Puzzle No. 88
Centrifugal
Look at this with your eyes half closed and get the effect of rotary motion. Then try and solve it, and see if the rotary motion doesn’t transmit itself to your head. Plenty of short words, but not all of them easy, and the long ones—but go ahead!
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HORIZONTAL
1 An ancient symbol
7 Fatigued
12 In case
14 Proceed
15 Coloring
17 New
19 Contained
21 Revolves
23 Slip away from
25 Suspended
27 A ship’s smallboat
29 School near Windsor Castle
30 Rodent
31 Enemies
33 Inhabitants of a country
35 Otherwise
36 Myself
37 At no time
39 Maiden changed by Hera into a heifer
40 Sloth
41 Discolors
44 Existed
45 Testify under oath
47 Asiatic country
49 Turf
50 Deity
51 Augment
52 Injured by a blow
53 Sea eagle
54 Owing
55 Color
56 Any plant of the amaryllis family
59 Severe trial
61 Pen
63 Excrements
65 Sun god
66 Belonging to me
67 Ridiculed
69 One
70 Affirmative
71 Preposterous
73 To scorch
75 A long strip of wood used for gliding over snow
76 Small British isle where Macbeth was buried
78 Common laborer in bondage for debt
80 Stiffly formal
82 Beginning; first attempt
84 Get up
86 A fratricide
87 Distorts; pulls obliquely
89 Inter
91 Chief Babylonian deity
93 Toward
94 Precipitous
95 A king of Thebes, son of Œdipus
VERTICAL
1 Thus
2 Deputy
3 Disposed of for a consideration
4 The thing
5 Young domestic animal
6 Assyrian god of Chaos
8 Reply
9 Accomplish
10 Made from a rib
11 Promote; cause to grow
13 Maddened
16 Attempt
18 Recent
19 Center
20 Protect; fight for
22 Backs of the necks
24 Accomplish
25 Unmetrical literary composition
26 Not any
28 Behold
32 Stitch
34 Party-colored
36 Intellect
38 Diversity
40 Soon
42 Assisted
43 Prophetess
45 Artful device to evade or cheat
46 Fearsome giants
48 Exist
49 Large body of water
51 Invisible emanation
53 Equal
54 Sleeping
55 Periods of time
57 A mushroom
58 Mohammedan title of courtesy
60 Engages in any affair or business
61 Perspiration
62 Aye
64 Seized
67 Animal fat
68 Abandon
71 Small insects
72 Above
74 In, on, near or by
75 Quiet
77 Over and in contact with
79 Point
81 Secular
83 Still
85 Plead
88 Ourselves
90 You
92 Exists