Puzzle No. 86
Hey, There!
Dear Neophyte: Whaddaye mean by those two bare, indecently naked words, each with three unkeyed letters? An expert like you? However, you tried too hard to keep it down to the level of ordinary mankind and restrained yourself from so many outlandish words that you are addicted to—that, we believe, the puzzlers will forgive you.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Outlive
7 Look hard
9 Pert. to ships
12 Spoil
13 Metric cubic unit
14 Storehouse
15 Shelter
17 Bivalve
19 Condition
21 One
22 Parent
23 Twig, spray
24 Explode
25 Behold
27 Conjunction
28 Holy day
32 One who reads
36 Anger
37 Moves slowly
38 Come to fruition
40 Musical drama
42 Give pain
43 Enticed
44 Most profound
VERTICAL
2 Vessel
3 Come back
4 Part of foot
5 Vessel
6 Happening
7 Continue
8 Sailors
10 Surface
11 That not
14 Support
16 Canopies
18 American bird
20 Kind of sword
26 Fruit
27 American bird
29 Manners
30 Narrow opening
31 Lukewarm
33 Watchful
34 Defy
35 Euphemism for “By God”
39 Point of compass
41 Matter