Periodical Cross word puzzle book. (N.Y.) (1924: 2nd series)
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Image 2 of (1924: 2nd series) Class _ Book, CopyriglitlN 0 First a fad, ther the Cross W* Books (first series) have become an American institution, im¬ mortalized in cartoons by Briggs, epigrams by Will Rogers, burlesques by… -
Image 3 of (1924: 2nd series) The Cross Word Puzzle Book is the greatest known foe of boredom—Ameri¬ ca s favorite enemy of en¬ nui. In a world of chaos and grotesque paradox these black and white pat¬… -
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Image 7 of (1924: 2nd series) THE GROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK Second Series A Second Anthology of Fifty New Cross Word Puzzles Selected as the Best of the Thousands Submitted to the New York World Published Here Exclusively… -
Image 8 of (1924: 2nd series) If you wish a copy of The Book of the Correct Answers for The Cross Word Puzzle Book—Second Se¬ ries, sent with our compliments, use the enclosed postal. Should you lose the… -
Image 9 of (1924: 2nd series) Please turn to pages 119-123 of this book for announcements of importance to all interested in Cross Word Puzzles -
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Image 11 of (1924: 2nd series) FOREWORD BY THE PUBLISHERS O NE Cross Word Puzzle Book leads to another. Now that the second volume, containing a new series of fifty more Cross Word Puzzles, is available, it seems… -
Image 12 of (1924: 2nd series) FOREWORD Ordinary books are meant to be read. Here is a book in which one writes —more than that, a book in which one has the supreme satisfaction of unravelling a real… -
Image 13 of (1924: 2nd series) FOREWORD reward the true Cross Word Puzzler. Here is the most de¬ lightful and the most effective way of building up one’s vocabulary and enriching one’s general fund of information. Dictionaries and… -
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Image 15 of (1924: 2nd series) PREFACE By William A. Stern, 2nd Cross Word Puzzle Champion of the World WO years ago I saw a friend of mine earnestly studying X a checkered diagram in the magazine section… -
Image 16 of (1924: 2nd series) PREFACE ate meets lies in the struggle to concentrate on the explanation. In their simplest terms here are the rules and technique of cross word puzzling: The primary object of the game… -
Image 17 of (1924: 2nd series) PREFACE an unkeyed letter because it does not give the solver a key to another word. Well constructed puzzles have few un¬ keyed letters. You will notice also that all the words… -
Image 18 of (1924: 2nd series) PREFACE mind. And then all the vertical. Thus they get an excellent start from which to work. Some solvers use the system of building up from the first word which they can… -
Image 19 of (1924: 2nd series) PREFACE will increase your vocabulary, give yourself mental disci¬ pline, and, above all, you’ll have fun. I want to thank the Plaza Publishing Company, whose real name is Simon and Schuster, for… -
Image 20 of (1924: 2nd series) HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS WORD PUZZLE T HERE are two essential points that must be remembered by initiates into the cross word puzzlers’ fraternity. First, the numbers in the squares refer… -
Image 21 of (1924: 2nd series) THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK Looking over the diagram (See Figure 2) we find that one vertical calls for a seven letter word whose third and fifth letters are V and L… -
Image 22 of (1924: 2nd series) THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK proves to be EGG and eleven becomes ART. We say to ourselves that if we could only get five vertical we would have the puzzle solved. Well,… -
