CROSS-WORD PUZZLE-1137.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18630, 6 December 1928, Page 4

CROSS-WORD PUZZLE-1137.

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 fils 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. 1—“ I miss coal” (anag). 6 —The lady who boasted of this kind of husband was told it meant a small imitation of the real thing. 9—A famous ride. 10— A long sentence (slang). 11 — Birds. 13— Usually found as a complement to a bow. 14— A saving grace. 17 Girl’s name (or a boot). 19— Part of a splint. 20— You would be frightfully bucked if you performed in this. 21— Tommy Tucker’s currency. 22 — Girl’s name. 23 To do this entails loss of dignity. 25 — Much the same as 23 across. 26 What the man who gets cold feet does. 31— Harden. 32 This does not leave much. 33 Hidden in “The rest of the men dragged the Elsinore’s crew on deck.” 31—A shrew.

DOWN. 1— —A movement of the sea. 2 Here a trace turns to a four-spot. 3By no means a tyro. 4 French town. 5 A character from the Jungle Book. 6 Strikers are apt to do this to blacklegs. 7 A turning. 8 — An aid to vision. 12—Do this to get light. 15— A geographical feature. 16— Indicative of displeasure. 17— Flower. IS—Fashionable in pre-photograph davs. 23 Hang. 24 A treasure to the superstitious. 27 Situated in the middle of the Mediterranean. 28— A food of mystery and history. 29 — Often vised to exemplify whiteness. 30 — A drop of water.

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION. ACROSS—Garish, Absurd, Poverty, Bishop, Trysts, Texture, Emit, Sole, Tearful, Scatter, Light, Image, Pampa, Agues, Disease, Deistic, Oder, Sage,

Pyramid, Cutter, Totnes, Sirloin, Sonata, Censer. DOWN—Goblet, Russia, Spot. Hopeful, Keats,, Attract, Byre, Upshot Duster, Mermaid, Trigger, Strauss, Leipzig, Liege, Shred, Assyria, Semitic, Dorcas, Sexton, Taints, Censor, Tally, Pest, Done.