CROSS-WORD PUZZLE -1267. DANCING BECOMING LESS POPULAR?

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18769, 27 May 1929, Page 4

CROSS-WORD PUZZLE -1267.

DANCING BECOMING LESS POPULAR?

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.

DOWN.

4—A doleful state for the worker to be in. 7—Safe sort of secretary for the married man. 9—Some cars make a habit of this on hills. 10— Beasts of burden in some countries. 11— Russian river. 12— This sometimes has hair between the teeth. 13 — This storm evidently has something to do with rent trouble. 16— This always has the last word when present. 17— Worthless diamond. 18— Mountain range. 19— Bird. 22—Where the darling of my heart lives in song. 23 Much the same as 13 across. 27—The housewife knows that irritation can come within one’s ken in this part of the house. 32—Suggests famous statuary. 35 Calm. 36 Hidden in “ I’m a mere adornment in the house.” 37 When a married couple own to having this nowadays one inquires if it is a saloon. 39 This fairy occurs in Pericles. 40— A weapon (but be a man and do not do what it suggests). 44 A musical item. 45 Result of a considerable cut in capital by' a Scandinavian concern. 46 This end of the trail should be easy to travel. 47 Shape. 48— From this may' grow cabbages or kings. 49 Or this.

1— Topsy-turvy summits. ~ 2 A knot. 3 Divert the mail to a South American town. 4 Hardly honourable. 5 One may be this in youth, but it is over when the half-century has slipped away. 6 Quite. 7 Not polished. 8— This may catch you bending with painful results, though the end be past. 14— If the batsman shapes well, this shape won’t worry him. 15— Sovereigns have been deposed to make way for this one and his fellows. 19— In this progress is slow, —one might say foot by foot. 20— A cause of indigestion. 21— Source of black care for many a 37 across. 24 Look. 25 This girl is wide, deep and a fast mover after five. 26 Mother Hubbard’s dog’s dinner. 28— Lacking principles. 29 Behave. 30— “Rile mob” (anag.). 31— Occurs in the rhyme of Boy Blue. 33 True and trusty. 34 Is doubled between banks. 38—You travel single one way only on this on a special occasion. 41— I lend colour to a destructive agent. 42 His name is a joke, but even his famous walk did not save him. 43 What the Scotsman sent early to his girl in lieu of flowers (in the belief that her love was growing).

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION.

ACROSS—Catamaran, Bated, Affidavit, Arris, Thyme, Liana, Lewes, Latvia, Milled, Kenya, Virile, Romney,

Smelt, Tunic, Lilac, Crude, Redletter, Share, Tennessee.

DOWN—Craft, Taffy, Midge, Revile, Mature, Brawl, Tarpaulin, Dastardly, Lakes, Wince, Smart, Leviticus, Tarantula, Meerut, Linden, Crete, Liege, Lotus, Curie.