CROSS-WORD PUZZLE – 695.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18188, 22 June 1927, Page 10

CROSS-WORD PUZZLE - 695.

Tile numbered squares arc 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 oilier words. The solution will appear in next issue.

CLUES.

ACROSS. I—An interpretation in music. s—The gender of Eve. B—Roofed8 —Roofed or reproved. 11— Not confined to natives. 12— A well-known river. 13— To storm. 14— A demonstration of depravity. 15— appear on the traveller's re turn (abbr.) IG—Of midget growth. 17—A word of compulsion. 20—F ragments. 23 Beheaded twice it’s still on. 24 Consort. 25 A strong adherent. 27—A newt. 29 Overjoyed. 30— Attractive. 31— Haunts of sweepers.

DOWN. 1— Translate. 2 A broad stream of history. 3 At rest. -I—A lawyer. s—This makes a house a home. o—The summit. 7ln poverty they hardly meet. 8 — Lapse. 9 Quickly. 10—Dawn in poetry. 17—Kaleidoscopic design. IS—Figure. 19— Bound. 20— Source of sugar. 21— 1 down on the veldt. 22 Eve’s fine feathers. 2G—Naught will here avail. 28—This also comes to naught.

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION. Across—Charlemagne, Cambridge, Alar, Eats, Slues, Totem, Madam,

Arena, Sugar, Siren, Trash, Urns, Cast, Aiguillon, Shakespeare. Down—Afar, Libel, Maine, Gage, Shaftesbury, Westminster, Cartagena, Ealdorman, Smart, Ulema, Smash, Rouse, Salop, Siva, Coda.