"SL4/T CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 16, 20 January 1939, Page 15

"SL4/T CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

ACROSS. I—The description of this attendant has an ungallant sound (10). 6—The name of this minor need not be Parry (4). 8 No, cook does not make puddings of this weed (10). I<^—An object of foreign money. (4). 12 —Following beside (4). 13—English novelist (7). 16 —A learned Mohammedan not in his official clothes (5). 1" —Dodge (5). 18 —One of the twelve (3). 10—Another of the twelve (3). 20—The meal would be quite all right even if one were upset after it (5). 21 —English poet (5). 22—Material found in 34 across (3). 23—This shows the route (3). 24 —French river (5). Commonly equivalent to the reverse (5). 26—Shorten apparently a way from bank to bank (7). 30 The —is but the guinea stamp, the mans the gowd few a' that" (Burns) (4). 32—Fictitious tale or being (4). 34—A connection between vessels perhaps )to attain victory feel your way) (10). &>—A number unwell in 16 down (4). 36—As a musical instrument this can certainly be beaten (10). DOWN. ' That friend of one's youth now much changed (4). 2 No this roach is not necessarily of the male sex (4). 3 —Strange (5). 4—The waste stuff of a little west country river (5). ®~1( this fish loses its head retreat is all that is left for it (5) 6—Bird (4)

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' —Diana's hair causes sadness (10). This describes constant action (10). 11—Polished manners (10). 13—Meal that sounds suggestive of »» instruction to the caddie (two words— 4 - i 14—"The rich —— cries with one eye and laughs with the other" is an old proverb (5). 15—Dutch painter who tells Kathleen howmany (7). 16—Apparently this was made by the millmaster (10)w He ' 8 eager if he loses his head (5). * 27—Lively (5). 28—You may find this in certain streams bunting otters every year (5) 29—An unpleasant sort of spirit (5). V>~ to . oriental beauty (4). i-Thw old beverww might be made for a change now (35. t 33—Control by nautical metaphor (4) • " (FJ2O)