Anything Goes ACROSS 1 Arm part 5 Bear of foot Cooling device 12 Away from the wind 13 Italian city 14 Mascul.2 name 15 Rodents 16 Paper 1? Type of boat (ab.) 10 Hebrew epee vege 22 Soak fiax 23 Mariner's direction 24 Cut short TM Hearing organs $2 Unclose (t. $8 Reformed Church in America (ab.) $4 Aeronautical $6 Straight shaft % 72ance 99 Soft metal 4 Afresh 42 Omitting by ee Hie card $1 Mertive parts 55 Peer Gynt's mother 5% Moslem judge $8 Of the ileum (comb. form) 50 Route (ab.) 60 Arabian gulf 61 Lampreys 62 Small child CARNIVAL 63 Ringing sound 4 Song for one voice DOWN 1 Rabbit 2 Word of sorrow oe rid region Religious ' on Wi ompass in 7 Sores. 8 Citrus fruit Roosevelt's 24 Maid's name
The puzzle across and down clues form a cryptic style grid with references to arms, winds, cities, abbreviations, and anatomical terms, including noted entries like CARNIVAL and various abbreviations. The scrambled clues point to a themed word-fill crossword with multiple intersecting terms across many lines. The puzzle lists many partial clues and garbled segments, suggesting a historical newspaper crossword item. The reader would solve by filling a grid with terms for arm part, cooling device, wind direction, cities, rodents, papers, and church abbreviations, plus a carnival theme and roost of other entries.