CROSS-WORD PUZZLE

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 95, 16 January 1926, Page 20

CROSS-WORD PUZZLE

NEW SERIES (SPECIAL TO THE DOMINION)

Wc p'lbli-h to-day Hie ninetoentli of a new scries of cross-word puzzles. The solution to No. 18 appears below.

NO 19

HORIZONTAL. 1. Crumbles easily. 5. 10. Portents. 15. A river flowing into the Wash. 16. Astronomical units of distance, each equal to 3J light-years. 17. Unregencrato human nature. 18. The broadest part of a ship’s bottom. 20. A fashionable fawn colour. 21. The feather-grasses. 22. Found iu gardens or in sea-pools. 21. Observes. 26. Woven. 28. Arrival. 30. Pinch. 31. Unit of electrical resistance. 33. Imitate. 85. A Maori statesman. .’’7. Unqualified. 39. Pertaining to punishment. 42. On the side of the head. 43. A sign of affirmation. 45. Glutinous mud. 47. The alter iu the heavens. 48. Dispatched. 19. Immerse. 51. The psychologists I. 52. Encourage. 53. A large cask. 54. Worship. 56. Decline. 58. Negro sorccip. 59. Mentally agile. 61. A grinder. , 63 A small English bird. 65. To dry. *»7. Scene ol Ney’s defeat ‘if Hie Aus trians in 1805. 68. Place in a metal emitiiiner. 70. Climb. 72. Silmil loins. 76. A wnteifall. 79. Th<! new world. 81. Astonish and dismay. 82. The natural marking in timber. 85. A shirker. 8(1. The hero of one ‘d’ Browning's poems. 87. One-fourth. SB. Release. 89. Heart’s ease. 90. Native of an inland ropuhlle, 91. Any valuable possession. VERTICAL. 1. A famous mining town in Australia. 2. Destroy. 3. A small island. 4. Part of a circle cut off by a straight line. 5. The Pole that is tossed in Highland games. 6. Metalliferous otnun. 7. One of the Egyptian goddesses. 8. A support.

9. To heave upward on a wave. 11. An afternoon performance. 12. An authoritative pioclamation. 13. Baek of tho neck. 14. Break beyond repair. 19. Acted on by the wind. 21. One of the vast plains of Russia. 23. Fl idly surface. 25. Eggs of fish. 27. That one. 28. Abundant. 29. A famous Maori tribe. 32. Holds. 34. Wiseacres’ term for Welsh rabbit. 35. Hirds’ homes. 36. A circus. 37. A form of expression peculiar to a

language. 38. A striped animat. 40. A man of great wealth. 41. An ancient language. 44. Peculiar. 46. Unruly crowd. 50. Ostentatious. 54. Relating to the top. 55. A yard and a quarter. 57. Ropes by which a ship's yards are squared. 60. Mischievous fellows. 62. Unit of electrical volume (abbrev.) 61. Burdensome. 66. A colour. 68. A mechanical device for changing

rotary into reciprocating motion. 69. A steep slope. 70. The trembling poplar. 71. The title of lhe kings of Abyssinia 73. Narrow thoroughfares. 71. Indications. 75. tn old curd game. 77. Town in a N-nv Zealand dependency. 78. A Hindu woman's chief ei'""'""* 80. To yield. S 3. I llexpel iem rd. SI. Possess,ve pronoun.

Solution to No 18