CROSS-WORD PUZZLE-924.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18419, 22 March 1928, Page 11

CROSS-WORD PUZZLE-924.

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.

CLUES.

ACROSS. 2—Supreme. 8 — To get in a this means safety to some things, but not to us. 9 Six in Christian era, but hungry for more. 10— A flower. 11— Here is a headless spook to entertain you. 13—An advancer of advanced philosophic views. 16—Might get you out of that 8 across. 18— Change a contemporary prince to something edible. 19 — A last w r ord. 21— Here we see pa in a pugilistic setting. 22 Many a schoolboy has got this in a problem about its middle. 24 This results from a meeting that is altogether touching. 25 Anagram of “I lie, son.” 26 Word mentioned once in these clues. 2.B—Abused without a sailor. 29 This may betray an aeroplane. 30— A swell you despise; curtailed, sort of shell you despise. 31— A good dose of this reversed will make you this. 32 Sort of tubes that often harbour germs. 37—This is careless careless. 39 Incite (usually from out of sight). 40— If about this property you can say this 3 r ou may be well' off. 41— This, headless, has managed to more than this many a sea bird. 42 Hardly yielding.

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION. ACROSS—SoIid, Albatross, Humdrum, Capulet, Meander, Leopard, Doses, Chassis, Gatling, Rupee, Com-

DOWN. 1— A tramp abroad (in U.S.A., to be exact). 2 Savage animals in England are this. 3 They are, otherwise, more than this. 4 Anagram of "I’m in lag.” I—To be seen in any kursaal. G—This and leisure never agree. 7—Change 40 across into air. 11— Wholesale sacrifice. 12— A popular kind of knife in the household. 14— Breadth. 15— A style that dispenses with trim mings. 16— Seasons. 17— By this is 41 across made fruit I ful. 19— Difficulties often dissolve when this. 20— A famous river of Europe. 22 This and its reversal have associations with your opposite extremi--23 A protection against thieves. j 27—Sycophants. S3-—Boy’s name. 34 A rank that belongs to Carpen \ tier. | 35 The end of consumption, but ha: , seen the beginning of many a bril i liant career. 36 To get this take a rise out of 2 ! across. 37 In case . . . not. 3S—This may occur before a certain j rnmiimn vessel rearhes its tail ?

common vessel reaches its tail. pete. Proverb, Reliant, Lighter, Aero- \ drome. Dodge. DOWN—Schomberg, Lombard, De ' ridps, Admires, Tapioca, Orleans, Sated, Colic, Sherborne, Tumbler, Iceland. | Ghent, Repulse, Pronged, Exerted. I Corea. I