The Star’s Cross-word Puzzle.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18901, 28 October 1929, Page 6

The Star’s Cross-word Puzzle.

CLUES.

ACROSS. I—No humanitarian, this man, 7 a,nd clumsy errors are natural to this. 8— while this man may relieve your pains. ’ 10— "The of otxr life if of mingled yam, good and ill together” (Shakespeare). 11— A dream will make you this. 12— An air-container that is made to be trodden on. 13— “Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise to delights and live laborious days” (Milton). 15—A mighty monster with a flying tail. 17—Journal of a kind. 19—The kind of victory that one does not boast of. 22—One of the duck family. 24 A slice of Africa. 25 Flower. 27 Gurkha knife. 28— Wooden runner of a kind. 29 Draw’. 30— Fruit that sounds as if it should be a runner. 31— Unwilling.

DOWN. 1— You can’t get less than this. 2 A summer dish. 3 English city. 4 German city. 5 Not so soft are sackcloth and calico as is silk (hidden). 6 Neat. 7 Great river of Asia. 9—Scene of a battle-in Africa. 13— Colour. 14— The kind of Estimates that annoy the Little Englander. 16—An animal on his head suggests spoil. 18—Hidden in Tennyson’s “One God, one law, one element ... to which the whole creation moves.” 20— Akin. 21— A bit of machinery well known in 14 down circles. 22 Apparently' supernatural. 23 This is not easy, you’ll agree. 26—Fruit. 27*—“Uncle, an oak or an ash, in eacll instance” (hidden).

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION. ACROSS —Colorado, Balzac, Luminous, Supper, Chameleon, Tress, Yea, Chow, Naive, Flail, Bray, Age, Eager,

Cantaloup, Tailor, Unstable, Dressy, Hyacinth. DOWN —Calico, Lammas, Ranee, Deuce, Aquitania, Zeppelin, Chrysler, Onyx, Loo, Hilarious, Affected, Narghile, Peck, Rat, Dobbin, Speech, Nancy, Antic.