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May 06
Edition

Pages in PDF

Regular
Features

› The Fat Lady
  Sings
  with JoAnn
   Pacholli

› Front Page
  Article

› In Tents Thawt
  with Mick Pacholli

› Sid's Comments
  with Sidney
  Somerville-Smith

› The Lie Detector
  with Mitchell
   Faircloth

› Fab's Ravings

› Technology
  with Chris Jacobs

› People's Views

› Are You
  Puzzled?
  with
  Narelle Stegehuis

› Family Issues
  with
  Marilyn Brideson

› Gallery Gazing

› Planet Clare

› Lovatts
  Crossword

› Social Scene
  with Ken James

› Live Theatre
  with Blair Edgar

› Movie Scene
  with
  Charlie Alexander

› Entertainment
  with Gary Turner

› Grazing in the
  Suburbs
  with Mick Pacholli

› Fab's Travel

› Talking Manure
  with Mick Pacholli

› Furry Friends
  with
  Dr Graeme Smith

› Racing
  with Ted Ryan

› Rant & Rave
  with
  Paddles Hackett

› Bowls
  with Mick Pacholli

› Motoring
  with Garry Fabian

› Short Cuts
  Writers
  Competition

› Competitions

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Across

  1. Oblivious
  4. Greatly fear
  8. Dreary
11. Stray
16. Price
18. Slurred in speech
19. Police raid

      authorisation (6,7)
21. Plummet (4-4)
23. Act badly
26. Purgative
28. Hinder
30. Over there
32. Child minder
34. Stupid person
36. French N-Test

      region, Mururoa ...

38. Cosily
39. Tier

42. Pacific or Indian

  93. Twelfth of foot
  95. Secure
  96. Mesmerised state
  97. Convent superior

100. Interment
102. Worthy principles
103. Heavenly being
105. Carnivore, meat ...
106. Nursery verse
108. Water scooter (3,3)
110. Social misfits
112. Embankment
114. Scientist, ...

        Einstein
117. Overexcited, ... up
119. Passe, old ...
121. Tolerate
124. Walked on by
127. Striped
129. Depicts
130. Regular customers

45. Proverb

47. Engulf
49. Irish county
50. Put off
53. The ... of tiny feet
55. Opens
56. Enclose
57. Borders
59. Tidings
60. Red-skinned cheese
61. Crimped
63. Binds (4,2)
66. Composition for

      eight
68. Christian festival
70. Incite, ... on
71. Food cans
72. Vehicles for hire
73. Lose job, get the ...
76. Dine late
77. Gaping at
78. Minor facts
79. Heavy weight
81. Very eager
83. Spared
85. Desist
86. Speck
88. Perches
90. Hawk’s claw
91. Detains
92. Free from anxiety

      (2,4)

131. Shrewdly
132. New York to

        London crossing

         (trip)
134. Players in last four

135. Bellybutton
136. Sweeping

         receptacle
137. Requested, ... for
138. First Greek letter
139. Neat

Down

  1. Effeminate
  2. Killing (VIP)
  3. Wearing away
  5. Retitle
  6. Disinclined
  7. Papa
  8. Coach
  9. Elbowroom
10. Pilots
12. By word
13. Persian tales, The ...

      (7,6)
14. Meal courses
15. Grave
17. Swiss cottage
20. Old video format
22. Plastic
24. Lazily

25. Ballot
27. Emerged

29. Power cable support
31. Copenhagen natives
33. Director, ... Hitchcock
34. Raw minerals
35. Golfer’s warning
37. Immature insects

40. Confuses

41. Supplement (3,3)

43. Sceptics
44. Maxims
46. Ear of grain
48. Unseating
51. Charge
52. Seize (throne)
54. Active
58. Undernourished
62. Eskimo shelter
64. Metal bar
65. Infidel
66. Lubricated
67. Threadbare
69. Germany’s new currency

      units
71. Liqueur, ... Maria
74. Angrily
75. Sleep
79. Corny
80. 90-year-olds
82. Bet

  83. Marinated
  84. Coy

  85. Lampooning comedy
  86. Computer operator

        (4,9)

  87. Curt
  89. Underhand
  92. Away from the point
  94. Shrewish woman

  98. Curves
  99. Dress ribbon
100. Conveyor strip
101. In front
104. Zippy
107. Domestic helpers
109. Reinforces (6,2)
111. Fishing rod winder
113. Calf flesh
115. Fascinated
116. Rumoured
118. Straight- forwardly
120. Female relative
122. Knitted hat
123. Eventful journey
125. Devonshire tea items
126. Supernatural
127. Happened to
128. Fairly recent
133. Rotter
134. Large seal, ... lion

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