CROSS-WORD PUZZLE -1302.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18805, 6 July 1929, Page 20 (Supplement)

CROSS-WORD PUZZLE -1302.

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. I—Controversy. 4—A legendary beast. 9—Sport for horsemen. 11— Our ancestors wore this long before they wore 13 down. 12— Proverbial for merriment. 13— A friend and state make talk. 15 — Split. 16— Strip. 17— Why am I not ashamed to hide words in this way, eh? (hidden). 19— The butcher bird. 20— Bordering. 22—Also hidden with 17 across. 25 —Probably in your hand at this moment, madam. 27—Channel. 2S —One of the U.S.A. 29—English river. 31— Though less than half yet half in a cheesemite. 32 A gunner’s accessory. 33 Part of the body. 34 What foolish people say C.W.P.’s

DOWN. 1— Public school. 2 Epithet of a wagtail. 3 Old master. 5 “ Approach thou like the Russian bear . . . and my firm nerves shall never tremble,” Macbeth. 6 One of nature’s weapons. 7 Prison of old London. 8— mission works in India. 9 Headgear of a kind. 10 —A tradesman apparently made from another one coloured. 13— Worn by our ancestors. 14— A winter resort. 17—Yeast contains this. 15— The man who may write this after his name ought to be good at 9 across. 21—One need not fear this surgeon’s instrument. 23 Contention. 24 Remote. 26 There are great hopes of the latest 1 National one. 27 Made from a sting. 30— Material for a pudding. 31— An amphibian dear to the law.

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION. ACROSS—Mystery, Parsnip, Crematorium, Avon, Last, Benares, Comply, Duplex, Ode, Indaba, Bathos, Keb,

Moslem, Heroin, Raucous, Twit, Ogre Chronograph, Reading, Chalice. DOWN—Malacca, Turn, Romney, Agreed, Saul, Pretext, Strand, Communistic, Marlborough, Bloater, Surtees, Oak, Ebb. Smother, Cocoon, Inverse, Maroon, Hurrah, Thud, Opal.