COMPETITIONS CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 221, 18 September 1930, Page 11

COMPETITIONS CORNER.

TESTS FOR OUR READERS.

ACROSS. ,1. Fragmentary fight. 4. Saucy, sea. 8. "Love sum'" (anag.). 9. Lie down under. 10. ■ "And Noah he' cocked his eye and • said, "It looks like , I think," 11; Condition of existence.' 12. Waterfalls, , 15. Architects often impose upon these. Iβ. Without necessarily being guilty of 18. Little bites. ■• *' 4 / 21. When bread is this, it's, a nice thing if it isn't rationed. 123. Gingerbread used to, be this, as we .know by the saying. 24. And another speaks of sex-equality in the matter of this for geese. 25. There are no notes on Gunga's piano, nor wires inside (hidden). 28. So that when Gunga employs, a tuner, his task is far from. this. 29. Immertj. . 30. Enviable function of . the dragon which, in six months, had swallowed fourteen knights in full armour. 31. Plural gloom. DOWN. 1. Pound. . .' 2. The leader who does this to his troops might be glad of it headless. 3. Footgear. 4. Water-taps are useful, to these, and . vice versa. *.-..'-..

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. ' .

ANSWER TO MONDAY'S PROBLEM,

5- There's a different number to this clue. 6. Best sellers at the circulating library 'are this. ■ . 7. The best people don't wear coronets without these. . - ■ . 9. Nor utter these in the House. 13. Wooden leg. 14. Channel expert.. 17. Scientific soldiers. 19. Prize-winner at the Ugly Dog Show. 20. These should not be worn with No. 3's. V- , 21. "'E 'adtt't . 'ardly spoke the word before a droppin , shell A little right the batt'ry an' between the • s fell." ' ' 22. Spasm of naughty temper. 23! Giving a baby this, as a wedding ' 'present has nothing to do with infant marriage. 26. Prominence. 27. Middle'part of a pyramid. (s , )

Across.—Apostles, Hampered,,' Deerskin, Retrieve, Realised, Partial, One, Ingots, Fluctuate,, Grease, Villa, Enlarge, Mangling, Herdsman, Strangle, Nonsense, Adherent.. • '.;■'.' :■■'■: '■■" Down..- 1 - Pamela, Spirit, Freelance, Adder, Omega/ Testing, Evident, Rife, I.OiU.'s, Let; '-Itinerant, Nell, Omar, Language, Ave, Riasted, Lassodd, Glassy, Ingle, Ghent. ' v (r)