COMPETITIONS CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 249, 20 October 1928, Page 13

COMPETITIONS CORNER.

TESTS FOR OUR READERS. In this corner we will give daily a problem for solution by our readers. Prizes will not be offered, the idea being to present die reading public with some brain-testing difficulties which each may smooth out to his satisfaction.

ACROSS. 1. Venomous Indira serpents. 6. Garment. ft. This is merely a supposition. 10. One of the many, garden pests. 12. The scold of old vu liable to wear this. 15. Write not wrong here. ,18. ▲ battle of '64. 19. The good housewife likes to hear of this. 21. Sown by the farmer - and lored by the wood pigeon. 22. Atone for. 24. Flower. 25. A kingly name. • 28. One who wrote "To err is Tinman to forgive divine." 28. "Bring the — primrose that forsaken dies."—Milton. 29. This kind of furniture is generally of French origin. • 34. An Irish city. 35. A name for hazel catkins. 36. Incline. 37. Make of car.

■ ' 1 ■ ' ' i DOWN. 1. This marks the triumph of the villain of the drama. 2. Pine. 3. Yon can settle if you this mine. 4. "Hands up" is perhaps the modem r equivalent. 5. Just write nonsense in her*. 7. Necessary. 16. The Parliamentary candidate will r find this kind of ability liwfnl 8. A weed made from two sombit 7 words. 11. Used to be trodden underfoot. 13. One of the goat family. 14. British martyr. 17. Seen at the Academy. j 20. Though cold this is hot. 23. Food in the Far East. • 27. This might be called the Westen equivalent of the last. r 30. Feminine name. 31. "The Press everywhere should, jf wise, ventilate real grievances* (hidden). 32. Flower. 33. On this we live.