Puzzle No. 100

A HARD NUT TO CRACK

By J. T. D.

Get out nutcracker, hammer, tongs and poker, for there are words in here that the English language doesn’t know it owns. J. T. D. is absolutely ruthless when it comes to cornering the odd and unusual word, and the unheard-of definition. This puzzle is included especially to show you to what lengths the innocent Cross Word can go when it tries.

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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
103 104 105 106107 108
109 110 111 112113 114
115 116 117 118119
120121122 123 124 125126 127128129
130 131 132 133134
135 136 137138139140141142 143144
145 146 147 148 149 150
151 152 153 154
155 156 157 158

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HORIZONTAL

1 Sanction 5 East Indian revenue collector 9 Reluctant 13 Miller’s-thumb (fish) 17 Pilfer 18 List 19 Largest known toad 20 Bird of thrush family 22 Large drinking cup 23 Drained 24 Persia 25 Pert. to the gums 27 Bow-like form 28 Knavish tricks 30 Coiling organ of climbing plant 32 Climbing shrub 33 Insoluble residue 35 Know or knows (obs.) 36 Boggy land 37 Asiatic country 38 Ancient Greek dialect 40 Aromatic medicinal leaves 44 Indefinite 47 Corner 48 Black 50 Presently 51 Early Teutonic land tenure 52 Drinking vessel 53 Provident 57 Piece of needlework 59 Located 63 In an unbalanced state 64 A charm (obs.) 66 French given name, male 67 Sward 68 Holly 69 East Indian cotton fabric 70 Precedence 72 Outfit 73 Small gastropod of gardens 74 East Indian plant used in making hats 75 Allowance in addition to tare 76 Sterile 78 Unqualified 80 Tiller 81 Pass swiftly 82 Islet 83 Pastry forms 87 Serving tray 90 Genus of orchids 93 Narrow opening 97 Presently (obs.) 98 A little while (Scot.) 99 Scar (obs.) 101 Part of type face projecting beyond the shank 102 Dark or purplish brown color 103 Pale brown color 104 Gibbon of the Malay peninsula 105 Tricky (slang) 107 Long inlet with diminishing depth 108 Presently 109 Ceremonial saddle horse 111 Wooded land 113 Inflate 115 Dandy 116 Spanish gypsy dance 117 Mohammedan cleric 119 Roumanian coin 120 Domain 123 Brush of twigs for sweeping 124 Pert. to the nostrils 126 Sound of metals struck together 130 Otherwise 131 Insane 132 Trifle 134 Inland sea, Asiatic Russia 135 Pluto 136 Venezuelan coin 140 Speak rapidly and indistinctly 144 Chemical suffix of a binary compound 145 Heavenly 147 European cedar producing medicinal oil 148 European bivalve used as food 149 Alarm bell 151 Biblical patriarch 152 Star in Pegasus constellation 153 Genus of the olives 154 Ethyl oxide 155 Perennial plant with a single wooded stem 156 Inhabitant of the Kurland peninsula 157 Small river duck 158 Check