"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 14 (Supplement)

"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

ACROSS. I—Active and mostly venture (5). 4—Dance that made the motorist look for trouble (9). B—A wine (7). 9—This Scot is not a Highlander (7). 10—Part of 8 across (4). 11—Mostly lofty part of the : body (5). 12—This curtailed would burn well in it (4). 15—Japanese are this beheaded but it v might account for European visitors .(four- words—4, 2, 3, 4). 17—A product of her best ladies (13). 20 —Choice of the Muscovite extremes, no less (4). 21—This vessel would be unfurnished without the fourth letter (5).

TESTS FOR OUR READERS.

22—Ought this -work to worry ? (4). 25—A woman often wears the tail of this animal reversed (7). 2G—Going the middle is this work for the clock cuckoo (7). 27—In this part of Ireland does one cross the beginning by the rest? (9). 28—By no means slack (o). DOWN. I—The vessel this bad lad has at heart is not the one he sails in'(O). 2—Foolish (7). 3—Scottish pole, or English county (4). 4—-Where holiday makers on the South Coast are by no means dull on the shore (two words—S. 5), s—Bird (4),

6—A noted affair with* rehicte i&~ tfee middle (7). 7—This and 21 across are both vnelad about the same'letter (5). 9—This kind of gentleman, the law falls on with a heavy; hand' (two words— 5, 8). ■ ■ . ■ 13—Animal with capacious middle (5). 'r--14—Allow a mile to help you to oblivion (5). 16—To stand fellows drinks is part of the cure (9). 18—This thou thy living? No flippant answer please (7). 19—Might be an unsuitable method of repairing a hole in the hose (7). 20—This bird's tail comes from the rooks (5). 23—The officer's pip (4). 24—Fair with no margin (4). (S<H4)

SOLUTION FOR JANUARY 7.