CROSS-WORD PUZZLE

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 166, 10 April 1926, Page 22

CROSS-WORD PUZZLE

NEW SERIES (SPECIAL TO THE DOMINION)

Wo publish to-day the thirty-first of a new series of cross-word puzzles The solution to No. 30 appears below.

NO 31

HORIZONTAL. 1. Punished. 8. A per child. 10. A drinking vessel. 12. Exactly. 13. Hold fast! 14. A Southern constellation. 16. Proceeded again to a place. 18. Used to remove mud from shoes. 21. One acting for another. 22. Above and touching. 24. A deceased Rusian autocrat. 25. A place for temporary reception of the'dead. 27. A Scandinavian god. 29. To cover with material to prevent loss of heat. 30. The subical part of a pedestal. 32. Internal 34. A small wheel for furniture. 37. To chatter. 39. An Italian province and seaport. 41. One of the straps by which a vehicle is drawn. 42. A large joint of beef. 43. A kind of vetch. 45. A conglomerate rock composed of angular fragments. 46. A common dog. 47. Rawhide thongs 48. Divided. '49. In addition. 50. The genus of nut-hatches. 51. Large trees yielding fragrant wood. 55. A fishing net dragged through the water. 57. Something offered to soothe. 58. Prefix signifying over. 60. Come into view. 62. One who quibbles in argument. 65. Members of monastic orders. 67. A Norse god 69. A flight of steps. 70. To loose the hold. 72. One who held heat to be a subtle fluid. 74. A number. 75. Reflection. 76. A Syrian fabric made of goat’s or camel’s hair. 78. The name of a letter. 79. The extreme end. 80. The lowest stories of building*. VERTICAL. 1. Pertaining to pottery. 2. Words supplementary of other words. 3. Natural grease of wool. 4. A sloping shelter for miners. 5. Ridicule. 6. The time just preceding a great event. 7- A skirting of wood along the lower part of a wall.

8. A common pronoun not found in the Authorised Version of the Bible. 9. That which produces. 10. As fine as a hair. 11. A kind of falcon. 15. Moved swiftly. 17. The conscious individual. 19- A ringing sound. 20. A girl’s name. 23. A hostile vote, 26. Mannerism. 28. Falseness. 31. Mollify. 33. Diminished. 35. To be of service36. A slight trembling. 37. Moved swiftly. 38. Capital of the Gold Coast Colony. 40. A skate which lias crooked spines in the back. 41. Paths through a forest. 43. To pour from one vessel into another. 44- Confines to certain limits. 50. A word on the dials of many watches. 51. A pass in a mountain range. 52. A concise and pointed expression. 53. A mechanic. 54. Painful. 56. Unmitigated. 57. Wooden pins. 58. A vase having a foot. 61. In Babylonian mythology, the creator of man. 63. A group of families governed by a chief. 64. Suffix forming superlatives. 66. A festival, so called from the liquor drutiK. 68. A disease of potatoes. 71. The seed of certain fruit. 73. A Turkish officer. 77. Exists.

Solution to No 30