THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19765, 21 December 1935, Page 16 (Supplement)

THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE

No. 175

ACROSS. 1 What a battery must be to be effective. 5 Cushioned seat without back or arms. 9 A hermit. 10 You find this on the right side of the ledger. 11 Often drawn across the trail (2 words). 12 Where the leaning tower is. 14 A reptile. 15 Dreadful. IS A fungoid growth. 20 A light meal. 23 Elevator. 24 What the witch rides on. 27 To counterfeit a signature. • 28 Relish for food. .20 Americans. 30 No wringor is complete without these.

Across.—l Periscope. 9 Net ball. 10 I.ag behind. 11 Yardarm. 12 Cloakroom. 13 Elope. 15 Notary 17 Golden. 20 Smilnx. 22 Listed. 20 Amiss. 28 Dry as dust. 29 Bucolic. 30 Antelopes. 31 Curator. 32 Thcrsitcs.

POPPING THE QUESTION. Modern Wooer: I say, old thing, may I attend your wedding? She: Why, I'm not even engaged. “Oh, as bridegroom, I mean.” SECRETIVE. “Money talks, 1 tell you.” “Yes, but it never gives itself iway."

SOLUTION TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE.

DOWN 1 For sitting on. 2 Granted, consented. 3 Rush fruit 4 More dry. 5 Evergreen poisonous Levanting shrub. 6 Melt, dissolve. 7 Kind of dog. 8 Nut-hatch (lit.) 13 Bill of a crauo. 16 Very small fish (2 words). 17 Jorrocks (lit.) 19 Orange-coloured. 21 Thoy live in the Far East. 22 What the skater does. 25 He who has is this. 26 Vale.

□own. —l Pelican. 2 Ragwort. 3 Sneakor. 4 Orison. 5 Endymion. 6 Started. 7 Paragon. 8 Slumber. > 14 Logs. 16 Arms. 18 Hand-cart. 19 lambics. 20 Sincere. 21 Isolate. 23 Insults. 24 Trumpet. 25 Detests. 27 Myrtle.

THAT WAS DIFFERENT. The clear old lady smiled at the little gild who had been left in sole charge of the confectioner’s shop. "And don’t you feel tempted to oat one of the cream buns, my dear?” she asked. The little girl was quite shocked. “Oh, dear no!” she replied. “That would be stealing. I only lick them.”