Puzzle No. 56
Little but Neat
A pretty construction by an old-timer at the game. And don’t run away with the idea that its size has anything to do with ease of solution! Tackle it, and you’ll get what we mean.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Carouse
5 Question
7 Burdened
11 Part of “to be”
12 Beverage
13 Possessive pronoun
14 Perform
15 Guide
17 Total
19 Fossil gum
21 Wrath
22 Atrocious
25 Insect
26 Vision
28 Gloomy
30 Period of time
31 Come to fruition
33 Encountered
35 Requires
37 Fool
38 Attack
40 Part of “to be”
41 Precipitation
42 Weed
43 Negative
44 Struck an attitude
46 Speak
48 Town in Germany
50 Matter
53 High explosive
55 Having islands
58 Color again
61 Rodent
63 Seaport in Sicily
65 Period of time
67 Watchful
69 Mohammed’s adopted son
70 Subnormal person
72 Thus
73 Absorbing of gases
74 Preposition
75 Support
76 Observe
77 At no time
VERTICAL
1 Swift
2 Prince
3 Self
4 Graceful
6 Rotated rapidly
7 Legal document
8 Weapon
9 Paradise
10 Point of compass
16 Projection
17 Anthropoids
18 Shyness
20 Exposes
23 Organ
24 Vase
27 Reparation
29 Governmental act of pardon
30 Fabulist of note
32 Postscript
34 Belief
35 Bite
36 Mournful
38 Metallic rock
39 Unit of weight
45 Connected rooms
47 Conjunction
49 Grimace
51 State of U. S. (abbr.)
52 House animal
54 Clutch
56 Fasten
57 Clock faces
58 Elevate
59 Legendary character
60 House and land
62 Genus of plants
64 Thread
66 Repetition as a means of learning
68 Huge mythical bird
71 Single