CROSS-WORD PUZZLE-1077.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18577, 27 September 1928, Page 3

CROSS-WORD PUZZLE-1077.

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 word's that cross it, and they in turn to still other words. The solution will appear in next issue.

CLUES.

ACROSS. I—Venomous Indian serpents. 6—Garment. 9—This is merely a supposition. 10—One of the many garden pests. 12—The scold of old liable to wear this. 15—Write not wrong here. 18— A battle of ’54. 19— The good housewife likes to hear of this. 21— Sown by the farmer and loved by the yood pigeon. 22 Atone for. 24 Flower. 25 A kingly name. 26 One who wrote “To err is human, to forgive divine.” 28 “Bring the primrose that forsaken dies.”—Milton. 29 This kind of furniture is generally of French origin. 34 An Irish city. 35 A name for hazel catkins. 36 Incline. 37 Make of car.

DOWN. 1— This marks the triumph of the villain of the drama. 2 Pine. 3 You can settle if you this mine. I—" Hands Up” is perhaps the modern equivalent. s—JuvSt write nonsense in hrre. 7 Necessary. 16 — The Parliamentary candidate will find this kind of ability useful. 8— A weed made from two sombre words. 11 —Used to be trodden underfoot. 13— One of the goat family. 14— British martyr. 17— Seen at the Academy. 29 Though cold this is hot. 23—Food in the Far East. 27—This might be called the Weeterf equivalent of the last. 30— Feminine name. 31— "The Press everywhere should, if wise, ventilate real grievances” (hid* den). 32 Flower. 33 On this we live.

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION,

ACROSS—Sea, Concert, Grimsby. Ribbing, Ladders, Esher. Pearls. In mate, Express, Adapted, Arrears. Realise, Lately, Clocks, Death, Plaster Rockets, Weasels, Craters, Eve. DOWN—Scar, Snob, Semi. Stage. Agile, Bird, Isle, Dyes, Ibex, Burr, Ness Arid, Dump, Rate, Pedal, Apart, Legal. Natal, Attic, Edges, Rail. Eels, Rvde, Echo, Lock, Skit, Erase, Truce P»ws Ahab, Trelc, Clay, Eves Sash

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