Puzzle No. 95
Moderation
Never too much of anything is the slogan of this constructor. He gives you a puzzle of moderate difficulty, but a set of easy words and then a terror hidden among them like a serpent in the grass. The puzzle runs its way at an even tenor, like an honest man’s life.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Snake
4 Rainy
9 Make hum by spinning
12 Russian money
13 Steep
14 Fat
15 Notable period
16 For instance
18 Toward
19 Mend
20 Confronted
22 Lariat
23 Speck
25 Pasturage
27 Impair
30 Public passages
32 Raves
35 Layer
36 Length of the forearm
39 Member of cat family
40 Country in N. America
41 Legendary king
42 Legal science
44 Cause of anything
45 Set again
47 Son of Odin
49 Something to follow
51 Secondary
53 A root
54 Sound
55 In such circumstances
57 Atop
59 You and I
60 Torn piece
62 Unripe
63 Ventilate
65 Product of digestion
66 Slippery fish
67 Bearing buds
68 Influenced
VERTICAL
1 Progeny of one stock
2 Pert. to us
3 Behind
4 Edible drupe
5 Ancient Biblical country
6 Afflict
7 That
8 Release
9 Cleansing agency
10 Conduct oneself toward
11 Cat
17 Prophet
18 Follows closely
21 Discontinue
22 Mistress of a household
24 Obscurity
26 Source of stability
28 Strong appetite
29 Topmost bone of spine
31 Kind of eclipse
32 Gypsy
33 Man’s nickname
34 Distress signal
36 Cage of an elevator
37 Hurtful
38 Strain
42 Hires
43 Fancy
45 Precipitation
46 Suppose
47 Color
48 Toothed wheel
49 Sharp-pointed instrument
50 Relative
51 Precious stone
52 Sharpened
56 Raw metal
58 Fade
61 Beverage
63 Exist
64 Egyptian god