COMPETITIONS CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 285, 1 December 1928, Page 13

COMPETITIONS CORNER.

TESTS FOR OUR READERS.

In thin corner we will give daily a problem for solution by out readers. Prizes will not be offered, the idea being to present tbe reading public with some brain-testing difficulties which each may smooth out to his satisfaction. *

ACROSS. 1. Well-known English public school. 5. Great statesman. 9. Bird of the niglit. 10. Vegetable. 11. "Castile" (anag.). 12. Word in marriage aervicu disliked by feminists. 13. What to do with a stamp. 14. The man who began Blavery. 17. This suggests depths unfathomable. 19. Old master famed for portraits. 21. Utter. 24. Famous racehorse. 27. The voice of 9 across. 28. English city. 29. Place. 32. French town that gave its name to some lace. 33. Make of car. 34. Bird that can be seen in one of the monkey tribe. 35. What this is nobody knows. 36. What the maker hopes this puzzle will do to you.

DOWN. 1. Documentary evidence of com* achievement, perhaps. 2. Forbidden by one of tli'e Command* ments. 3. Scottish island. 4. Not an epithet for the pessimist. 5. Fault. 0. Useful in a racc, and the i.earor to the winning post the more useful it is. 7. Bird. H. A sword position. 15. The larger part of a cucumber. 16. Charm of a kind. 18. Tree that is otherwise common indoors as well as outdoors. 20. River of Germany. 21. One of the twelve. 22. Valour. 23. English name for a small clump of hush. 24. Great Reformation name. 25. The original paper. 26. Mouth of a river. SO. Mediterranean port that is bigger than it 6 name would succest. ?1. Inscct.