COMPETITIONS CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 231, 29 September 1928, Page 15

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.

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DOWN. 1. "The War'' (anag.). 2. The function of 23 aoros>. 3. The secret of the chef's masterpiece. 4. A miglity man who was the subject of a poem by 13 down. 6. Flower. 7. If you guess this from the dictionary's "sharp" you will do well. 5. AY hat the shades of evening do. 13. An American poet. Definite. ]*'. 'lite poet husband of a poet wife. 17. Geographical synonym for culmination. 19. This may be a herb or a colour. 20. "Enacts"' (anag.). 21. Free.