endnotes Crossword
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Down 1 Major government department gives typical commuting trip? (4,6) 2
Briefl y, automated number plate reading – ran off outside entrance to parking (4)
3 Parked, is car partly showing such indication that road tax is paid? (4) 4 Device for determining oil level, stupid sort? (8) 5 Do ask about this car make (4) 7/9 Commercial vehicles that just pass through? (7,4) 8 Tear off to see the price (4) 9 See 7dn. 13 See 25dn. 15 This shows you can usually go ahead as a driver? (5,5) 16 Self-motivated road users (8) 18 Security rounds – portals damaged (7) 20
Registration point for LAs that have decriminalised parking penalties, etc (sort of) (3)
Across 4 Conduits twisted – so something off the parking charge? (8) 6 Title changes, right, which makes mess of car park, etc. (6) 10 There’ll be a call for such a means of paying for parking, etc (5) 11 A Ford ‘T’ car crashed – that’s a driving skill! (4,5) 12/14 NCS graffi ti’s awful: “No Parking”, “One Way”, etc. (7,5) 17 Parking in car before one (old Ford model) (5) 19 Pothole – bored worker stuck in it? (3) 21 Enforcement, Ryde, includes access (5) 22 Ash, say, in short thoroughfare makes thoroughfare complete (6) 24 Lent car out for a costly parking location in town? (7) 27 Crane lost, perhaps? Actually, it was twocced! (6,3) 30 Old South Americans parked inside PIN cashpoint! (5) 31 Road safety organisation’s part in Polperro’s parking (5) 32 Crude names – hic – for inhuman ticket dispensers! (8)
23 Park Mark approval could mean credit (4) 25/13 Maybe RAC caring or vehicle on track? (6,3) 26 Cameras (traffi c) capturing this Vauxhall model (5) 28 Sports car’s lane changes (4) 29 Highway bar holds one (4)
Solutions to May crossword Across: 5 Espace 7 Clamping 11 Panda 12 Rear light 13 Road map 15 Chloe 18 Patrick Troy 22 Isaac 23 Delayed 26 Spare tyre 28 Multi 30 Long stay 31 Engage.
Down: 1 Keepers 2 Spin 3 Small car 4 Wing 6 Claim 8 Load 9 Gutter 10 Pre-paid 14 Alpha 16 Lay-by 17 Skidded 19 Tickets 20 Diesel 21 L-driver 24 Le Mans 25 By-way 27 Anne 29 Leak.
THE LIGHT-HEARTED SIDE OF PARKING 1
George Cassavetti, of Alpha Parking, is taking a sabbatical to perform his comedy show, Nutters of the British Isles: The Complete Field Guide, at the Edinburgh Festival. Speaking about his show, George said: ‘We are called The Royal Society for the Promotion of Nutters. We are hoping visitors to the festival will visit our show, unless of course they have a nutter allergy!’ Boom-boom. To inspire George, and help him polish his repertoire, here are a couple of jokes that feature, albeit loosely, the world of parking.
50 JUNE 2012
An elderly lady, stopped to drive into a parking space when a young man in a new red BMW drove around her and parked in the space that she had been waiting for. The lady approached the young fellow and said, through gritted teeth, ‘I was about to park there.’
The man looked at her with disdain and replied, ‘This is what you can do when you’re young and bright.’
The lady got back in her car, backed it up and then she stamped on the accelerator and
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rammed straight into his BMW. The young man ran back to his car and shouted in a stunned voice: ‘What did you do that for?’
She smiled at him and said: ‘That’s what you can do when you’re old and rich.’
And fi nally… second place in the Edinburgh Fringe 2011 went to
comedian Tim Vine, who came up with this pearler.
‘Crime in multi-storey car parks, that is wrong on so many levels.’
www.britishparking.co.uk
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