COMPETITIONS CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 50, 28 February 1935, Page 27

COMPETITIONS CORNER.

ACROSS. 3—Something you can make light of. B—Garment sometimes flame-coloured. 9 —Nevertheless the source of hay now. 10 —Good winding-up dances, apparently. 11—Changing a thing with a sense of loathing. 12—May be a difficult question, but' it s full of ease. 13—Follow. 16—Could you get tho truth from such instruments?

TESTS FOR OUR READERS.

19 —Vessels to boast about. 22—Take a prose composition to make it clear. 23—Someone has termed it a shade unrestful. 24 —Lift. 25—This is obvious. 26 —Tendency. 29 —Protuberances. 32 —A man who will probably get his commission all right. 35—In foreign parts, but not necessarily so if a rumour gets it, '

36—This A.B. is upset by the Customs. 37 —In a northerly direction —this is silly, isn't it? 38—A Highland attendant. 39 —Inborn. 40 —Total to put into circulation.

DOWN. I—What1 —What a draughtsman likes drawing best. 2 —The soldier who fails to win it may think it vulgar trash: so it is!—most of it. 3—Cause to be absorbed. 4 —For this lock is a strong place. s—Something you can make in a hurry. 6 —Does light work, but Mondays it's differently arranged. 7 —One end of this strait is undoubtedly fishy. 14 —Naught may answer this. 15—Foul. 16 —Short in weight. 17 —A shaver might get keen on the best part of this river. 18—Fed up. 19 —You prefer to give a wide one to some people. 20 —A self-evident truth with a couple of tens in it. 21—Appears to be a direction and a foreign spa. 27 —Burrowing animal. 28 —Duffer. 30—Courteous prohibition in an English river. 31 —This vegetable may be transferred to a pot. 32—French leave? 33—It's strictly correct to enforce payment. 34 —N-t belonging to you and me. (k)

WEDNESDAY'S SOLUTION.

ACROSS. — Notwithstanding, Instead, Stripes, Hour, Canon, Fair, Observe, Kitchen, Respect, Exclaim, Ibis, Earth, Laic, Earwigs, Alcohol, Superstitiously. DOWN. —Neighbourliness, Tissues, Item, Hydrate, Tussock, Nero, Impeach, Gastronomically, Creek, Stick, Stirrup, Transit, Extract, Abashes, Liar, Eoho. (i)