Puzzle No. 90

CORNERED

By T. J. Stephens

Look at those corners, full, compact, ample, obese. A little bit loose on the sides, but admirable for corner construction. Most constructors would run the arms of the central cross out to the next to last letter.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31
32 33 34 35 36
37 38 39 40 41 42
43 44 45 46 47
48 49 50 51
52 53 54 55 56 57 58
59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66
67 68 69 70
71 72 73 74 75 76 77
78 79 80 81 82 83
84 85 86 87
88 89 90 91 92 93 94
95 96 97 98 99100 101
102 103 104 105106
107 108 109110 111112
113 114 115 116 117 118
119 120 121
122 123 124

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HORIZONTAL

1 Interchange of opinions 7 A set of steps leading over a wall or fence 11 A true copy of an original writing 18 Yearly 19 A unit 20 Discordant 21 Established 23 Large body of water 25 To make a circuit 26 A master 27 A slight sound 29 Taste 31 To abide 32 A shrub 34 Rent 35 To extract 36 A device for igniting an explosive charge 37 Son of Vulcan (Rom. myth) 39 A doglike animal 41 A stream 42 Clearer 43 To eject 45 Pertaining to understanding 47 Immense 48 A child 50 Jeweled headdress 51 Father 53 Staggered 55 Born 56 Admire (U. S. colloq.) 59 Needy 61 To burst forth 63 Withered (obs.) 65 Presage 67 To grate 68 Name of an automobile 69 An Indian 70 Disagreeable 71 A Roman highway 73 A fruit (pl.) 75 Horned toad 77 A festival 78 Ruins 80 A color 82 To delay 84 Laborer 85 Lift 87 Pertaining to ferns (pl.) 89 To percolate slowly 90 Part of the harness of a horse (pl.) 92 A Chinese wax 95 A place of worship 97 Artificially produced 98 Daughter of Uranus 100 A Greek letter 102 Tidy 103 A part of a shoe 104 Feminine proper name 106 Obsolete, timber 107 Catch (colloq.) 108 User of tobacco 110 A vegetable (pl.) 112 A prefix meaning limit (geom.) 113 Number of books printed at once 115 A tree 117 A large seal 119 To yield 120 Nothing 121 A fine 122 Moved away furtively 123 Cut of meat 124 Sophoclean hero