NEW ZEALAND CROSS-WORD PUZZLES

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 181, 2 May 1925, Page 18

NEW ZEALAND CROSS-WORD PUZZLES

NO 11 (ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.) To-dav, readers of Tnr, Dominion will be able to entertain themselves with No. 11 of ’the Now Zealand cross-word puzzle series. The solution of No. 10 is given buiow : —

(Definitions for No. 11.) HORIZONTAL. ' 1. What all the woild’s aseeking. 8. 'To clear up what is difficult. 12. A bit of cloth torn off. 13. Lost, forsaken. 14. Performed alone. 15. "Be —” says the skip. 16. More than a breeze. 17. Not shrinking from risk. 18. The third tone of the diatonic scale. 19. -To fasten securely. 20. A blue dyestuff. 21. A large, graceful timber tree. 22. What poor Tom was, according to Eclgar in “King Lear.” 24. 'The god of thunder. 25. Besom friends. 26. The. flower with the teeth of a lion. 28. In addition. 29. The limit. 30. A Canadian insurgent, leader of the Metis. 31. A plant disease. 33. The sun—in Maori and Egyptian. 34. Verv weighty. 36. The soul, represented in Egypt by a bird with a human head. 37. Used to stop a hole. 38. Bag-like parts of art animal or plant. < 39. An aMicicnt high priest who had rebellious sons. 40. Centres of episcopal authority. 41. A quantity of rye in a nursery rbvme. 43. A West African monkey. 44. Hoarfrost and "the jangle of like endings.” 45. Small, but great cheese-eaters. 46. 'Towards the stern. 47. An appendage, designed for ornament and, use. 48. Knows. 49. Chemist’s term for tantalum. 50. 'Io see if objects be in line. 51. The fibre of linen-flax. 52. Usual sign of the infinitive. 53. To change a solid to a fluid. 51. A sudden jerk. 55. Tom Hood’s forte. 56. For entertaining travellers. 57. What people who cannot do crossword 1 lizzies saq these are ■ VERTICAL. 4. Soldiers of the cross. •2. A sharp knoyk. 3. A hint? of Basban. 4. Calumnious.

5. Old word for a’ wood, yet 'Tenny-f son’s word for a region without woods. 6. Containing valuable metal. 7. His Majesty’s Fleet. 8. 'Transferred to a purchaser. 9. Ancient. • 10. Behold; a North American Indian. 11. Arab chieftains. 14. Rise in the air. 16. 'To adorn with gold 17. A blessing to men. 18. A famous Olympian athlete 111. A binding agreement. 20. Promoting health. 21. Abstinence from food. 23. A town in Galilee, birthplace of Nathanael. 24. Connected firmly. . 25. Indicating addition. 2). Heather, and a fish. 28. Reliefs from work. 31. A covering for the foot. 32. A frozen raindrop. 34. The presentation of a case. 35 A division of mankind possessing constant traits. 36. Vedow’s opposite in the spectrum. 37. Shut up. . 39. Lizard-like animals. 40. Cowper, at another’s direction, wrote a poem on this. \ 41. Fine, soft hair. 42. The prong of an antler. 43. Useless without a heal). 44. Loud speech without much sense. 47. A tax for n privilege. 18. Where bricks are baked. 50. A busy insect found in some bonnets. J,,. 51. A card game 52. A liquid measure. 53. An eminence made smalt. 54. 'The crossing-sweeper in “Bleak House.” 55. The ratio of a circumference to its diameter. (Solution to No. 10.)