LITTLE BUT A BAD ’UN
Reading edition
By Frank C. White
Mr. White must be one of those mild-seeming people who fool you so often—at least that’s the impression his construction gives the editor. It is little. It looks harmless. But don’t start it if you have an appointment two hours hence. But maybe we shouldn’t give this away.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Original man of Horus 6 The first Jewish high priest 11 A genus of Am. plants 13 A member of the Creek Indian tribe 15 Metal for casting in pigs 17 A game played for stakes 18 A valley in N. W. Argolis 20 Sooner than 21 Track of a deer 23 One of a tribe of Algonquians 24 In the thing or individual 25 Permit (3rd per. sing.) (pl.) 27 A workman on shoes 29 Denoting the infinitive 30 An exclamation of surprise 31 Leisurely (obs.) 34 Any sirenian, esp. the rytina 37 A pliable strip of oxhide (So. Africa) 38 Contrary to good in a moral sense 40 A recess in the shore 41 Anything steeped in liquid 42 A wind (musical) instrument 44 A fairy queen 45 A genus of No. Am. herbs 47 A cloud 49 Reprinting and publishing of a work 50 Lamellirostral birds 51 Am. wild plums
VERTICAL
2 Tutor 3 A garden implement 4 Monitor lizard 5 Restores to existence 6 Invoke 7 An Eastern continent 8 To clothe in an odd manner 9 Mien 10 A town in Oklahoma 12 To insinuate contempt 14 Light repast 16 Absence of removal (rare) 19 Objective case of I 22 Natural kind or class, esp. of animals 24 Son of Abraham and Sarah (Bib.) 26 Sorrow 28 A beverage 31 Burning 32 Be present (obs. var.) 33 Long speech 34 Slope (3rd per. sing.) (pl.) 35 Common (obs. var.) 36 A German philosopher 39 Abbr. Life Guards 42 Compounds containing metal 43 An English mathematician 46 A word of command in driving animals 48 Hoot
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