COMPETITIONS CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 115, 18 May 1933, Page 10

COMPETITIONS CORNER.

ACROSS. s—Result. B—A colour. 9 It isn't, in short, a blemish. 10 A trial to the thin-skinned at Christmas-time. 11—Obsolete coin. 14—Gentleman apt to wander if confused. People of this description do not believe in. protecting ieeks.

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10—Tucks of a sort. 18—Might describe an airman's badge. 19 —A pig-headed artist. 22—Rout. 24 —This makes short work of a job. 26—Conflict. 28 —Paradoxically not the uniform tor night operations. 32 —Illuminating to acrostic solvers. 34—One of the U.S.A.

35—Nice nickname for a lady who thinks that plenty of powder ffill help her to be a "big noise." 36—And wliat might greet her. 37 —Straws of this kind are for humanj consumption. 38—Doubtless loathed by the 15 across. DOWN". I—Do it to make 36 across. 2—A cleric. 3—Make a potato into a nasty fellow. 4 —And you do not need this to help you. s—lf5 —If the lady is in it, she'll naturally; be an heiress. 6 —Public school. 7 —Raise. 12—May turn the tide of conflict. 13—A story suggests he should have naa something to do with Bannockbuißi but he did not. 14—One big dam. . 17 —It's very unfeeling to hail us about nothing at all. 20—There's no safety in this. 21 —Crude. 23 —Perhaps a curio, in case. 25—Plate of sorts. 27 —This, gone into, can change a all right. 20 —Dressed poetically. 30 —A supporter of Art. 31 —This cannot well be drunk. 33—Possesses in the past. A 6': WEDNESDAY'S SOLUTION. j 1 ACROSS. — Welloff, Coir, Offend. Water, Design, Exempt, Opus, I Turn, Cascade, Brim, Dodo, Aruad > Spur, Amos, Real, Minute, Girdle, Aeg 1 Barsac, Pink, Extinct. DOWN.—Honest, Wraith, Lawn, Octopus, Forestalls, Affected, Inspired, Oc?ur rence, Reprisal, Marquess, DrftUg Abrupt, Oblong, Gown.