CROSSWORD PUZZLE No. 9 We received a record number of solutions to Crossword Puzzle number eight, but only four were correct. The prize was awarded by lot to Norman Tamaiharanui Bradshaw, of 15 Bradshaw Street, Bluff. The prize for number seven was awarded for the only correct solution sent in by Mrs Margaret Takurua Hemmington, Box 399, Hastings. A guinea prize is again offered for a correct solution to Crossword Puzzle Number Nine. CLUES (All answers in Maori words) ACROSS 1. Rope 5. A negative 8. Sir 9. Laughed at 10. Flavour 11. Leaf 12. To fell a tree 13. Gun 14. Egg 16. Vine 18. Inside (abbrev., dialect) 19. Knock down 21. Food, also possesive particle 22. Take off 24. Sin 27. Tribal prefix (Taranaki) 28. Copse 29. To bend over 32. Track 34. Stand 35. Glory 36. Yours (plural) 38. Earthquake 39. Yours (plural) 41. Tututuku pattern 46. To swing 47. Calabash 48. Landslide 50. I 51. To strike or hit 52. A command, to ‘stand up’ 53. To cover DOWN 1. Weeds 2. To smear over 3. The sun 4. A God 5. Spur 6. Satan 7. Israel 15. Rain 17. Sound made by pigeon 20. Inclination 23. Inland 24. Sob 25. Constipation 26. Land-slide 29. Visit 30. Night 31. Asking questions 33. I don't know 37. Bilge of canoe, or belly 40. Fishing line 41. Island in Polynesia 42. Tribal unit 43. Crowding 44. Native shrub 45. Screen 46. Village 49. Shudder