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17 th March <strong>2024</strong><br />
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY <strong>29</strong>, <strong>2024</strong><br />
connecting you with your neighbourhood<br />
www.starnews.co.nz<br />
NEXT LEVEL: Jay Anderson, CJ Hogan, Dave Whittam and Steve Muir at the end of the 100km bike ride from<br />
Beckenham to Akaroa. Below – CJ Hogan on the ride along Hilltop and the Summit Rd.<br />
Fixer uppers ride 100km<br />
• By Sasha Watson<br />
EXHAUSTED and tough going<br />
– that was the response from<br />
Aranui teenager CJ Hogan, who<br />
biked 100km from Beckenham<br />
to Akaroa at the weekend for the<br />
first time.<br />
CJ’s mum, Tania Hogan,<br />
said he was very happy to have<br />
completed such a distance.<br />
“He even said he would like to<br />
do another long-distance bike<br />
ride at some point.”<br />
CJ completed the journey<br />
in eight and a half hours on<br />
Saturday, alongside 16-year-old<br />
Jay Anderson, Dave Whittam<br />
and Steve Muir.<br />
Muir is the founder of the<br />
Aranui Bike Fixup, a group of<br />
volunteers who repair donated<br />
bikes and give them to people<br />
in the eastern suburbs. The<br />
group often hosts weekend rides<br />
to Bottle Lake and along the<br />
Rapaki Track on the Port Hills.<br />
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nearly<br />
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• By Sasha Watson<br />
A RAISED pedestrian crossing<br />
outside St James School on Rowan<br />
Ave, which was supposed to be<br />
completed by the beginning of the<br />
school term, will be constructed<br />
in a few weeks.<br />
It marks the final part of the<br />
city council’s Aranui Streets Project,<br />
a trial of safety improvements<br />
in high pedestrian areas. Ninety<br />
per cent of the project is funded<br />
by New Zealand Transport<br />
Agency Waka Kotahi’s Streets for<br />
People programme.<br />
Last year, city council staff were<br />
asked to go back to the school<br />
and discuss its concerns about its<br />
drop-off zone being turned into a<br />
pedestrian area, and the removal<br />
of a car park.<br />
City council transport planning<br />
and delivery manager Jacob<br />
Bradbury said the only portion<br />
of the project on hold was outside<br />
the school.<br />
“On Friday, the project<br />
team met with principal Rose<br />
Firth-Scott to discuss options.<br />
Scheduling a meeting time was a<br />
challenge last month due to the<br />
start of the school term, resulting<br />
in delays.”<br />
Firth-Scott would not discuss<br />
the matter with <strong>Pegasus</strong> <strong>Post</strong>.<br />
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Come along with a crafting project,<br />
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Free, no bookings.<br />
Barrier Free Computing<br />
Saturdays, 10am–noon<br />
New Brighton Public Library<br />
Barrier Free computing sessions,<br />
run by the Computers for Special<br />
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Participants can work on activities<br />
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Playcentre Open Week<br />
Monday-Friday, 9.30-11.30am<br />
Playcentres in Christchurch<br />
Playcentres across the region are<br />
inviting whānau with tamariki<br />
aged 0-6 years to come along for<br />
a free visit. Playcentre is a place to<br />
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with other whānau in the community.<br />
From building sandcastles to<br />
Children’s Day, Sunday, 11am-3pm, Cuthberts Green. Free fun day<br />
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stallholder activities ranging from mini jeep rides, bumper boats, pony<br />
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Linwood Village Market<br />
Saturday, 10am-1pm<br />
Linwood Community Arts Centre car<br />
park<br />
Monthly community market: books,<br />
crafts, collectables, plants, boutique<br />
op shop, tiny fundraisers for local<br />
community projects, vintage and<br />
upcycled, and garage sale-type stalls.<br />
There may be music and dance too.<br />
Free box to take in the interest of<br />
waste minimisation. Please note:<br />
Will be cancelled if wet.<br />
Pea straw and compost sale<br />
Saturday, 9am-1pm (unless sold out<br />
early)<br />
104 Brighton Mall, New Brighton.<br />
The Lions Club of New Brighton will<br />
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raise funds for Lion’s projects in the<br />
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Thursday <strong>February</strong> <strong>29</strong> <strong>2024</strong> 3<br />
Toki sculpture comes full circle<br />
• By Sasha Watson<br />
IT’S FULL circle for both<br />
artist Jon Jeet and his He Toki<br />
Maitai sculpture, which has<br />
