By Alfred A. Wicklund

Conscience compels the editors to warn the solver of several troublous

words lying unobtrusively among a collection of pleasant and easily

diverting ones. But that is the delight of cross word puzzling. The

solver likes a little pain mixed with his pleasure.

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