"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 269, 12 November 1937, Page 17

"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

ACROSS. I—Wealth in the mass. 7 —An old race of South America. B—Eating implement. 11 —Game to join, possibly. 13—Obtain unjustly. 14 —Consumed. 16 —A small measurement. 18—Nonsense, popularly. 19 —Part of the human form in this vessel. 21 —Take part in. 23—Tiny particles. 24—Improve. 25—Ports (anag.l. 27 —Brief news is sometimes termed this. 29—You might call it "a quiet cry."' 31 —This bird goes backwards and forwards, so to speak. 32 —One probably does this properly pr badly. DOWN. 2—Fruit of an ogre? 3 —Two-thirds of 15 down. 4 —One might call it a small tablecloth. s—Against. , 6 —A game to beat back. 9 —Shorten, yet a little more than 11 across. 10—Caught. 12 —Works for. 13—Pali's Christian name. 15—Popularly a small measure. 17—A kind of music mostly from a southern county. 20—From toe to head, for example. 21 —Cover. 22 —Perform vocally. 26 —Deprive criminally. 28—It is shorter, certainly. 30 —Exclamation of discovery, perhaps.

THURSDAY'S SOLUTION—(I).

ACROSS. —Sheldrake, Hound, Tun, Oil, Chart, Obtrude, Herring, Rubs, Compiler, Greet, Site, Aha, Prom, Potato, Aliens, Christmas, Abated, Immune, Your, Ten, Soso, Roots, Overhead, Help, Landing, Soldier, Canto, Eve, Are, Exert, Greetings. DOWN". —Stopgap, Hub, Entreat, Doubt, Rids, Ale. Echo, Harp. Orris, Utilise, Digress, Hemp. Rue, Net, Crossword, Rhomb. Ford, Slam, Act. Then, Amir, Ism, Nonet. Absolve, Absence, Utopian, Ensures, Avo, Order, Bent, Relet, Old, Hint, Agog, Hove, See, Er*.