To-day’s Crossword Puzzle

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22851, 22 January 1949, Page 3

To-day’s Crossword Puzzle

Clues to This Week’s Puzzle

Across: I—Box s—Egyptian sacred bull 9—Linen vestment 12— Furnish with a pavement 13— Plain 14— Prohibit 15— Verily 16 — Formal curse 18—Decayed 20 — Solar disk 21 — Variety of lettuce 23—Lamprey fishermen 25 —Foreigners 27—Colonize 31 — Notable » persons 32 — President of Argentina 33 — More enamored 35 — Most normal 36 — Takes possession of by force 38— Goddess of malicious mischief 39 God of love 42 —Perched 44 —Guided 46 —In addition 49 — Masculine name 50— Active place 51— Germ 52 — Decimal unit 53 High cards 54 Serf

Down: 1 — Wateringplace 2 Knave of clubs 3 Antipathy 4 City in ' Nevada 5 Moderates 6 Face on a hewn stone 7 Turkish decrees 8 — Rigid 9 Encourage 10— Crippled 11— Outer grain husk

17—Hurry 19—Verb forms 21— Young cow 22 Medley 24 —Meal 26—Last 28 — Foot levers 29 — Mislaid 30 — Grafted 34 Bucolic 35 Digging implements 37—Weave rope 39 Entrance 40— Soft mud 41 — Algerian seaport 43—Dexterity 45— Oriental tea

47 Japanese coin 48 — Lyric poem

Answers to Last Week’s Puzzle