Puzzle No. 96
Just for Two!
These two contributors send in Cross Words by the dozen, so you can imagine what splendid vocabularies they must have. This is one of their best, and it’s not an easy one, either.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Tatter
3 Dressed, as a stone
7 A color
11 Guided
13 State
14 Danger
15 Murmur
16 Jutting rock
18 Weird
20 Select set
22 Fortify
24 Jejune
25 Stranded
27 Single
28 Game at cards
29 Cone bearing tree
30 Scrutinize
32 Cereal grain
34 Craft
35 Mercenary
37 Mohammedan religion
39 Foxy
40 Winnow
41 Darns
43 Racing boat
45 Rhythm
49 Also
50 Six angled figure
53 Throw
54 Wander
56 Cad
57 Desire
58 Rake
59 Plunder
60 Squeeze
61 Planet
62 Silicate of magnesia
63 Note
65 Battering engine
67 Chinese coin
69 Voter
71 Earthwork
73 Newness
75 Invisible fluid
76 Dromedary
78 Meadow
79 Grain
82 Java pepper
84 Cleanser
86 Iniquity
88 Bark
89 Vassal
91 Exclude
92 Trick
93 Disturbance
94 Become acclivitous
97 Protrude
98 Roadhouse
99 Lance
101 Extreme
104 Sore
106 Bond
107 A relative
108 Wing-shaped
109 Edible tuber
110 Toughen
111 Hydrocarbon—radical
112 At a distance
VERTICAL
1 Groove
2 Torniquet
3 Compensation
4 Unit of measure
5 Pithy phrase
6 Ruminant
7 Stead
8 Sickness
9 Likely
10 Hint
11 Grassy plains
12 To fade
17 Scent
19 Precipitation
21 Poem
23 True
26 Bovine
28 Coniferous tree
29 Enclose
31 Earnest
33 Process of washing ores
35 Large wagon
36 Permit
37 A universal language
38 Amalgamate
40 Sailing vessel of the Mediterranean
42 Fop
44 Cotton fabric
46 Pertaining to the ear
47 Clown
48 Mistake
50 Not divine
51 Nepaul antelope
52 Charge
55 Tomfoolery
56 Vehicle
62 Heavy corded pile fabric
63 Large drinking bowl
64 Zzzzzzz
66 Grinder
68 Reclining
70 Neuralgia
71 Tap
72 Nib
74 Irritate
76 Mythical being, half man, half horse
77 Small lug
80 Doubtful story
81 Name of era
83 Foundation
85 Bluster
86 Hasten
87 Bit
90 Exist
95 Bird of prey
96 Whine
98 Evergreen vine
99 Kind of snow shoe
100 Write
102 Beam
103 Total
105 Tumor