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No. 43 (June 1963)
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Solution to No. 39

Crossword Puzzle 40

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1 September
2 Enter; join
3 Hand, arm
4 Cramp, stiffness; benumbed
5 Breath
6 Fixed, settled; satisfy
7 Fly; sail; flow
8 Revenge; price
10 Your (pl.)
11 Throw away, reject
12 Two; pit, den
14 Nose
19 Trap for catching eels and other fish
20 Beg, cadge
22 Burn
23 The day after tomorrow
24 Stamp; dash; strike
26 Fish
27 Leaf
30 Allow, let
32 Mount Cook; a variety of Kumara
33 Olden times
35 There is; beget
38 Omen; in trouble
39 Those (near you)
42 Sea egg
43 Be reached; be achieved
44 When? (fut.)
45 Grey
46 Horizon; perch; margin; sill
47 Yes
50 Calm; at peace

ACROSS

1 Feather; hair; bristles
9 Board
13 Elizabeth
15 Clay
16 Spoon
17 Fern root
18 Current
21 Look after
24 Very many
25 Chief
28 Towards the speaker
29 Vine
30 A spear
31 Man who chants out the time
33 Whistling sound; asthma
34 No
36 Where?
37 Forehead
40 Ask
41 A prick or stab, and a young brother together give a lake near Rotorua
46 Perhaps; surely
48 For, since; when
49 One side
51 Open
52 Noise, screech; thicket
53 Int. in poetry
54 Avenged, paid for
55 Root of a tree
56 Day; world