HOW TO SOLVE THIS PUZZLE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4820, 3 April 1925, Page 4

HOW TO SOLVE THIS PUZZLE.

The numbered ito;h)itiuns are of words which, when correctly thought out, fill the white spaces in the diagram. Each number represents the banning of a word, reading either across or down to a black square. A black s piare Io th? left of. the number indicates a. horizontal word; above a number, a vertical word. Both vertical and horizontal numbers, may. begin a word, though inspection of the--puzzle will show this is not always the case. The correct words will have one white space for each letter and will interlock accurately and' satisfy the definitions. The horizontal and vertical words are di 11 erent, and through the definitions serve to check each other off with cross-clues, from which you can recognise other words. The best method of solving is, first to fill in, down and across, all the words you are absolutelj suie of. Then go over the imperfect words, referring to the definitions. The skeletons of words will often suggest another word, and by decrees —plus persistence and ingenuity—the entire series of words wifi “cross” correctly. All tlie words are found in standard dictionaries. Books of synonyms will prove, very useful in working out solutions.

OUR CROSS WORD PUZZLE No. 1, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. .

ACROSS, 1. Loose garment, 5. Young animal. 8. Yawn. 12. Affirm. 13. A number. 14. Alpine sleinbok. 15. Valley. 16. Seed of a fruit. 17. Merriment. 18. Sick. 21. Large (rec. 22. Kind of nuts. 26. A verbal noun. 29. Most recent. 32. First king of Israel. 33. Insane. 35. Tailless monkeys. 36. Taste. 37. Wroth. 38. Depressed. 39. Refuse.to grant. ■lO. Sailor. ■ll. Girl’s name. 45. Credit (abbr.) 47. Human limb. 49. Conveyance. 51. .American sloth 52. A Southern State (abbr ) 53. Repose 54. Request

55. Point of the compass 56. A colour 57. .Whinnies.

DOWN. 1. tlelirious word#. 2. Egg-shaped. 3. Vibrating metal object* 4. Before. 5. Short quick sound. 6. A joining together, 7. Vigour (colloquial). 8. Ship’s .boat. 9. Efficient. ’ 10. Fruit skin. 11. Grants immunity to. 19. Kind of fowl. 20. Devoured. 22. Soft. 23. Allow to enter. 24. Beneath. ' 25. Low marshy ground. 27. Leisure. 28. Wrecks. 30. Refrain (in music). 31. Stitched. 34. Desert dweller 39. False shirt-front. 42. Constellation. ■l3. Group of three. 44. Subterfuge. t 46. A grain.47. one. 48. Cry of a kitten. 49. Prohibition. 50. Article for use in snow. 51. Substance remaining after com bustion.