To-day’s Crossword Puzzle

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22210, 21 December 1946, Page 5

To-day’s Crossword Puzzle

CLUES TO THIS WEEK’S PUZZLE

Across: •' I—Large deer 4—Foundation B—Rocky place f on a hill 12— Female ruff 13— Citrus drinks 14— Colourless 15— Legislators 17— Lubricants 18— God of love i 18—Endows with

53 Church service 54 Feminine name 55 Pig-pen Down: 1— Gaelic 2 Sly glance 3 Game of chance

authority 21—A cause 24—Perched 27—Clothes 30—Cerituryplant 32—Brought up 39—Smoothed 34 Pilgrim father 35 Dense throngs 36 Plant juice, 37 Revises 39—Onslaught 41—Comfort 45—Lone 47—Witnessed 60—The birds 51— English seaport town 52 Also

4—Nocturnal flying mammal 6—Commotion 6 Ministers 7 Prussian city 8— Tarnish 9 Army vehicles 10—Entire amount

SOLUTION TO LAST PUZZLE

11—Thine, in law 16—Reach toward 20- Prevented 22 Places of combat 23 Primary colour 25 Toward the sheltered side 26 Spreads for - drying 27 Macaws 28— Web-like membrane 29 Immature ■ frogs 31—Disorders 33-Eagle 35—Fondled 38—United States general 40—Promontory 42 Luzon Negritos 43 Dispatched 44 Whirlpool 45 Diminutive for Samuel 46 Eggs 40—Harden, as fish-nets 49- Note in Guido's Scale