To-day’s Crossword Puzzle

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22585, 13 March 1948, Page 8

To-day’s Crossword Puzzle

Clues to This Week’s Puzzle Across: I—Slave a—Aconite o—Devoured 12 — Rind 13— Departed 14— Performed 15— Seaweed 16— Red. porous day 18— Yeilow bugle 20— Ingredient ol horny tissue 21— Sucking-fish 24 Prepare flax 25 Cultivate to excess 27—Protracted pair 31— Denary 32 Wading bird 34 Bleak 35 Pilaster 37—Gone out ot use 39—Jewel 41— Eluder 42 Breastwork 46 Landmeasure 47- musical drama 49—In 52 Plot ol land 53 Pintado 54 Sour 55 Poem 56 Three at dominoes 57 Conduce Down: 1— Watering place 2 Lamprey 3 Body of soldiers rorrP'Tr'dpd by colonel

4 Relish 5 Boring instrument 6 Tree yielding durable timber 7 Place between 8— On-. cubic meter 9 Stiilm 10— Australian petrel 11— Paradise 17—Polynesian chestnut 19-Chief 2L - Poster 22—Not fractional

23—Hydrometer 26—Sphere or globe 28—Belief 29 Animosity 30—Pitcher 33—New star 36—• Chinese glue 38— Lasso 40—Moon's age at: beginning ot calendar year 42 Game played rn horseback 43 Footless animal 44 Me work 45 Fag

48—Diffident 50— Stannum 51— Peculiar Answers to Last Week’s Puzzle