COMPETITIONS CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 182, 4 August 1930, Page 10

COMPETITIONS CORNER.

TESTS FOR OUR READERS.

ACROSS,

1. Epithet for a gargoyle. 9. The beginning of a walk. 10. Chest. 11. This gives you a ticket after a small company. 12. Affectionate name for a great game. 13. Book of the O.T. 15. A shortened name or a whole tribe. 16. Touch. 19. French novelist who serves English undergrade. 21. A port of the Empire. 22. Fair. 24. The right cure for crimes of violence. 26. Make a rustle bright. 29. Troops in the blue. , 31. "Coir match" (anag.). 32. The boy in the sanatorium got nervous when the doctor said that this was what he needed. 34. Title. 35. Valuable in the first aid outfit. 36. "She'll see, drat her! Mine are real binoculars'' (hidden). ■'. . 37. Most untrue epithet for a wave (ask the ladies!). DOWN. 2. Established. 3 ; Meal in the East. 4. Base. 5. 'A slice of South America. 6. The answer to this kind of question is not easy.

In this corner i« given a problem for solution by our readeri. Prizes -will not be offered, the idea being to present the reading public with tome brain-te«tingr difficulties which each may smooth out to his satisfaction.

7. Musical direction. 8. A dwarf among firearms. 9. Pamiliar Dartmoor feature. 14. A tip in the days,of old. 17. A branch of art. 18. Decorate. 19. Stands generally for an officer in command. \ 20. A dog, perhaps, but certainly oue after the whip. 23. The "province" of a constable. 20. "Ta! Ethel!" (anag.). 27. Kind of musical composition. 28. This chemical is dislike when decapitated. I 29. A special kind Of rowing boat. 30. A specially cured fish. 33. A combination of men.