Puzzle No. 87
Spot
The blacks strewn negligently over the form give it an informal look, different from those forms that are studiedly ornamental and almost forbidding in the courtly, mannered preciseness. However, Mr. Neckerman’s construction may make you knit your brows now and then.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Lampoon
6 Key
11 Unit of superficial measure
12 Parisian theater
13 Southern constellation
14 Watched
16 Beetle
18 Visitations
20 Christmas
22 Signal of distress
23 Think
25 Fragment
27 Flowers
28 Small dog
29 Remedied
31 Banked
34 Anglo-Saxon money of account
35 Sovereign
38 Sooner than
39 Change
42 Backward
44 One who escapes
46 Deviate
47 Decline
48 Oil seeds
49 Assistant foreman
50 At stated periods
VERTICAL
1 Silk cloth
2 Part of “to be”
3 Humane
4 Female deer
5 Scandinavian myths
6 Detriment
7 At one time
8 Foot of an insect
9 Fixed point of time
10 Madness
15 Enlarge
17 Branch of heraldry
19 Springs
21 To meet the eye
24 Cut
26 Retailer of small wares
27 Redistribution
29 Magnetic metal
30 Species of palm
32 Preserver
33 Earnestly
36 Inside
37 Fertile (poetic)
40 Tear
41 Green and white monkey
43 Jurisdiction of a bishop
45 Fish