LADIES FIRST
Reading edition
By Albert Buran
Here is the puzzle that Mrs. Ruth von Phul did in four minutes and twenty seconds, thereby winning the Ladies’ Championship, at the tournament held in Wanamaker’s Auditorium in September. See if you can clip a second off that record.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Boat hoisting contrivance 5 Prosecuting judicially 9 A pronoun 10 Pertaining to the nose 12 A conjunction 13 A thin oval board used by an artist 15 A pasture 17 The first flapper 18 A color 20 A brownish red stone 22 Mentally sound 23 Savant 24 Notice 25 Saucy 27 Completely 28 Social beginner (slang) 30 A cereal grass 31 Shelters 34 An expression of inquiry 36 A parent’s sister 37 Bone 38 Kingdom 39 To give out
VERTICAL
1 Face of a timepiece (pl.) 2 Near 3 A feminine suffix 4 Narrative 5 Glut 6 Ultimo (abbr.) 7 A negation 8 To class or sort 11 XVII 13 Packages 14 Obliterators 16 A wooden frame 19 A vestibule 21 Achieved 22 A slight taste 24 A personal enemy 26 Rigid 28 Sound rhythmically 29 Stupid (Fr.) 32 Presidential nickname 33 Goddess of night (myth.) 35 A pronoun 37 An alleged force