By Alfred A. Wicklund

Conscience compels the editors to warn the solver of several troublous words lying unobtrusively among a collection of pleasant and easily diverting ones. But that is the delight of cross word puzzling. The solver likes a little pain mixed with his pleasure.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Market 5 Anything sour 8 Iron or wooden post 12 Farewell 13 One or any 14 Western sport 15 Tax 16 Small insects 17 Usage 18 Mohammedan devil 20 In accordance with 21 Brute 22 A register 27 An occupation 30 Part of dynamos 33 Form of affection 36 Higher knowledge 37 To slip away 38 Sign for giving notice 42 Repeated 45 Intoxicated 47 About 48 Entice 51 A salutation 52 One 53 Hollow tube 54 Extents 55 Proceed 56 Base of a statue 57 Zealous 58 Determined 59 Be full

VERTICAL

1 An equal 2 Mexican brick 3 Small stream 4 Denoting the final end 6 Easy gallop 7 To recite in monotone 8 An arbor 9 Belief 10 Irritate 11 In law any damage 19 Vestry 21 A watch case 23 A young girl (Scotch) 24 Frustrate 25 Therefore 26 Cease 28 Dry by rubbing 29 Emitted blood 31 Upon 32 A bone (Latin) 34 Note of the scale (mus.) 35 A Roman weight 39 A farm 40 Realm 41 A crown 42 Mohammedan religion 43 Warehouse 44 A fruit 45 To melt 46 A wharf 49 Rodents 50 Be full