FOR YOUR AMUSEMENT

Evening Star, Issue 23451, 16 December 1939, Page 8

FOR YOUR AMUSEMENT

- ACROSS. 1 Velvet black 4 Facial expression 8 Fragment 12 Utilise 13 Male voice 14 Sound made ’ by pigeons 13 Means of ascent 17 Experiments ,19 Surface of the- ground 81 Place's tyhere the skin is broken ; 82 Masculine name 84 Symbol for nickel 85 In the midst . ' of 88 Jagged cliff 30, Short steep . 53 Cat-like animals 35 Be cautious , 37 Before . 33 Son of Noah ■ 40 Instances of the kind ♦1 Egyptian Sun god 43'Small drum 45 pther compound 48 .Inna 52 Awakened 54 Tnjurv 55 Pike-like fish 58 Anxious 53 Turn to the right 59 Native compound 60 Winter vehicles 81 Beveridges DOWN. 1 Equ'table 8 Noble Italian family 3 Kip 4 Vigour 5 Middle 6 At home 7 Parcel of land mistake

9 Wind instruments 10 Actor’s part 11 Hurl 16 Goddess of peace 18 Electrified particle 20 Dine E 3 Weep con- ' vulsively 25 Air hero 26 Russian village community 27 Proposal 29 Regains 31 Metric measure of area 32 Footlike part 34 Was seated 36 Merchandise 39 Anything growing thickly 42 Bronze in Roman antiquin'

44 Made up into bundles 45 Therefore 46 Ply aloft 47 Females of the ruff

Solution to last week’s puzzle:

49 Capital of Latvia 50 Christmas carol 51 Dagger 53 Split pulse 57 Earth goddess