CORNERED
Reading edition
By T. J. Stephens
Look at those corners, full, compact, ample, obese. A little bit loose on the sides, but admirable for corner construction. Most constructors would run the arms of the central cross out to the next to last letter.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Interchange of opinions 7 A set of steps leading over a wall or fence 11 A true copy of an original writing 18 Yearly 19 A unit 20 Discordant 21 Established 23 Large body of water 25 To make a circuit 26 A master 27 A slight sound 29 Taste 31 To abide 32 A shrub 34 Rent 35 To extract 36 A device for igniting an explosive charge 37 Son of Vulcan (Rom. myth) 39 A doglike animal 41 A stream 42 Clearer 43 To eject 45 Pertaining to understanding 47 Immense 48 A child 50 Jeweled headdress 51 Father 53 Staggered 55 Born 56 Admire (U. S. colloq.) 59 Needy 61 To burst forth 63 Withered (obs.) 65 Presage 67 To grate 68 Name of an automobile 69 An Indian 70 Disagreeable 71 A Roman highway 73 A fruit (pl.) 75 Horned toad 77 A festival 78 Ruins 80 A color 82 To delay 84 Laborer 85 Lift 87 Pertaining to ferns (pl.) 89 To percolate slowly 90 Part of the harness of a horse (pl.) 92 A Chinese wax 95 A place of worship 97 Artificially produced 98 Daughter of Uranus 100 A Greek letter 102 Tidy 103 A part of a shoe 104 Feminine proper name 106 Obsolete, timber 107 Catch (colloq.) 108 User of tobacco 110 A vegetable (pl.) 112 A prefix meaning limit (geom.) 113 Number of books printed at once 115 A tree 117 A large seal 119 To yield 120 Nothing 121 A fine 122 Moved away furtively 123 Cut of meat 124 Sophoclean hero
VERTICAL
1 A long outer garment 2 An Indian tribe 3 To loosen 4 A hard-shelled fruit 5 To season 6 Chosen 8 A small nail 9 A transparent solid 10 To run 12 A young hog 13 A large book 14 Hit 15 Obliteration 16 To rate 17 Assayers 22 A lateen-rigged vessel 23 An American spotted cat 24 A genus of gastropods 25 To harden 28 An element 30 Boys 33 To move heavily 36 A musical composition 38 A person in authority 40 Mock blow 41 Exhausts 42 Form assumed by certain insects 44 A recital 46 Girl’s name 47 Difficult 49 An area of ground (military) 51 Robbers 52 A part of an antenna 53 Dressed 54 Musical compositions for two performers 56 Farm 57 To lay in surrounding matter 58 Below 60 Away from 62 An American poet and story-writer 64 An age 66 To devour 72 To reiterate 73 To dismiss 74 To gaze 75 A goose 76 On top of 77 Useless adornments 79 A beverage 81 A mixture of gases 83 A plane surface 85 To recover 86 Ethylene 88 Flags 89 Not moving 90 Converse 91 A prefix meaning half 93 To ordain 94 Sea soldiers 96 Dull gray 97 A satellite 99 Biblical name 101 Obsolete, herald 103 Smite (past part.) 105 Not far 108 To subside 109 Rave 110 A jar or pot 111 Identical 114 Beverage 116 Filled pastry 118 The (French pl.)
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