The November 1975 issue of Word Ways presented a set of 52 7-by-7 word squares that were generated by computer from a list of boldface words from Webster\u27s Collegiate Dictionary (Seventh Edition) plus the appendices of boys\u27 and girls\u27 names. This article reports on the results of a similar computer search for 6-by-6 double word squares

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I R E A R N E R 80 6-BY-6 DOUBLE WORD SQUARES M. D. McILROY Bernardsville, New Jersey The November 1975 issue of Word Ways presented a set of 52 7- by-7 word squares that were generated by computer {rom a list of boldface words from Webster 1 s Collegiate Dictionary (Seventh Edi­tion) plus the appen'dices of boys I and girls I names. This article re­ports on the results of a similar computer search for 6-by-6 double word squares. A double word square is one in which the horizontal words and ver­tical words are all different from each other. These squares are decidedly more difficult to construct than the corresponding symmetrical squares (i. e. , those of the same size). For example, in Language on Vacation (Scrib­ner's, 1965), Dmitri Borgmann cites the dou­ble word square to the right as one of the bet­ter 6-by-6 double word squares . .Although all the words appear in Webster's Second, four (ectene, adiate, pir­ite, adance) do not appear in the Collegiate. and two others are deri­ved forms not in boldface there. This article presents a set of 117 6- by- 6 double word square s with the words restricted to the above references. No square draws all 12 of its words from Webster's Pocket Dictionary, answering an open que stion posed by William Sunners in the November 1972 Wo rd Ways. However, several corne very close to doing so, lacking only one word (ratton, a dialect version of "rat" , or Avesta, the sacred books of Zoroastrianism) . Several of these word squares occur in clusters which are described separately from the main listing. The most notable cluste r has seven­teen square s which can be divided into two slightly diffe rent groups of 12 and 5 squares, respectively: S C H I S + * 'l­R 0). N C E R	 A T T 0 N I N T E N + E C E* Replace ~, with PA PI TA TA any of following: T T P F Replace + with M T T any of following: D D T SAP PER A D I ATE MAR T H A U NIT E R E C TEN E LEE RED S	 U F R* * R A T I N T I E* A* * Three sma. are given b A	 S* U* * U R C T 0 R C R E H A * D E S I N :r. S C * H A V E G E D E * L A S E S C C L C T 0 R 0 P I R E A The rel pages. Sb of two lette of 52 . a list of nth Edi­irticle re­6 double ds and ver­) E R \ T E , H A [' E R , , N E t E D iate, pi r­are deri­uares with aws all 12 tn open 'rd Ways. one word looks of :e described has seven-groups of 81 S U F I S M Replace * with PA PI TA TA TA R N e E any of following: T T F P P* * R A T T 0 N ER ER ER ER TN I N T E N D I E R e E* A N	 E R* * Three smaller clusters of five, three and two squares, respect ively, are given below: A S	 E R Replace * with e T e T e T e T G S* * U	 L E any of following: LeI LeI LNU RTI RTI* * * U R 0	 P 0 D RD ST RD ST ST T 0 R P I D e R E E S E H A E N* * !	 D E S P 0 T Replace * with 0 A A I N HUM E any of following: RM RM NT S e R E R* H A V I N G E G E S T A D E A L* * L A S S 0 S Replace * with e T E S e A P E any of following: D P e L 0 H E*.11	 T 0 R R I DI 0 P I	 A T E R E A E R* The remaining 90 squares are given in the list on the next three pages. 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