A MILITARY SALUTE
Reading edition
By Sergeant
This one comes from West Point. Note the fine central backbones of long words. You will observe something interesting about these two. Incidentally, is there anything finer than the way difficulties dissolve once long words like these flash into your mind?
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HORIZONTAL
1 Pertaining to images 8 Concealed passengers 15 Blaze 16 Reptile 18 Ancestors 19 Continually 21 Earring 22 Arable land 23 Reward (Fr.) 24 Two (prefix) 25 God of thunder 27 More than enough 28 Evil 29 A color 30 Arabian shrub 31 Sacred symbol 33 Tendered 36 Official seat (leg.) 37 Sailing ship 39 Toward 40 Adjective suffix meaning “of” 41 Word of unknown meaning found in the Bible 42 Side bars of pair of spectacles 44 Support 46 Variety of pyroxene 48 Article 49 Fruits 51 Personal pronoun 52 Measure of weight 56 Peaceful 58 Weights 62 Paradoxical 63 Proportion 64 Crushed 65 Begin 67 Sun god 69 Ricochets 70 Conjunction 71 Pillars 76 Once (obs.) 77 Makes level (Engl. dial.) 81 South American armadillos 82 Exclamation 84 Live 85 Flag 86 The number of muses 87 Respiration 91 Japanese spirit gods 92 To beat (Scot.) 93 Vat 94 Knot 95 Branch 97 Thrice 98 Printing unit 99 Genus of shrubs 100 A large weight 101 Heap (obs.) 103 Egyptian deity 104 Kilns 105 Tavern 106 Hatred 108 Designating a crystalline acid 109 Machine run by mixture of gases
VERTICAL
1 Pertaining to the classification of facts 2 Whether 3 Ancient 4 Separate 5 Company 6 Accounts 7 Mohammedan ruler 8 Temporary cross timber used in shipbuilding 9 Large hawks 10 Telegraphed 11 Barren 12 Irritate (obs.) 13 Because 14 Seamstresses 17 Independence 20 Warble 24 Territory governed by a ban 26 Space 30 Prickly plant of the glasswort family 32 Hew 34 Hawaiian bird 35 Concerning 36 Fruit of India yielding a yellow dye 38 Stages 41 Protected 43 Measure of type 44 Share 45 A worsted yarn 47 Part of verb “to be” 49 Notches 50 Margins 53 Biblical character 54 Soak 55 The first name of a character in the “Arabian Nights” 56 The goddess of dawn 57 Chief (Sp.) 59 Age 60 Dexterity 61 Stain 63 Those who disavow 66 Breathe 68 Article 70 Mystic ejaculation used by Hindus 72 A narcotic 73 Alley 74 Accustom by practice (obs.) 75 Contemptuous irony 77 Member of a legislative body 78 A vessel 79 Handle of a joiner’s plane 80 Greek poet 83 Personal pronoun 84 Prefix denoting two 87 Enough! (It. interj.) 88 Garret 89 Reddish orange dye 90 Order 93 Trough used in smelting 96 Chief 99 Strike 102 Sow (Scot.) 104 Suffix meaning oil 107 A tone of the diatonic scale