COMPETITIONS CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 171, 22 July 1930, Page 9

COMPETITIONS CORNER.

TESTS FOR OUR READERS. In this corner is given 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. 2. I'm between • fish and insect, with .bright result. 8. Card game. 9. A backward man makes a former province of Persia. 10. One whose brush was dipped in gold —for the benefit of posterity only. 11. Saucy. 13. Has prominent teeth, and nothing much else. 16. Displays, illuminated centre for choice. 17. One of twelve. IS. A plot, but in another guise 'tis sure. 20. Destruction. 21. True of all living organisms. 24. I am on the middle of this stone. 27. Children likfe Winnie the reverse of this, as well as this. 29. You can reduce this visit by a quarter, and yet it is all there. 30. A sacred book. ' 31. He stood on the pole, with heart and ear as one. 32. Pronoun. 35. This is misled as to the middle. 37. Flowers. * 38. An item from a concert, perhaps. 39. A relative of the goat. 40. "Men must on"' (aiiag.). DOWN. 1. The way-to puzzle you. 2. Lancashire town. 3. Want of decision. 4. If a vegetable changes to this it will ruin your saucepan. 5. A member of the Cabinet. 6. Fright is mostly right, and this is . mostly wrong!, t 7. This time, and you stay where you are.

11. Open space that is mostly a closcd vessel; 12. Used on the billiard table. 14. Kind of flower. 15. Bird. 19. By no means an arid stretch. 22. Many women read in home before this; 23. A burden, but don't worry, it's O.K. at heart. 25. Time.. 26. An athlete, no doubt. 28. A gun equal to two "barkers." 20. A moment big with fate. 33. One of the deer family. 34. This vehicle go-cs backwards to market. 30. Vegetable. , ANSWER TO MONDAY'S PUZZLE.