COMPETITIONS CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 252, 24 October 1934, Page 12

COMPETITIONS CORNER.

ACROSS. I—Leander's heart trouble, the adulation of the great. 7 —His letters suggest considerable drawing ability. B—What's the bidding, bridge or no? 9—He would appear a strange dog at heart, countryman of ours though he be. 10 —Try as we would suggest to get a bit off the track. 12—Very much on the qui vive where the beer starts. 14 —From its make-up what a likely type, poor little thing, for vivisection. 15 —As an industrial process seems to want some beating-. 17 —End of the present participle as we know it. 18—One that doesn't agree with us at any rate. DOWN. I—No physical defect as one might suspect, and certainly far from being serious. 3 —Of the remainder only some is actually owing. 3—Seemingly all of us are welcome to make our own cloth. 4—On which landsmen find it difficult to live and sailors often impossible. s—Scottish5 —Scottish troops being not unduly laden, according to their letters. 6—Dwt. II —"Ore unit" (anag.). 13—Out of the whole string four-fifths might be drunk. 14—Problematical strength of what sounds a mere infant. 15—Numbers in short might upset the child- .(u)

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MONDAY'S SOLUTION. ACROSS. — Off, Benedict, Banal, Macaw, Stud, Net, Sends, Sob, Lily, Nails, Stood, Injuries, Pen. DOWN—Fraction, Eel. Verp., Titan, Its, Bands, Minus, Well-done, Slots, Banjo, Lyre, Vie, Set. (t)