CROSS-WORD PUZZLE-694.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18187, 21 June 1927, Page 10

CROSS-WORD PUZZLE-694.

The numbered squares are flie starling 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 arid 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.

CLUES.

ACROSS. ■ —Great mediaeval king of France. S—English university. 10— Of a wing. 11— An American lunch. 12— Turns round. 15— Indian sign. 16— Eve’s ceremonious address. 17— Where martyrs perished. 18— A sweetener. 19— Eve in vampish mood. 20— Rubbish. 23—Samovars. 25—The body of actors. 26=—This Duke embezzled French public money and got off. 27—Our immortal.

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION.

ACROSS—Spoilers, Guineas, Mechanic, Caribou, Adomers, Candle, Stormy,

DOWN. 2 Distant. 3 Slander. 4 This battleship was a casus belli. 5 This is a casus of private warfare. 6 Great English philanthropist. 7 Part of our title. 8— Port of Spain. 9 An Anglo-Saxon councillor. 12— Well dressed. 13 — Mohammedan assembly of the learned. 14— To break. 21— Alarm. 22 County of England. 24 The destroyer in India. 25 Musical passage.

Patterns, Sincere, Serrated, Alleged Delegates. DOWX—Egac. Enticed, Samoa, Pseudo, Inherit, Kindecr, Sacks, Aida, Natural. Leefang, Oracles, Moor, Unseat, Posed, Sidle, Eddy.