been permanently placed on the<br />
former New Brighton School site.<br />
The 2.2m-tall steel toki (axe),<br />
originally completed in 2022, is<br />
displayed next to the Roy Stokes<br />
Community Hall, on the site<br />
where Seaview Development will<br />
be building 65 homes.<br />
“Wow – what<br />
a journey it has<br />
been,” said Jeet,<br />
who lives close<br />
to the toki’s final<br />
resting place.<br />
“I like that it<br />
has gone back<br />
Jon Jeet<br />
to the site where<br />
I was creating<br />
pieces in my<br />
JOURNEY: Jon Jeet drew inspiration for the sculpture from his Indian, Fijian and Māori ancestors as well as the Seaview<br />
Development rebuild of the earthquake-damaged site.<br />
art studio, which was at the old<br />
school.<br />
“The piece takes me back to<br />
building relations with Renew<br />
New Brighton and the many,<br />
many artists who were there.”<br />
The toki was commissioned<br />
by SCAPE Public Art, after<br />
Jamie Hanton, then the managing<br />
curator, approached Jeet in<br />
response to the theme Sweat<br />
Equity, where different artists<br />
explored the effect of capital and<br />
labour on bodies.<br />
Jeet drew inspiration from<br />
his Indian ancestors who were<br />
brought to Fiji as indentured labourers.<br />
The work also references<br />
the former school being in the<br />
process of redevelopment.<br />
“The earthquakes happened<br />
and I wanted to make a work that<br />
talked about ‘we’re ploughing into<br />
the soil again’. A part of the inspiration<br />
for the design was asking<br />
myself, why am I making this?”<br />
Jeet is also of Ngāti Maniapoto<br />
descent. Traditionally, Māori<br />
shaped and used toki for several<br />
purposes, from gardening to<br />
wood carving. They could also<br />
be carried ceremonially as a<br />
symbol of power and authority.<br />
“We wear these forms now, but<br />
they had functionality too. They<br />
were used as tools,” he said.<br />
Jeet said there were “so many<br />
people involved” to get the art to<br />
where it is.<br />
“Thanks to Leigh Mason, the<br />
Coombes sheet metal and fabrication<br />
director, for assistance in the<br />
initial construction and donating<br />
the $20,000 it cost to make, and to<br />
all, for their support.”<br />
The last $7000 was funded<br />
by SCAPE. Executive director<br />
Richard Aindow said it was exciting<br />
to bring Jeet’s work to New<br />
Brighton.<br />
“SCAPE’s vision is to bring<br />
permanent artworks to life in<br />
communities across the whole<br />
city. It’s immensely satisfying to<br />
install a piece where the artist<br />
lives and works.”<br />
Jeet has a master’s degree in<br />
painting from Canterbury University’s<br />
Ilam School of Fine Arts<br />
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temporary display at Te Matatiki<br />
Toi Ora The Arts Centre.<br />
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Thursday <strong>February</strong> <strong>29</strong> <strong>2024</strong> 5<br />
Project aiming to<br />
make streets safer<br />
• From page 1<br />
But Burwood Ward city<br />
councillor Kelly Barber, who<br />
was at the meeting, said Firth-<br />
Scott endorsed installing a<br />
raised pedestrian crossing<br />
outside and again opposed<br />
changes to the drop-off zone.<br />
“After consultation, there will<br />
be no changes to the drop-off<br />
area and Rose is happy with<br />
that outcome,” Barber said.<br />
The Aranui Streets Project<br />
was developed following community<br />
engagement, with safety<br />
improvements to high pedestrian<br />
areas around Chisnallwood<br />
Intermediate School, Haeata<br />
Community Campus, St James<br />
School, Wainoni Park and the<br />
Hampshire St shops.<br />
Improvements include installation<br />
of safe speed bumps, upgrades<br />
to pedestrian crossings<br />
and intersections, and widening<br />
footpaths.<br />
Barber said because the<br />
project is temporary, anything<br />
installed which is of concern<br />
may be reversed, depending on<br />
community feedback.<br />
“The overall sentiment of<br />
what the council is trying to<br />
achieve is positive but it is<br />
important to find solutions that<br />
make sense. I hope the speed<br />
bumps stay.’’<br />
The removal of car parking<br />
has prompted some concerns.<br />
Eastern Eagles Rugby League<br />
Club volunteer Fina F’amoe was<br />
LIMITED PARKING:<br />
Median-flex posts have<br />
been installed outside<br />
Wainoni Park taking away<br />
about 15-20 parks.<br />
worried about the lack of parking<br />
along Hampshire St in front<br />
of Wainoni Park, now medianflex<br />
posts have been installed.<br />
“We already have limited<br />
parking and now we’ve lost<br />
about 15-20 car parks. What<br />
happens when league season<br />
begins or events are held? We<br />
