive pronoun
145 To exist