"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 44, 22 February 1937, Page 17

"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

TESTS FOR OUR READERS.

ACROSS. I—Settlements for Britain's Rota. 9—Pondera to make a reply. 10—Exhilarate sounds like * tavern steeple. 11—Produce a short cut here. 12—A rascal would be found in a military station if he lost his head. 13—Grains of courage. I®—ln this direction real dew is apparent. 17—Bends of this description need careful negotiation. 18 —You'll And me backwards at the beginning, the end finished and the whole corrected. 21—A rodent in mixed rice is irregular. 23—Small children. 24—A bad shot! 25 —Capital change of a song. 28—Gorge. 28—As a result of these bombastic denunciations no wonder trade is changed. 30—Put a pert singer in confusion by making this adventurous.

DOWN. 2—The sreater of the ingredients of this is a flat-fiah. 3—Money can be made from this image. 4—Contracted. s—Mixed with rum, pith is a great auccesa. 6 —Put out. 7—You may have put your foot in it here. B—Obstinate and unyielding: this may be only curtain poise! 9—For remembrance regarding an assemblage of works of art, perhaps. 14—Two pennies in one's salary may cause this fit of temper. 15—A head-dress of merit? 19—To put a thousand in a certain formation of Exeter could be excessive. 20—Sceptic. 21—A crqssmaker with franchise rights. 22—Subjected to sole pressure. 26—Not right is correct here. 27—Mars is an appropriate anagram for them. (18)