PUZZLE SQUARES

Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1931, Page 15

PUZZLE SQUARES

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD.

The problem to be solved this week is as follows. Clues:

ACROSS. 1. There is something distinctly sharp in having looked quickly. 5. A gentle push is excavated in a way in the north-east. 3. There is a bend in this. 9. If you want to recall, do so with reference to a particular area. 10. One of Old Bill’s pals from Serbia. 11. Three months’ fire remains. 12. There’s a distinct want here despite the fact that the sailor is close to the scene in a way. , .. ' 11. Trade marks and near the middle too. 10. This writer has one of his bones very ■ prominent -near the middle. 20. If you want the right to act in the name of another you must put a human being next to the fruit. SB. Part of a boot that certainly does not start down. 25. This service means insincere devotion. 26. An old time-keeper set the wrong way finally. 27. You mustn’t get tight if you’re going to get this right 28. Writer of mystery stories. 29. It seems that this part of an animal shrinks. DOWN. 1. Knock in the middle for the fruit. 2. “'Rag bale” (anag). 3. He is here and around is covered with wax, He seemed happy too. 4. The drinking house is kept under at this Indian festivity.

5. Messages from a stone. . 6. It needs this to carry away most of it in the end. 7. This is suitably placed outermost. 13. Attention! 14. Meditate in bed and you’ll get stupefied. 15. Look up the bow and see the Spaniard. 17. It takes two to a great extent to make a bit of poetry. 18. To get better, order the devil to move about. 19. Cut the grass about the measure and it will be ripe. 21. Perhaps it’s the evidence of drink in him that makes him such a fool, 22,, You must do most of this finally and 4 all the time to be it. 24. You’ll always find deers in these ' grasses.