18 METRO Thursday, December 10, 2009 D You are so good at moving on from a bad situation quickly. Why then are you still wallowing in something which is over? Come on Aries, time to look forward not back. Its nearly Christmas! Rumours and gossip make it hard for you to concentrate on anything work related. You know that this time of year always brings fun, but just make sure you focus on laughter not slander please. Flirtations tip toe gently into your life. You may not notice the beginning of this journey, but youll enjoy it. Work parties beckon, and you get the chance to see the social side of a professional. Your taste in love is changing. In fact I dont think you could describe your perfect partner very easily anymore. Why? Because youve now realised you can afford to aim higher. Youre worth it. You think you dont have the support you need to get through current dramas. Youre wrong though, and all your close ones want you to do, is to ask them for help. They are ready and able. You are worried that you have given certain people too much information regarding your personal life. What will they think of you? Theyll support you, so relax Virgo! Youre loved and should know it. You have to make up your mind what you want in life. You seem to think the grass is always greener, but youre looking to other people, who would not want what you do anyway. How do you tell someone how you feel about them? You dont need to; your feelings are written all over your face. A forced change at work will turn out to be a blessing in disguise. Make the effort to see your friends, and to join in with the festive celebrations which are sure to be going on. By doing so, you can find out some information which can make your Christmas! If you cant afford something then dont do it. If you can stay within your budget this month, then you will be able to open up a whole new world of possibilities for New Years Eve. The written word is the key to you getting what you really want out of life. You start to see the possibilities this week, instead of the limitation. Flirtations turn serious after 7pm tonight. Want to know a secret? Someone has fallen far harder for you than you thought. Listen, dont talk, this week, and you will find this fact out for yourself my friend. Accept last minute invites too. Start The Day CLOCKWORD THIS LIFE by Rick Brookes NEMI by Lise QUIZ 1. Tassel 2. Tell 3. Preserve 4. Prejudice 5. Beat 6. Respect 7. Art movement 8. Refuge 9. Haphazard 10. Pronouncement 11. Feeble 12. Naturism The solutions from 1 to 12 are all six-letter words ending with the letter M in the centre. Moving clockwise from 1, the letters in the outer circle will spell out the name of an Italian-born fashion designer. M Yesterdays solution: Bobby Fischer ANSWERS:ENIGMA:HenryPurcell.WHOAMI?ZadieSmith.WHO, WHAT,WHEREANDWHEN?MickMcCarthy;GameTheory;The UniversityofStAndrews;December11,1941. ENIGMA Although he is not still alive He died in 1695 This Brit composers Dido and Aeneas still enchants the land. WHO AM I? An author, I was born in London in 1975. I won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction and was short- listed for the Man Booker Prize the same year. My novels include White Teeth, The Autograph Man and On Beauty. WHO, WHAT, WHERE AND WHEN? WHO... currently manages Wolverhampton Wanderers? WHAT... branch of mathematics deals with risk, bargaining and payoffs? WHERE... did Prince William complete his four-year degree course? WHEN... did Adolf Hitler declare war on the US? Complete this Metroku grid to reveal the digits that should go in the shaded squares. METROKU metro.co.uk/metroku Difficultyrating:Easy Difficultyrating:Challenging Difficultyrating:Moderate Scribblespace Scribblespace For solutions to the metroku, log on to metro.co.uk/metroku c index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html