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HORIZONTAL

1 Intellectual dullness 6 A resting place 8 The hair of the Angora goat 13 Bracing 15 Hairy appendages 16 Come together 18 Pertaining to Mars 19 A female bird 21 Drinking vessel 23 Threads that guide through a maze 25 A vase with feet 26 Barren 30 Single 31 Note of scale 32 To vanquish 33 Concise 34 As 36 Us 37 An obstinate person 39 As 41 A game of chance 45 General term for followers of theory 47 To corrode 48 Lessened 49 A soft white metal 50 To take out 52 Aid 55 Regarding 57 Madness 60 Conjunction 62 Near 64 Primp 66 Exposes 68 Towards 69 Consumed 71 To dignify 73 Be indebted to 75 Carries 76 Scented 78 Sick 79 Wearisome 81 Hebrew prophet 82 Anxious 85 An indestructible unit 88 Instruction 89 A lair 90 A drink of hot milk curdled with liquor

VERTICAL

1 Problems in arithmetic 2 To speak 3 River in Italy 4 Forward 5 Edge 7 One who consumes 8 Male 9 Preposition 10 A personal pronoun 11 Pale 12 Flees 14 The air 15 A tree 17 Handbag 20 Female sheep 22 To deduce 24 A pale yellowish clay 26 A male child 27 Period of time 28 Possessive pronoun 29 To make a mistake 31 Personal pronoun 35 Over and above 36 A common liquid 38 Jeer 40 Fur-bearing animal 41 Hobby 42 A lyric poem 43 To freeze 44 Utilize 45 Historic mountain 46 To rest 51 Diseased person 53 Chest 54 A parent 56 A golf term 57 An hotel 58 To recede 59 Metalliferous earth 61 To act 63 An Oriental weight 65 To go into 67 A book for pictures 68 To inform 70 Stories 72 To think 74 Useless plants 75 A bank-note 77 Shade 79 A number 80 To soak in 83 So 84 To depart 86 Negative 87 To wit