"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 170, 20 July 1935, Page 14 (Supplement)

"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

ACROSS. I—Young's leer may be read in kindly fashion. 6—Animal that haunts the allotments. (Ask your broker!) 10 —Made from leather and a little fish. 11 —Hanger-on: you can "tell it" from his heart. 12—Without anxiety. 13—One sign is all right in the head of 19 across. > * 15—If this gathering loses its head it means very unsporting advice to the fighter. 17 —The worst kind of drink, says my wife, though it might be her best. 19 —Half a score of fellows for parts of your frame. 21—Different sorts of writers beside the composer of this puzzle on an allowance. 22 —Unfeeling. 24—A matter of this isn't necessarily a sum of money. 27—Columbine. 28 —To beautify may be trouble to the Fleet. 29 —A piercing answer. 30—Parts of bicycles that are not given away. DOWN. I—Blast1 —Blast that requires nothing to provide relish. 2—That's telling! 3 —Eastern money providing foreign soup. 4—Turn round with all hands below.

Tests For Our Readers.

s—When they are really important, they are always stuck up. 7—lt's not only a swindler who may win by one. B—vegetables and shade from jade. 9—Poles (a couple of them) each side of the last-named for no charming lady. 14—Fair amusement. 16——Slit you'd find it hard to escape by. 18—Edges and colour make up the treatment at Dotheboys Hall. 20—Niggers laughingly disguised. 21—Soup. 23—Something to go by. 25—Bit of the river to arrive at and when beheaded it's still both. 26 —The final clue appropriately finishes here. ( w )

THURSDAY'S SOLUTION.

ACROSS. —Greatgrandson, Encompass, Idles, Mover, Sandpaper, Nursling, Oddest, Adders, Conspire, Slippered, Radio, Gills, Scraphea.p, Goasyouplease. DOWN.—Recovered, Admiral, Assent, Dripped, Orlop, Germansausage, Espritdecorps. Absent, Evildoers, Ponder, Reposes, Scruple, Presto, Igloo. (v)