The cross word puzzle book: Third series

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Puzzle No. 145

WAFFLED WORDS

By Mrs. Eric Crull

Some people mumble their words, but what is more appropriate than this waffling of Mrs. Crull’s? This is medium well done—by which we refer not to quality, but to difficulty. Try it when the simple ones seem too easy and the difficult ones too tough.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Ancient burial place 8 Dormant 15 Metallic rocks 16 Instrument 18 Vegetable 19 Medicinal herb 20 Low 21 Plateau 23 Design 24 Shake 25 Wager 26 Salutation 27 Lair 29 Rider Haggard’s heroine 30 Body organ 31 To add to 33 Small point 35 To rule 38 Stigmatized 40 Mythological queen 43 Hence 44 Pony of India 45 To bite lightly 47 To chastise 48 Clamor 49 Performed 50 A numeral 52 To tangle 54 Compete 55 A tribal symbol 57 A large bird 59 Adventitious sounds (med.) 61 Finery

62 Beyond 63 Girl’s name 64 A measure 66 Boisterous 68 A color 69 Attempt 71 Transgression 72 Piece of connecting pipe 73 Little Eva’s friend 75 A cereal 77 Placed 79 Of equal value 80 Legend 81 Contiguous (poet.) 83 Of greater density 86 Drunkard 87 Sailor 89 Not the same 90 Moisture 91 Pronoun 94 Weight 96 Pitch 97 A metal 98 Denoting three 100 Field 102 Scriptural animals 105 Fold 106 Heroine of a Wagnerian opera 107 Always 108 Cozy spot 109 A girl’s name 110 One who slows up 111 A kind of acid