To-day’s Crossword Puzzle

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22698, 24 July 1948, Page 8

To-day’s Crossword Puzzle

Clues to This Week's Puzzle Across: I —Tennis stroke 4—Thrum 9—Cunning 12 — Native metal 13— Card, as wool 14 — Golf mound 15 — Pale 16— Beguile 18— Twilights 20— Gypsy 21— Easily tempted 23 —Prinked (colloq.) 27 Value 28— Woody plants 29 Negative 30 — Tree of olive family 31— Mendicant monk 32 Head covering 33 Personal pronoun 34 Subjected to great heat 35 Recent 36 Prizes 38— Arrives 39 Steep, as flax 40— Guillemot 41 — Sprinkled 45—Small, mischievous sprite • 48— Fruit oi a rose 49 Appearing as if gnawed 50 — Narrow inlet 51— Affirmative 52 — Garment 53 Rigid Down: 1— Moo 2 Anglo-Saxon monev

3 Under 4 Harden 5 Decimal units 6 Rodent 7 Employ 4 8— Gayer > 9 Brand 10— Hawaiian wreath 11— Japanese monetary unit 17—Male cats 19—Compete .21—Adjust 22 Devastates 23 Snoops ctA —Peruse

25 Growing out 26 Shows extreme fondness 28—Trig 31— Worried 32 Beats hard 34 Pedal extremities 35 Game of chance 37 Snares 38— Systems of rules 40— of smaller size 41— Bashful 42 Pastry 43 Wander

44—Fish eggs 46 Falsehood 47 Corpulent Answers to Last Week’s Puzzle