"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 102, 1 May 1940, Page 15

"STAR" CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

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ACROSS. B—Praise (8). 9—Were it in this term there would be ( some fun (6). 10—Clean as the white billiard ball (Si. 12—Not the best effort of the hatting j publican (0). 14- It sound* us if this part of a religion* building is opposed to Dissenters (101. 15—Precious stone (4). 21—This witches' spell seems able to upset one an j how (7.1. 22 —Kind of light made almost entirely bj" a little sea creature (.7).

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4—Xine chapters of the O.T. (4). s—This beach is part of the South coast (61. 6 —A very fair example of its kind (6). 7 —"That he is mad 'tis —; 'tis — 'tis pitv and pity 'tis 'tis —Hamlet (4). " 11—'*Moa hops'' (anag.) (7). 13—This makes the fxilutron (7). 14—Of olden days (71. 1-t—Freshwater fish (51. 16—It would take a lot of this to make secure this amount of wood <4). I"—One of the small countries still left in Kurope (7). 10—Indian real (5). 20 —"There is no Stale in Europe where the least — have not governed the most — " Ijandor (41. 24 —This man sounds pood for a firs"t payment anyhow (61. 25—One of the wolf family (6). 26—Recount (61. 27—0il or sucar (61. 29—Auction that does not increase the value of poultry (4). SO—An eaily airman <41. 31—I'nusual combination of an artist villi a branch of the Army 14). (Will) TUESDAYS SOLUTION. ACROSS. — Prolj,. 1• V, trot, value, brine, operate, lower, merest, layers. cat, toe, ethnical, spa. eaten, asp. jjanjester, see. red. ache, tracts, washes, aisle. halters, clean, enter, kelp, endorses. DOWX.-P rompts. oversea, barest, alas, butt. lee. troy, rivet, onerous, tense, blatant, pea, laces, cited, hearten, names, puerile, archeiv, presses, caster. k. lier, clap. wand, alto, hen. 'T.Vi fl )