COMPETITIONS CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 52, 2 March 1929, Page 16

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 the reading public with some brain-testing difficulties which each may smooth out to his satisfaction.

ACROSS. I. This >ovt of utterance i- not original. II). A tasty li*h. 11. Careful. 12. A song bird. l~i. Often carries a dead weight. lt>. Break, ami may lie mad if deprived of a. head. 17. A crow is commonly associated with this liird. is. A soldier hearing this is is no longer at his ease. 1!). What a triangle is that a circle is not. 20. A sovereign substitute. 22. The spirit of the Navy. 24. "Secured" (anag.'i. 20. A pot-hunter who may be >aid to he mending his way. 27. This comforts the this beheaded man. 30. I.ate. -»I. Four little words are harmful. 32. Public performers who attract copper* (of both kinds).

DOWN. 2. Brief. 3. French town that contain- an old and famous eity. 4. The above, after the E.E. quitted it. 5. Th is is smuggled a good deal (slang', (i. This is applicable to inanimate ohjects. 7. The excavator's motto. S. Everybody has one in Bedlam. !>. A famous Thames-side hostelry. 13. This is consequent on an electric spark. 14. Loyal. 1 Coming too late. 21. Touching line that >ugge-t< a sunburned laddie. 2.". Malice. 24. Red ochre. 25. In this much pressure is brought to bear on a low-down fellow. 2S. Adventure offer* this opening to anvone. 2!). Some militant folk will join any society that starts with this.