The Star’s Cross-word Puzzle.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18992, 11 February 1930, Page 15

The Star’s Cross-word Puzzle.

CLUES.

ACROSS. I—The1 —The sailor bunks in here for shelter 6—Stay 9—Where there's this there’s a ray of hope for the sailor 10—Many people have been prematureJv buried in this 12— A religious lump 13— Genus of evergreens (from a bus rut) 16— A moving feature of the sailor’s life 17— The one on whom lies the onus of proof 19—rA Dickens character 21—Teutonic terror suggested by a number 24 — Town of ancient Egypt 26 The mark of a vanished king 27 “Man. Hon” (anag.) 25 A relative 31— A pointed reference to a sailor’s way 32 t Gorgeously coloured 33 Formed a road to 24 across 34 The sort of experience that cures pride

DOWN. 1— You and I, and the rest 2 Represents the back view of 26 across 3 Weapon 4 One who has something to answer for 5 Sailors 7 Push 10 across up a bit after doubling its third letter 8— Cross 11 —A great handicap to racegoers 14— Cleansing a great mass in America 15— The sort of plan that appeals to the pocket 18—English river 20 —Slides over a hand}' bridge 22 An elevating step 23 Biblical character 24 “A miss, Ma!” (anag.) 25 Foreign resort in which the male sex becomes less pronounced 29 An Eastern lawgiver 30— Quadruped whose heart gives thanks

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION. ACROSS—Become. Costumes, Aprons, Stampede, Nuisance, Envelope, God, Rosegarden, Redemption, Odd,

Snuffers. Reproach, Mannerly, Tingle, Enriched, Slides. DOWN—Footing, Stamped, Emperor. Essences, Braying, Corsair, Manacle, Void. Post, Ebon, Dude, Ezekiel, Enraged, Players, Ishmael, Nunnery, Offence, Drilled.