PUZZLE SQUARES

Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1926, Page 7

PUZZLE SQUARES

THE NEW “CROSS-WORD” GAME. THIS WEEK’S PUZZLE

The problem set above affords an ingenious variation of the usual Cross Word Puzzle. The words required to fill some of the squares are to be sought for in a certainly homely quotation of 15 words which is familiar to everyone. The spaces filled by the words of the quotation are indicated in the clues. ACROSS. 1. Quotation (13). 6. Quotation (6). 11. Countenance. 12. Number. 13. Quotation (12). 15. Weapon. 17. Two hundred. 18. Round of a racecourse. 20. Quotation (5). 21. Obstacle. 23. Inclosure. 25. Roll. 26. Cape in S. of Italy. 28. What Tonly Weller wanted. 30. Quotation (9). 31. File. 32. Male relative. 33. Thus. 34. Dance. 36. Turn. 38. Gains. 39. Gleam. 41. Qutation (3). 43. Conjunction. 46. Receptacle. 47. Perform. 48. Quotation (11). 50. Thus. 51. Quotation (8) and (15) 52. Compass Point. 53. Quotation (1) . 54. A young sheep. 55. Quotation (7). 56. Article. DOWN. 1. Gems.

2. Exclamation. 3. Decline. 4. Twenty quires. 5. A pen. 6. Weapon. 7. Girl’s name. 8. Suitable. 9. Abstainer (abb.). 10. Surpass. 14. Derby winner. 16. Number. 17. Festival. 19. Apposite. 20. Cask. 22. Young persons. 23. Quotation (4). 24. Distasteful. 25. End. 27. Angeles. 29' Common. 35. Conjunction. 37. Cry. 38. Quotation (2). 40. As well. 42. Self-conscious subject. 44. Trick. 45. Small island (reversed). 48. Away. 49. Qutation (10) and (14).

SOLUTION TO LAST PUZZLE.