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Hi there
Want to get this elephant out of the way before tonight!!!
12 dn "Shower head for refurbishment-- need to sterilise outside" (5)
I have S?R?Y so it must be SPRAY or STRAY
mustn't it????? Which and WHY??
kind regs THEA

I put stray
shower head = spray
needs refurbishing = stray
(st I thought was abbrev. for sterilising)
but that's just the way I saw it !

spay to sterilise!

andyc you are brilliant.
Just changed it to spray.
I hadn't thought of cats/dogs being spayed.
Bad day :(

yes, definitely SPRAY

I hadn't thought of it either jazzgirl until I looked it uo in Chambers Crossword Dictionary. Ha ha!

I have cats so I a quite familiar with SPAY !

Ouch !

Do you mean miaow ?

Ta very much Andyc, jazzgirl and francis
Hadnt thought of SPAY and have had 8 cats ( so far) all SPAYED!!!!!
Off to baby caring then back for 9.,00pm Launch ( eat around a send-off)
Thanks again THEA