Puzzle No. 55
A Spotted Specter
In spite of an abbreviation here and there, this puzzle is one which is high in its rating. There aren’t so many difficult words in it; but the few that do exist will keep you searching, or we miss our guess.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Consumptive
7 Part of a whole
12 Wings
13 Carrion
14 Member of Japanese race
15 A fragmentary thing
17 Disciple
20 Eastern state
21 Flying insect
23 Small bottle
24 Note of the scale
25 Three-toed sloth
27 Anchor
28 For example
30 Nobleman
32 Girl’s name
33 Body of water
34 Matron
36 Noble
38 Before
40 Small mug
42 Girdle
44 To catch sight of
45 Unite
46 One holding extreme opinions
47 Epoch
48 Part of a hammer
50 Coarse
53 Snugly
55 Mineral spring
57 Required
60 Soon
61 And so forth
63 Human being
65 Anxiety
66 Exist
67 Treat as a celebrity
68 Southern state
69 Like
71 Small aperture
72 Mild expletive
74 Post graduate (abbr.)
75 Short poems
79 Character in “Arabian Nights”
82 Booty
83 Bird
84 Inland body of water
85 Ensnare
86 Compartment
VERTICAL
1 Pilgrimage to Mecca
2 Old age
3 Part of machinery
4 To be prolific
5 Fibrous substance
6 Astern
7 Heroine of famous poem
8 Prison
9 Belonging to him
10 Explosive
11 Part of boat
15 Attack
16 Wanderers
18 Heathens
19 Consumed
22 Whetstone
23 Official endorsement
25 Dexterity
26 Evils
28 Sharp
29 Joke
31 Accessory of a plane
35 Mixer
37 A stand
39 To fee again
41 To suppose
43 Barbarian
44 Organ of the body
48 To languish
49 Small hole
51 To heat to fix colors
52 To retch
53 Flat basket
54 Sough
55 Scotchman
56 In the midst of
58 The time of light
59 To vouchsafe
62 Metallic material
64 The angel of death
70 Single
71 Interdiction
73 Magnesium silicate
74 Breakwater
76 Not (prefix)
77 Negative particle
78 Past
80 Transport by relays of men and horses
81 College fraternity