COMPETITIONS CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 37, 13 February 1932, Page 15

COMPETITIONS CORNER.

ACROSS. 3—Who could have been this, if not Zeus and Mnemosyne? 9—One gets too frightful]}- bored with ( sfible. 10 —A London .suburb. 11—A little friend of the East. 12—Just put in to make things less obvious. 13—Temporary. 14—Passionate.

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18—Now here's a really inexpensive place to spend your" summer holidays. 22—A very youthful equipment. 23—Uncommonly pleasant. - 24—Silk, artificial stone, or cat. 20—Musical instrument, or, curtailed, the tone of it. 30—Known to the lawyer, the gunner, and the electrician. 31 —Regulated. —This is not allowed.

35—Reveal. 38—A Biblical character. 39—He is colloquially done for. 40—Hidden in "It is less urgent each day." 41—Description which might become a fashionable spy—especially if spiritually inclined. DOWN. I—Pardon, for the most part what you seek to do. 2—Defile. (Bo careful, or you may be let in with tliis.) 3—The sort of man who will be au fait with the latest fashion. 4 —lt is really fun in the spring ti> notice this characteristic of, shall we say, a pcacock. s—Discerning. 6 —lt needs a good conjurer to get thia Out of a silk hat. 7 —Row. i B—An inveterate smoker. 15—Public. 10—Eliminate main part of eliminate and select the other part. 17 —A drain is the obvious place to find anything so low. 19—An animal which only needs aspiration to be wanner. •20—South-country district. 21—The warm part of the autunm months. 25—Curtail; decapitate, and, behold a game. 27—This is what it ceases to be as soon as you fill it in correctly. 28—Mischievous. 29—Speech. 33—Extended. 34—The sort of fish to find fault with. 30—Adroitness to be seen in 41 across. 37—An animal full of affection. (h) WEDNESDAY'S SOLUTION. ACROSS.—Spaces, Camperdown, Borneo, Pots, Offal, Butchery, Actor, Memento, Cadet, Emily, Trellis, Geese, Motorcar, Ascot, Bailc, Kanciu, liess{tanes, Eterne. . DOWN. —Promulgate, Conic, Scop., Empty, Arrogate, Comfit, Antler, Orderly, Venison, Comb, Obligation, Bets,, Treatise, Grasps, Exceed, Marne, lerse, fiange. .A