The Star Cross-word Puzzle.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19268, 3 January 1931, Page 7

The Star Cross-word Puzzle.

CLUES.

ACROSS. I—Astonish considerably. 10— Anger and men can produce this animal. 11— May be a debt, or merely a relation. 12— Coin accustomed to hide. 13— Good-tempered creatures, but sometimes waxy. 16— If the weather is this enough you may get a glide from it. 17— Its persistence has led to many people taking an unpleasant drop. 18 — This animal is common in India. 19— A brief reply. 21— Rosie has a willowy form. 22 Italian town. 23 Has its points in a game. 26 Attached to trunks. 27 A Channel swimmer. 30—According to custom. 32 Great deeds bring this. 33 Wring. 35 — Initiates many conversations. 36 “Rustle” (anag.). 37 Showing respect.

DOWN. 2 One for a fight, more for a dance. 3 Cromwell's idea of a mace. 4 Island clever in reverse. 5 Here you see a boy in part of a forest. —Only a part of the Army. 7To save this motorists might go at walking pace. 8— Describes an English King. 9 Timidity. 13—The kind of stuff to give washerwomen ! If —An optical defect. —An interpolation of indignation. 16—An arithmetical mystery you no doubt once sought. 20—When this bird visits it brings a large bill with it. 24 Sounds like direction for giving hack vim to the rower. 25 Mix a “ high ball,” and get half a geometrical figure. 28— Fish. 29 “Not as I” (anag.). 30— The willing need not be this. 31— Add a French word to confuse. —An European of many feet.

WEDNESDAY’S SOLUTION. ACROSS.—Facilitate, Acid, Heliotrope, Snap, Repla}', Needs, Can, Tarantula, Abbot, Ethic, Treasurer, Eye,

Treat, Rosary, Rack, Enterprise, Bonn, Despondent. DOWN - .—Frhs, Calf, Loose, Tyrol, Tipsy-cake, Canterbury, Depository, '* Annals, Pat, Streetarab, Archdeacon, i- Nicety, Utterance, Ada, Sleep, Ripon, Dire, Kent.