CROSS-WORD PUZZLE – 430.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17906, 23 July 1926, Page 10

CROSS-WORD PUZZLE - 430.

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 appear in next issue*

ACROSS. DOWN. I—The vice -which makes the profiteer. I—Symbolic of impenetrability. 6—Oxford college. 2—Vessel. 12— Freshwater fish. ’ 3—Stresses. 13— You must go to this town to see 4—Symbolic of weakness. the Taj Mahal. s—Younger. 14— Rises. 7—Worn by the “ Might-otherwise-be-15— Follows.. fair.” 16— Reward. B—Famous Beau. 17— Possesseth. 9—S. American tree lizards. 18— Mark. 10—Allowance for waste in transport. 21—A form of currency. H—Moslem woman’s veil. 23 “ Picture Palace.” 19—Great British field-marshal. 24 New form of entertainment intro- 20—Firearm. duced from the Continent. 22—Opportunity or metaphorical 27—Countered. tether. 30— Insult. 23—A room, or what should be pur31— Vessel. sued therein. 32 — Interest is getting focussed on the 25—Sweetmeat. / struggle for these. 26 —Dutch colony or liqueur. 34—A king of Amalek. 28—Systematic knowledge. 37—Raw material for ropes. 29—Payment. 39 Material for roads. 32—Profit. 40— Theatrical misnomer which we 33 —Step. have copied from the French. 35—-Storm. 41— Once an important country east of 36 —Character in Martin Chuzzlewit, Mesopotamia. whose name is familiar if you 42 — Look- over. have never read the book. 43 Belgian roy*al name. 37—“ Silence! 44 Simulate. 38 —Inferior.

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION. ACROSS—Cameras, Princes, Tor, Neptune, Arabian, Leper, Takes, Elan, Enver, Aero, Held, Earl. Taste. One, Asses, Partner, Capri, Dud, Onega, Ludo, Snob, Pool, Scene, Boor, Tesla,

Arden, Outdoor, Marline, Ere, Surveys, Dampers. DOWN—Concert, Moplahs, Roup. Stern, Prate, Irak, Chisels, Sinuous, Tenet, Need, Rare, Bears. Venture, Lepid, Aaron, Ada, Ord, End, Egg, Copious, Plotter, Ruled, Nobel, Ebonite, Arriets, Oslo, Sera, Cares, Named, Sore, Drum.