To-day’s Crossword Puzzle

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23083, 22 October 1949, Page 3

To-day’s Crossword Puzzle

Clues to This Week’s Puzzle:

Across: I— Peruse , s—Footless5 —Footless animal 9 —Stout 12— Eagle 13— Biblical weed 14 — Syrian garment 15— Founder of Pennsylvania 16— Braced frameworks <lß—Willow 20— Raw hides 21— Metallic plates 23 Tibetan gazelle 24 Grape r! 25—Alarming 30—Allows 32 Cyprinoid fish 33 Asterisk 34 Claimant 37—Silkworm / 38—Unit of work 39—Covered with tar 41—Below 44 A skin disease 45 European perennial plant 47—Solar disk 50— Hail! 51— Chinese secret society 52 Delete 53 Chop 54 — Sweetsop 55 Being Down: I—Corded fabric

2 Before 3 Supply with comments 4 Thick 5 Certifying 6 Young salmon 7 Native metal 8— Petty tyrant 9 Drop 10— Countenance 11 — Russian news agency 17—River-ducks 19—Those in office 21— Chyme 22 Avow 23 Salutations

26 —Annex '27—Repeats 28— Nostril 29 Grating of parallel bars 31—Guide 35 Errors, as in printing, 36 Incurred, as a risk 40— English novelist 41— Western State 42 Wheel hub 43 Delineated 44 Syllabic stress

Answers to Last Week’s Puzzle:

46—Obtained 48— Street railways (abbr.) 49 Born