By Ambrosian

This puzzle was used in the All Comers Contest, held at Wanamaker’s Auditorium in September. The time of the winner, W. F. Hunter of Sound Beach, Conn. was 6 minutes, 40⅕ seconds.

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HORIZONTAL

1 French coin 3 At a latter time 6 High mountain 8 Pole-star 11 Form of “to be” 13 Pedigrees 14 Prefix meaning two 15 Impersonal pronoun 17 Pen 18 Parent 19 Position-proud person 21 Island 23 Words parallel to this 24 Orient 25 Narrow groove 26 Negative 27 Part of anatomy 29 Mountain (abbr.) 30 Like 31 Girl’s name 33 Therefore 35 Spanish dances 37 Perceive 38 Fly 39 Possessive pronoun

VERTICAL

1 Large body of water 2 Ascent 3 Exclamation 4 Splits up into parties 5 Playing card 6 Like 7 Greek letter 9 Alternative 10 Exists 12 Pertaining to ancient Greek culture (plural) 14 Votes 16 Trunk 18 Religious song 19 Personal pronoun 20 Morsel 21 Possessive pronoun 22 Founded (abbr.) 27 Stop 28 Father (French) 30 Beast of burden 31 Exclamation 32 Behold 34 Used in boat 35 Exist 36 Therefore