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Puzzle No. 72

ROUND AND ROUND

By Persephone

The double round of blacks outlines four good corners and a center which, while bearing an unenviable five-spot, would have been virtually impossible of construction without it. The unkeyed letters should not cause any trouble.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Unremittingly 7 Teach 13 Smirch 14 Forth 16 By word of mouth 17 Examine thoroughly 19 Private instructor 21 Active being or quality 23 A writer’s style 24 Crafty 26 A tuberous root 28 A dull finish 29 Deposits 31 Commanded 34 Gambling game 35 Exist 36 Long, fixed bench 38 Wrath 39 Unclose 41 Accomplish 42 Ancient goddess, personifying night 43 Single performances 45 Pointed instrument 47 End 49 Animal 51 Appropriate 53 Terminal 55 Erases 56 Mean proportion 57 Augment 58 Fish without pelvic fins 60 The entire men 61 To move to deep reverence 63 Turf 65 Official garment of Jewish high priest 68 Said to be a wise bird 70 In the direction of 72 A distinctive doctrine or theory 74 Pole having a flat end 75 Personification of Truth in “Faerie Queen” 76 The man 77 Worshiped image 79 To speak to 82 Close 84 Dandy 85 Arid 86 Bronze or copper 88 Equipage 89 Angry 91 One chosen, or set apart 94 Worship 96 Fluid rock 98 Period 99 In the midst of 100 To bind with a bandage 101 Abode; habitation