Across
3. Devoted to his wife but went to bed with a prostitute.
4. Shagged his wife but was embarrassed about it. Perhaps you would be too.
5. Spin Doctor advised him that a super-injunction was the latest craze.
6. Shagged his wife’s sister’s former best friend whilst still married to her.
8. Shared his boudoir with a former foreign Secretary.
9. Had his mobile phone account hacked. Nothing of interest found.
Down
1. Once married to Paul McCartney – I hates to be left out.
2. Had an affair with a former Miss Wales. Plaid Cymru supporter.
3. Opened super-injuncted anonymous Twitter account to reveal all – except himself. Confused.
4. Didn’t shag anyone and would rather you didn’t know. Onanistic revisionist.
5. Tried to shag his former employee and was rebuffed.
6. Stayed home alone on Friday night to finish his work but didn’t want to be left out.
7. Had an affair with Zsa Zsa Gabor. Didn’t have a leg to stand on. A stand up comic.
All words appear in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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SBML is the landlord of the Raccoon Arms. He lives North of Watford and has an eclictic range of interests from Science and Technology to Politics including Woodwork and Genealogy. His political viewpoint has evolved from being a student demonstrator to more liberal views and has now seen the light in Libertarianism.
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I hate to big up the Daily Mail, but the end of their article on a certain Downton Abbey actor was utterly wonderful….
“Last night Hugh guest-starred in Doctor Who, playing a pirate captain whose ship is in peril from a beautiful siren – an event that made the gossip columns. ‘Where can they have drawn inspiration for such a role?’ asked one writer.
But then Hugh’s devotion to wife Lulu is so strong it is understood he is known to fellow thespians as the Ryan Giggs of the showbusiness world, after the famously family-orientated footballer.”
I heard that Sir ******* ******** has obtained an injunction to prevent news that former military big wig ******* ****** had an affair with **** ********, (who of course was born *** ****), Sir ******* ********’s wife, from leaking out.
Apparently, they met in Naples.
You didn’t hear it from me, right?
You nearly got the answers to the crossword right.
Another clue: what is the official word you would use in place of *******?
He fired up the brain and wrote names
But was spoiled for a choice who to blame
Now it’s “Hi Carter-Ruck”
And financial unluck
For some with just wifey they came
I wonder what would have happened if the slebs concerned had issued a press release at the time of the incident confirming their infidelity? My guess is that most journos would have said, “Yeah, right” and dispatched said press release to the Round File with a bored yawn. The rest would have made a column-filler at the bottom of page fifteen.
It’s not the act that gets you, it’s the cover up. The bigger the cover up, the bigger the story.
The cases that really matter are not the slebs with wandering body-parts, they’re the genuine matters of public importance – the man accused of rape and prevented from speaking to his MP, the Marr hypocricy, that sort of thing.