COMPETITIONS CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 112, 14 May 1935, Page 15

COMPETITIONS CORNER.

ACROSS. s—That final threat to peace. 7 —Essential one might imagine to that flowing style pi writing. B—l seem to have got between a thousand and ten to blend. 9—Though a spirited young lady of old, literally gets her "speed" from Now York.

TESTS FOR OUR READERS.

11 —Through forty-nine literally constituting the danger. 12 —Now then, young fellow my lad, what Co you make of yourself? 13—Plenty in him, lazy beast though ho sound. 15 —In the first place a sailor being on the whole more efficient. 16—Or hay perchance might well turn white with age. 17 —What's in a dinner to suggest such all-round hospitality ? 19—Put on, shall we say, your garb of a professor. 20—As he comes to you for nothing why question his teeth? DOWN. I—Mightl—Might we term him one of the Ancient Order of Buffaloes? 2—She has the name of being a prophetess. 3—All merry and bright, so why not chance a start? 4—May mean mother, so not a word if you please! C—Beneath the poor fieh to be even a £ibordinate. o—Under0 —Under which lip-service has to be more or less tolerated. 9—ln sequence what number is tha number left ? 10 —Customary occupation of pleasure for a wooden horse. 14 —Motorists or not, wo never give two if we really don't care, lo—la 'it mother's little grumble at inflammatory youth? 18—Can mean really ■ nothing, though you put up fifty not out. 19—Even a penny" thus" means some distinction of service. (u)

MONDAY'S SOLUTION. ACROSS. — Coward, Stop, Fracas, [raq. Tadpole, Late, Trinket, Flea, Anagram, Sock, Eulogy, Taps, Snatch. DOWN.—Cuff, What, Road, Threat, Piqjed, Cab-rank, Spinage, Illegal, Offset, Tea-cup, Ruin, Most, Ayah. (t)