COMPETITIONS CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 15, 19 January 1933, Page 10

COMPETITIONS CORNER.

TESTS FOR OUR READERS.

ACROSS. I—Bird with hurried tail. s—Consecrate. B—A form of double lever often taken in hand. 10 —Parisian street of bitter association. 11—It would be this to use 4 down for the lady's headgear. 12——Chilled steel, could one call it? 15 —Interchanged chemically. 18 —Just a speck. 20—You might make a note of this prefix. 21—Might well describe the depressed owner of 25 across who ran out of petrol miles from anywhere. 22—<This famous scientist died recently. 24 —Foreign coin. 25 —See 21 across. 20 —British river. 127 —Eastern official.

29 —This is seen in baskets more often than any other thing. .32 —Condition. i 34 —An item in the sale. 3f>—French King sheltered by a heroine. , 3(s—Many people walk about Barking who have not this disease. 37—As yet can make nought but a baker's assistant. 38 —Foodstuff that suggests a goat. DOWN. 2 —Hail an egg-holder in straightforward fashion. : 3—Loose. 4—Afghan town suggestive of male pest. s—This famous writer was, one imagines, a bit of a pig. o—Put up. 7 —Uncertainty.

9 —"lndian moon" (anag.). 10—Quite out of the ordinary. 13—The scholar's portion. 14—A mixed pie to me is summary. 10—Forbidden. v 17—Deference. 19—A striking tree. 23—The ideal way, no doubt, for 25 across to run. 28—"Tea era" (anag.). 30—In overturned succour is this land. 31 —A form of torso. 32 —A European in 30 down. 33—A cleric. t(e) WEDNESDAY'S SOLUTION. ACROSS —Cleveland, Petain, Alarmist, Bazaar, Galore, Coot, X urse, Lesson, Reached, Asperse, Paunch, Anker, Rear, Elopes, Cudgel, Asperity, Ninety, Celebrity. ' * DOWN — Lilian, Vardon, Loiter, Noticed, Sedate, Macassar, Infringes, Bolus, Ruth, Dropscene, Abundant, Ethel, Peel, Warfare, Create, Kelpie, Roarer, Sestet. (d)