Reg's Top Tips If phoning to pay a bill prepare to go through their security..A bit stupid as your unlikely to be paying for someone else and if.you were why the Fuck would they care Couldn't get a taxi home from town last night so I went into the kebab shop and ordered a delivery to my address and got in with the driver... With Xmas just a few weeks away it time to nip into your attic to find your 1975 xmas copy of TV Week to see what's on TV this Xmas.
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REG’S BENCH Men. Get in touch with your feminine side. Crash the car. Model railway enthusiasts; add a bit of realism to your layout by going on strike for the day. Fancy a camping holiday? Don’t waste money on expensive tents, simply order an SD memory card, Lipstick or similar small item from Amazon and the box it’s delivered in will make an ideal tent for a family of 8 to 10 people
Across 1 Licit (6) 4 Burrowing animal (6) 8 Attempted (5) 9 Gruesome (7) 10 Clothing (7) 11 Force out (5) 12 Devoted (9) 17 Term of respect in India (5) 19 Generous (7) 21 Easily perceived or understood (7) 22 Bring up (5) 23 Overindulgence (6) 24 Instructed (6) Down 1 Deadly (6) 2 Lashed (7) 3 Below (5) 5 Very old (7) 6 Holy Writ (5) 7 Pact (6) 9 Small particles (9) 13 Doubtful (7) 14 Beloved (7)
15 Onto dry land (6) 16 Customer (6) 18 Mayhem (5) 20 Asian country (5)
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across 1 Underwater vessel expected to overcome? (6) 4 I'm taking a long time producing pictures (6) 8 Plan to get a hundred deer (5) 9 One of the Marx Brothers takes on a barbed dart (7) 10 No saint takes strong drink as a remedy (7) 11 Publication for children? (5) 12 Biscuit gives diet problem (9) 17 Is led astray and doesn't work (5) 19 See it as an anagram most undemanding (7) 21 Admirer may be wed (7) 22 Animal getting more 'eated? (5) 23 Transport needed by Santa - his leg is broken (6) 24 Ghosts in sunglasses (6)
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Down 1 This time is not the first (6) 2 Fresh bread is cooked
(7) 3 Absolute, say (5) 5 Name of chap taking one drink (7) 6 Obscene number (5) 7 Vocalist forced to resign (6) 9 MP has date arranged in part of London (9) 13 Leave to throw a young bird (7) 14 Given a seat after standing (7)
15 The acid test? (6) 16 Baby birds? (6) 18 Big order for lager (5) 20 The laziness of an animal (5)
SODUKU Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9, with no number repeated. MOLONG EXPRESS, Thursday 9 February 2023
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