By Mrs. E. I. Ashton

This puzzle is well named, to say the least, and those curving question marks will try the endurance of the solver to the utmost. Some of you will get out your Atlases and love this. Others in despair will throw themselves in the Siberian river and drown their woes. Good luck to all of you!

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HORIZONTAL

1 A science 6 Most loyal 12 A city in Nevada 13 Queen of the fairies 16 Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudarum (abbr.) 18 Paid (abbr.) 20 Ecclesiastical abbreviation 21 A great nation of ancient Syria 23 Prefix meaning together 24 One of the United States (abbr.) 25 Barren open country 27 Conjunction 28 Thou (Ger.) 29 A perfume (obs.) 31 Babylonian goddess 32 Or (Latin) 33 Chinese book of rights and ceremonies 34 One of the Banda Islands 35 A hero of the Trojan war 37 Spanish ecclesiastical historian 39 A fish 40 Any pointed saying 42 Thee (French) 43 Adverb 45 Ancient Roman poet 46 Russian penal colony 48 Female parent 51 Human beings 52 Famous Austrian electrician of 19th century 54 Night (Latin) 56 Preposition 57 To mark with degrees 59 Assyrian god 60 Bromine (abbr.) 61 Native of Turkey 63 Irritating sensation 65 A young dog 66 King of ancient Britain 67 Pronoun 68 Indefinite article 69 Tree 70 Portuguese chronicler 72 Part of the anatomy 73 Prefix meaning “twice” 74 A Hawaiian food 75 Grassy plant 76 River in Siberia 77 Silver (abbr.) 78 Philosophical theory of Hume and Kant 80 Tributary of Drina River 81 Foot coverings 82 Each (abbr.)

VERTICAL

2 Conjunction 3 Bequeath 4 Transformation into human shape 5 Word of refusal 7 One of the United States (abbr.) 8 Unlawful 9 Interrogation point 10 If (French) 11 Monster of Greek mythology 13 A plant 14 Preposition 15 Pandemonium 17 Mountains in Bolivia 19 River in Venetia 21 German political economist of 19th century 22 Night (French) 24 Geological term 26 At suit of (abbr.) 30 To bind 36 Torn asunder 38 Ancient Cappadocian goddess 41 A spirituous liquor 44 A sacred box 46 Prefix, through 47 A town in southeastern Africa 49 Noted American humorist 50 To introduce something new 52 Town in southeastern Slavonia 53 Lymph vessels 55 Cape in Scotland 57 A province in Spain 58 A digraph 60 A famous modern pianist 61 Gratuity (colloq.) 62 Federations 64 A riddle 65 Ecclesiastical term 68 To humble 71 Egyptian god 72 A queen of Navarre 79 No date (abbr.)