CROSS-WORD PUZZLE: NEW ZEALAND SERIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19221, 9 January 1926, Page 5 (Supplement)

CROSS-WORD PUZZLE: NEW ZEALAND SERIES.

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THE DEFINITIONS FOB PTJZ2 LE NO. 46 ARE AS FOLLOW:—

HORIZONTAL.

VERTICAL.

1. Crumbles easily. 5. Entangles. 10. Portents. L 5. A river flowing into the 'U ash. 16. Astronomical units of distance, each equal to 3i light-years. 17. Unregenerate human nature. 18. The broadest part of a ship's, bottom. '2O. A fashionable fawn colour. '2l. The feather-grasses. <i'2. 1; ound in gardens or in sea-pools. 24. Observes. 26. Woven. j3. Arrival. 00. Pinch. 11. Unit of electrical resistance. 33. Imitate. 35. A Maori statesman. 37. Unqualified. 39. Pertaining to punishment. 42. On the side of the head. 43. A sign of affirmation. 45. Glutinous mud. 17. Tho altar in the heavens. 43. Despatched. 49. Immerse. 51. The phychologists L 5'2. Encourage. 53. A large cask. 54. Worship. 56. Decline. 58. Negro sorcery. 59. Mentally agile. 61. A grinder. f>3. A small English bird. 65. To dry. 67. Scene of Key's defeat of the Austrians in 1805. 6S. Place in a metal container. 70. Climb. 72. Situations. 76. A waterfall. 79. Tho new world. 81. Astonish and dismay. 8-7. The r "'fiiral marking in timber. 85. A shirker. 86. The ''■■" vof one of Browning's poems. 87. Or><vfourth. °B. Felcse. 89. ease. 90. Native of nn inland republio. 01. Any valuable possession.

1. A famous mining town in Australia. 2. Destroy. 3. A small island. 4. Part of a circle cut off by a straight line. 5. The pole that is tossed in Highland games. 6. Metalliferous stone. 7. One of the Egyptian goddesses. 6. A support. 9. To. heave upward on a wave. 11. An afternoon performance. I'2. An authoritative proclamation. 13. Back of the neck. H. Break beyond repair 10. Acted on by the wind. '2l. One of the vast plains of Russia. 23. Fluffy surface. 2S. Eggs of fish. 27. That one. 28. xVbundant. 29. A famous Maori tribe. 32. Holds. 3<l. Wiseacres' term for Welsh rabbit. 35. Birds' homes. 36. A circus. 37. A form of expression peculiar to a lan guage. 38. A striped animal. 40. A man of great wealth. 41. An ancient language. 44. Peculiar. 46. Unruly crowd. 50. Ostentatious. 54. Relating to the top. 5!5. A yard and a-quarter. 57. Ropes by which a ship s yards are squared. 60. Mischievous fellows. 6:2. Unit of electrical volume (abbrey.). 64. Burdensome. 66. A colour. 63. A mechanical device for changing rotary into reciprocating motion. 63. A steep slope. 70. The trembling poplar. . . 71. The title of the kings of Abys3mia. 71. Nnr»-ow thoroughfares. 74. Indications. "5. An old card game. 77. Town in a New Zealand dependency. 78. A Hindu woman's chief garment. a O. To yield. B°.. Inexperienced. 84. Possessive pronoun.

" Rather! The best time of the day. I generally manage to get an hoar or so, whatever the weather; the only chance I have. 'Tention—here comes the King—you'll always see him here about this time, when he's in town." "0-oh!" breathed Chris delightedly, watching the approach of the trim figure on a splendid horse, and duly making her little Court " bob" as the King passed, chatting with his equerry, but neverthd' less seeing the demure obeisance and acknowledging "it, with a smile and a " horseman's salute." " How nice of him to look at me—and how well ho rides; he always did of course—so aunt Sybil says. She and aunt Marian—Letty's mother you know ; she died just befpre the war—used to rido in the Park early, when they were girls, in town for the season, and they used to see the King—he was Prince of Wales then—nearly every day. But Letty says she never rides now—too much of a fag, . Oh, you dear thing!" This to the horse who stretched his velvety muzzle ingratiatingly for a caress. " What's his name ?" " Red Knight," said George. " He's one of my few extravagances. I love horses—so do you, and he knows it, eh, old chap ?—I can tell you he's not so amiable with, everyone! I say, you'll ride sometimes in the morning—to-mor-row ? I'll see that you have a good mount—l'll fix it up with Lady Letty if you'll trust me. Will you?" It was an irresistible temptation, and she accepted the offer with frank gratitude. He insisted on strolling beside ner, leading the horse and chatting gaily, till they were opposite the passage leading to Knightsbridge where they parted. How she had misjudged him, and what dangerous tilings • first impressions were, she decided self-reproachfully as she walked back to her solitary breakfast, while Lorimer, putting the chestnut to a gallop, laughed aloud in exultation. The whole thing was going to be so easy after all! \ CHAPTER IX. AN UNCONVENTIONAL CONSULTATION. " It's most awfully good of you to have come all this way to see me, sir," said Dick Raymond. His visitor, Mr. James Lyle Lee, beamed benignly at him. "I don't call any distance ' far' in this tight little island of yours," Lee responded. " And anyhow I'd have gone fur.her for the sake of the son of your father —and your mother. Besides "I've only a few days left on this side. Igo to Paris day after to-morrow; and then right back from Havre. And now what about this valve?" > Dick, still crippled, in the comfortable nursing home on the outskirts of Exeter and looking much more worn and invalidish than he had done at Combe, drew a pile of working drawings toward him, and for the next half hour talked highlytechnical " shop"" with the famous American engineer; an elderly man, short and slight, with a shock of grey hair, and a keen, kindly, sharp-featured face. Absolutely unassuming in dress and manner, no casual observer would ever have imagined that he was a multi-million-aire, chief owner of a number of great construction wroks in the United States, and " keeping a grip" on them all, as he himself would have expressed it. He let Dick do most of the talking, merely nodding from time to time, as he scrutinized the drawings in turn, laying each aside methodically.