"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 3000, 19 December 1935, Page 18

"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

ACROSS. I—ln pursuit of property for results. • B—About8 —About fifty a lady becomes bony. 9—"Goes up in smoke." 10 —Referring to a coin not long ago. 12—Country whose capital proclaims itself. 13—Fact associated with pomp in music. 14 —Scottish town. 15 —It is fishy to get money with ease. 17—Philomel's cry. 19—Landless painter. 20 —Tool or berry. 24 —Long to give one's assent to the navy. 27 —It is bewildering to find I am out of corn. 28 —A sarcastic person. 31—Fruit: without capital you would be without them. 32—Indicative of "sound" sleep? 33 —Obliterate, the front last. 34 —I competed, and the result was a climb, not a walk-over. 35 —She means to plant aromatic shrubs such as lavender and jasmin (hidden). 36 —Serious £ s. d. DOWN. I—Artificially influenced. 2—People have been "taken for a ride ' in them. 3 —This, naturally, will make secure. 4c ? . S—in alien surrounding.

Tests For Our Readers.

6 —A suicidal practice. 7—Surround. 11 —Bad when old. 16—Verb "I seem" (anag.). 17 —Attempted score. 18—Your vessel when you join the navy. 21 —Sports building. 22—E.g. December 25. 23 —Singing books. 25—Link up, as it were. 26 —Causes of friction at the card-table? 20—Parted without tea as a sign of harmonious proceedings. 30—It's rum as a platitude. (152)

WEDNESDAY'S SOLUTION.