CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 639, 17 December 1932, Page 28 (Supplement)

CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

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ACROSS. I—Elementary, but with prim start. 9—The film about this will certainly not endure. 10— Gelatinous result of telling a girl you warble. 11 — Stop. 12— Mistaken. 13— This rock curtailed would seem to be good for foundations. 17—It has a crown, but may be worth less than a sovereign. 19— Given a fine day, and suitable water, the rest is plain sailing! 20— Forbidden. 21— A soothing tit-bit. 23—Channel feature by the way. 27 It’s clumsy to put parent and boy next to a confused riot. 28— A Frenchman's most up-to-date description of an international cricket match. 29 To transform " petit roue ” will give you quite a turn. 30— The fellow who made Sam hot. 31— A market fixture, and not what the Pope uses to sign a Papal hull.

“AS THOU WILT.” Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and i rings itself all the way through, and I thou shalt make of it a dirge or a life- i march, as thou wilt.—Carlyle.

DOWN. 2—lf the family gets mixed on the holiday journey to this, it is just the place to disentangle them. 3 This fish may not be in the pond, hut cut off his head, and—hey presto! 4 A landlubber who might well act as a nautical guide. 5 Russian river. 6 More than ordinarily clever, apparently, but able to be got over. 7 When making this, one is inclined to admit inferiority. 8— To be this is to be poor indeed. 14— Half a gallon in fruity setting is hardly extravagance. 15— This stirs things up. 16 — The man at the 4 down. 17— This sock is not on the foot, but the foot may he on it. 18— The punter’s welcome extremity. 22—Musical instrument. 24 Dish of the past in a rut. 25 Too much of this might be rather a blow for 19 across. 26 Feminine garment as once named.

I GOD IN THE AFFAIRS OF MEN. - God governs in the affairs of men, l and if a sparrow cannot fall to the L | ground without His notice, is it prob- ■ able that an Empire can rise without I His aid?—Anon.