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ACROSS

1 Clients (9)

6 Land measure (imp) (4)

10 Insect before butter y (11)

11 Circus (8)

12 Strut (6)

13 Cross-cultural internet joke (4)

14 Disregarded (7)

19 They’re found in laksa or pho (7)

20 Small case for small articles (4)

24 Heavenly body (6)

25 Aligned (8)

27 Diversion (11)

28 River in Hades (4)

29 Sounds made to indicate an incoming call (9)

DOWN

1 Subterranean burial chamber (8)

2 Medical term (8)

3 Flower (6)

4 Apart (9)

5 Slave (4)

Sudoku

No. 156

4 Bifana (pictured) is a traditional dish of which country?

5 Explorer Vasco de Gama was the rst European to sail to which ocean?

6 Collins-class refers to what kind of sea vessel?

7 ‘Typhoon’ is used to describe weather events in which hemisphere?

8 How many legs does a prawn have?

No. 156

1 China’s last lunar exploration mission and rst lunar sample-return mission was called Chang’e and which number?

2 And what does ‘Chang’e’ pertain to in Chinese mythology?

3 Formosan languages are indigenous languages of which island nation?

9 Which two countries start with an ‘A’ but do not end with an ‘A’?

10 What grape variety is the most grown in the world today?

Word

ACROSS

1 Unexciting (4)

5 Yesteryear (4)

6 Of all time (4)

7 Work table (4) DOWN

1 Previously coloured (4)

2 Move about (4)

3 Greek god of war (4)

4 Stupid person (4)

Using the nine letters in the grid, how many words of four letters or more can you list? The centre letter must be included, and each letter may only be used once. No colloquial or foreign words. No capitalised nouns, apostrophes or plural words ending in “s”.

No. 156 21

Each number corresponds to a letter. Can you crack the code?

I O Y

O I

S E R

8 Insert the missing letters to make 10 words –ve reading across the grid and ve reading down.

NOTE:

Hidden Word

Solve all the clues and an eight-letter word will be spelled out.

1 See them in the sea; say goodbye

2 Go down this at the park, not up

3 Write to a friend on the computer

4 Timekeeper

5 Force out; expel

6 Pink seafood

7 Throw these birds some bread crumbs

8 Grass for running, cricket, sports

HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW...

1. Who does Jenkinson play in Wentworth?

A. Joan Ferguson

B. Allie Novak

C. Franky Doyle

D. Vera Bennett

2. What does Jenkinson play in Nine’s 2021 drama series Amazing Grace?

A. Police o cer

B. Midwife

C. Teacher

D. Nun

3. In which show did she star alongside Asher Keddie?

A. O spring

B. Love My Way

C. Stateless

D. The Cry

4. Which fellow Wentworth actress plays her mother in Amazing Grace?

A. Pamela Rabe

B. Susie Porter

C. Celia Ireland

As I possess a most excellent memory, I recall ‘Mum Jane’ saying once “I tell you Leems, it never rains but it pours.” I was a little confused ‘cos it was most sunny outside. She explained that it means multiple negative incidents or situations that can occur together within a short time period, (‘Leemo Cat’ here!) Hmmm; well, this is unquestionably what has happened of late in our house. I was most unwell for a while; I got better, but then I had to have 3 teeth removed. Then, Mum Mum became unwell with RSV; which stands for Respiratory Syncytial Virus. Mum told me she had never even heard of RSV until she contracted it. However, after much reading, she found that RSV was actually discovered in 1956. It has since been recognized as one of the most common causes of childhood illness; it also causes annual outbreaks of respiratory illnesses in all age groups. RSV affects an estimated 64 million people and causes 160,000 deaths each year globally.

Crikey, reading all this certainly stopped Mum in her tracks. As RSV is highly contagious she’s basically become very ‘hermit-like,’ only going out (fully masked) for essentials. Our lovely Neighbour ‘Miss Denise’ also checks on her. Mum has been sleeping & reading heaps, and I even read some of Mum’s weekend papers. CRIKEY, what a lot of stories they have in them. I read about a hotel in Sydney’s

Double Bay which is ‘pet friendly’ and suggested that ‘perhaps’ when she is well again we could go stay there for a few nights? (The cost would only be $500 a night for her, and $200 a night for me, including very posh treats on trays!!) She peered at me closely.

‘Leems, did you know that ‘perhaps’ means the same thing as ‘maybe’.

I’ve contemplated your request and to be perfectly frank, there are no ‘perhaps’ or ‘maybes’ in my answer to your farcical suggestion.

NUP, we cannot go stay there as you so blithely put it, ‘for a few nights’. Not even ¼ of a night in fact. Gottit? ‘AND, Leems, if you had read about this Pet Friendly establishment properly, you should have noted that only pets of the Puppy or Dog species are allowed stay. NO CATS or KITTENS!

Well, I ask you, how discriminatory is that?

Mum ‘informed’ me that her research on taking cats to a hotel showed that packing to do so would involve as much packing and preparation as one would have to do when taking a human baby. ‘For instance Leems, I would have to bring your travel carrier, blankies, infatable food bowls, litter tray & scoop, bags for waste disposal, a tarpaulin to put UNDER your litter tray in case you become over enthusiastic; your STUFF; brush, laser light, 2 bears, your squeak mouse & chirping canary, jingle toys, feathers on a stick…on and on it goes. So, Leems, I would be exhausted even before we arrived, So, I reiterate: NUP, we’re not going for a few nights at ANY hotel, EVER! Gottit? And besides, you don’t appear to have taken our budget into consideration one iota?’

(PS: TO-DAY’S news is that our sewerage has a blockage. Plumber here tomorrow.) Crikey. To avoid any more of her interminable rabble, I’m off for a small meditative sleep on the warm grass. Nitey, Leemo