To-day's Crossword Puzzle

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22817, 11 December 1948, Page 8

To-day's Crossword Puzzle

Clues to This Week's Puzzle

Across: I—-Establish firmly 6—Reckons value of 11— Seaman 12— Putts up 14— Antiquated 15— Seed integument 17— Macaw 18— Note in the scale 19— Fondling 21— Inside 22 Russian rulers 24 Sun god 25 Resounded 27 Prefix thrice 28— Southern American state (abbr.) 29 Ventilates 30 — Entertained with evening love song 33 Missed 34 — Prefix: double 35 Solemn pledge 37 Dispatched 38— Symbol for lithium 39 City In Afghanistan 41— Exclamation of triumph 42 Provided scantily 45 — In the same degree 46 Feminine name 48— Raves 49 Bashful

50—Profession 52—Catches sight of' 54 Sacraments 55 Intends Down: 1— Whitest 2 Cover 3 Diminutive for Albert 4 Memoranda 5 Allowance for waste 6 Networks 7 Wolf-hound 8— Symbol for tantalum 9 Greek letter 10— Small (inches 11— Classify 13— Warbled

16—Leaving helpless 19— Clergymen 20— Mourned 23 —Malicious burning 26—Vehemence 28— Mother of the Titans 29 Paid notice 31— Right (abbr.) 32 I Three-toed sloth 33 Commander 36 Laves 37 Counterfeit 38— Prevaricatoi s 39 German state 40— Playthings 43 Woody plant 44 Abound

47—Mountain aborigine 49—Iniquity 51—Neuter pronoun 53—Father

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