CROSS-WORD PUZZLE -1301.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18804, 5 July 1929, Page 5

CROSS-WORD PUZZLE -1301.

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 stiiJ other words. The solution will appear in next issue.

ACROSS. I—This kind of ship was evolved during the war. 4 —Vegetable. 9—lf we were a more sensible nation this place would see the 12 across of us all in due time. 11— English river. 12— See 9 across. 13— Holy city of India. 15— Assent in action. 16— Were I in double here a French General of History would be seen. 17— The poetic beginning of an European river. 19— Conference of Zulu chiefs. 20— Anticlirpax. 22—These letters stand for an honour. 25—Mohammedan. 27 This drug in spite of its name is heard of in bad company. 28— Descriptive of a bad loud speaker. 29 Don’t with empty kettles tie dog’s tails (hidden). 31— Descriptive of the Cyclops, and made from what he shed. 32 One would naturally expect to find this in the timekeeper’s hand. 33 This “maketh a full man,” said Bacon; or an English town. 3*l—Kind of cup.

DOWN. 1— Kind of cane. 2 This key is animate. 3 English old master. s—Perhaps ‘Nem. con/ though with a miserly ending. G—One who went to look for asses and found a kingdom. 7—Excuse. S—The name of this periodical suggests the waterside. 9—The kind of views that appeal to to “have nots.” 10—Public school. 13— Rob late (anag). 14 — Fox hunters’ author. 17— Tree. 18— Kind of water fall. 21—Thermos (anag). 23 Where the larva is at home. 24 Two words where poets work, and yet the opposite in one. 26 Colour that suggests a big bang. 27 Exclamation. 30— Suggestive name for a sound. 31— Precious stone.

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION ACROSS.—Mechlin, Palaces, Frown.' Germicide, Lists, Immediate, Cog, j Rhoda, Angelus, Sadqess Orbit, End,!

Lightning, Norse, Checkmate, Grips, Tremolo, Tatters. DOWN.—Muffler, Crossword, Landscape, Neglige, Perim, Laird, China, , Shekels, Ken, Goodnight. Libertine. , 1 Solicit, Son, Neglect, Tresses, Geese, ~ Tokyo, Idaho.