SUN CROSSWORDS—NO. 28.

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 126, 18 August 1927, Page 7

SUN CROSSWORDS—NO. 28.

ACROSS 1. The process of piercing 9. An organ of the body 10. A Russian weight 11. Water that has oozed through a porous soil 13. To introduce with a previous performance 16. A farinaceous meal obtained from the tubers of certain orchids 17. In motion 18. The native name of Persia 20. Runs in a sn\all stream 22. One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia 24. Measurer 26. Split pulse 27. Little 28. Required 30. Dangerous rock on Italian coast 31. Place 32. An obstruction 33. A prophet 38. A prefix to many words used in describing stomachic complaints

42. Good-hum-oured raillery 43. Floor covering 45. To gather after a reaper 46. A sharp acute fever 47. The abode of the shades 49. An Italian wine 50. A worker in stone 52. To expect 54. Distinguished 55. Offending one's conscience

56. Spawn of fishes 57. A lizard 58. Of eternal duration DOWN 1. To portend 2. To temper by heat 3. Earnestly desirous 4. Trembling 5. Dismay 6. To sod 7. An idea (prefix).

8. Xot engaged on either side 11. The prerogatives of a feudal manorial lord 12. Having panes 14. Like loam 15. Adorning with heraldic figures 19. An Australian military unit (abb.) 21. Reclined 23. The whole of it 25. Answer 27. Thin end of neck of mutton 29. Owed 39. To sink in 34. A tattered piece of cloth 35. Consisting of two parts of aluminium and three of oxygen 39. To purify 37. An idle fellow 39. Killed 40. The act of proving 41. A plumber’s tool 43. Shelf over a fireplace 44. Vexes 47. Esteem 48. A rapid current ! 51. Withered 53. Against (prefix)

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