CROSS- WORD PUZZLE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 683, 9 February 1933, Page 13

CROSS - WORD PUZZLE.

CLUES.

ACROSS. 1 “Trace door” (anag.) 6 To do this is the reverse of extravagance J Do this to a person and he is temporarily unsighted 10 The curer turns to come again 11 What results from this storm is not road 12 Rude 13 The man whose wife looked round 14 One earns it, so, for a change, spend 17 Hail an obstacle in nc- friendly fashion 19 Tell of another addition 22 Polite consideration from a phantom 24 English river 25 “Gap rent” (anag.) 26 A flowery decoration 29 One half of a good tug of war 30 Artist’s medium 31 When you are this, that singlehanded game is up 32 Effect a change of tongues

Victoria, the virgin martyr, was a noble lady of Rome who, refusing to l abandon Christianity, was murdered at j the instance of her pagan lover.

DOWN. 1 One side of the account 2 An old substitute for the newspaper 3 Needless advice to the sun 4 Double 5 Sinister-coloured maid in Cornwall 6 Part of a fir fcrest, possibly 7 Having everything in 8 P. coy chaps t; very skinny 14 “Game start” (anag.) 15 Here you see French dairy produce 16 A good lady IS Half the start of 4 down 20 Questions of this kind are not answered 21 This vessel is suitable for drawing 22 Royal trappings 23 Not quite the epithet for George Robey (professionally, of course) 27 Odour 2S Lamentable form of ridge

You can melt a lump of sugar by j applying a match to it, but you cannot | make it flame unless you first apply a j bit of cigar or cigarette ash.