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Puzzle No. 140

WEARY WILLIE

By Margaret Wade

If the constructor felt like Weary Willie after filling in this criss-cross pattern, which has only twelve unkeyed letters, there are bound to be a lot of W. W.’s among those who try to solve it.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 91011
12 13 14
15 1617
18 19 20 21
22 2324 25
26 2728 29
30 31 32
33 34
3536 3738 3940
4142 43 4445 46
47 48 4950
51 52 5354
55 56 57 58
59 60
61 62

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HORIZONTAL

1 Constructors 6 Quarrels 12 Nautical 13 Crescent shaped 15 The actinia 17 Near the middle 18 Trespass 19 Principal commodities in a market 21 Conjunction 22 Track of a deer 24 Stopped 25 Moulding 26 Alleviated 28 Secret watcher 29 Waste matter 30 Girl’s name 32 Vegetable 33 Undivided whole 34 Examine minutely 36 Departs 38 Apron for vehicle 41 Loudly 43 Equal value 45 Mistake 47 Melts (Scot.) 48 Kind of acid 50 Dry 51 Finis 52 Former gold coin of Europe 54 Author of “Fables in Slang” 55 Vain person 57 Moslem enemy of Christendom 59 Remains 60 Country houses 61 To steal workers’ tools 62 Small portion of food (Univ. Eng.)