need to park somewhere,” said<br />
F’amoe.<br />
Bradbury said 70 per cent<br />
of construction of the project<br />
was under way. The project was<br />
looking to meet its proposed<br />
completion date of March 18,<br />
depending on weather.<br />
Work outside the former Avondale<br />
Primary School has started<br />
and includes adding raised<br />
pedestrian crossings and new<br />
road markings. After that, work<br />
will start outside Chisnallwood<br />
before moving on to Rowan Ave<br />
outside St James School.<br />
The intention is for no work<br />
to happen outside schools between<br />
8.20-9am and 2.30-3pm.<br />
Frustration after thieves<br />
leave residents powerless<br />
• By Emily O’Hagan<br />
PRESCHOOL teachers from<br />
Educational Child Care Centre<br />
in Dallington are at their wits’<br />
end.<br />
They have arrived at work to<br />
find there is no power on four<br />
separate occasions over the last<br />
two weeks.<br />
The outages were caused by<br />
thieves who have been stealing<br />
copper from the powerlines<br />
along Gayhurst Rd at night.<br />
This means some Dallington<br />
residents, and businesses like the<br />
child care centre, are waking up<br />
to find they have no electricity.<br />
Educational Child Care Centre<br />
manager Sarah Webb-Matenga<br />
said it is proving difficult to keep<br />
the preschool running.<br />
“We just haven’t been able to<br />
open. The first time we couldn’t<br />
open until after 10. And this last<br />
two times, it was sort of nine”.<br />
The centre is concerned the<br />
ongoing issue of outages could<br />
result in them losing some families<br />
to other preschools.<br />
The difficult situation is<br />
starting to become stressful<br />
for parents trying to drop off<br />
their children first thing in the<br />
morning.<br />
Sara Farmer, a parent of<br />
one of the preschoolers, said<br />
FRUSTRATION: Thieves have stolen copper wire from<br />
the Educational Child Care Centre in Dallington on four<br />
separate occasions leaving the business without power.<br />
PHOTO: EMILY O’HAGAN<br />
the situation is incredibly<br />
challenging for parents.<br />
“We have to get to work or we<br />
have our day set out and planned<br />
already and this is just a setback<br />
for your morning”.<br />
The repeated bold attacks are<br />
puzzling residents, who have<br />
various theories as to who might<br />
be responsible and why they are<br />
doing it.<br />
Farmer said it must be someone<br />
who is trained in dealing with<br />
power lines.<br />
“It’s not like every Tom, Dick<br />
and Harry knows how to take<br />
down power lines. It’s just insane.”<br />
• Watch the video on<br />
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It is not just the adults who are<br />
baffled by the run of incidents<br />
– the centre’s children are also<br />
confused about what is going on.<br />
Webb-Matenga said the kids<br />
are frightened of the thieves.<br />
“We had a wee boy arrive this<br />
morning with a torch in case it’s<br />
dark again”.<br />
The childcare centre is asking<br />
nearby residents to keep their<br />
eyes open and to report any<br />
suspicious activity, and they hope<br />
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Thursday <strong>February</strong> <strong>29</strong> <strong>2024</strong> 7<br />
Gardeners plan pantry<br />
after health scare<br />
• By Sasha Watson<br />
A FOOD pantry will be set<br />
up for the Travis Country<br />
community in Burwood by keen<br />
gardeners, Nick and Megan<br />
Hamilton.<br />
It comes<br />
after they moved<br />
from their sheep<br />
and beef farm in<br />
North Canterbury<br />
to Travis<br />
Country in April<br />
2022, following a<br />
Nick<br />
Hamilton<br />
Megan<br />
Hamilton<br />
health scare.<br />
“My father had<br />
a brain bleed and<br />
died suddenly<br />
in 2020. Shortly<br />
after, I began<br />
to get intense<br />
headaches. I<br />
thought it was<br />
depression,” said<br />
Hamilton.<br />
“But, the<br />
headaches kept<br />
getting worse so<br />
I went in for a scan. The doctors<br />
found a brain tumour and operated<br />
on it.<br />
“They are happy with its<br />
progress and I’ve begun working<br />
again, for a farming bank. With<br />
a health scare like this, it makes<br />
you think about what is important<br />
in life.”<br />
HELPING HAND: A food<br />
pantry, similar to the<br />
Somerfield Community<br />
Pantry, is being set up for<br />
Travis Country by keen<br />
gardeners, Nick and Megan<br />
Hamilton.<br />
PHOTO: FACEBOOK<br />
Hamilton said spending time<br />
with his family and “making sure<br />
to live every day” was his focus<br />
now, as well as spending time in<br />
his vegetable garden.<br />
“The share pantry idea started<br />
with Megan, as we had an overabundance<br />
