"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 206, 31 August 1936, Page 14

"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

ACROSS. I—Elizabethan clergyman, narrator of the voyages of the great mariners. 7—Maggots. 11—Lubricate. 12 —Tropical climbing plants. 13—Not in. 14—Alpine pass, the gateway from Germany into Italy. 15 —French actor, a famous figure in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era. 17—Old name for the London district of "Whitefriarg," a refuge. of bad characters. 19 —Reverberation. t 22—Confer a name. 23 —Against.

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25 —English <$" an iatißt, author of "The Walls of/Jericho." 27—Fixed. 29 —Put on. 30—Pouch. 32—Cover, 34—8100d-relation. 36 —Distant. 38—One. the assassins of Julius Caesar, the first to stab the tyrant. 41—Saiat and Apostle who first preached the' Gospel to the Gentiles. 43—P if fix meaning "ill." 45 —p/onoun. 46—The birthplace of Richard Wagner, the famous composer. 49—loafer.

51 —Group of minerals. 53—Born. 54 —City of Asiatic Russia. 55 —Human being. 56 —Spanish town from which the wine "sherry" gets its name. 57 —Legendary Theban who solved the riddle and made an end of 34 down. DOWN. I—Seventeenth1 —Seventeenth century political writer, author of "Leviathan." 2—Tune. 3 —Name given to the brigands of Greeie and Albania. 4—Bone of the forearm. s—Submit.5 —Submit. 6—The birthplace of 41 across. 7 —The inventor of the first practicable steam-engine. B—Man's name. o—Silent. 10 —The "Man of Steel," autocrat of Soviet Russia. 16—Associate of the Institute of Actuaries (abbr.). 18 —Son of Adam and Eve, who was the first shepherd (Bible). 20 —The court of the papal see. 21—Sphere. 24—Well-known opera by Puccini, whose scene is laid in Rome in 1800. 26—Dolt. 28 —Nervous affliction. 31—The bibulous nurse in Dickens' "Martin Chuzzlewit." 33—Bird. 34 —Monster of Greek mythology who put riddles to travellers and slew those who could not solve them. 35 —British general who commanded in the first disastrous months of the Boer War. 37 —Mary Stuart's Italian secretary, murdered at Holyrood in 1566. 39—Crustacean. 40—City of Greece. 42 —Southern general whose surrender to Grant ended the American Civil War. 44—Sift. 47 —Troubles. 48 —Urge forward. 50 —Scottish river. 52 —T-shaped cross. (f) FRIDAY'S SOLUTION. ACROSS.—Scramble, Posset, Resolute, Shrimp, Waterfowl, Roads, Bow, Specie, Idler, Manor, Sitter, Cat, Hitch, Lucrative, Tenant, Gradient, Cutter, Secreted. DOWN.—Strewn, Rosyth, Molar, Lotto, Otherwise, Suitably, Tapestry, Albert, Foe, Perchance, Castle, Emphatic, Instinct, Tar, Divert, Bested, Curve, Alder. (e) SATURDAY'S SOLUTION. ACROSS.—Patriarchs. Scot, Reasonable, Emir, Stabs, Clue, Hollyhock, Toxic, Later, Endeavour. Leek, Happy, Ibis, Lipservice, Sage, Infallible. DOWN.—Port, Trap, Iron, Roast, Halfbaked, Complexion, Threescore, Chilblains Flattering, Myrrh, Steak, Operation, Pasha, Oral, Limb, Sere. (<i)