To-day’s Crossword Puzzle

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 23, 22 October 1936, Page 3

To-day’s Crossword Puzzle

CLUES.—Across I—English poet and divine, the author of “The Christian Year.’’ 6—French poet who invented the rondeau and introduced. the madrigal.' 11— Midday. 12— Highest point. 14— Bird. 16 —Infants’ skin disease. 18— “And dark as winter, was ' the flow Of . rolling rapidly.” (Campbell.) 19— Welsh river. 21— Title. 22— Doctor of Laws (abbr.), 23— Town of S. Sicily. 25— Negative. 26— Laymen. 28—National god of the Philistines, half man, half fish. , 30— .sorrow. 31— Affirmative. 32— Store.

36—T h e original name of Assyria, and of its earliest capital. 10--Drink. 4 V-Slaves. 44— One Indifferently. 45— Companion. 47— American States (abbr.). 48— Thin. 43—Beast. 51—Jewish sect said to be of the pure stock of Abraham, never having “taken! strange wires.” 1 53— River of N. France. 54— Religious picture. 55— Bury. 56— Stair post. Down 1 2—T h e “wilder-

humorist and satirist of the ‘ bombastic.* preaching friars. * 17—The natron; found in the dried-up beds of . S. American Jakes and streams. < 20—Stitch. 23— Hindu peasants. 24— Notions. 27—A couple. 29—Beast of burden. < 32 — T he Syrian hyrax, the cony of the Bible. 33— Spirit. 34— Nicknamed “the 4 V i r t u o u s,” <1 a French Ke- t publican, mayor of Paris during the massacres of ;

ness” in which David hid from Saul. (Bible.) 3— Dutch colonist of S. Africa. 4— Card game. 5— Boredom. coins. 7— Monkey. 8— Counsel. 9— As much land as can be tilled by an ox, averaging about fifteen acres. 10- Upset. 13—No he o n f ormist divine, said to have been the first English preacher to describe himself as “Unitarian.” 15—18th cent n r y Spanish Jesuit,

1792. 35—Title (abbr.). 37— Salt. 38— Item. 39— English historiographer royal, who compiled thp great Foedo ra. 42 Celebrated 18 th century Swigs math e i a t ician who settled in St. Petersburg. 43—The old Jew in Dickens’s “Oliver Twist,” who taught the boys to thieve. 46—Put forth. 48—Winter shower. 50—Ama 1 g a m a ted Society of Engineers (abbr.). 52—Lengthen.

SOLUTION TO TUESDAY'S PUZZLE.

ACROSS.—-1 Obstacle races, 10 Refrain, 11 Restore, 12 Feet. 13 Basin, 15 Wing, 17 Bag. 19 Insect. 21 Gannet. 22 Tom. 2-*’. Cat, 24 Line up. 27 Set off. 29 Dog, 31. Gear, 32 Tenor. 33 Dado. 36 Teacake.-37 In still. 38 Market gardens. DOWN.—2 Buffers, 3 Tram. 4 Cantab. 5 Earwig. H Also. 7 Erosion. 8 Traffic lights. 9 Height of folly, 14 Sam. 16 Act Cater. 20 Top, 21 Gas, 25 Niagara, 26 Son, 28 Ovation. 29 Defeat, 30 Godiva. SA Darik, 53 gsgdj. 7a