"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 234, 2 October 1937, Page 8 (Supplement)

"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

ACROSS. I—Hasn't the sovereign power (two words, 5 and 4). B—Reading helps us to know this (5). 9—By no means severe in a man who doesn't seem quick in the up-take (9). 10—Book of the Bible (5). 13—Here stop with heart lost in deep sleep (4). 14 —This is just rot (5). 15—Intended but not engaged (5). 18—Gloating you won't get at the tailor's (5). 21—Start the game as I've seen after the doc-tor (5). 22 -Quite carried away, but not as parcels are when they are readv to be (4) 23—What you are trying to do (5). 27—Assists a violinist and an Oriental in execution (9). 28—Refuse (5). 29 —Might be sure, O Nero, but it's really mistaken (9). DOWN. I—Cause1 —Cause of trouble to an Englishman, but not to a Frenchman (4). 2 —Reverse what has been done (4). 3—Such a blockhead has to be told differently (4). 4 —A barge, for example? (three words, 3, 5 and 5). s—l'll change that name with you, as Hamlet might have said to it (6). 6—* A Russian town (6). 7—Clear out! (6). -

11—A traditional king, but he might have been real (4). 12—After fifty, a liner becomes a lady (4). 16 —Walls of communicating rooms must surely have them (4). 17 —A rascal loses his head in church (4). 18 —The h»bit maker wants something you can give him (6). 19—Elevating influence, but not addressed to an elevator (6). 20—More than twice as much in. notes of no low denomination (6J_

TESTS FOR OUR READERS.

—Crop at the back of the phaeton (4). 25—Accomplished nothing, yet built Carthage (4). 26—A long time (4). (J 12)