"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 261, 4 November 1935, Page 12

"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

ACROSS. I—Model of deportment who appears to suffer an ultimate comedown. B—Gay heroine of nursery rhyme. 9 —Kind of red-skir though green at first and latterly impo. — 11—Verses. 12 —Baal in 0.-fb (am g.I.

Tests For Our Readers.

13 —Chemical which suggests sjicod after dark. 14 —Money-making plant. 17 —A fraction less than half this. 18—One should learn from an alternative to an expression of impatience. • 22—Nothing more than may be found on 1 a coin for a dog.

23 —Proverbially horned. 1 27—"Bid me to live, and I will live thy . . . to be." 28—I stand between the Bluff King and ; part of his kingdom. . f 29—Jack Spratt could eat nothing of tnis r kind. 3ft —A lot less than a knight. , [. 31—Servitors who appear to wait on insects. DOWN. | I—Must rant? These may be the cause, r 2—Poison which would have rendered the ?- Pied Piper's services unnecessary. 3—Dish for a Thames islander. 4—Evolutionary revolutionary. . , i s—Poet who suggests a Cockney pointing out a horse to a Highland friend. 6—lmpervious to bolts from the blue. 7—Mollify. . , 10—A fish —for a little Liberal in a little house. 15—Put the time on a bit. 16—Wash which sounds like an expression of contempt at a fake. _ *■'. te 19—Dance in which Lorna just fails to make her name at Riga. 20 —Study crickct matches for compel ft tions. V--2l—Put1 —Put an Irishman in a hole to see bow r his heart goes. 24—Band suggestive of a dwarf limb. 25 —Paster (anag.). • n 26—Caught sight of. (10®)