Puzzle No. 85
Dirty Work at the Cross Words
Perhaps you agonized over Neophyte’s creation in the First Series. Here’s its mate. Neophyte, being a hardened veteran of the cryptic art, must have heard the groans from the breasts of puzzlers poring over his brain buster. And he gloated and went at his fell work again. However, this one is a little easier than the other.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Ungainly
7 Malayan animal
9 Simpleton
12 Expiate
13 Fools
14 Stiff mass, esp. of bread
15 Most singular
17 Fruit of Cola acuminata
18 Look rudely
19 Hero of series of books
20 Abounding in ferns
21 Hums
25 Readjusted
29 Learning
32 Affection
33 Ancient weapons
35 Laborer
37 Prevent
38 Venomous serpent
39 Boundary
40 Thin
41 Yields
VERTICAL
1 Footless
2 Wound but not kill
3 Basket or trap for fish
4 Glowing
5 Unit of square measure
6 Trifler
7 Prick designs on skin
8 Coral island
10 Curl the lip
11 German town
14 Writes unskillfully
16 Keeper of an engagement
22 Openings
23 Pert. to Ireland
24 One who rents
26 Cuts out
27 Furnished with guard
28 All possible
30 Poplar
31 Gaze earnestly
34 Blood
36 German river