THAT EXCLUSIVE LINOLEUM PATTERN
Reading edition
By Wilmer H. Koch
Mr. Koch wandered into the kitchen after a doughnut, and saw black and white squares all over the floor. “Aha,” thought he, “like a flash, an idea!” This is it.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Grammatical figure 6 Interchange 11 A negative vote 12 First cause 14 A tetrasyllabic foot 16 The two-toed sloth 18 Fragments 20 Collection of animals 21 To charge with gas 23 Astronomical measuring instrument 25 Bull’s-eyes at archery 27 Compounds having the same composition 29 Spiteful woman 31 Separation of compound words 33 Ornamental border 34 To eject legally 36 Displace 38 The Roman libra 39 A kind of indehiscent fruit 41 Concerning 43 Indefinite nominative 44 Petitioner at law 46 A color 48 River in Germany 50 A second perusal 52 Rather than 53 The rear 55 Layers 57 Coins minted under Charles I 59 Tripod 61 Prefix; the same 63 Scourge 65 A field of granular snow 66 A bid at bridge 68 An evening party 70 Gold color 71 The goober 72 A cognomen
VERTICAL
1 Encircle 2 Ordinary 3 Wend 4 Collection of interesting objects 5 Geometric figure 6 Tolerate 7 Rebels 8 Preposition 9 A soluble ferment 10 River 11 A delicate gradation 13 Lacrosse racket 15 Solicits 17 Frigid 19 Place of detention 22 Falter 24 Aftermaths 26 Cylindrical 28 A click beetle 30 Incarnation 32 Turkish hospice 35 St. Vitus’s dance 37 Month of the Jewish year 40 Strait 42 A grooved wheel 43 A source of synthetic indigo 45 Shakespearean character; a duke 47 Sexless 49 Scene of Napoleon’s defeat of the Austrians, 1796 51 A blood vessel 54 Penal crime 56 Ringworm 58 Inclination 60 Cry of bacchanals 62 Sip 64 Tomcat 67 Note of diatonic scale 69 Printer’s measure
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