A SPOTTED SPECTER
Reading edition
By J. T. Rich
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
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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
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