WAFFLED WORDS
Reading edition
By Mrs. Eric Crull
Some people mumble their words, but what is more appropriate than this waffling of Mrs. Crull’s? This is medium well done—by which we refer not to quality, but to difficulty. Try it when the simple ones seem too easy and the difficult ones too tough.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Ancient burial place 8 Dormant 15 Metallic rocks 16 Instrument 18 Vegetable 19 Medicinal herb 20 Low 21 Plateau 23 Design 24 Shake 25 Wager 26 Salutation 27 Lair 29 Rider Haggard’s heroine 30 Body organ 31 To add to 33 Small point 35 To rule 38 Stigmatized 40 Mythological queen 43 Hence 44 Pony of India 45 To bite lightly 47 To chastise 48 Clamor 49 Performed 50 A numeral 52 To tangle 54 Compete 55 A tribal symbol 57 A large bird 59 Adventitious sounds (med.) 61 Finery 62 Beyond 63 Girl’s name 64 A measure 66 Boisterous 68 A color 69 Attempt 71 Transgression 72 Piece of connecting pipe 73 Little Eva’s friend 75 A cereal 77 Placed 79 Of equal value 80 Legend 81 Contiguous (poet.) 83 Of greater density 86 Drunkard 87 Sailor 89 Not the same 90 Moisture 91 Pronoun 94 Weight 96 Pitch 97 A metal 98 Denoting three 100 Field 102 Scriptural animals 105 Fold 106 Heroine of a Wagnerian opera 107 Always 108 Cozy spot 109 A girl’s name 110 One who slows up 111 A kind of acid
VERTICAL
1 Summoned 2 A space 3 Lacerate 4 Cleopatra’s finish 5 An amphibious mammal 6 Ditch or trench 7 Popular style of hairdressing 8 Salt water 9 Earth 10 Done with 11 Soft food 12 Troubles 13 Biblical character 14 Produce 17 South American animal 18 Mix 22 Dusk 25 Bar 28 Immediately 30 Self 31 Skill 32 Retreat 34 Shoe latchet 36 Latin verb (form of “to be”) 37 A great menace 38 Evil 39 Not bright 41 Perpetual motion (compound word) 42 Raised platform 44 Used in building 46 Associate 49 Relating to debts 50 A green spot 51 Fairylike 53 A beautiful lake 56 One of Dickens’s characters 57 Finish 58 Consume calories 60 Hawaiian decoration 63 Name of a street 65 Kind of cloth 67 Long ago 68 Change 70 Still 72 A black substance 74 Name of a boat (historical) 76 Corrode 78 Also 79 Through 80 Depressed 82 A rodent 84 Extreme 85 A bird 86 A number 88 Dressed 90 Flat plates 92 Robust 93 Once 95 Glacier ice 97 Thunder 98 Relate 99 Branches 101 Common European gull 103 Possessive pronoun 104 Also 105 Chemical base