TO-DAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22439, 20 September 1947, Page 8

TO-DAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Across: I—High hills s—Palm leaf B—lridescent gem 12— Leave out 13— Hop-picker’s basket 14— Valle y 15 — Confiding 17— Italian noble family 18— Apply remedies to 19— Approaches 21—Sways drunkenly i 23—Macaw P" 26—Afar W 30—Sweet ‘ !’• crystalline substance 32 Mean 33 Tnat which is retained 34 Bite 35 Wooded tracts 36 Mountain gap 37 Excess of solar year 39—Eruditions 41—Efface

46—Portent 48—Lures 50— Sheath 51— Sign of the zodiac 52 Wide smile 53 Emmets 54 Ship’s Umber 55 Withered

Down: 1— Civil wrong 2 Hebrew measure 3 Mature 4 Portico 5 Japanese sash 6 Song-bird 7 Celestial being

ANSWERS TO LAST PUZZLE

8— Across 9 Communicating corridors 10— High, in music 11— Shelter 16 —Foreigner 20—Avower 22—Terminate 24 Rave 25 Branch of education 26 Paten 27 28— Most quiet 29 Decimal unit 31—Slioshonean Indian 3 -Fabulous bird 35—Secure 38—Rings out 40—Single individuals 42 Tatters 43 M.asure of of land 44 Agitate 45 Sei f 46 Peruvian plant. 4. —Adult male 49—Trifle -