Matchwit

Matchwit is the only duet crossword in the world. To solve it, couples may sit opposite each other at a card table or well-balanced lapboard. At the signal, both contestants start solving. The definitions are daffy—watch out for puns, anagrams and persiflage; let your mind wander. Some of the words link the two puzzles together, permitting one player to do the other in the eye. Save these till last. If both players get stuck, the puzzles may be reversed and the solving resumed. First one finished wins. It's designed for two but one can play it alone.

ACROSS

1. This involves dressing for dinner.
6. Whoever wears the pants.
10. Country butters.
14. Best hole on the golf course.
15. Where to find your picture in the paper.
16. Robert —.
17. Trygve will always —.
18. Sea around the land of Oz.
19. Tunney or Tierney.
20. Where everything sinks in.
21. Relative of comme il faut.
23. This sounds like a question.
25. Have a nose for news.
26. This shows a large turnover, especially Jan. 1.
30. Show boat here.
34. River in Essex.
35. Troubles.
37. Where good sports go.
38. Country place of Rodgers and Hammerstein.
40. A bow to Omar Khayyam.
43. Bacon's original home.
44. He's full of plans.
46. It comes between fit and fiddle.
47. They fit the Civil War.
48. A. Pat's first name.
49. Don't give it up!
51. Popular poplar.
54. This is a monkey.
55. The kind of yarn you can spin.
56. Cause of heated argument with a furnace.
59. A well-read letter.
61. He packs a trunk.
62. A little learning.
64. Winner of an Oscar.
65. Frog's frolic in the spring.
67. A kind of hat.
69. They were filled with zest in Mexico.
71. Sign on a diner.
75. A kind of shovel.
76. Keep this up your sleeve.
78. "O sole —."
79. Office boy.
80. They're for you when they're anti.
82. Reds on a desert island.
86. Pound dog.
87. A blonde, in the good old days.
90. Fan dance.
94. Little fish or little uncle.
96. A country in Europe.
97. Can it!
99. Marie Antoinette before she lost her head.
100. Singular Shakespearean actor.
101. A great many dogs' ages.
102. Ticklish money in Bangkok.
103. It's found in the kitchen.
104. Mr. Dish.
105. S. Kefauver.

DOWN

1. Sisters and brothers.
2. — year.
3. She takes all and nothing.
4. Kind of crackers.
5. It's all wet.
6. He's wiry and has a small head.
7. Percolates.
8. Big blows.
9. Biggest red cell.
10. Kind of guy who's in the Army.
11. Relative of 16 Across.
12. Wherein you get your just desserts.
13. A kind of sucker.
22. Flash light.
24. He got crowned in 1888.
26. Dark's last name.
27. What to choose in the theatre.
28. What you have on for tonight.
29. Ensign that's often up in the air.
31. This place needs to be tidied up.
32. Get involved in this.
33. Mother's little sunbeam.
36. Special showing in the lingerie department.
39. It's shocking to be so pink.
41. Minor and others.
42. Place for old love letters.
45. Guppies' pent house.
46. Hopalong's usual pose.
50. A lot is done for his sake.
51. Herr's "alas!"
52. It's always going down hill.
53. Appeared to balsam.
57. Original star of the Icecapades.
58. Holes in the family budget.
60. Absent with leave.
63. What I haven't seen you for.
66. These are often expressed in thousands.
67. Roc is in Hamlet.
68. What little gals are made of.
70. You whistle for this.
72. Friend from Amiens.
73. Fran's last name.
74. One way to get help.
76. Kind of back.
77. Famous name in Denver.
79. The lady from E. Mobile.
81. This is usually in full swing.
82. Low sort of type.
83. Two words following a bachelor.
84. — and you can have it.
85. It comes in quartz.
88. Extended a helping hand.
89. Anne R. is a French writer.
91. Big Ben in Scotland.
92. The U.S. in 1869.
93. Big gain for baby
95. A short message by wire.
98. It comes between H and T.

ACROSS

1. Where to live in style.
6. Ingredient in shortnin' bread.
10. Somebody else's child.
14. It wasn't in the cupboard.
15. It usually displays a yellow streak.
16. She's a beaut.
17. Capt. Hornblower's notes.
18. A short story, usually rendered.
19. One is one.
20. Bed spread.
21. Desks.
23. Horse and buggy.
25. Many of them have a lot of high notes.
26. She ends up in the doll's house.
30. Unscrambled.
34. Tanguay girl.
35. Not any: dialect.
37. Man without a place in the country.
38. A kind of call.
40. This is not farther.
43. Little woman.
44. Hamlet and others.
46. A small sum.
47. Soap substance.
48. Grown-up kitten.
49. It's mostly ponder.
51. Famous name in the reel world.
54. Letters to a successful playwright.
55. United.
56. Enough mink for 220 yards.
59. Delivered a lecture.
61. He takes a little bite on the beach.
62. A lot of talk when it's hot.
64. Word for the old oaken bucket.
65. Too-popular Washington verb.
67. How to begin the beguine.
69. Off-stage character in Carmen.
71. All that an egghead has to lose.
75. For crying out loud.
76. What five is to six.
78. Size of a Kipling character.
79. What a paleface is.
80. This never leaves you speechless.
82. Tutti frutti in an old song.
86. A piece of spaghetti.
87. Man's best friend in the 7th inning stretch.
90. Members of the unintelligentsia.
94. Adolescent eels.
96. Wrap scallion with this.
97. Lassie.
99. She pants.
100. River into Reno.
101. The mixup after port F.
102. All thumbs.
103. It's the customary thing.
104. To be half of et cetera.
105. Photo finish.

DOWN

1. Where to perform the bridle ceremony.
2. Easterner in tabouret.
3. It's situated at the elbow.
4. One after the other.
5. School term.
6. One-fourth of Omar's quartet.
7. A coal city near Knoxville.
8. The music goes round and round.
9. She likes to dance the polka.
10. A pessimistic ball team
11. 10 Down has them.
12. Had a come down.
13. The Egyptian and others.
22. He's on the right track.
24. It's got the edge on Texas.
26. Better half of a top Army man.
27. Novello of the home fires.
28. Augusta Wind.
29. You have to multiply to get this.
31. When they're hot they're ice.
32. Under these ran a famous streetcar.
33. Ruler of Tunis.
36. Yogi followers.
39. Soprano's warming-up exercises.
41. Backs up.
42. Old sword.
45. Beginner who can accumulate power.
46. This is often used in making up.
50. Nelson battling with the current whirl.
51. Kind of hand.
52. One of Babe's other titles.
53. Wigwam dwellers.
57. Symbol of hardness.
58. Their presence is requested at the wedding.
60. Cockney's dwelling.
63. Indian peasant who was once a Tory.
66. The time of your life.
67. The whole hogs.
68. A kind of antic.
70. It's Greek to me.
72. Nothing before war, plus one.
73. Nora's first name.
74. This man is in a state!
76. She turns to Alan.
77. Takes forty winks.
79. Contents of the flowing bowl.
81. They make men, in a nice way.
82. What butlers do.
83. Melba of the toast.
84. It's always coming.
85. What follows what?
88. Inventor of talking-animal stories.
89. G.I. has rep for this.
91. If you have this, you'll get a reward.
92. It has gon in Virginia.
93. Small mosquito.
95. Quiet!
98. Fish dish.