Vol. 8 No 7 - Pi Mu Epsilon

Whacnohtic No. 25
The 302 letters to be entered in the numbered spaces in the grid will be
identical to those in the 31 keyed Woh& at the matching numbers. The key numbers
have been entered in the diagram to assist in constructing the solution. When
completed, the initial letters of the hfohdd will give the name(s) of the authorcs)
and the title of a book; the completed grid will be a quotation from that book.
SECTION.
The solution to Ua-th~~~~t06tvr No. 24 is given elsewhere in the PUZZLE
A. a principal way of specifying an infinite
formal language by finite means 249 285 94 273 132 117 254
B. the only knot with four alternating over
and under crossings (2 wds.) 211 151 46 66 276 108 205 35 231 199 24
C. rigorously just -------------
20 178 113 267 88 280 235 216 293 150 58 190 31
0. the study of inflection and word order ---------
as grammatical devices 212 15 83 159 148 41 262 298 174
E. one who is admitted to court to sue as
the representative of a minor or other 89 206 72 295 169 155 189 102 61 263
person under legal disability (2 wds.)
F. "Master of Space! Hero of Science!", ------------
June 27, 1949 (2 wds.) 245 Ill 98 286 284 22 137 4 229 232 156 38
G. condition for maximum transfer of enerqy --------------
from source to load (2 wds.) 135 37 53 71 21 49 118 227 3 167 269 145 240 204
H. the central line in the Greek letter
epsilon 255 133 191 29 195 101 75
I. XU(XflY) = X and its dual (2 wds.) --------------
279 223 302 210 251 73 146 247 109 265 290 192 149 23
J. an instrument for describing ellipses
68 183 218 119 32 153 11
K. a system of writing peculiar to an early
Irish alphabet 136 114 299 120 97
L. a mock man ----------
112 19 242 82 208 261 187 202 160 296
M. a product -------- -
62 129 239 221 27 54 170 110 266
N. blank spaces -------
99 77 48 36 141 10 197
0. narrow (comp.) ------- -
80 248 179 162 252 275 9 188
P. considered by many to have been Sam
Loyd's greatest puzzle, 1896 (4 wds.) 161 3QDF 6939103E294-6- 277288139228196
Q. a continuous mapping from one space to a ---------
higher dimensional space 91 291 30 164 107 274 47 253 60
R. sometime synonym for "set" -------
116 241 64 40 74 126 52
S. engaged in dispute (2 wds.) -------------
297 134 193 18 171 93 115 28 2 250 140 214 165
T. deft (sometimes hyphenated) -----------
152 283 270 25 1 163 175 92 258 168 213
U. model or pattern --------
87 259 301 43 220 79 105 143
V. sponge weaves, satinette, duck doth, ---------------
figured twill (2 wds.) 8 142 238 21 9 100 260 182 237 278 292 17 271 215 84 57
. . . bears the name of this Belgian 122 207 234 186 289 14 257
mathematician
W. the sequence {(2n)!/n!(n+l)!), n = 1, 2,
X. " isn't what it used to be." ---------
Arthur C. Clarke (2 wds.) 185 125 33 70 172 7 106 131 244
Y. absolute -----------
222 76 86 268 176 281 44 157 203 26 34
Z. what the gumball machine was an early -------
example of (2 wds. ) 173 45 12 85 158 6 209 246 63 144 201 127 230 217
a. the annual Commemoration of founders and
benefactors at Oxford University 55 67 95 226 147 128 236 272
b. a stick or cudgel ---------
180 166 56 138 104 81 256 42 287 A
c. a cactus-like tree of Mexico and the
southwestern U.S. having clusters of 59 154 96 224 264 13 194 181
scarlet tubular flowers
d. transcendental ------------
65 177 123 51 225 198 130 243 50 184 232 90
e. it originated in China (about 1200 B.C.)
as a military signaling device 16 200 124 233