"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 236, 5 October 1937, Page 16

"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

NOTE. —The figures in parentheses denote ACROSS. s—lt may occasion a grin, but actually this kind of food contains a lot of 'water (5). B—Trial8 —Trial about a cake in court (8). 9—Kind of pipe worn with a morning coat? (5).

TESTS FOR OVR READERS.

the number of letters In the words required. 10—You take it first and put it on afterwards, last thing, of course. (8). 12—Parallel of latitude (6). 14—You may succeed if you have a good one (3). 15—You pay it and it sounds like the head of 13 down (4).

16 —Third man becomes competent (4L 18—To a man (3). 20—Xot destined to slavery, we're told (6). 23—His vices may not include smoking to excess, although he might do with a pipe (8). 25—A good number in a bird in unspoken (5). *^ 26—Undertaking hypocrisy about a warm place (8). 27 —A fashionable shade (5). DOWN. I—Weight holding another (5). 2 —Lament (5). 3—A tailor at sea? (6). 4 —Balaclava: final stage (4). 6—A lion and rat become sensible (BV. 7—Entice (8). 11—The turning point of every symptom? (3). 13 —Blonde, spirited and open to attack (two words, 4 and 4). 14—A seeming substitute for sand, which is an epoch in all very young lives (8). 17 —Over under would make it an English town (3). 19—Bird (6). 21 —Half Shakespeare's prince and half his wife upon the gallows lost his life (5). 22—Of staid origin (5). 24—The people who run this are throwing off all restraint (4). (J 15) MONDAY'S SOLUTION—(J 13).