CROSS-WORD PUZZLE – 106.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17569, 20 June 1925, Page 25 (Supplement)

CROSS-WORD PUZZLE - 106.

HOW TO SOLVE CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

The numbered squares are the starting points for words extending across or down, or both. One letter to a square. Words end at first black square encountered or border of puzzle. Pick out a word that fits a given definition and space. This gives you a clue to other words that cross it, and they in turn to still other words. The solution will annaar in next issue.

CLUES.

ACROSS. 1 -Article* of sports wear. 6—One who inserts scion of tree- into another tree. 11 --Sheet of glass. 12 Act of ritual. 1 *- -Ornamental fasteners. 14—Hard dark wood. 3 ft—Skill. 18—Town in Sweden. 20 - Native mineral. 1 22 In greater degree. l 23 Part of body. 1 24 — Notion. 1 25 Bird. 1 27 -Bolting term. 2 29 Fish. 2 30— Keep back. 2 83 - -Incantations. ;? .37* - -Towns ma n. :< 30 -Crystalline mineral. !‘ 37—Reave empty. ;• 41 Stoppage. 45—Poem. 4(s—'Tennis term. 2, 48- household deity. *i 49 Spun thread. 4 .50 —Vapour. 4 51.—Payment for work. 4 52 —Part of verb “ to be.” 4 54—Part of circle. 4 sG—Strike lightly. .! 57 —Of sounder mind. c 60-—One of the* senses. c 63 —Heavenly body. 7 6t --Fro nr.* outside to insido. ( 65 Fabrics. C 66— Funeral candles.

DOWN, 1— K;ind of ship. 2 -Appropriate. 3 -Tight. 4 Finish. 5 Sit down again. 6 Oily matter. 7 Eve’s origin. 8— —Small particle. o—Marsh land. 10— Revokes. 13—Walk affectedly. 15—Warble. 17—Italian city. 19—Passed away. 21 —Bobbin. 26—Places where money is coined. 28—Scanty. 31- -A drug. 32 Biblical name for Noah. 33 Health resort. 34 Sin. 37—J our neyo* 1. 38 —Jewish month. 39 -Roman goddess of agriculture. 40— Change direction. 42—Flush with success. 43 —Scandinavian legend. 44—Surgical saws. 46 Studded with star*. 47 Art of arranging. 53—Prefix meaning “ before.” 55—Italian castle and town. 53—Venomous serpent. s.9—Part of head. 61— Former capita] cf Armenia. 62 Hill.