MODERATION
Reading edition
By Porter R. Lee
Never too much of anything is the slogan of this constructor. He gives you a puzzle of moderate difficulty, but a set of easy words and then a terror hidden among them like a serpent in the grass. The puzzle runs its way at an even tenor, like an honest man’s life.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Snake 4 Rainy 9 Make hum by spinning 12 Russian money 13 Steep 14 Fat 15 Notable period 16 For instance 18 Toward 19 Mend 20 Confronted 22 Lariat 23 Speck 25 Pasturage 27 Impair 30 Public passages 32 Raves 35 Layer 36 Length of the forearm 39 Member of cat family 40 Country in N. America 41 Legendary king 42 Legal science 44 Cause of anything 45 Set again 47 Son of Odin 49 Something to follow 51 Secondary 53 A root 54 Sound 55 In such circumstances 57 Atop 59 You and I 60 Torn piece 62 Unripe 63 Ventilate 65 Product of digestion 66 Slippery fish 67 Bearing buds 68 Influenced
VERTICAL
1 Progeny of one stock 2 Pert. to us 3 Behind 4 Edible drupe 5 Ancient Biblical country 6 Afflict 7 That 8 Release 9 Cleansing agency 10 Conduct oneself toward 11 Cat 17 Prophet 18 Follows closely 21 Discontinue 22 Mistress of a household 24 Obscurity 26 Source of stability 28 Strong appetite 29 Topmost bone of spine 31 Kind of eclipse 32 Gypsy 33 Man’s nickname 34 Distress signal 36 Cage of an elevator 37 Hurtful 38 Strain 42 Hires 43 Fancy 45 Precipitation 46 Suppose 47 Color 48 Toothed wheel 49 Sharp-pointed instrument 50 Relative 51 Precious stone 52 Sharpened 56 Raw metal 58 Fade 61 Beverage 63 Exist 64 Egyptian god
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