HASTINGS PLUNKET SOCIETY’S SECOND CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 28 September 1927, Page 7

HASTINGS PLUNKET SOCIETY’S SECOND CROSSWORD PUZZLE

First Prize: £3 3 s., Second Prize: £ 1 10s. Third Prize: 10s. This Competition is organised for the benefit of the Hasting, Plunket Society. A Sealed Solution of this Puzzle ha, been deposited with the President, Miss Elsie Williams, Frimley. CONDITIONS. 1. An entry fee of One Shilling must accompany each solution submitted. 2. Forward solutions to “Crossword Puftle,” P.O. Box 190, Hutings, not later than Wednesday, sth October, at which date all entries will close. 3. The correct solution and list of Prize Winners will be pwbkshsd in the “Tribune” on Wednesday, 12th October. 4. The decision of the adjudicators shall be Una] and legally binding. 5. In tVe event of more than three competitors having eowect solutions the prize money will be divided and bo second aad tkird prize will be awarded, (j. Prizes will be awarded strictly on merit. 7. Entries may be sent in on plain paper.

ACROSS. 1 A Governor General of N.Z. 7 An epic poem of Virgil. 8 Burdened 9 Old 10 Mongrel dog 11 Scotch for “eye.” 13 Negative 14 Kitchen utensil 15 A girl’s Christian name (abbrev.) 16 New Zealand Government Meteorologist 17 A group of people united for a common purpose 18 To esteem highly 19 Country in Asia 20 Tears 21 To devour 22 North East 30 Able-bodied seaman 31 Found in plants 32 Three of a kind 33 A station between Christchurch and Dunedin 34 A boy’s Christian name 35 Enlarged 45 Indefinite article 46 Energy 47 A single time 48 A vessel or boat 49 A letter in the Greek alphabet 54 A nobleman. 55 Excess 56 In connection with 57 An examination of accounts 61 A smudge 62 An insect 63 A Scotch form of “fall” 65 Tellurium (abbrev.) 66 Portion of a fish 67 Term in Trigonometry 68 Houses for bathing 69 Japanese War Cry 70 Grows rapidly

. DOWN 1 Abodes of Kings 2 A union 3 Beneath 4 Requirement 5 Relations (Scotch) 6 Editor (abbrev.) 12 Insects 13 A term in ,musio 14 To fondle 15 Arts Degree 23 Conjunction 24 Short for Cecil 25 Boy's Christian name z 26 Awsome: weird 27 To trephine 28 Y’eastey (actual) 29 Ministers 36 Garden utensil 37 Musical instrument 38 Relating to the mouth 39 Not well 40 Prefix signifying down, from o« away. 41 Well-known London Hotel 42 Gill’s Christian name 43 London Cricket Club 44 Interrogative exclamation 50 Pronoun 51 To consume 52 Increase in size 53 A medicinal plant 57 Behind 58 A human arm bone 59 A small round mark 60 Pronoun 64 A book in the Bible 65 Used for the protection of the head in war 66 Name of a well-known spectacle frame 67 “Mens sana in corpora *• 68 A rod 69 A well advertised British petrot