Periodical Cross word puzzle book. (N.Y.) (1924: 1st series)
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Image 7 of (1924: 1st series) THE GROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK An Anthology of Fifty Cross Word Puzzles Selected as the Best of the Thousands That Have Been Submitted to the New York World Published Here Exclusively for… -
Image 8 of (1924: 1st series) G^ Sf A r Copyright, 1924, by THE PLAZA PUBLISHING COMPANY 37 West 57th Street New York, N. Y. Printed by The Van Rees Press Bound by H. Wolff Co. New York… -
Image 9 of (1924: 1st series) THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE By Newman Levy F OR many years we’ve lived as man and wife, As happy now as on the day we wed. “We’re more like sweethearts,” I have… -
Image 10 of (1924: 1st series) THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK Calmly I rise and search about the place To find a weapon of sufficient weight. Aha! Upon our wall an ancient mace, Studded with knobs of steel.… -
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Image 13 of (1924: 1st series) CONFESSIONS OF A CROSS WORD PUZZLE EDITOR HEN I was first made unwilling Cross Word Puzzle T Editor some two years ago, the procedure in deciding what puzzle would be run was… -
Image 14 of (1924: 1st series) THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK —and words that had no right to be dragged out of their native obscurity. Then and there, with my left hand repos¬ ing on a dictionary and… -
Image 15 of (1924: 1st series) HOW TO SOLVE THEM S OLVING a cross word puzzle offers numerous enjoyments of which the uninitiated are ignorant. There is the pure esthetic stimulation of looking at the pattern with its… -
Image 16 of (1924: 1st series) THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK The solver, then, looks the puzzle over. Aha! a friend. 12 horizontal, three letters long—“product of coal or pine.” Triumphantly the solver writes TAR in the spaces… -
Image 17 of (1924: 1st series) THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK are not so simple as “product of coal or pine.” In the far reaches of the puzzle to which the above comer belongs may be found such… -
Image 18 of (1924: 1st series) THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK Now the unfortunate part of it is that the section is com¬ pleted; there are no more clues, and if one does not know what the humorous… -
Image 19 of (1924: 1st series) THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK which was “Parallel pairs of simulacra in echinoideans.” The cross-constructions showed BIVIA as the necessary filler and the vocabularies of the solvers were enriched by an addi¬… -
Image 20 of (1924: 1st series) THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK up a lot of precious space. It required two numbers to each definition. On July 22, 1923, at the suggestion of an ardent puzzler who calls himself… -
Image 21 of (1924: 1st series) THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK with alternating consonants and vowels can be used more fre¬ quently than others. It is evident that a word containing three consecutive consonants, for instance, may have… -
Image 22 of (1924: 1st series) THE SCIENCE AND LORE OF CROSS WORD PUZZLES E VERYONE knows the classic Riddle of the Sphinx: what is it that walks on four legs in the morning, on two at noon… -
Image 23 of (1924: 1st series) THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK the “Baconian Theory” has revolved around supposed cryptography in Shakespeare. Ancient and medieval folk were much given to anagrams; that is, to phrases of related meanings and… -
Image 24 of (1924: 1st series) THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK the types in which words are to be guessed from definitions. There is the well-known acrostic, where with definitions as clues you arrive at a set of… -
Image 25 of (1924: 1st series) THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK of exotic words in various spellings from old gazetteers, books of travel, etc. The adept delights in words that no one has ever heard of before. Here… -
Image 26 of (1924: 1st series) THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK By Alec Sander, in The Enigma T CAL KARAT R A S E T E S BALANISMS COMMUTATING CONTABULAT ION GASTEROL I CHENES PENTAGONASTERI DAE The great… -
Image 27 of (1924: 1st series) DO S AND DONTS FOR SOLVERS D ON’T get scared if you can’t guess the first horizontal word. Go through the list till you find a definition that you’re sure of. That… -
Image 28 of (1924: 1st series) HORIZONTAL 1 Pronoun 3 Albumin from cas¬ tor-oil bean 7 Exist 9 Aged 11 Negative 12 Incite, hasten 13 Remote 15 Obstruction 17 Bivalves 21 Father 23 Tree 24 River in Italy… -
Image 29 of (1924: 1st series) PoaiE No. i A SOFT BEGINNING By Gregorian T HE two long central words, if solved at once, will give sufficient clues to permit of rapid solution. But should these prove elusive,… -
Image 30 of (1924: 1st series) HORIZONTAL 1 Choose 6 Pores 11 Herb used in soup 12 Rent 13 Egyptian god 15 Serious 17 Either, else 18 Colloquial Irish ex¬ clamation 20 Coffins 21 Fifty-six 22 Pertaining to… -
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Image 32 of (1924: 1st series) HORIZONTAL 1 Banquet 39 And not 5 Lout 40 A vase 8 Willow for making 41 Congealed water baskets 42 An injection 13 Formerly 44 There 14 Domesticated 46 Class 16 Genu9… -
Image 33 of (1924: 1st series) Puzzle No. 3 A SIMPLICITY By Isidore Edelstein S OME abbreviations may be treated as words, such as “i.e.,” “A.D.,” points of the compass and so on. It is not the purest… -
Image 34 of (1924: 1st series) HORIZONTAL 1 Unsteady 31 A drink made of 57 Advertisement (ab* 6 Appoint wine, water, and breviation) 12 Remotely lemon*juice, sweet¬ 59 Province of Greece 13 Besides ened 60 A small deer… -
Image 35 of (1924: 1st series) Puzzle No. 4 TETRACRUCIFORM By Charles W. Snizek A MYSTICAL design combined with everyday words shorter than the name it bears. 23 -
Image 36 of (1924: 1st series) HORIZONTAL 1 Tumult 5 Part of harness 9 Thin metal strip 11 Seldom 13 Preposition 15 Small drink 17 Expression 18 Behold 19 Salt (chem.) 21 Proposition to be proved 23 Fabulous… -
Image 37 of (1924: 1st series) No 5 WELL BALANCED By Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Waller T HIS is a nice study in words of medium length, as was dictated by the two-ply “X” construction. The solver… -
Image 38 of (1924: 1st series) HORIZONTAL 1 To praise 5 A storm 8 Part of mouth (PI.) 11 A conjunction 13 Coarse material 14t Regarding 15 Pin 17 The exertion o f power 18 To spread loosely… -
Image 39 of (1924: 1st series) Puzzle No. 6 B ABY GRAND MODEL By Helen V. Christ O NLY two long words. This should be pie for the hard-boiled solvers and a pleasant exercise for the beginner. [27] -
Image 40 of (1924: 1st series) HORIZONTAL 1 Turkish coin 4 Country in Asia 7 Number 10 Black 12 Possessive pronoun 14 Cereal plant 16 Equality 18 Tears 20 Resinous substances 21 Wearied 22 Bird 23 South American…