COMPETITIONS CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 85, 11 April 1933, Page 17

COMPETITIONS CORNER.

ACROSS. I I—This kind of skill looks as if it might be useful to a designer of berets. 6—This land is 7 down. 9—Trifling. 10—This inhabitant of the sea becomes noisy with our addition. 12—Grain. 14—Famous racehorse. 17—"Tie lowing herd winds slowly o'er the " (Gray). 15—An outstanding name in Italian history. 21—The novice is this after 25 across. 22 —Make of car. ! 23—Treat. 1 25 —Request. 26—The poet's brink. 27—Ailing. 32—Only a part of something that you ! can get a hint from. 33—Vehicle. 34—"Prouder than rustling in unpaid- | for " ("Cymbeline"). 35—The kind of change that makes j better men when tailless. 1 DOWN. I—Resting-places from 6 across. 2—A feline. 3—This vessel made a name for itself and its commander in the war. 4—Town of France. s—There's5 —There's something about a stream j, that is exciting. 7 —"Die on Canal" (anag.). B—That "Vicar of Bray" kind of person. 11 —A poet's lament.

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13—Branch of the Army in our fathers' times. 15—"Gave rat gas" (anag..) 16—Notorious but not necessarily bad. 19—Fish that may be caught by its head. 20—This is a geographical peculiarity of Chili 24—Tree. 28—Instruction to break a Commandment. 29—By this one may propagate some plants. 30—Try about this for leather work. 31—"Alas, poor Yorick, a fellow of infinite •» ("Hamlet"). (z) MONDAY'S SOLUTION. ACROSS.—Winner, Porthole, Tirade, Acrostic. Echoed, Beverage, Rider, Restless, Creation, Sober, Outlined, Punish, Columbia, Dictum, Eventual, Beacon. DOWN".—Voucher, Stooped, Postwar, Teacher, Witness, Narwhal, Endless, Vice, Rest, Tool, Even, Routine, Asiatic, Inhuman, Notched, Stilted, Bismuth, RecitaL (y)