CROSS-WORD PUZZLE – 538.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18016, 29 November 1926, Page 10

CROSS-WORD PUZZLE - 538.

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 puzzie. 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. I—Early beginning, usually of something unpleasant. 4—Fold. B—Self-satisfied. 11— Strange. 12— Weapon. 13— Extent. 15— Chain of reasoning. 16— Particle. 18— Part. 19— Used to make soup. 20— Taut. 22—Brush. 25 -Big or small you cannot illustrate this and I can only if small. 26 Meant to secure secrecy. 29—Beautiful youth. 31— Go. 32 Struck Out. 33 Worst. 36—Indigenous. 39 Expended. 40— Tool. 42 Scolded. 43 A way on which one can walk only on rare occasions in winter. 45—Model. 47—Jerome’s version of the Bible. 50— Male name. 51— Extreme. 52 — This is a sufferer under the Soviet. 53 Kind of cake. 54 A natural 43 across. 55 This is what really makes life worth living. 56 Course. 57 When 55 across is fulfilled life seems this.

faoWN. 1— Caused by great astonishment. 2 Bring up. 3 Tell. 4 Guide. 5 Meteor from a certain constellation. 6 Dismount. 7 Unspoken. S—Bivalve. 9—IS across as a verb a clue to this. 10—Found in the mouth. M—Thrust. 17—Different. 21— Kind of tapestry. 22 If these hold your fish are not likely to escape. 23 Do this to your lawn in a drought, 24 Middle. 26 — Tree. 27 Crane. 25 Useful quadruped. 30— Place. 31— Reverse a boy’s name and find a cosy place. 34- Terrifv. 35 Increase. 37—This once belonged to England as a dowry. .‘lß—Match or goddess. 40— Rally. 41— Inn. 43 — Foreign title. 44 Glaring. 45 Way. 46 Tool. 4S —Make of aeroplane. 49—Forbidden by one of the latter

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION. ACROSS—Shviock, Dunkirk, Ensures, Galleon, Systole, Dumb, Stye, Aegis, Betel, Rake, Enter, Ej r es, Cool, Title, Pops, Nepal, Sloop, Nuts, Duse,

Perdjta. Unread*.-, Terrene, Thought, Hearths. DOWN'—Slender, Yashmak, Oars, Kiss, Dago, Nile, Inertly, Kennels, Eyrie, Alder, Beetles, Seedpod. Snail, Bells, Conduct, Ontario, Tamed, Elite, Opulent, Shekels, Pang, Ryot, Rich, Aria.