COMPETITIONS CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 21, 25 January 1934, Page 26

COMPETITIONS CORNER.

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ACROSS. I—The first English printer. C —The site of Wellesley's (afterwards Duke of Wellington) first great battle, 1808, 11—Epoch. 12—The author of "East Lynne."

13—So bo it. 14—Mountain pape. 16—American wild cat. 18 —Issue. 19—Poisonous Java tree. 20—Fish. 22—Devoured.

23—Recede. 25—The ancient name of Poland. 28—Unoccupied. 29 —Small hard growths. 31—The wife of Ivor, Duke of Kiev, who was canonised in the Russian Church. 33—Tied. 37—Employ. 38—Help. 39—Sheep. 40—Valley. 43 —Terminates. 45—Centre angle. 47 —The fourth President of the third French Republic, who was assassinated in 1894. 49—Exclamation. 50 —Circular trip. 51 —Freeh water fish. 52—Populace. 53—Shooting star. DOWN.

I—Genua of cactuses. 2—The Yorkshire schoolmaster who murdered Daniel Clark in 1745. . 3—"The Apostle of the Indies," one of the first disciples of Loyola. 4—Possess. s—Christmas. 6 —Large Indian etork. 7—lcelandic tale. B—Entertained. 9—Affirmation. 10—Drape. 15 —Particular. 17—Simian. 21—Resin. 22—Ventilated. 24—Colour. 2ft—Pointed instruments. 27 —Numbers of lesser numbers. 30—Pronoun. 31—"The Bayard of India." 32—The Scottish woman who threw a stool at the head of the Dean in St. Giles Cathedral, 1037. 84—Jug.

35—The engineer who constructed Waterloo Bridge. 36—Polisher. 38 —Wing. 41—Directs. 42 —Surface impurities. 44—Large bird without (he power ot flight, once found in Mauritius, but now extinct. 46—Exclamation. 48—French measure. (n) WEDNESDAY'S SOLUTION. ACROSS.—Wear, Debut, Dumb, Demit, Raven, Gait, Rungs. Rite. Enticed, Estates, Raced, Eon, Client, Eulogise, Hens, Owens, Tenet, Craters, Fresh, Rise, Mete, Furnaces, Waiter, Err, Trail, Deletes, Artists, Rear, Sound, Test, Vesta, Genie, Weed, Speed Anna. DOWN.—Wage, Adit, Retires, Director, Etude, Urge, Tassel, Derange, Unit, Bees, Angle, Tease, Can, Toots, Dentist, Chaff, Inner, Uses, Inset, Ether, Ware, Chart, Rewarded, Rupee, Sneered, Militia, Tents, Crests, Ait, Range, Draw, Lave, Soap, Seen, Stoa. ( m )