CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 661, 14 January 1933, Page 21 (Supplement)

CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

CLUES.

ACROSS. I—This creature must have been out to sea to eat the fish we see in it. 9—Kind of sickness not unknown on its latter half. 10— Narrow and an unpleasant position if plural. 11— A slang light. 12— Scottish shire. 13— “Send a mace’* (anag.). (Sounds like advice to the dramatic critic). 15— This is a bit of a lottery and yet not a little either. 16— Material that has a chilly sound. 19—To be seen in a prawn but not in a shrimp. 21— Musical movement; or is it due to nervousness? 22 Specimen. 24—The fish of 1 across. 26—Word mentioned once in these clues. 29—“ The of our life is of a mingled yartn, good and ill together ” (“All's Well That Ends Well"). 31— Asiatic capital. 32 Herb (is it for Cerberus?) 3 4—Leave. 35 A bit of a blow. 36 Gaol. 37 “It's the gap” (anag.). (But it would fill one).

DOWN. 2 Ceremony. 3 Part of Humpty Dumpty’a dress. 4 Unfasten. 5 Make of ear in which one need not its first three letters 6 Serpent with a fairy tail. 7 “Fallen from his high and welt’ring in his blood ” (Drydcn). 8— Trite. 9 All you can really get from an illusion. 14—Fret. 17— European capital. 18— A singularly personal address. 19— Bird made of the head of 1 across. 20— This lock can be unfastened more easily in some of the U.S.A. 23—19th century British statesman. 25—The dance that baby starts with. 27 The latter half of the following. 28— Nonsense (Seems to encourage vocal efTort from 27 down). 29 A delightful sweet that has come to us across the herring pond. 30— Robbed. 33—Just a little dog.