Puzzle No. 91
That Exclusive Linoleum Pattern
Mr. Koch wandered into the kitchen after a doughnut, and saw black and white squares all over the floor. “Aha,” thought he, “like a flash, an idea!” This is it.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Grammatical figure
6 Interchange
11 A negative vote
12 First cause
14 A tetrasyllabic foot
16 The two-toed sloth
18 Fragments
20 Collection of animals
21 To charge with gas
23 Astronomical measuring instrument
25 Bull’s-eyes at archery
27 Compounds having the same composition
29 Spiteful woman
31 Separation of compound words
33 Ornamental border
34 To eject legally
36 Displace
38 The Roman libra
39 A kind of indehiscent fruit
41 Concerning
43 Indefinite nominative
44 Petitioner at law
46 A color
48 River in Germany
50 A second perusal
52 Rather than
53 The rear
55 Layers
57 Coins minted under Charles I
59 Tripod
61 Prefix; the same
63 Scourge
65 A field of granular snow
66 A bid at bridge
68 An evening party
70 Gold color
71 The goober
72 A cognomen
VERTICAL
1 Encircle
2 Ordinary
3 Wend
4 Collection of interesting objects
5 Geometric figure
6 Tolerate
7 Rebels
8 Preposition
9 A soluble ferment
10 River
11 A delicate gradation
13 Lacrosse racket
15 Solicits
17 Frigid
19 Place of detention
22 Falter
24 Aftermaths
26 Cylindrical
28 A click beetle
30 Incarnation
32 Turkish hospice
35 St. Vitus’s dance
37 Month of the Jewish year
40 Strait
42 A grooved wheel
43 A source of synthetic indigo
45 Shakespearean character; a duke
47 Sexless
49 Scene of Napoleon’s defeat of the Austrians, 1796
51 A blood vessel
54 Penal crime
56 Ringworm
58 Inclination
60 Cry of bacchanals
62 Sip
64 Tomcat
67 Note of diatonic scale
69 Printer’s measure