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Puzzle No. 90

Cornered

Look at those corners, full, compact, ample, obese. A little bit loose on the sides, but admirable for corner construction. Most constructors would run the arms of the central cross out to the next to last letter.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Interchange of opinions

7 A set of steps leading over a wall or fence

11 A true copy of an original writing

18 Yearly

19 A unit

20 Discordant

21 Established

23 Large body of water

25 To make a circuit

26 A master

27 A slight sound

29 Taste

31 To abide

32 A shrub

34 Rent

35 To extract

36 A device for igniting an explosive charge

37 Son of Vulcan (Rom. myth)

39 A doglike animal

41 A stream

42 Clearer

43 To eject

45 Pertaining to understanding

47 Immense

48 A child

50 Jeweled headdress

51 Father

53 Staggered

55 Born

56 Admire (U. S. colloq.)

59 Needy

61 To burst forth

63 Withered (obs.)

65 Presage

67 To grate

68 Name of an automobile

69 An Indian

70 Disagreeable

71 A Roman highway

73 A fruit (pl.)

75 Horned toad

77 A festival

78 Ruins

80 A color

82 To delay

84 Laborer

85 Lift

87 Pertaining to ferns (pl.)

89 To percolate slowly

90 Part of the harness of a horse (pl.)

92 A Chinese wax

95 A place of worship

97 Artificially produced

98 Daughter of Uranus

100 A Greek letter

102 Tidy

103 A part of a shoe

104 Feminine proper name

106 Obsolete, timber

107 Catch (colloq.)

108 User of tobacco

110 A vegetable (pl.)

112 A prefix meaning limit (geom.)

113 Number of books printed at once

115 A tree

117 A large seal

119 To yield

120 Nothing

121 A fine

122 Moved away furtively

123 Cut of meat

124 Sophoclean hero

VERTICAL

1 A long outer garment

2 An Indian tribe

3 To loosen

4 A hard-shelled fruit

5 To season

6 Chosen

8 A small nail

9 A transparent solid

10 To run

12 A young hog

13 A large book

14 Hit

15 Obliteration

16 To rate

17 Assayers

22 A lateen-rigged vessel

23 An American spotted cat

24 A genus of gastropods

25 To harden

28 An element

30 Boys

33 To move heavily

36 A musical composition

38 A person in authority

40 Mock blow

41 Exhausts

42 Form assumed by certain insects

44 A recital

46 Girl’s name

47 Difficult

49 An area of ground (military)

51 Robbers

52 A part of an antenna

53 Dressed

54 Musical compositions for two performers

56 Farm

57 To lay in surrounding matter

58 Below

60 Away from

62 An American poet and story-writer

64 An age

66 To devour

72 To reiterate

73 To dismiss

74 To gaze

75 A goose

76 On top of

77 Useless adornments

79 A beverage

81 A mixture of gases

83 A plane surface

85 To recover

86 Ethylene

88 Flags

89 Not moving

90 Converse

91 A prefix meaning half

93 To ordain

94 Sea soldiers

96 Dull gray

97 A satellite

99 Biblical name

101 Obsolete, herald

103 Smite (past part.)

105 Not far

108 To subside

109 Rave

110 A jar or pot

111 Identical

114 Beverage

116 Filled pastry

118 The (French pl.)

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