PUZZLE SQUARES

Taranaki Daily News, 31 December 1926, Page 22

PUZZLE SQUARES

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

The problem given below affords another clever variation of the usual cross-word puzzle. The words required to fill some of the squares are to be sought for in a wellknown quotation from Shakespeare. There are ten words, and where one word occurs more than once in the quotation it appears once only in the puzzle. The spaces to be filled by the words of the quotation are indicated in the clues. ACROSS. 1. Head the bill. 5. Pulls. 9. Quotation (5) and (9). 10. Lean. 12. Bird. 13. A Peninsular. 16. Period of time. 17. Plant. 20. Conjunction. 22. Preposition. 23. Denotes possession. 24. Abstainer (abb.). 25. Cricket term. 27. Quotation (1). 28. Swing. 30. Mode of cooking. 31. Prow. 32. Animal. 33. Japanese sash. 34. Paradise. 36. Indefinite article. • 37. Royal Monogram. 39. Conjunction. 40. Thus. 42. Weapon. 46. Punish. 49. Resists. 52. Store pit. 53. Quotation (2). 54. Part of milk. 55. Quotation (3). 56. Social reunion. DOWN. 1. Pronoun. 2. Watch. 3. Affirmative.

4. Grit. 5. Irish Parliament. 6. Preposition. 7. Quotation (4) and (&). 8. Form of address. 9. Beat. 11. Distasteful. 13. Hostel. 14. Quotation (7). 15. Purpose. 18. Suffering. 19. Table delicacy. 21. Bird. 24. Domesticates. 26. Quotation (6). 29. Quotation (10). 32. Tibetan priests. 35. Clamorous. 38. A mean dress. 39. In debt. 41. Aid. 43. Actual. 44. Metals. 45. Reverberation. 47. By way of. 48. Conjunction. 50. Tool. 51. Number. SOLUTION TO LAST PUZZLE.