Puzzle No. 100
A Hard Nut to Crack
Get out nutcracker, hammer, tongs and poker, for there are words in here that the English language doesn’t know it owns. J. T. D. is absolutely ruthless when it comes to cornering the odd and unusual word, and the unheard-of definition. This puzzle is included especially to show you to what lengths the innocent Cross Word can go when it tries.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Sanction
5 East Indian revenue collector
9 Reluctant
13 Miller’s-thumb (fish)
17 Pilfer
18 List
19 Largest known toad
20 Bird of thrush family
22 Large drinking cup
23 Drained
24 Persia
25 Pert. to the gums
27 Bow-like form
28 Knavish tricks
30 Coiling organ of climbing plant
32 Climbing shrub
33 Insoluble residue
35 Know or knows (obs.)
36 Boggy land
37 Asiatic country
38 Ancient Greek dialect
40 Aromatic medicinal leaves
44 Indefinite
47 Corner
48 Black
50 Presently
51 Early Teutonic land tenure
52 Drinking vessel
53 Provident
57 Piece of needlework
59 Located
63 In an unbalanced state
64 A charm (obs.)
66 French given name, male
67 Sward
68 Holly
69 East Indian cotton fabric
70 Precedence
72 Outfit
73 Small gastropod of gardens
74 East Indian plant used in making hats
75 Allowance in addition to tare
76 Sterile
78 Unqualified
80 Tiller
81 Pass swiftly
82 Islet
83 Pastry forms
87 Serving tray
90 Genus of orchids
93 Narrow opening
97 Presently (obs.)
98 A little while (Scot.)
99 Scar (obs.)
101 Part of type face projecting beyond the shank
102 Dark or purplish brown color
103 Pale brown color
104 Gibbon of the Malay peninsula
105 Tricky (slang)
107 Long inlet with diminishing depth
108 Presently
109 Ceremonial saddle horse
111 Wooded land
113 Inflate
115 Dandy
116 Spanish gypsy dance
117 Mohammedan cleric
119 Roumanian coin
120 Domain
123 Brush of twigs for sweeping
124 Pert. to the nostrils
126 Sound of metals struck together
130 Otherwise
131 Insane
132 Trifle
134 Inland sea, Asiatic Russia
135 Pluto
136 Venezuelan coin
140 Speak rapidly and indistinctly
144 Chemical suffix of a binary compound
145 Heavenly
147 European cedar producing medicinal oil
148 European bivalve used as food
149 Alarm bell
151 Biblical patriarch
152 Star in Pegasus constellation
153 Genus of the olives
154 Ethyl oxide
155 Perennial plant with a single wooded stem
156 Inhabitant of the Kurland peninsula
157 Small river duck
158 Check
VERTICAL
1 French hackney coach
2 Breed
3 Maple
4 Fling
5 Mayflower
6 Pigmentary nævus
7 Roman highway
8 Title of nobility
9 Immature pollack (Scot.)
10 Hideous being
11 Malayan for Sahib
12 Small number
13 Bear
14 Lounge
15 Subdivision of ancient Greek clan
16 Sarcastic
17 Untamed
21 Pert. to snow (obs.)
22 Balm (obs.)
26 Flat-headed inflorescence
29 Irregular lump
31 Arikara Indian
34 East Indian tree yielding a pungent oil
37 Torment
39 16th century clock in the form of a ship
41 Kind of lettuce
42 Venerable
43 Destroy a creation
44 Spiral architectural ornament
45 Addle (obs.)
46 Pikelike fish
47 Aught (obs.)
49 Fine silk net
52 Small gnat
53 Fling
54 Axillary
55 Part
56 Willingly
58 Food prepared from taro root
59 Bitter
60 Plant of lily family
61 Divulge
62 Test (slang)
65 Mechanical device to regulate flow
67 Dawdle (dial.)
71 Dig
73 Adhere
77 Rope to hoist a yard
79 Near (Scot.)
83 Furtive glance
84 South American Indian tribe
85 Earl (obs.)
86 Sniff
87 Food made from orchid tubers
88 At a distance
89 Redemption price
90 Enact
91 Plant of the iris family
92 Gastropod with spiral shell
93 Thin flexible blade
94 Crescent-shaped geometrical figure
95 Venerated image
96 Incline
100 Suffix denoting jurisdiction
105 Not concerted (mus.)
106 Enigma (obs.)
110 Gypsy
111 Genus of cattle
112 Attention
114 Dry (French)
116 Slender stalk
118 Violent wind of Southern France
120 Interpret (obs.)
121 Ignore
122 Agreement
123 Mine (Cornwall)
125 Small house
127 Sprung up
128 Time of greatest depression
129 Secluded narrow valley
131 Bale of raw silk
133 Become exhausted (colloq.)
136 Shade of blue
137 Web of a feather
138 Passage
139 Despoiled
140 Blemish
141 Whimper
142 Carbamide
143 Routine
146 Conjunction
150 Greek letter
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