"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 165, 15 July 1939, Page 16 (Supplement)

"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

, ACROSS. ( I—Keate called it "bosom-friend of the f maturing sun." 7—The child before a light sleep , 12-Shoes of a kind. 13 Floli.l in nit.

TESTS FOR OVR READERS.

16—A painter would find a pound at the end of it useful. 17—Philosopher friend of Adam Smith. 18 —Kind of tear found in the Himalayas. 19—I am sagacious in the west, south and east.

20 —A lie may be perceived in him. 21—Those of the Paston family are famous. 23 —Two heraldic wings discovered in a revolution! 24—A French marshal sets about the divine. 26 —Poisonous eap? 27—Tries to form ranks. 29—Cromwell's sides. 31—Rent and rate? 33—Blunt. 36—Rather easy, and altogether oily. 39 —How wings may oscillate. 40—For it's in the bee! 44—Abstain from. 48—Facts. 50—Mental image. 51—"If hopes were , fears may be liars." —Arthur Hugh Clough. 53—A big noise in Sardinia. 55—Please make amends—there's nothing neat about this. 58—A bit of laceration. 59—How he rears! 62—Hebrew liquid measure sounds rather wooden. f>3—European pike-perch. 65 —A page with his mouth wide open? 66—Daughter of Zeus and Hera. 6 ~—A net of sorts in Sicily. 68—The girl will be found in a tent. 69—The soil reveals them when disturbed. 70—The ead should come to these conclusions. 71—Lodestone which will get a man.

DOWN. I—As a hen might appear. 2—Musical instrument. »—Epithet for the hare. 4—Practice of the Eastern States of America? 5—A pen of a sort, though you may not think so. 6—lnsinuations. 7— Where rank ascends. 8 . . . white cups whose wine Was the bright yet drain'd not bv the day. —Shelley. ' 9— J. ve an unsophisticated air. a sort of donkey. 11— lake care to sleep one way only. If— Jtoui -w-iH find him in the clue of 22. lo —Proficient.

21 —"And must thy . so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine?' , — Byron. 22—The lijfht in which '"Prince Lucifer uprosr." 25—Perl'oi med palindromically. 28— Found in every shire. 30—There's nothing left on the broken nest because of the attack. 32—Instigated. 33—Confer knighthood. 34—Halt a king is still less than half. 35—" ■ that heart stay, and it will stay To honour thy decree."' —Robert Herrick. 3"—Arboreal portion of 1 down. 38—Did this tree win the battle of Agincourt ? 41—Bring up tea for Signor Mussolini! 42—What Dobson intended when it turned to a sonnet. 43—Apparently incautious eruption, though not 67's kind. 45— Here"* a watery start to the season. 4B—Kipling's lonely pedestrian ? 47—Klevate. 40—46 wai in one in Macbeth. j>o—lnexpert. 51— Bewildered more than Dad. 32—A famous Quakers just a feather. 56— Leo in tlie fat. 57—Discharge. 60 —Xot quite sane, til—Twenty quires. K4—Pony. 66—Voting sheep of porcine appearance. i 5J15.1 SOLUTION TO PUZZLE. SATURDAY. JULY 8. (SJSJ