No. 9 (Spring 1954)
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CROSSWORD PUZZLE
No. 9
We received a record number of solutions to Crossword Puzzle number eight, but only four were correct. The prize was awarded by lot to Norman Tamaiharanui Bradshaw, of 15 Bradshaw Street, Bluff. The prize for number seven was awarded for the only correct solution sent in by Mrs Margaret Takurua Hemmington, Box 399, Hastings.
A guinea prize is again offered for a correct solution to Crossword Puzzle Number Nine.
CLUES
(All answers in Maori words)
| 1. | Rope |
| 5. | A negative |
| 8. | Sir |
| 9. | Laughed at |
| 10. | Flavour |
| 11. | Leaf |
| 12. | To fell a tree |
| 13. | Gun |
| 14. | Egg |
| 16. | Vine |
| 18. | Inside (abbrev., dialect) |
| 19. | Knock down |
| 21. | Food, also possesive particle |
| 22. | Take off |
| 24. | Sin |
| 27. | Tribal prefix (Taranaki) |
| 28. | Copse |
| 29. | To bend over |
| 32. | Track |
| 34. | Stand |
| 35. | Glory |
| 36. | Yours (plural) |
| 38. | Earthquake |
| 39. | Yours (plural) |
| 41. | Tututuku pattern |
| 46. | To swing |
| 47. | Calabash |
| 48. | Landslide |
| 50. | I |
| 51. | To strike or hit |
| 52. | A command, to ‘stand up’ |
| 53. | To cover |
| 1. | Weeds |
| 2. | To smear over |
| 3. | The sun |
| 4. | A God |
| 5. | Spur |
| 6. | Satan |
| 7. | Israel |
| 15. | Rain |
| 17. | Sound made by pigeon |
| 20. | Inclination |
| 23. | Inland |
| 24. | Sob |
| 25. | Constipation |
| 26. | Land-slide |
| 29. | Visit |
| 30. | Night |
| 31. | Asking questions |
| 33. | I don't know |
| 37. | Bilge of canoe, or belly |
| 40. | Fishing line |
| 41. | Island in Polynesia |
| 42. | Tribal unit |
| 43. | Crowding |
| 44. | Native shrub |
| 45. | Screen |
| 46. | Village |
| 49. | Shudder |