of all sorts of things.<br />
In Amberley, there was a similar<br />
pantry which was quite successful,”<br />
said Hamilton.<br />
Hamilton went to the Waitai-<br />
Coastal-Burwood-Linwood<br />
Community Board last year with<br />
his proposal. He has been working<br />
on a design, with help from<br />
builders in the area.<br />
Said Hamilton: “I can swing<br />
a hammer, but I’m no builder. I<br />
would like the pantry to be built<br />
well and serve the community<br />
for many years to come as excess<br />
produce would be put into a<br />
green bin otherwise.”<br />
He said there was a need for it<br />
with the cost of living.<br />
Community board member<br />
Greg Mitchell was supportive<br />
of the idea. He said St Paul’s<br />
Lutheran Church has offered to<br />
host the pantry in the church car<br />
park.<br />
The local primary school and<br />
kindergarten have also expressed<br />
interest in helping with the project,<br />
Mitchell said.<br />
“There are so many bad<br />
things going on – it is nice to see<br />
good things, like this initiative,<br />
happening.”<br />
Hamilton hopes the pantry<br />
will be up and running by spring.<br />
• To help with the Travis<br />
Country share pantry<br />
project, get in touch<br />
with Nick Hamilton at<br />
omihiham@gmail.com<br />
LONG DISTANCE: Four teenagers and four adults made<br />
up the Saturday ride group with half opting to finish the<br />
ride at 50km, and the rest continuing on to Akaroa.<br />
Riders improve lives<br />
• From page 1<br />
“I feel like the east gets the raw<br />
deal in terms of infrastructure<br />
and places to ride along,” said<br />
Muir.<br />
“The area holds many families<br />
with low incomes and they can’t<br />
afford to buy a bike from a<br />
shop.<br />
“A lot of the kids from the<br />
area have never been to the Port<br />
Hills, so we take them out to<br />
see different places and get into<br />
nature. We also help reduce the<br />
chance of antisocial behaviours<br />
later in life.”<br />
CJ is one of just over 920 people<br />
who have received a donated<br />
bike since the group began<br />
three years ago. He volunteers<br />
on Thursdays to help other kids<br />
repair their bikes.<br />
In about eight weeks the<br />
group will donate their 1000th<br />
bike to someone in need.<br />
As someone who has always<br />
“loved and appreciated” bike<br />
riding, Muir found a big need<br />
for both getting people on bikes<br />
and taking people out for rides,<br />
especially after the <strong>February</strong> 22,<br />
2011 earthquake.<br />
He started the initiative as<br />
it sits well with his “values of<br />
creating a clean environment”<br />
and reducing carbon emissions.<br />
The group is funded by the<br />
city council and organisations<br />
from around the area and operates<br />
from the Breezes Rd Baptist<br />
Church every Thursday from<br />
3-6pm.<br />
“The feedback we get is that<br />
we’re making a big difference.<br />
We have also had comments<br />
about this initiative being<br />
life-changing for some,” Muir<br />
said.
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Born, the performance division<br />
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This compact Spanish dynamo<br />
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Skoda Enyaq and Volkswagen<br />
ID.4 and soon to be launched<br />
here smaller ID.3, that’s similar<br />
in size to the Cupra Born.<br />
The Cupra Born is the wild<br />
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putting brand on the map here,<br />
Motoring with Bob Nettleton<br />
after years of living in the shadow<br />
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A fun, affordable, quality<br />
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the $74,990 Cupra Born EV is a<br />
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It looks the part with LED<br />
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Copper Typhoon alloy wheels.<br />
Completing the picture are<br />
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most knowingly nodding their<br />
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Ratings out of 10: Performance 9 Handling 8; Build Quality<br />
8; Comfort 7; Passenger and Load Space 7; Value for money<br />
7; Safety – Five Star ANCAP crash rating.<br />
Overall points out of 10: 8.5<br />
The test car had heaps of heft<br />
from a beefy 77kWh battery<br />
and an electric motor producing<br />
150 kW of power and 310 Nm<br />
of torque. However, the Cupra<br />
has a performance trick up its<br />
sleeve with E-Boost that its ID.4<br />
and Enyaq siblings miss out on.<br />
This maximises acceleration and<br />
enhances all round performance.<br />
The vehicles standard battery<br />
is good for a healthy 150kW, but<br />
with e-Boost standard on Born<br />
