The Star Cross-word Puzzle.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19247, 8 December 1930, Page 4

The Star Cross-word Puzzle.

CLUES.

ACROSS. I—Colour in a piece of timber is strange to the busy s—Nautical manoeuvre that fixes the oilcloth 9—lngredient of 13 across 10— Wherein one may acquire a lot of possibilities 11 — A boom in high places, under the end 12— One spelling of a certain vegetable 13— A famous stone (not to be alluded to when the wife is cooking it) 14— This sure makes us happy 17—At the top of a clerical poll ’ 19 —If the pits are backward, before the end, the mine official may lose this 21—Essay 24 —An aquatic taxi 27 Preposition 28— Reading people seldom pass this without pausing 29 A cause of fierce controversy down Exmoor way 32 Enjoyed by men in pumps 33 My lady’s maid seems to have a considerable illness 34 — Belonging to a third person 35 Corn-removers 36 “Pet term” (anag.)

DOWN. > I—Half of a mathematical or literary enclosure i 2—Rather a row 3 Evidence of a leak 4 A one-eyed affectation E 5 The disease that Mr Henpeck would sometimes like to know how i to communicate 6—Suitable weapon for a nice slam i 7—Gratify [ B—Suitable wreath for a certain fish out of water 15—Suitable for the “baby” of the' bridge party ; 16—A childish garment, in childish 3 language 18—A short month 20 — One less than 9 across 21— All to pieces, as below i 22—A fairy Queen 23 When the weather report mentions these you can reckon it will be the middle sort of weather 24 You can associate him with bars and vaults 25 — An Ishmael 26 Not the shape of lady usually forming part of the eternal triangle 30— The 8.8. C. broadcast it right, and send out backwards 31— Stable

SATURDAY'S SOLUTION. ACROSS—Bosnia. Asleep, Briar, Tooled. Sequel, Oxide, Moslem, Napier, Refrain, Sultan, Cicely, Walrus, Jacket,

Racquet, Goblet. Zealot, Image, Oblige, Burial. Twine, Nearly, Lugger. DOWN —Betimes, Spousal, Abdomen, Viziers, Arsenic, Erudite, Palfrey, Erasure, Animate, Waghorn. Lobelia, Satiety. Squalid, Jezebel, Killing, Titular.