"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 300, 20 December 1938, Page 5

"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

ACROSS. 2 —He created an epicurean. 7 —The rascal is mostly under canvas. 13 —Her dwelling had a moat. 15 —Gaboriau's amateur detective seems concerned with upholstery. 17 —Poet able to span mountains and rivers. 18 —Cupidity yet provides an intojycant and food for a Chinaman. 19—Open drain in the fens. 20 —Beware its thin end. 22—You may check one of the pair. 23 —Coarse corundum at first useful to a printer.

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25 —This animal's homonym is in the bakehouse. 26—Relating to a house. 27 —How money may begin to sound. 29 —Earned. 32 —A red Hun. 37 —Country founded by the first British martyr? 38 —There are lions about for example in vast numbers. * 39 —Slog an egg for eye protection! 42 —"Yet hadst thou alway visions of our light, And long with of care thou couldst not stay." —Matthew Arnold.

43—Nothing in the north-west. 46—Horse with an artistic origin. 48—Put it in a cushion. —King Lear. 53 —Unaspirated confession of concealment? 54—Three-stringed musical instrument. 56—That of the hen is poisonous. 57 —Ripens. 59 —Sings gently, though with a belligerent opening. 61—Coiled serpent? 62 —Its tree is a port on the Adriatic. 63—Of Dee, perhaps. 64 —Fine pottery. DOWN. I—ls this the doctor's pace because he is in drink? 2 —One of the seven deadly sins. 3 —The raiders take these allies with them. 4—Stock phrase. s—Drive back to water in falconry. 6—Still dares, though cancelled. "—Gates mark this degree of progress. B—Davkl escaped to Adullam's. !>—Syrian woollen stuff for a graduate. 10— The animal will spoil a French word. 11 —Hector's father. 12—Combination of either saint and tish or iron and carbon. 14 —Sweet smell. 16—Anatomically external. 21—A novel one was in an eagle's nest. 24—"By the bitter road the Son must tread, Ere he win to hearth and saddle of his own." —Kipling. 26—In a sense he was Alice's father. 28 —If you turn to nothing concord becomes a vegetable. 29 —Marvell had such a thought in such a shade. 30 —"Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams, Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's —Shelley. 31—44 unmarried! 33—A witch on firm ground in the bog. 34 —Everything you need is here. 35— Mowgli's peacock. 36—A snake in one's grasp. 40 —More voluble than sincere. 41—Am in tar in Cornwall and Devon. 42—Destroyed by Perseus, bright with Xewholt. and coming to an end in America. 44—Does a spider hang directlj over the bed? 45— Dogma. I 46—Slopes for mixed prams. I 47—Quotes. I 48—Thorough nuisance". . wit h. 49—Efts are quite fresh to begux 51—Dance in th« w* l

52 —Receive stolen goods disguised as trees? 54—Wrench npart. 55—The carpenter's fish. 58—A kidney for 54 down. 60 —Japanese ounce found in various part* of South America! (.TD2O) MONDAY'S SOLUTION. (MDI 9)