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The Cross Word Puzzle Book: Second Series

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Puzzle No. 52

A Trial Bout

When four eleven-letter words meet each other at right angles, something is bound to happen. This only goes to show that Mr. Margolies of Brentano’s is one of our most confirmed addicts.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Groundwork

5 Exhausted

9 High explosive

10 Small seed

11 Tropical chestnut

12 First son

14 Exercisings of authority

17 A prophetic sign

18 Russian carnival

19 Melodies

20 Opposed to

23 Twirl

26 Refactory

29 Narrow street

30 Expression of hearty assent

32 Moved swiftly

33 A common toy

35 A passageway in a theater

36 Brief treatise

VERTICAL

1 Exist

2 A stick

3 Designed

4 Chief actor in a play

5 A humanitarian society (abbr.)

6 ppp. (pl.)

7 Narrative poems

8 Preposition

11 A Gypsy

13 Point

14 Become insane (two words)

15 Present time

16 Holy person

21 Nothing

22 Extinct rulers

24 Looks furtively

25 Small hotel

26 New Testament (abbr.)

27 A prayer

28 Fruit of certain palm trees

31 Exclamation

34 Near

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