WEARY WILLIE
Reading edition
By Margaret Wade
If the constructor felt like Weary Willie after filling in this criss-cross pattern, which has only twelve unkeyed letters, there are bound to be a lot of W. W.’s among those who try to solve it.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Constructors 6 Quarrels 12 Nautical 13 Crescent shaped 15 The actinia 17 Near the middle 18 Trespass 19 Principal commodities in a market 21 Conjunction 22 Track of a deer 24 Stopped 25 Moulding 26 Alleviated 28 Secret watcher 29 Waste matter 30 Girl’s name 32 Vegetable 33 Undivided whole 34 Examine minutely 36 Departs 38 Apron for vehicle 41 Loudly 43 Equal value 45 Mistake 47 Melts (Scot.) 48 Kind of acid 50 Dry 51 Finis 52 Former gold coin of Europe 54 Author of “Fables in Slang” 55 Vain person 57 Moslem enemy of Christendom 59 Remains 60 Country houses 61 To steal workers’ tools 62 Small portion of food (Univ. Eng.)
VERTICAL
1 Capital of Philippine Islands 2 Gritty 3 Book by Kipling 4 Biblical character, son of Seth 5 Hires 7 Var. of clead, to clothe (dial. Eng.) 8 Hastens 9 Insect 10 Model 11 Stones (Scot.) 12 Assembles 14 First in origin 16 Devours 17 To surfeit 20 Bishop of Rome 23 Subtile 25 Speakers 27 Ate 29 An author 31 The infernal regions 32 Kind of napkin 35 Move rapidly 36 Kind of boat 37 Vehicle 39 Molasses 40 To trim feathers 42 Hesitate 43 Support 44 Rivers (Span.) 46 Severe trial 48 Snake borne as a charge (Fr. Her.) 49 Part of brain 52 Early inhabitant of Scotland 53 Part of “esse” (Lat.) 56 Small singing bird 58 Higher part of scale