COMPETITIONS CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 171, 21 July 1928, Page 12

COMPETITIONS CORNER.

ACROSS.

TESTS FOR OUR READERS. tk* B c^5 I ? er we . give daily a problem for solution by our readers. Prizes will not be offered, the idea being to present the reading public with some brain-testing difficulties which each may smooth out to his satisfaction. Solutions will be given on each succeeding day.

I. Your best. 5. Witness. 10. L nipedal progress. 11. Warders. 12. A fancy kind of cat. 16. What bookmakers live on. 20. Certain bulls come in this class. 21. Sharp's the word! 22. How not to exhibit of disposition. 2.'}. A self-ish prefix. 24. The victor of Isandula. 25. Possibly a piscatorial martyr. 26. Must be new or you can't patent it. 27. A poor sort of account. 32. Nothing bogus. 34. This should give you start?. 37. A stipulation. 35. The very bottom (suggests that boarding house pallet). 39. Much may materialise from this meeting. 40. One can hardly call a sapling this.

DOWN. 2. W hat a headmaster hates to do. 3. Male Christian name (one famous in English history). These could be nothing but mfamou3 in any hist or v. 5. TTiis corrects acidity. 6. Not the doctrine of an atheist. 4. Severe. 8. A friend. 9. Customs. 13. Anagram of "One amen.' 5 14. Change "O I'm a nut'' to an American game bird. !?' $u C ° Ver its index n »mber. 7. The kind of accident thai may present a billiards cannon. 15. Giving out. oo" «" p !y p °, f war of o1( lcn times. -8. \\ itl'out light this is useless to vou. -0. Far away. £he reason for locks an<l bolts. '. . 1)6 desired in judges. 3 \on may do this Irom as'iiriih* ment. —>. This was the reward of 30 not so long ago. 35. Images. 36, A Japanese drink.