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From today’s Times Quick Cryptic, set by Joker.

Half the alphabet? This was split some time ago (4)

I bought myself an attack worm. Waste of money, it was spineless.

One of the planes a friend crewed in times gone by has been taken out of service and will be recycled but people who worked on her in the early days were offered a piece of the plane as a memento. My friend chose a window and brought it to the pub where it attracted great interest.

Here is the plane it came from. It was window 6 on the left hand side.

Registration- G-EZPG

First Flight - 21/01/2005

Type - Airbus A319-111

Serial Number - 2385

Engines - x2 CFM56-5B5/P

Total Hours - 44,668 (21.09.21)

https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg25333791-400-this-weeks-new-questions/

Our garden has a brick planeter, a bit like a wishing well with no well. It was overgrown when we moved here and we never did anything with it until about four years back, when we planted some lavender and a tine holly tree.

Neither exactly thrived, so we decided to redevelop the site. Lavender and holly have been replanted, we hope in a better spot, and we've put in new plants, fewer, but with a more consious design.

The central plant is a quince.This one is ornamental (I think people call these Japonica) but edible quices are a fruit related to apple and pears, and once eaten widely in this country; now unusual and hard to obtain here, although still common in some othe European countries. If you'd like a recipe for baked quince, just ask in the comments.

Why can Dalmatian dogs never hide? Because they’re always spotted!

See https://learn1.open.ac.uk/mod/oublog/viewpost.php?post=244360

Given all three labels are wrong, there are only two possible combinations.

1) Label A & P - contents A    Label A - contents P   Label P - contents A & P  

2) Label A & P - contents P    Label A - contents A & P   Label P - contents A  

If we take a fruit from A & P as we are permitted inspecting it will tell which of 1) and 2)  is correct.

This wrod has been grabled.

My friend has a thing about barbershops. As soon as he gets in one he's really rude and quickly becomes downright abusive. As a consequence he's gradually been barred from one barber's after another, leaving fewer and fewer for him within reasonable travelling distance.

Eventually it came down to just one. When he went there and asked if they would cut his hair, his reputation must have preceded him. The manager came out and said "We can cut your, but only on condition you treat all our staff with courtesy. Any impolite remark and you're out, and no barber within a fifty mile radius will ever trim your hair again. This is the last chance salon."

Shakespeare used to come to my local. But he was barred.

Floating in the pond

Fallen plum blossoms

And the moon

I went to the Doctor, I said, I keep imagining I’m biscuits people have with cheese. He said, you’re crackers.