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1 Bar which falls into the teeth of a ratchet-wheel 2 To reverberate 3 To humble 4 Preposition 5 Record 6 Yes 7 Combustibles 8 Richly embellished 9 Chance 11 Old Testament 13 Conjunction 15 Bold 16 Fragment 17 Female of the ruff 19 Test 24 Because 26 Article 27 Mingled with 29 Picture drawn by fancy 31 Hangings in woven figures 33 An ancient imperial people 35 Marsh 37 Beverage 38 Large tree of the olive family 43 Much used as an article of food 45 Prefix denoting insufficiency 46 Dead, spiritless 47 Possessing a cutaneous disease 49 Article of apparel 50 Postscript 52 Adverb 53 Reveal a secret 55 Looks meaningly 57 Native of European country 59 Delightfully scented shrub 60 Owneth 63 Calcareous earth used as fertilizer 65 Thus 67 Erect 69 Such being the case 70 An alternative

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Puzzle No. 8

A SPOTTED BORDER

By E. Pinkerton