CROSS-WORD PUZZLE – 952.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18451, 30 April 1928, Page 6

CROSS-WORD PUZZLE - 952.

Tlie numbered squares are the statrting points for words extending asross of 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. I—Two English words make a French city. s—Fish. 9—Feminine mountain. 10— Ordinary. 11— Musical burden. 12— Vegetable. 13— Fast. 14 — Musical instrument. % 17—Bird that is reckoned a dainty dish. 19—Sporting writer. 21—Do. 24—Name that we are expecting to see wax again. 27 Cheat. 28— This is very useful when one is solving a C.W.P. 29 Chief. 32 — Part of S. Mediterranean. 33 — “Caterer” (anag.). 34 Bird. 35 Water Bird. 36 — Jesters don’t like to have to do this.

DOWN. 1 — Shakespearean play. 2 One of Cromwell’s right-hand men. 3 English river. 4 Take ET from a duffer and find this great engineering feat. 5 Gear that is symbolic of work. 6 An upper room. 7 This may make passage through a hedge awkward. 8 — Flemish, old master. 15— Man of war perhaps in Nelson’s time. 16— Lively. fB Cinque port. 20— Bird. 21 — Cornish seaside resort. 22 “Red pile” (anag.). 23 One of Scott’s successes. 24 Weed. 25 One of the U.S.A. 26 Part of a castle. 30— Symbol of servitude. 31— Part of a bird.

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION. ACROSS—NoveIs, Govern, Opulent, Mirror, Airing, Tyrants, Drip, Ache, Sane, Signs, Meet, Pawn, Elsa, Wisp, Zeta, Eyed, Avro, Saar, Trice, Need,

Play, Sure. Daggers. Rigged, Apples, Airdrie. Truant, Leader. DOWN—Nomads, Vermin, Loot, Spry. Plea, Gnat, Otis. Evince, Nugget, Rain, Nine, Radical, Peppery, Amazons, Heather, Sweet, Slave, Drug, Acme, Spirit, Aargau, Euclid, Denser, Dean, Adit, Gods, Rail, Spee.