"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 157, 5 July 1937, Page 15

"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

TEST'S FOR OUR READERS.

ACROSS. I—To shoot on part of the range is but a meretricious bit of work (hyphen, 3 and lit. B—A8 —A Dutch possession (4). 9—You may think at first a depression is approaching this archipelago (9j. 10 —Just beautiful (4). 14 —All light on the farm, but not in the back, to the farmer's thinking (4). lo—An artist, doctor, and fish, connected, yet disconnected (8). l<j—Scattered corps aid C 8). 17 —The politician stands to get it (4). 18—Like the peacock, it's nothing without its tail (4). 21 —Xarrow-niinded enough to conceal a jump (hyphen. 4 and 5). 23 —Behold all right (4). 21—If you find m as -bonny, it's .certainly not changed in 3 words (9).

IX I WW 2--Hasn't ji.-ii<l i 4 •. 3-«-*I his ii• •11 suggests a \ iitoiian authoress, hut dun ilii.s mnu for most of a c ricketer '4 i. 4-The hardest tiling in skating (3). o—Meas!<scarlet-icvcr, and so on, are the same in lung poems (9.1. 6—Hangers-on I CM. 7—An English spa (9). 11 —Sent here in a short time (9). 12—He wouldn't mind if history did repeat itself (9,1. 13—Readiness to swallow anything (9). 19 —No other town is more varied (.4). '■20—\ou arc left to guess the name of the author (4|. 22— for instance, none for '"Number One" 13). (a 20)

FRIDAY'S SOLUTION—(m 24). I

SATURDAY'S SOLUTION—(a 21). »