A SPECKLED SPECIALTY
Reading edition
By Agnes Stewart
Though non-symmetrical, this pattern shapes itself to spell out a number of fascinating words. You chemists ought to know all your symbols by heart at the rate those useful two-letter combinations are being brought into the limelight by cross words.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Fret 4 Change 12 Period of time 15 Near 16 Open space 17 Wander 18 Thus 19 Gasoline 21 Correlative of either 23 Large American lizard 26 Air 27 Nobility of birth 30 Portends 31 Member of Sheik’s tribe 33 Sharp pointed instrument 34 Exceedingly 35 Etruscan title 37 Golf term 39 Tear down 40 Assistance 41 Contraction of “it is” 44 Musical instrument 46 Despatch 48 Vessel for heating liquids 50 Large island near Florida 51 Pointed ends 53 German for “I” 54 A sty 55 A Dravidian language 56 Old Testament (abbr.) 57 Coldly 59 Note of musical scale 61 Subject 63 A continent (abbr.) 64 Clothed 65 Maker of flour 68 Resonance 70 Lavish extreme fondness 71 Kind of puzzle 72 Biblical name 73 Toward 75 Landing place in India 77 Father 78 Thick soup 80 Promissory note (abbr.) 81 Fill 83 Toe (Scot.) 85 New Zealand bird 86 Carried 88 Low 89 Stable 90 West Indian indigo plant 92 Exhaust 93 Greek letter 94 Exclamation of disgust 96 Piece of wood 98 Atmosphere 99 Noddle (Eng. dial.) 101 Encircling 105 Burial place 107 Period of time 108 Characterized by absence of power 110 Fragrant flower 112 Piled 114 Waste time 116 Indefinite article 118 Rod 120 Heroine of Lohengrin 121 Seventh note of scale 122 Satellite 123 A spirometer 124 Fabulous bird
VERTICAL
1 Destiny 2 Old form of “do” (mus.) 3 Chimney post (Old Eng.) 4 Daughters of American Revolution 5 Strong metal 6 Miscreant 7 Note of musical scale 8 Denoting hesitation 9 Din 10 Enclosure 11 Large Australian bird 12 Regard with esteem 13 Ourselves 14 Plunders 19 Island in Bay of Alexandria 20 Snare 21 Genus of trees or shrubs, the true olives 22 Bolsheviks 24 In bed 25 The innermost shrine 28 Sleeping compartment 29 Slumber 32 Small loaf of bread (Scot.) 34 By way of 35 Railway engine 36 Border on 38 Disturb 40 In the year of (Lat.) 42 Sacred Egyptian bird 43 Amphibious lizard 45 Concluding speech 47 Mohammedan saber (var.) 49 Quadrangle 50 Sperm whale 52 To injure severely 55 Admission card 58 Plan 59 Impertinent 60 A seaweed 62 Skin (Fr.) 64 Symbol for cadmium 66 Within 67 Printer’s measure 69 Upon 74 Leave out 76 A western state 79 Straight piece of wood 80 Persian elf 82 To pale 84 Ingress 85 Mother 87 Capable of being tied 89 A dance (Fr.) 91 Biblical character with famous wife 94 Entreaty 95 Pacific island owned by U. S. 97 Precious metal 100 City in New York 101 Muddle 102 Upon 103 New Mexico (abbr.) 104 Triangular spade used in ditching 106 Opaque whitish fluid 107 Bivalve mollusk 108 Long space of time 109 Hurl 111 Smart 113 Very softly (mus.) 115 Sorrow (Scot.) 117 Negative 119 Prefix meaning well 120 Printer’s measure 121 Thus