SMALL BUT NEAT

By Joseph E. Austrian

Eight unkeyed letters, but on the whole a very good design. Excellent corner interlock.

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HORIZONTAL

1 European nation 6 Importance 11 Uncouth 12 Front 13 Reed instrument 14 Conjure 16 Textile material 18 Right for oxen 19 Musical instrument 21 Consumed 22 Debased coin 24 High priest of Israel 26 Fruit 28 Stupid person 30 The son of Seth 32 Softened bread 33 Violin with three strings 34 River flowing through Florence 36 Attempt 38 Military command 41 Expand 43 Pronoun 44 Make lace 46 Episcopal headdress 49 Rumor (French) 51 Temper 53 Inalienable inheritance 55 Variety of palm 56 Product of electrical decomposition 57 Bank 58 Mixes 59 First-born

VERTICAL

1 Formal and forbidding 2 Norse writing 3 Allude 4 Recent (prefix) 5 Always 6 Peruvian prince 7 Vessel 8 Secure 9 Source 10 Beliefs 15 Hill 17 Unit 20 Elastic fluid 23 Fabulist 25 Water of forgetfulness 27 Oxygen and nitrogen 28 Skillful 29 Empyrean 31 Unctuous liquid 34 Assault 35 Observe 37 Made of curled hair 39 Roofed street 40 Lavatory 42 Large bird 43 Female bird 45 Soon 47 Egyptian goddess 48 Where marriages are unmade 50 Costumes 52 Australian bird 54 Spread loosely

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