endnotes Crossword
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Across 4 It happens when motorists lose it or A grade’s off (4,4) 7 Immobilises ... car’s head lights (6) 10 Store makes some use of cameras, daily (4) 11 Bad things about $1,000 ‘Exit’ etc. notices (5) 12 Turning out a car in USA (4) 13 Imposing parking fee, say, for topping up electric car? (8) 16 Reversing, behold, damaged body, my dear chap! (3,3) 17 Making good job of manoeuvring car into bay? Here’s a ticket (7,4) 20 Electronic warning device for parking? Spain’s fi rst, señor, possibly (6) 21 Low snow tipped round top of drive – not so fast (4,4) 22 Parking, manhandle electric socket (4) 23 To tie the knot as recovery vehicle did? (5) 25 Blockbuster fi lm seen at ‘alligator’ controlled entrance? (4) 26 Inside undies, elementary fuel (6) 27 Once having used such a car park, you won’t be back in a hurry (4-4)
Down 1 Prestige car park’s opening – chores organised (7) 2 It might say “Baby on Board”, automobile’s clock? (3,7) 3 Constable with two poles for abbreviated parking tickets (4) 5 Sad about driving test body (3) 6 Something for breakfast, for example, before parking fi nally? (3) 8 Such a ‘parked’ vehicle, quite forgotten by its owner (9) 9 Make a tour of e.g. a car park, moving portal (6) 14 e.g. speed limit indicators – or rude gestures made by drivers? (4,5) 15 Urgent spaces partly a convenience (5) 16 Popular 4x4 activity – parking on the pavement? (3-7) 18 Black spots absent from premises that are? (4-3) 19 Ungainly – a week to pull up! (7) 23 Road use charge, US car park – backed and left! (4) 24 Green alternative to short car trip? Law broken by keeper initially (4) 25 Executive transport used at car wash? (3)
Solutions to March crossword Across: 6 Estate Cars 9/4/27 Olympia National Hall 11 Key ring 12 Enforcing 14 Anti 16 Bourbon 18 Penalty 19 Ruby 20 Refl ector 23 In court 24 Inspect 26 Rolls Royce.
Down: 1 Canyon 2 ParkingPAL 3 Levy 5 Roof 7 SIA 8 Signify 10 Phoebe 13 Congestion 15 Knocks 16 Barriers 17 Unbuckle 21 One-way 22 Fuss 24 Itch 25/5A Toll road.
MOVE OVER STIG THERE’S A NEW DRIVER IN TOWN
Move over The Stig and make way for The Meeg – also known as Brodie Branch – the man who has just set a Guinness World Record for parking cars and who is also a top driver for airport parking service, Meteor meet and greet.
The Meeg put his parking skills to the test and successfully parked 50 cars in just 22 minutes and 16 seconds near the company’s base in Crawley, setting a new Guinness World Record.
64 APRIL 2012
Watched by fellow Meteor meet and greet drivers and monitored by professional timekeepers, The Meeg demonstrated his speed, agility and parking precision, with cars ranging from BMW 5 Series to Fiat 500’s. Between screeching into spaces, The Meeg sprinted back and forth to the start line. The Meeg said: ‘During my time at Meteor meet and greet I’ve valet-parked more than a quarter of a million cars but I’ve never achieved anything quite like this before.
Being up against the clock, my adrenalin surged higher and higher with each car, so when I parked the 50th and saw the time, it was an amazing feeling.’
Sarah Anglim, director of Meteor meet and greet, added: ‘Our drivers park a great mix of car makes and models and are experts in perfect parking, but when the business started 27 years ago I didn’t think we would be setting world records. We’re confi dent this record will be hard to beat.’
www.britishparking.co.uk
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