A BLACK BEAUTY
Reading edition
By P. B. Geotsch
Anyone who geotsch this one is good. This one shows how hard it is to solve a puzzle with many unkeyed letters.
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HORIZONTAL
1 To become insolvent 4 A long-legged bird 6 Presage 9 A bruise 11 Not working 13 What 15 Cautious 17 In bed 18 Mother 19 To lick up 21 To waste away 23 A sticky substance 24 To silence 25 Encircled 27 Since 28 Beast of burden 29 Article 30 Exclamation 32 Guided 34 Liquid juice of plants 36 Assent 38 Everything 40 To grasp 41 Clamp 42 Also 43 First woman 45 A drink 47 Organ of body 49 Dissent 51 Exist 52 A beam 54 To fall behind 55 To squander 58 A tree 59 Viper 61 An automobile 63 A card 65 Preposition 66 A distance 68 Ireland 71 Exclamation 72 A step 73 Measure of time 75 Remunerated 76 To rub off 77 A vegetable
VERTICAL
1 Combustible material 2 Part of “to be” 3 Vulgar 4 She 5 Point of a pen 6 Aged 7 Myself 8 Close to 10 A rodent 12 Cave 14 Very old women 16 To make a mistake 17 Eaten 18 Female horse 20 To go ahead 22 To do as asked 23 To ring a bell 25 Upon 26 Perform 28 To astonish 29 A covering on an automobile 31 Speed 33 A person who dresses fastidiously 35 Past 36 An animal 37 After day 39 Sheltered side 42 To snare 44 An urn-like vessel 46 Song 48 Too 50 Exclamation of pain 51 To exist 53 Coy 56 Part of “to be” 57 A digit 59 Above 60 Sound made by a clock 62 A neck ornament 64 To gain by toil 66 Insane 67 Sheltered side 69 A liquor 70 To catch 72 3.141592 74 Backwards
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