"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 219, 16 September 1939, Page 10 (Supplement)

"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

ACROSS. s—Nowadays one associates it with a hammer (6). B—Not an offensive fellow (8). (6) rtf°f a dWelUng 18 part o£ a 10—Expression in America for where one gets off (8). 11—Leave Britain and you leave this (4). 14—It is not the suspense before this that the prisoner fears (two words—s, 8). 19—Uncanny (5). 22—Making a good haul? (7). a ° ra - woui<i «~ te ."'r'uteTKle'Snr 2~55. thi °S 31 th,s?°(4) a WO ° Hy COat€d bear is 33-Tln s implies no half-measures (S) 34—Undergraduate fine once ended (6) y J fee , d the exch equer (8). 36-One doubts whether he could get the rabbits out on a cricket field (6). DOWN. ">?; 1,0 ,hii " ,w '«» th « K «'» 2 - Its provision is one of the fire brigades overhead expenses (6) 3— A pretty fellow (6). 4— One can hardly leave this in the middle of a sentence (6). 5— Its era is altered (6). 6—Vessel with a cool base (7). ' ( 'j] e k,nd of news for provincial papers *-Tj e en ds of 1 down are not so fresh

Tests For Our Readers.

13—Potential potatoes (4). 15 Building made by a Greek serf (5). 16—Scottish town with spirited end (5;. An indefatigable three-quarter? (SJ. 18—A change of genus (5). 20 As black as your hat i 4). 21 T.his man is a cricketer (4). One who follows the wielder of o across (7). Instruction a£ to turnover, in foreign colour (6). 27— Obviously diluted (6). 28—Part of a revolver (6). 29 Having many good points (6). He was born in a lofty station (6i. 32—A relative (5). (.SSI6) SOLUTION TO PUZZLE. SATURDAY.