Puzzle No. 99
His Pride and Joy
For a second attempt (“My first you will never see,” says Mr. Goldberg) this is really quite a wonder. It is hard enough to confuse even you experts and yet all the words are 100 per cent American—or should be!
HORIZONTAL
1 A leopard
4 To bite, crunch
8 Appears
13 Trained
17 Sooner than
18 A small job
20 Encounters
22 Metal-bearing rock
23 To search to the bottom
24 Wholly engrossed
25 A fish of pike kind
27 To abound
28 Obligation
29 A short musket
31 Last king of ancient Troy
33 Personal chattel forfeited to the crown
35 First
36 One who makes a legal grant
38 Passageway
39 To undermine
40 A day laborer
41 The kingdom of Persia
42 Small artificial elevation
43 Support
46 Knick-knacks
48 Screens
51 Word of denial
52 Range of rocks under water
54 Tidy
56 You
57 A perforated block
59 Fragment
60 Pen for swine
62 To spill
64 Group
65 Characterizing ingredient of common clay
67 Precipitous
69 Heavy hide whip
71 Siestas
72 Pens for animals
73 Course
74 Ancient galley
77 To censure as faulty
78 Having two shells
81 Belonging to him
82 Coarse heavy friezes
84 Tumor
85 A division
86 Tropical climbing plant
87 Above
89 Implement
91 Strong taste
93 Note of scale
94 Reduce to a lower grade
97 Composed of states
100 Thoroughfare
103 Period preceding important event
104 A very small distance
105 Pieced out
106 Female bird
108 Short for well bred man
110 Helped
112 Broken coat of grain
114 Dreads
117 Chief minister of Ahasuerus (Bib.)
118 Advance
120 Three (prefix)
121 To gather
123 Genus homo
124 Floating ice
125 Neckwear
126 Design
127 Specific quality
129 Delays
130 Kindled
131 Cæsurea
132 Tent
133 Clownish fellows
134 Snakelike fish
VERTICAL
1 Fresh and salt water fish
2 An air sung by single voice
3 Quell
4 Melody
5 Expectancy
6 Skill
7 Personal pronoun
9 Part of “to be”
10 Soaked
11 Destitution
12 Macerate
14 Revolved
15 Ireland
16 Actions
18 Makes brittle
19 Worthless
21 Sleek
25 Admit
26 Proportion
30 Plait
31 Firm in resisting
32 Early part of day (pl.)
34 Gloomy
36 Fur-bearing animal
37 Grates
43 East Indian coin
44 Moving spirit
45 Change
47 Mediate
48 Cleanings
49 Observes narrowly
50 A son of Adam (Bib.)
53 Epoch
55 Same
58 N. African country
59 Young pigeon
60 Disseminate
61 Be eager
63 Establish
64 Miserably
66 Disfigure
67 Sward
68 A fold
70 Bleat
74 Dull sound
75 Mellow
76 Self
78 Anathema
79 Urn
80 Give vent to
83 Long seats
85 Fenced off
88 Wanderer
90 Scotch city
91 Captured
92 A cosmetic
95 Headaches
96 Purports
98 Revery
99 Military defense
101 Pangs
102 Dignify
107 Fragrant oil
109 Negotiate
111 So be it
112 Part of the face
113 Thrashes
115 Large lake
116 Preserve
118 Cabal
119 Work
122 Sharp sound
124 A disease
128 Concerning
129 It is well