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Royal Air Force News Friday, April 19, 2019 R'n'R 8
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Prize Crossword Solutions should be sent in a sealed envelope marked 'Prize Prize Su Doku
No. 248 Crossword' with the number in the top left-hand corner to RAF No. 257
News, Room 68, Lancaster Building, HQ Air Command, High
Solve the crossword, then rearrange the Wycombe, Bucks, HP14 4UE to arrive by May 3.
14 letters in yellow squares to find an RAF
activity. Fill in all the
Across squares in
the grid so
that each row,
1. It still erupts in Tibet, naturally (4) each column
8. Place for kings, queens and knights (10) and each
9. Tree Cate climbed, among others (2,6) 3x3 square
10. Find out missing student will make money (4) contains all
12. Savage fire swirling outside Cologne (6) the digits
14. Ordinary technique used by Andrew or George, say (6) from 1 to 9.
15. Company graduate left outside, kind of blue (6)
17. Aircraft on guard? (6)
18. Emperor originally tried subjugating all Russia (4)
19. Mole almost feels spasm at sea (8)
21. After weighing Bill, we leave famous airfield, perhaps (6,4)
22. Oriental monster loses head (4)
Down
Name ......................................................................
2. Stop titles influenced by RAF personnel (4,6) .................................................................................
3. A revolutionary pain (4) Address ..................................................................
4. Critical English river goes from north to east (6)
5. Even Caesar’s alarm at these missiles (6) Solutions should .................................................................................
6. Sub-hunter with trident? (8) be sent in a sealed ....................................................Su Doku No. 257
7. Two-thirds of Scandinavian country is paradise (4) envelope marked
11. RAF personnel ready to step in (10) 'Su Doku' with the Solution to Su Doku No: 256
13. Roger & Ada affected by steering problem (4,4) The winner of Crossword No. 245 is Steve Clulas from RAF Brize number in the top
16. Originally the bad weather affected public transport (6) Norton who wins a copy of The Polish 'Few' by Peter Sikora (frontline- left-hand corner to
17. Is bear endangered in this country? (6) books.com). RAF News, to arrive
18. An objection over brass (4) by May 3. Su Doku
20. Talented second son, by the sound of it (4) Solution to crossword No. 245: No. 256 winner
Chas Wallace from
Wimborne, Dorset,
Across – 1. Swap 8. Above Board 9. Adorable 10. Colt 12. Au wins a copy of RAF
Name ................................................................................................................... Pair 14. Rebuke 15. Snares 17. Canine 18. Slur 19. Unmanned On The Offensive
Address ............................................................................................................... 21. Put Forward 22. Echo. by Greg Baughen
Down –2. Wind Tunnel 3. Pair 4. Bomber 5. Meteor 6. Log
.............................................................................................................................. Cabin 7. Edit 11. Lakenheath 13. Aircraft 16. Scurry (frontline-books.
com).
.............................................................................................................................. 17. Combat 8. Sips 20. Nude.
:......................................................................................... Crossword No. 248 RAF word – Frontline

Film review

Styx Released April 26 Certificate 12A Canada on film

Rike goes to the rescue

TYX FOLLOWS German
first responder Rike as she GOING SOLO: Suzanne Wolff stars as
S embarks on a solo sailing trip solitary sailor Rike in Styx
from Gibraltar to a remote island in
the tropical mid-Atlantic, looking
for an escape into a paradise of
wild untouched nature. During
the voyage however she makes a
discovery that plunges her deep
into a moral dilemma. TROUBLED: Tanaya
The first half of the film Beatty stars as Annie
in Through Black
is masterful, with an almost Spruce
dialogue-free series of scenes that
demonstrate Rike’s proficiency on TALES OF restless youth, The festival will show titles
her small yacht, the Asa Grey. indigenous stories of tragedy and including Through Black Spruce,
A fleeting prologue already healing, compelling personal based on an award-winning novel
having revealed her competence dramas and documentaries about that tells the story of a young Cree
treating someone under pressure, in desperate need of help. On screen for the duration of the search for social justice and woman whose disappearance
and then faced with navigating The film is very clever in the film, she anchors questions of freedom of speech are among the triggers events in two worlds: in
through a storm, she is shown to be the way that it aligns you with morality, having to decide whether films featured in this year’s Canada Moosonee, the remote Northern
extraordinarily capable. this one extremely competent to follow seemingly immoral Now festival – bringing the best of Ontario community she fled
This film is sure to collect and compassionate character, instruction or risk her own safety. new Canadian cinema to the UK. years ago, and Toronto, where she
comparisons to All is Lost with crystallising the heroic human Styx is a lean, stripped back Alongside eight UK premieres, modelled before vanishing.
Robert Redford, but where that instinct. thriller that relies on camerawork Canada Now also includes a Her twin sister, at home hunting
was concerned solely about self This is played in contrast to and performance over special performance from Canadian moose in the North but a fish out of
and survival, Styx is able to tackle the largely faceless authorities, effects, and yet it manages to craft filmmaker Daniel Cockburn of water in the city, reluctantly heads
questions of morality that have a the coastguard to whom Rike an involving social commentary his surreal, autobiographical show south to retrace her sister’s steps.
resonant sting. persistently leaves distress calls and whilst looking and feeling How Not To Watch A Movie. The two worlds collide when the
It is when Rike nears Cape Verde demands attention. completely realistic. Launching on April 24, nine fallout from the missing woman's
that she spots a large trawler ship Suzanne Wolff plays a pivotal Review by Sam Cooney films will play across five days at troubled life comes to a violent
that doesn't appear to be moving or role as Rike with a raw authenticity, Curzon Soho and Phoenix East head, back in Moosonee.
communicating through its radio. from her fighting instinct to her R'n'R Rating: Finchley cinemas in London, n You can see the full Festival
It becomes clear that there are helplessness – evidently she is not followed by a national tour of UK programme at: http://canadanow.
many people on this boat, refugees, superhuman. (4 out of 5) cinemas. co.uk/