The Star Cross-word Puzzle.
CLUES.
ACROSS. I—This is really straight up and down. 9—Blossom in bulk. 11— Tug. 12— Otherwise. 13— A very fat Biblical king. 13—Important members of any football team which brave men never turn. 18 — A Roman province known to the Rumanians. 19— A Dickens character suggesting locomotion. 20— Accustom. 21— A relation and a small animal produces a famous French revolutionary. 22 You lay this on trade to its detriment. * 23 Flower. 24 The Pharaoh who fought against Josiah. 25 A diarist. - 28—“ The whilst his did on the anvil cool.” 30— “ ■, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prisms” (Little Dorrit). 31— Treating. 32 The Devil according to Holy Writ was a famous one of these.
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION. ACROSS.—Jeweller, Banana, Democrat, Temper, Transept, Varied, Tri-
DOWN. 2 May be eaten, read, or felt. 3 Weird. 4 Hanging. 5 Pure. 6 “ Like hedgehogs dressed in " (O. W. Holmes). 7 A form of government. S—Such measures are taken by sensible folk. 9—Perennial disease of currency. 10—Mechanic who often visits our homes. —Some people are never happy unless they can do this. 15—Neat. 17— Head of cattle. 18— Evil spirit. 25 Preface. 26 French Tommy. 27 Brahmin ritual. 29 Approximate. 30— Game.
cyclist, Obligatory, Detail, Bannister, Distrait, Surest, Harmonic. DOWN.—Judith, Wombat, Locust Exasperate, Abeyance, Amphibia, - Acridity, Scarlatina, Doldrums, Cloth- * ier, Ugliness, Victim, Strain, Critic.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 144, 19 June 1931, Page 13
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223The Star Cross-word Puzzle. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 144, 19 June 1931, Page 13
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