A while back, Mixed Bag had a thread about jobs that didn't exist anymore. This morning I was thinking back to the time when paperboys used to ride their bikes through the neighborhood delivering the news. Once a month they'd come around to collect what was owed and recorded it on a punch card. They'd punch the card to remove the weeks we'd paid for and gave us change with a coin changer that hung from their belt. It had stacks of coins that the paperboy would dispense from the changer. It's like a virtual trip back to Mayberry.

We're going to use our own coin changer. Start with the word "COIN". Change one letter and anagram to find the answers to these clues.

-1. Italian adios
-2. Dominos character, with "the"
-3. a desired destination in "The Matrix"
-4. the sound Hermey made on "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" to make the abominable snowman come out of the cave
-5. he rules over Valhalla
-6. slang for "steal"
-7. prefix for one trillionth
-8. Zn
-9. used for describing films or books that show the world as being unpleasant, strange, or cruel
-10. die, with "out"

1. ciao

Hi Cue.

2. Noid

Hi Curly Good start y'all

6. nick

10. conk

Two good ones!

5 - Odin

3. Zion

Looking good, girls

9. noir

7. pico

8. Zinc

Good solves!

That just leaves the one. I guess you're not as big of a fan of the "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" as I am. Anyway, Hermey has to make the abominable snowman think that there's food for it outside the cave. He makes this sound to lure him out so Yukon Cornelius can drop a boulder on his head.

Apparently there's a big stink about having the show on TV because of "all of the bigotry" and "that's not something we should be teaching our children". Funny, I thought the opposite was true with the show.

4. oink

That's the beast, manxman