models sold here, that figure<br />
surges to 170kW, enough to<br />
propel the car from 0-100 km/h<br />
in a snappy 6.6 seconds. This<br />
is activated via a Drive Profile<br />
button. E-Boost works its magic<br />
for a maximum of 30 seconds to<br />
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at any time, depending on the<br />
charge state of the battery and its<br />
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There’s a genuine performance<br />
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With an undeniable energy and<br />
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car enthusiast driver are Born to<br />
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The cabin is smaller than both<br />
the ID.4 and Enyaq, with this<br />
pair a better choice if load and<br />
people carrying capacity are<br />
important. However, it is well<br />
appointed with a floating 12-<br />
inch touchscreen, multi-colour<br />
ambient lighting, dual-zone<br />
climate control air conditioning<br />
and split folding rear seats<br />
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touchscreen including Bluetooth,<br />
2 USB-C ports and integrated<br />
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charger.<br />
Having the high-voltage<br />
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next level road holding. Grip<br />
and stability through even the<br />
tightest corners is masterfully<br />
tenacious and among the best I<br />
have experienced in an EV.<br />
The trade-off is low speed<br />
ride comfort that isn’t that well<br />
cushioned, and suspension<br />
noise, while not over bearing<br />
it still makes it presence heard.<br />
Annoying at times in town<br />
driving, but a concession I<br />
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sublime handling.<br />
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8<br />
9<br />
10 11<br />
337<br />
SUDOKU<br />
Every row, column and box should<br />
contain the digits 1 to 9.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
WORDBUILDER<br />
237<br />
6<br />
T M R<br />
E P I<br />
12 13<br />
14 15 16 17 18<br />
many words of three or more letters,<br />
How<br />
including<br />
many<br />
plurals,<br />
words<br />
can you<br />
of<br />
make<br />
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from<br />
or<br />
the<br />
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once?<br />
TODAY<br />
Good 24 Very Good 30 Excellent 37<br />
letters, including plurals, can you make<br />
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No words beginning with a capital are<br />
allowed. There’s at least one six-letter<br />
Solution 236: fag, far, flag, flu, frag, frug, FRUGAL,<br />
fug, fugal, fur, furl, gal, gar, gaur, guar, gulf, lag, lug,<br />
word. rag, rug.<br />
Good 24 Very Good 30 Excellent 37<br />
19 20 21<br />
22 23 24 25 26<br />
27 28<br />
<strong>29</strong><br />
Across<br />
1. By the shortest and most direct<br />
route (2,3,4,5)<br />
10. Protective garment (5)<br />
11. Appear again (9)<br />
12. Stress (7)<br />
13. Drastic reorganisation (5-2)<br />
14. School group (5)<br />
16. Climax (9)<br />
19. Go right ahead (2,2,5)<br />
20. Annotations (5)<br />
22. Hard worker (colloq) (7)<br />
25. Organise (7)<br />
27. Wash kit (6,3)<br />
28. Measure of liquid (5)<br />
<strong>29</strong>. Formal close to a letter (5,9)<br />
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Down<br />
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3. Capital of Vietnam (5)<br />
4. Account (9)<br />
5. Calm spot (5)<br />
6. Arrangement of people or things<br />
(9)<br />
7. Hopping mad (5)<br />
8. Spire (7)<br />
9. Of milk (6)<br />
15. Blind (9)<br />
17. Sluggish (9)<br />
18. Before birth (9)<br />
19. Discrimination (7)<br />
21. Metal pin (6)<br />
23. Farewell (Fr) (5)<br />
24. Jewish scholar or teacher (5)<br />
26. Sovereign (5)<br />
Crossword<br />
Across: 1. As the crow flies,<br />
10. Apron, 11. Resurface,<br />
12. Tension, 13. Shake-up,<br />
14. Class, 16. Culminate,<br />
19. Be my guest, 20. Notes,<br />
22. Grafter, 25. Arrange,<br />
27. Toilet bag, 28. Litre, <strong>29</strong>.<br />
Yours sincerely.<br />
Down: 2. Strong-arm, 3.<br />
Hanoi, 4. Chronicle, 5.<br />
Oasis, 6. Formation, 7.<br />
Irate, 8. Steeple, 9. Lactic,<br />
15. Sightless, 17. Lethargic,<br />
18. Antenatal, 19. Bigotry,<br />
21. Skewer, 23. Adieu, 24.<br />
Rabbi, 26. Ruler.<br />
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emir, emit, imp, ire, item,<br />
merit, met, mire, mite,<br />
mitre, per, pet, peri, perm,<br />
PERMIT, pert, pie, pier, pit,<br />
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rim, rime, rip, ripe, rite, temp,<br />
tempi, term, tie, tier, time,<br />
timer, tip, tire, trim, trip, tripe<br />
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