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Puzzle No. 87

SPOT

By Irvan Neckerman

The blacks strewn negligently over the form give it an informal look, different from those forms that are studiedly ornamental and almost forbidding in the courtly, mannered preciseness. However, Mr. Neckerman’s construction may make you knit your brows now and then.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Lampoon 6 Key 11 Unit of superficial measure 12 Parisian theater 13 Southern constellation 14 Watched 16 Beetle 18 Visitations 20 Christmas 22 Signal of distress 23 Think 25 Fragment 27 Flowers 28 Small dog 29 Remedied 31 Banked 34 Anglo-Saxon money of account 35 Sovereign 38 Sooner than 39 Change 42 Backward 44 One who escapes 46 Deviate 47 Decline 48 Oil seeds 49 Assistant foreman 50 At stated periods