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Themed Crossword ACROSS 1. He played the title character in the 2004 movie, Alfie (4,3) 3. She was named Queen of the movies in 1936, ___ Loy (5) 5. Frank ___ was Danny Ocean in the 1960 movie Ocean's Eleven (7) 7. John ___ was Gus Polinski in the 1990 movie, Home Alone (5) 9. Christopher ___ was Jack Lewis in the 1993 movie, The Remains of the Day (5) 10. ___ Sharif was Sheikh Riyadh in the 2004 movie, Hidalgo (4) 12. Alexandra Medford in the 1987 movie, The Witches of Eastwick (4) 16. Sigourney Weaver is Ripley in this 1979 movie (5) 17. Star of Bridget Jones's Diary, ___ Zellweger (5) 18. ___ Redgrave was Max in the 1996 movie, Mission: Impossible (7) 19. Charlie W ilson in the 2007 movie, Charlie Wilson's War (3,5) 20. ___ Burton is Antony in the 1963 movie Cleopatra (7)
Cryptic Crossword ACROSS 1. Shop in Iona conceals view (7) 5. Fab lexicon contains story (5) 8. Sample some pasta steam (5) 9. Part of a book altered her pact (7) 10. Make several points and goads (7) 11. Neutral in finer types (5) 12. Insect with border song (6) 14. Mixed up rice oh very brave (6) 17. Some emu's iconic euphony (5) 19. Train as diversified skilled worker (7) 22. Responded to difference created (7) 23. Concur with some meagre estimate (5) 24. Walked and found enjoyable at first by replacing head start with tail end (5) 25. Scottish football team, wardens of the park (7)
DOWN 1. ___ Alba is Sue Storm in the 2005 movie, Fantastic Four (7) 2. Dennis ___ in the 1971 movie Duel, directed by Steven Spielberg (6) 3. Jason Connery played this Shakespearean character in the 1997 movie of the same name (7) 4. Ed Harris is Virgil 'Bud' Brigman in the 1989 movie, The ___ (5) 6. Jack ___ is Edward Cole in the 2007 movie, The Bucket List (9) 8. Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman starred in this 1946 movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock (9) 11. F Murray Abraham is Antonio Salieri in this 1984 movie (7) 13. Bruce Willis is Officer John McClane in this 1988 movie (3,4) 14. Robert Newton played the title character in the 1954 movie, Long John ___ (6) 15. Colin ___ is Harry Bright in the 2008 movie, Mamma Mia! (5)
DOWN 1. Frequently found in waterproof tent (5) 2. Examine plain spectrum, essentially (7) 3. Paragon found in side alley (5) 4. Most pleasant unfinished pig pen (6) 5. Becomes delicate if large (7) 6. Clean some bat heaps (5) 7. Unpredictable stray, sounds like a garret (7) 12. Hidden commander admits corporal (7) 13. Agitated previous spouse mentioned (7) 15. Watch verbose ambiguity (7) 16. Food store located in popular derby (6) 18. Incisive pack leader replaced by keen beginner becomes predator (5) 20. Get fit, find extra input (5) 21. Dense, requires adjustment (5)
TRIVIA QUIZ courtesy of Bobby 1. Which of his six wives is buried in the same grave as Henry VIII? 2. What animal, other than the elephant produces ivory? 3. How many cents in a nickel? 4. Which came first - chess or draughts? 5. Which fruit combines with an orange to make a clementine? 6. Who is responsible for the voices of Bugs Bunny, Silvester & Tweety Pie? 7. Who called the law an ass in Oliver Twist? 8. How many bars would you have to saw through to escape jail in a game Monopoly? 9. Which creature in Bambi was inappropriately called Flower? 10. Which famous horse race is featured in the film National Velvet? 11. How many Village People gaily sang their way through the YMCA? 12. What was the capital of England in the middle ages? 13. What does paper do if stone breaks
scissors? 14. From which city do the American footballing Dolphins come? 15. Which cheese is saltier- brie or camembert? 16. Which is heavier - a volleyball or a soccer ball? 17. What did Dorothy have to steal from the Wicked Witch of the West? 18. What animal appears on an Australian 50 cent coin? 19. Which Yorkshire boxer went five rounds with Muhammad Ali? 20. What trap is a greyhound running from if it’s in black and white stripes? 21. Which fruit can be found in a black forest gateau? 22. Which film starred Elvis Presley as a tourist guide called Chad Gates? 23. How many Channel Islands are there?
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You Can Not Be Serious By The Other Half Well, we have got Easter over and done with; we don’t go mad in our household over Easter. The Higher Authority has a pragmatic approach to Easter and all its frills and furbelows – she gives the Easter eggs on display in the shops a jaundiced eye and remarks on the comparative price ounce per ounce of the chocolate enclosed within the gilded wrapping and an ingot of pure gold. She has a point – being good with figures and uncannily clever at mental arithmetic she can work out that the price of half a dozen Easter eggs would not be far off the price of a small gold ring. However, she likes chocolate and she likes a bit of a fuss made of her on Easter Sunday, so instead of an egg I get her some proper chocolate from that well-known North European superstore which has a name with only one vowel in it. She believes that they have the best chocolate range of anywhere in the known world, and I agree with her. Another manifestation of her level-headed approach to Easter is the Easter Sunday Lunch. Just as she refuses to let me part with good money for an egg made from a paper-thin skim of cooking grade chocolate, containing a few Maltesers or similar, covered with tinfoil and enclosed in a couple of square feet of cardboard and plastic, so she also refuses to jostle with the common herd in an overcrowded restaurant while partaking of the same meal that she can eat on any other day of the week at half the price, but without the fluffy toy chick perched on the rim of her wine glass. Instead we dine at home; steak and chips and a favourite wine. This is preceded by an aperitif; she is partial to a small gin and gravelax, and while she savours these I cook. Steak and chips is real man’s meal, culinary-wise. It’s hard to do it wrong, but it looks so macho – there is an impressive amount of smoke and sizzle, and evokes images of the Great Hunter-Gatherer without the necessity of physical peril or exertion. Her hard-headed outlook on Easter was summarised last week when her friend Pat, who has numerous family, bewailed the fact that Mothering Sunday had fallen early, and had been forgotten by sundry of her offspring. ‘Why did they move it from the last Sunday in March, and put it where nobody could find it?’ she enquired querulously, picking at a Hobnob. The Higher Authority sipped her coffee calmly. ‘Market forces’ she replied. ‘It would not be financially viable to have them both on the same day.’ She’s right. She’s got it in a nutshell!
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