THE SKINNY
Shot of the month Vukovi, Nice N Sleazy, Glasgow, 24 Jan by Aimee Young
by Jock Mooney
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Across 1. [Sings] What is love? (4,4,4,2) 7. A very long time, or energy company (3) 8. The grammatical term for figurative phrases (6) 9. The sound of a doorbell + an American word for penis? (4,4) 11. How Americans refer to the sexiest emoji (8) 14. A girl has no name [Game of Thrones] (4) 15. Skip, reverse, draw two, draw four (3) 16. She played Edward Scissorhands' love interest (6,5) 17. Oversharing (initials) (3) 18. Intense wanting (4) 19. Long before Tinder, there was... (8) 22. Hugs (8) 24. Gondor calls for aid (6) 25. Soulless way of measuring success (initials) (3) 26. Internet chat-up line (5,4,2,3)
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Down 1. On Wednesday we make sweet weekly love (according to Flight of the Conchords) (8,4) 2. Amy's new passion in Sex Education season 2 (6) 3 . Ukrainian city, or a song by Caribou (6) 4. Care for or be liable to (4) 5. ‘Wild Wild West, Jim West, desperado, _____ _____’ (5,5) 6. Pasiphäe shagged a bull, this was the result, famously had to be contained in a maze (8) 10. Paul McCartney called this the best song ever written (3,4,5) 12. Sculpted pubes or gardens (10) 13. Make fun of someone in a playful way (5) 16. 2019 ITV police series starring Rob Lowe, cancelled after one season (4,4) 20. Lacking pigmentation (6) 21. Ornamental flowering plant, associated with virility in Ancient Greece (6) 23. What a birthday suit is made of (4) Turn to page 25 for the solutions
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