CROSS-WORD PUZZLE- 406;.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17881, 24 June 1926, Page 11

CROSS-WORD PUZZLE- 406;.

The numbered squares are the starting points for wordb extending across or down, or both. One letter to a square. W'ords 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 appear in next iuue.

CLUES

ACROSS. | X—Great 18th century English portrait painter. I 6—Name connected with a trench me;i tar. 10— Humorous. 11— Shrill cry. 32 Kentish watering-place. 13—16th century Italian goldsmith. 16—Assign. 19 —Spring flower. 22 Right to hold until a debt is paid. 23 This acid is a mild antiseptic. 25 Withered--26 Famous architect. 27 Part of the title of a Scottish song that Englishmen often sing on festive occasions. I 2S—Mountains of France. I 20—Selvage. | 30—Control. 132 —A gift to any caricaturist of the Prime Minister—(England). 33 Floating vegetation in the Nile. 35—M-oral. 36'— Pit dug for water to drain into and be pumped out. 39—Part, of the body that a fencer develops. 41— Star-like flower. 42 -Outcast. 46 Far. 47 Attempted an accompaniment. 4S—Under your sole now, unless you are not out of bed yet. 49 Morose60—Daubs.

DOWN. t I—Knave. 2 Found in a. quarry or a small boy's pocket. 3 Throw out. I—Symbolic of slavery. 5An inversion of stitches (or. if you prefer, hot beer and gin). 6 Cut hy reciprocating motion--7 Feature. 8— Famous tragedian, brother of Mrs Siddons. ■ • 9—This or a spot is Nature's camouflage. 14— Water-bird, or a Scottish .lad. 15— Stately flower. * 17—Aromatic alcohol, i 18—Motto for the Progressives. 20— Epithet of rubbish. 21— Tiresome. 23 — Famous Cheltenham headmistress 24 Applicable to the man who described rich old men’s jjf fts to charity as “ fire insurance. ” 31— Engrave. 32 Size of type. ■1 33—Eddie*. 34—Miserable, r 37—State of perfection--3B—These8 —These must get shocked pretty often nowadays. 40— Name. 41— Fear. j 43 —Viewed. 44 Something fictitious. 45 These come before feasts.

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION. ACR osS.•‘-Dulcimers, Desire. Nougat Agamemnon, Welter. Itself. Anio Noses, Elia, Stoma, Stoat. Cie, Lot Enter, Onega, T.D.8.. Ask, Armed Ebert Need, Extra. And’ Daring,

Gentle. Tarpaulin, Remove, Erects, Retracted. DOWN.—Cement, Diaton, Ur.ge, Learn. Idea?, Ennis. Root, Sunset., <3ra'lia. Wasteland. LiOntamer, EkrpenMtrt-. t’ Fatcattle, ORE., Ell. Acrid, !, Box, Air, Reader, Editor. Banned, Re- • iate. Esjrct Tiara, Aglet, Na\c, Eir«*