By Minerva

Look at this with your eyes half closed and get the effect of rotary motion. Then try and solve it, and see if the rotary motion doesn’t transmit itself to your head. Plenty of short words, but not all of them easy, and the long ones—but go ahead!

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910111213
14 15 1617 18
19 2021 22 23 24
25 26 27 2829
30 31 3233 34
35 36 37 38 39 40
41 42 4344 45 46
47 48 49 50
51 52 53
54 55 56 57 58
59 60 61 6263 64
65 66 67 6869 70
71 72 73 74 75
7677 78 7980 81
82 8384 85 86
87 88 89 9091 92
93 94 95

[[88]]

HORIZONTAL

1 An ancient symbol 7 Fatigued 12 In case 14 Proceed 15 Coloring 17 New 19 Contained 21 Revolves 23 Slip away from 25 Suspended 27 A ship’s smallboat 29 School near Windsor Castle 30 Rodent 31 Enemies 33 Inhabitants of a country 35 Otherwise 36 Myself 37 At no time 39 Maiden changed by Hera into a heifer 40 Sloth 41 Discolors 44 Existed 45 Testify under oath 47 Asiatic country 49 Turf 50 Deity 51 Augment 52 Injured by a blow 53 Sea eagle 54 Owing 55 Color 56 Any plant of the amaryllis family 59 Severe trial 61 Pen 63 Excrements 65 Sun god 66 Belonging to me 67 Ridiculed 69 One 70 Affirmative 71 Preposterous 73 To scorch 75 A long strip of wood used for gliding over snow 76 Small British isle where Macbeth was buried 78 Common laborer in bondage for debt 80 Stiffly formal 82 Beginning; first attempt 84 Get up 86 A fratricide 87 Distorts; pulls obliquely 89 Inter 91 Chief Babylonian deity 93 Toward 94 Precipitous 95 A king of Thebes, son of Œdipus

VERTICAL

1 Thus 2 Deputy 3 Disposed of for a consideration 4 The thing 5 Young domestic animal 6 Assyrian god of Chaos 8 Reply 9 Accomplish 10 Made from a rib 11 Promote; cause to grow 13 Maddened 16 Attempt 18 Recent 19 Center 20 Protect; fight for 22 Backs of the necks 24 Accomplish 25 Unmetrical literary composition 26 Not any 28 Behold 32 Stitch 34 Party-colored 36 Intellect 38 Diversity 40 Soon 42 Assisted 43 Prophetess 45 Artful device to evade or cheat 46 Fearsome giants 48 Exist 49 Large body of water 51 Invisible emanation 53 Equal 54 Sleeping 55 Periods of time 57 A mushroom 58 Mohammedan title of courtesy 60 Engages in any affair or business 61 Perspiration 62 Aye 64 Seized 67 Animal fat 68 Abandon 71 Small insects 72 Above 74 In, on, near or by 75 Quiet 77 Over and in contact with 79 Point 81 Secular 83 Still 85 Plead 88 Ourselves 90 You 92 Exists