TE AO HOU The New World [electronic resource]

No. 15 (July 1956)

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE NO. 15

This puzzle has been set by Mrs Beth Ranapia. It has as its special theme the sea: canoes, fishing and similar subjects. One guinea will be awarded to the winner. Send all solutions to The Editor, Te Ao Hou, P.O. Box 2390. Wellington, before August 31. Solutions to puzzles 13 and 14 have been given here, but winners will not be announced until next issue, as at the time of writing the time limit for these puzzles has not yet expired.

CLUES ACROSS

1.	One who marks time for the paddlers in a conoe.
4.	Having two entrances (a cave for example).
8.	Ancestral canoe of the Waikato-Maniapoto people.
9.	Sneeze
11.	To be sailed across (as the sea)
12.	God of the ocean
15.	God of the storm wind
17.	The figurehead or bow part of a canoe
19.	Yours (plural)
21.	Streamers of feathers at stern of canoe
23.	To strike with the fist
25.	Belonging to you.
26.	The head
27.	A plant with an edible root said to have been brought in the Mataatua canoe
29.	To go round about
30.	The sail of a canoe
31.	At a distance; yonder place

CLUES DOWN

1.	Captain of the Tainui canoe
2.	Descendants
3.	Waka —-; a double canoe
4.	Night
5.	The name of (3 words, 2, 5, 1)
6.	A headland or cape
7.	The ancestral canoe commanded by Tama-te-kapua
10.	To catch fish in a net
13.	To sow seeds
14.	The stern-post of a canoe
16.	Deaf
18.	Poles erected on a tuauhu or sacred place
20.	Landing or beaching place of a canoe
21.	Anchor
22.	A piece of wood by which the body of a canoe is lengthened
24.	Scale of fish
28.	To bale out a canoe