"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 128, 2 June 1938, Page 28

"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

ACROSS. I—A handy game (5). 4—A spinning machine of sorts (9). 9 —This sum has to be corrected here (7). 10 —This might provide a private view to one who would stoop to it (7). 11—Amid the Irish he might be at the wake (4). 12 —Pigment of fishy origin (5). 13 —"Sweet are the of adversity" (4) ("As You Like It"). 16—Hesitates, loses his head and changes (7). 17—A cetacean (7). 19 —What bit of clothing suggests a fish with the minimum of roe? (7). 22 —A bounder often smokes a cigar with this (7). 24 —Package that means trouble for a poet (4). 25 —The.best in the literary world (5). 26—Oriental servant (4). 29 —Epithet for the movement of a glacier for example (7).

TESTS FOR OUR READERS.

30—Shown in an open position (7). 31—Perfect description of a soured oldniaid? (9). 32—The head of a sort of relation is this household article (5). DOWN. I—More terrible than timid (9). 2 —Acid that suggests caustic remarks (7) 3—American fleet-commander (4) 4—>o it is not the function of these little _ parts of a car to keep it clean (7). o—lhe idea suggests a cross between a cuttlefish and another (7). 6 —Macaulay composed some (4). 7 ~, Pai ,, t . of this Derbyshire town has a brilliant appearance (7). B—Regimental colours? (5). 14—What shows I am in debt? (5). 13 —Diana's transformation (5). 18—Tliis remark on a hot day suggests that these are desirable (9). 20—Brave (7). 21 —A small lake in Asia (7).

22 —Were a heart this it would be he (quite simple) (7). 23—Estate (7). 24—A lady of rank in the East (5). 27—800k "of the O.T. (4). 28 —Tije work of some composer of classical inusic doubtless (4). • I Do)

WEDNESDAY'S SOLUTION—(p). Across. —Slaps, Lamp, Arab, Table-game, Plane, Abbot, Myth, Stag, Lied, Hale, Poses, Lay, Deserve, Siren, Arctic, Feels, Reinforce, Not, Ewe, Orderless, Cleft, Lessee, Hunts, Secures, Pet, Lasts, Edge, Leer, Alto, Jade, Dance, Piers, Sentences, Same, Pert, Weeds. Down.— Stall, Labiate, Abbey. Plod. Set. Lamaserie, Amylene, Meter, Also, Rats, Anaemic, Begs, Her, Perfects, Distress, Van, Sloes, Cowls, Tree, Cent, Fool. Ends, Insurgent, Regalia, Lee, Shudder, Fleeced, Nee, Cease, Pence, Trees, Laps, Stem, Tore, Lane, Dew.