REG’S BENCH
QUICK CROSSWORD
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Across 1 Wonderful (10) Celebrating International 7 First letters (8) Women's Day ... with Payback 8 Cab (4) to Reg who loves printing jokes 9 Wet thoroughly (4) about women. 10 Erudite (7) 12 Amused (11) 14 Bunch of flowers (7) 16 Second-hand (4) 19 The Orient (4) 20 Broken down, worn out (8) 21 Dramatist (10)
Down 1 Collieries (5) 2 Withdraw (7) 3 Dutch cheese (4) 4 Nevada city famed for casinos (3,5) 5 Express in speech (5) 6 Stretch out (6) 11 Amiable (8) 12 Self-centred person (6) 13 Savings (4,3)
15 Game bird (5) 17 Float along (5) 18 Mark left by wound (4)
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD What do you call a man with half a brain? >> Gifted. What's the difference between government bonds and men? >> Bonds Mature. What did God say after creating man? >> I can do better. (Below) One to show how fair we women are to balance the jokes. Here's one for us old girls!!
Husband: Want a quickie? Wife: As opposed to what? What are two reasons why men don't mind their own business? >> 1. No mind. >> 2. No business. What is an Aussies idea of foreplay? >> "You awake Sheila?" If men got pregnant.... abortion would be available in convienience stores and drive through windows.
WORD SEARCH
Across 7 Wavering badly in the holidays (11) 8 A long trip to a country in Africa (6) 9 Irish city gettin' twice as big, we hear (6) 10 Suit passed out (6) 12 Indian city for crazy artists (6) 13 Some other age or epoch (3) 14 Pressed for De Niro production (6) 16 Injured hothead with weapons (6) 18 Threaten people with an expert (6) 20 Told jokes with one's mouth covered? (6) 22 No specialists in a 5050 game (3-8) Down 1 Terrible Russian providing one with transport (4) 2 Harmony provided by one of the strings, we hear (6) 3 Send lace out to be purified (8) 4 Fat boy? About right! (4) 5 Vice and evil for an Arabian sailor (6)
6 Hint that's very personal (8) 11 Cheese chopped by spearman (8) 12 Wood ordered for Hogmanay (8) 15 Almost noble in New York (6) 17 Untidy sort of dagger (6) 19 Observe revolutionary public school (4)
21 Some conversed in Gaelic (4)
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 23 February 2023
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