Image 23 of (1924: 2nd series) DO’S AND DON’T’S 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 is… -
Image 24 of (1924: 2nd series) HORIZONTAL 1 Stout 5 Rapid 9 Roofs of mouths 11 Belonging to 13 Called 14 Adverb (degree) 15 Vessel 17 Presently 1 Demonstrate 2 Above 3 Plan 4 Sow 5 Cooks 6… -
Image 25 of (1924: 2nd series) Puzzle No. 51 MADE IN A RATHSKELLER A Duet 20 23 25 r WO of the editors went out to lunch one hot day, with this result. By the way, this pattern… -
Image 26 of (1924: 2nd series) V 1 Groundwork 5 Exhausted 9 High explosive 10 Small seed 11 Tropical chestnut 12 First son 14 Exercisings of author¬ ity HORIZONTAL 17 A prophetic sign 18 Russian carnival 19 Melodies… -
Image 27 of (1924: 2nd series) Puzzle No. 52 A TRIAL BOUT By Joseph A. Margolies W HEN four eleven-letter words meet each other at right angles, something is bound to happen. This only goes to show that… -
Image 28 of (1924: 2nd series) HORIZONTAL 1 Cavity 5 Morning prayer 9 Down with 13 Form of “to be” 14 Condiment made from bean 15 A number 17 Short song 18 A seed vessel 21 To sift… -
Image 29 of (1924: 2nd series) Puzzle No. 53 AS YOU LIKE IT By Mrs. J. Meissner 4 LL the words in this pattern should be in your every-day vocabulary. For in- IL stance, the first word means… -
Image 30 of (1924: 2nd series) HORIZONTAL 1 Stocks and bonds 9 Hail 10 Anger 11 More exact 13 Paris subway 15 Roulade 16 Builder 1 Refractory 2 Boast 3 First lady 4 Tranquil 5 Act 6 Built… -
Image 31 of (1924: 2nd series) Puzzle No. 54 TINY TIM By W. S. Boyd S IXTEEN black squares to one hundred and fifteen white is a pretty fine average. A too black pattern means the constructor was… -
Image 32 of (1924: 2nd series) HORIZONTAL 1 Consumptive 7 Part of a whole 12 Wings 13 Carrion 14 Member of Japanese race 15 A fragmentary thing 17 Disciple 20 Eastern state 21 Flying insect 23 Small bottle… -
Image 33 of (1924: 2nd series) Puzzle No. 55 A SPOTTED SPECTER By J. T. Rich I N spite of an abbreviation here and there, this puzzle is one which is high in its rating. There aren’t so… -
Image 34 of (1924: 2nd series) HORIZONTAL 1 Carouse 5 Question 7 Burdened 11 Part of “to be” 12 Beverage 13 Possessive pronoun 14 Perform 15 Guide 17 Total 19 Fossil gum 21 Wrath 22 Atrocious 25 Insect… -
Image 35 of (1924: 2nd series) Puzzle No. 56 LITTLE BUT NEAT By Isidore Edelstein A PRETTY construction by an old-timer at the game. And don’t run away with the idea that its size has anything to do… -
Image 36 of (1924: 2nd series) 0 000~-40\*P»W -‘VOCn HORIZONTAL 1 Domestic animal (fe¬ male) Interlaced Spanish dance Charge with gas Devoured Bitter Monastic female Exclamation Pile loosely Perform Civil War general 1 Nurturer 2 Beverage 3 Regarding… -
Image 37 of (1924: 2nd series) SEVEN GREEK CROSSES By John B. Sirich, Jr. W E counted the half-crosses to make up Mr. Sirich’s grand total. Please note: no unkeyed letters, no abbreviations or contractions, and comparatively few… -
Image 38 of (1924: 2nd series) HORIZONTAL H 1 Adore 4 Suggests 7 Prepare for publica¬ tion 10 Article 11 Fish eggs 13 Ovum 15 Preposition 16 End 20 Consumed 22 Snare 23 Look at 25 Demons 26… -
Image 39 of (1924: 2nd series) Pczzle No. 58 BOOLA BOOLA By Hassler Whitney C ONSIDERING how often the convenient “eli” finds its way into Cross Words, it is quite right to include this puzzle from New Haven.… -
Image 40 of (1924: 2nd series) HORIZONTAL 1 Large drinking bowl 5 Ruin 9 Geometrical figure 10 Unlimited quantity 12 Fine particles of stone 14 Is situated 15 Footprint 17 Serpent of S. Amer. 18 Near 19 Plots…