COMPETITIONS CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 264, 7 November 1932, Page 15

COMPETITIONS CORNER.

TESTS FOR OUR READERS

ACROSS. 1—34 across—or is it a South American girl? . : jj-By indefinite. means, important kind of person «i early England and within a T of bealg in Kent. "-Typical of beggars, u—Part, of a vowel but not of a consonant. IZ -One<jf.the U.S.A.

13—Distasteful in the extreme, what the Irish tenants do. 16 a -way they have in Scandinavia. 17—Milton poem. 18—Distress- mentally, 20 —Disorganise. ~ i. 24 —River of India. 27 —Feminine name. 28 —Reversed. 32—"The head is a crown of glory (Proverbs).

33—Oriental shrub. 34—English town. 35 —One of the great rivers of Europe. 30 —Much the same as 13 across. 37—Silly. DOWN. I—American river that seems to give unnecessary advice to the Scot playing Pool. 2 —Quality once essential in Art and Literature before the days of Epstein. 3 —Great British novelist. 4—Nautical direction. s—She5 —She does not need out-sizes. C —Wooden goblet with metal rim of olden days. , 7 —"He will hold thee . . . something better than his dog, a little dearer than his " (Tennyson). B—The scene of Monday's labours. 14 —Part of 35 across. 15 —Before her this is sooner. 19 —Famous theatrical producer. 20 —Heroine of the O.T. 21—Sea bird.

22 —Part of India that does not want to secede from the British Empire (for a very good reason). 23—Kind of dog. 25—Game that once threatened to become popular. 26 —Antonym of self-conceit. 29—Angling is the gentle this. 30 —May be a vessel or a little smoke. 31—"Large" (anag). (v) SATURDAY'S SOLUTION. ACROSS.—Fritillary, Were, Underworld, Expert, Rowel,' Power, Satin, Evident, Staff, Alibi, Emotion, Infer, Dress, Songs, Ernest, Revelation, Crew, Palindrome. DOWN.—Rank, Twelve, Lower, Arrow, Yodel, Repertoire, Westindies, Orinoco, Evening, Pestilence, Wharfinger, Refer, Stand, Rotter, Strap, Novel, Salon, Doom. (u) Astounding purchase of 600 dozen ladies' earn pie handkerchiefs will be offered to-morrow and following days by Smith and Caughey, Ltd., at half the usual rates. Be early.—(Ad.)