COMPETITIONS CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 225, 22 September 1928, Page 17

COMPETITIONS CORNER.

TESTS FOR OUR READERS.

In this corner we will give daily a problem for solution by our readers. Prizes will not be offered, the idea being to present the reading public with some brain-testing difficulties which each may smooth out to his satisfaction.

ACROSS. 2. Foreign to diplomacy, and indicates lack of keenness. 8. Here you see a drop of water. 9. Loosen. 10. "Dim planet" (anag.). 11. A rocky feature. 13. May help to make a clean sweep. 16. A reason for shaving. j 18. A reptile and ire mean more than i desire. 19. A builder's helper. 1 20. A boon to ice-cream merchants. j 21. Where to go if you miss the target, j 23. Suborned. 2 24. "Bets are" (anag.). 25. An uncharitable thing to harbour. 2 28. A contrivance for repairing the hulls of ships, less the iron. 2 30. A science. 2 31. A feature of the thaw. 2 32. Vacant. 2 33. Decree.

DOWN. 1. An expression of approval is double this. 2. Vessel. 3. An arbiter of Lords. 4. A change of form. 5. Praises. 6. Produced by 13 across. 7. The commencement of an ideal. 11. Banter and measure make a bird. 12. A fruity sweet (two words). 14. If you this the enemy you start with an advantage. 15. Foreshadowed (sounds as if it were time to join the ladies). 16. To comfort the watchman. 17. Dear to the Alchemists. 22. One never wants to do this to a bad book. 23. The sort of egg that knows what whiskers are. 26. The flower of Sarum. | 27. This is to do with returning a call. 28. A curtailer of freedom. 29. A flower that is pleasing in all .* . ,