STAR CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 31, 6 February 1943, Page 8

STAR CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS I—This is weighty when without its head (6) 4—Complaisant though exercising compulsion (8) 3—A foreign stamp (6) 10—A song about the U.S A for a . drinking-bout (3) i»—Length of poetic work (5) 13—1,1" quantity required to make .-. great egg (9) 15—Used tn - -''incd by the pen-knife Cij 16—Pish (5) 17—The kind of sieve tha* presents some difficulty 22—An establishment where the charges are small (6) 24—A steep ascent but not as bad as it seems (5) 27—Dance step (3) 23—Butterfly that a fruiterer might give a child for running an errand (two words—6, 3) 31—Social scale (5) 32—Ornamentation that keeps a boat on a level fceei 33—Primitive boat (6) 34—Naturally a correct wea- „- E on . < tw ° words—s, 3) 35—Epithet for the arguments about fuel rationing (6) DOWN I—l'm in part of the States to find the value (8) 2—Common common-sense (3) l~ Ari 0 ="„ y ,„i Or - I ? al i es a bit oi a tea 6»r C 9) s—Oriental intoxicant (5) 6—l have nobody beside me when I hole out thus (two words—2. 3) T—Put to the yoke (6) ■,?~?, ld . now only part of a modem one (6) 11—Material (6) 14—p»rt of 17 across which we want to get of wars (3) 13—French port (6) 19—Dish that may be cooked in 3 down (9) 20—Curtailed yet all here (two words—3, 5) 21—Influenced but artificial (8) 23—"The fairest of her. daughters ," wrote Milton paradoxically (3) 25 —The worker for a drink (6) 26—When television in colour comes in. this fault will be doubly one (6)

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