Periodical Cross word puzzle book. (N.Y.) (1924: 3rd series)
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Image 2 of (1924: 3rd series) If your patience an durance have reache* breaking point and must have the correc swers to the fifty new Word Puzzles print this book, mail the en post card to the publi… -
Image 3 of (1924: 3rd series) A little boy was recently heard addressing his sister in this fashion: ‘You Zeugma, you Ixial” His mother asked him where he learned these terms. “In the answer sheet to the Cross… -
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Image 7 of (1924: 3rd series) THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK Third Series A Third 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: 3rd series) The Cross Word Puzzle Books Printed by the Select Printing Company, New York Bound by the H. Wolff Company, New York Third Series (published November 7, 1924) First Edition.40,000 copies Second Edition.25,000… -
Image 9 of (1924: 3rd series) Acknowledgement The publishers arid editors of the Cross Word Puzzle Books wish to record the debt of all Cross Word fans to The New York World for its pioneer work in the… -
Image 10 of (1924: 3rd series) Official Endorsement The original Cross Word Puzzle Boolcs, published by Sknon and Schuster, are the only ones officially endorsed by the Amateur Cross Word Puzzle League of America and edited in conformity… -
Image 11 of (1924: 3rd series) PREFACE C ONTROVERSY, which is the breath of life to any of the arts or sciences, has reared its head among tlie ranks of Cross Word solvers. The air is filled with… -
Image 12 of (1924: 3rd series) victory delayed by forests of Javanese shrubs or oceans full of rajidae with enlarged pectoral fins. Nor do they wish words torn far from their daily, or at least semi-weekly, use. A… -
Image 13 of (1924: 3rd series) up cross words, to give ofifhand the name of Egypt’s sun-god, a three-letter word meaning island, a four-letter word for handbag, the name of a large Australian bird, or the sash affected… -
Image 14 of (1924: 3rd series) bination rears its head?—a construction that cost me more time than if I had allowed a few oddities, I may add. What am I to do?” “Go as far as you like!”… -
Image 15 of (1924: 3rd series) BALLADE OF CROSS WORDS By Ruth Franc von Phul (Cross Word Puzzle Champion of the World)* Once from the world I sought surcease Between a novel’s covers pressed; No longer there I… -
Image 16 of (1924: 3rd series) VOCABULARY ENRICHMENT IN THE SUBURBS DUE TO THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE INFLUENCE {Two neighbors, Mrs. Wordsworth and Mrs. Frazee, are spending a ivarm summer afternoon together on the formers front porch. They… -
Image 17 of (1924: 3rd series) right to his visage that he was a dolt and an ort. Is your offspring well? Mrs, W, —^Not entirely. He was ahed yester with a severe megrim, dark arcs neath his… -
Image 18 of (1924: 3rd series) and seven, burst into view around the corner of the house. They take final kicks at each other before smothering their sobs in the laps of their respective mothers, Mrs, F, —^Wliy,… -
Image 19 of (1924: 3rd series) RULES FOR CONSTRUCTION OF CROSS WORD PUZZLES Reported by the Committee on Rules, and adopted by The Amateur Cross Word Puzzle League of America at its meet¬ ing, September 27, 1924, in… -
Image 20 of (1924: 3rd 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: 3rd series) 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 respec¬ tively and which is… -
Image 22 of (1924: 3rd series) 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, why not? Is the second… -
Image 23 of (1924: 3rd 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: 3rd series) HORIZONTAL 1 Lover of wisdom 9 Exclamation 10 Conjunction 11 Negative 12 Pronoun 13 Portent 15 Deposited 17 Tailless amphibian 18 Preposition 19 Girl’s name 21 Seize in arrest 23 Printer’s measure… -
Image 25 of (1924: 3rd series) Puzzle No. 101 A CHRISTMAS TREE By Moby Dick T his Oirlstmas tree is a tour de force in consecutive two-letter words. Even the veriest beginner should finish it in a half… -
Image 26 of (1924: 3rd series) HORIZONTAL 1 Form of literary expression 5 Speculation 10 Constellation 11 To be mistaken 12 Thus 14 Consumed 16 Character in “Peer Gynt” 17 Upon 18 Tool for cutting threads 20 Be… -
Image 27 of (1924: 3rd series) Puzzle No. 102 CHILDSPLAY By Hugo Klaueviko and James McIntyre T hese contributors have made one for the tots. Likewise it is a good one for beginners at cross word puzzling. Warm… -
Image 28 of (1924: 3rd series) 1 Boat (hoisting contrivance 5 Prosecuting judicially 9 A pronoun 10 Pertaining to the nose 12 A conjunction 13 A thin oval board used by an artist 1 Face of a timepiece… -
Image 29 of (1924: 3rd series) puzzleNo.103 ladies first By Albert Buran H ere is the puzzle that Mrs, Ruth von Phul did in four minutes and twenty seconds, thereby winning the Ladies’ Championship, at the tournament held… -
Image 30 of (1924: 3rd series) HORIZONTAL 1 Eyelashes 6 Foundation 11 Decrees 13 Occupant 14 Titled person 15 Through 17 Used in games of chance 18 Before 19 Purport 21 Female deer 22 Selenium 23 Meadow 1… -
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Image 32 of (1924: 3rd series) HORIZONTAL 1 Salted smoked pier’s hip 5 An adult swine 8 Demesne estate 13 Sincere 14 Pertaining to a wall 16 Back of the neck 17 Color in spectrum 18 To deface… -
Image 33 of (1924: 3rd series) Puzzle No. 105 NEAT SYMMETRY By Frank A. Ford A n unusual disposition of blacks and a pretty symmetry. Decorative patterns give an esthetic charm to cross word puzzling. Before you finish… -
Image 34 of (1924: 3rd series) HORIZONTAL 1 French coin 3 At a latter time 6 High mountain 8 Pole-star 11 Form of “to be” 13 Pedigrees 14 Prefix meaning two 15 Impersonal pronoun 17 Pen 1 Large… -
Image 35 of (1924: 3rd series) Puzzle No. 106 THE DARLING OF THE GODS By Ambrosian T his puzzle was used in the All Comers Contest, held at Wanamaker’s Audi¬ torium in September. The time of the winner,… -
Image 36 of (1924: 3rd series) HORIZONTAL 1 Branch of medical practice 7 Quiet 14 Gracious 16 Book formed by doubled pages 18 Commonly used 19 Wrath 21 Excluded 22 Born 23 Mean fellow 25 Boy’s nickname 26… -
Image 37 of (1924: 3rd series) Puzzle No. 107 RIBS OF THREE-LETTER WORDS By Leonard J. Brightman Over sixty three-letter words here! 27 -
Image 38 of (1924: 3rd series) HORIZONTAL 1 Atone 6 Legendary origin of all evil 12 Combining form, air 14 Instrument of transmission 15 Vessel 17 Wander 20 Incite 22 The ipoor Indian 23 Possessive pronoun 24 Etruscan… -
Image 39 of (1924: 3rd series) Puzzle No. 108 THE WHIFFENPOOF By W. C. Brooks I NTRODUCE this animal to your menagerie. He has a spotted coat which may give him a terrible aspect. But you’ll find him… -
Image 40 of (1924: 3rd series) I 1 Strike sharply 5 Russian mountain range 9 Trial 10 Name of saint given to Spanish watering place 11 Preposition 12 Small fruits 14 Strange 16 Soon (plural) 17 Emperor 19…