| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| In French, a flash of lightning; in English, a cake filled with cream | ECLAIR |
| Instrument with tuned metal bars and resonating tubes | VIBRAPHONE |
| Island where British-style pillar and telephone boxes are painted blue | GUERNSEY |
| Just after the boycotted 1980 Olympics, 100m winner Allan ____ beat the best Americans at a meeting in Koblenz | WELLS |
| London shopping centre which opened in 1819 | Burlington Arcade |
| Medium-sized antelope of eastern and southern Africa | IMPALA |
| Narghile and sheesha are other names for this pipe | HOOKAH |
| Nation bordered by Ghana, Burkina Faso and Benin | TOGO |
| North American equivalent of 'grill' | BROIL |
| Of a statistical distribution, asymmetrical | SKEWED |
| Officer ____ was the main human character in Top Cat | DIBBLE |
| Overseas department of France consisting mainly of the islands Basse-Terre and Grand-Terre | GUADELOUPE |
| Pesto ingredient | pine nuts |
| Precocious 18th-century poet who committed suicide aged 17 | Thomas Chatterton |
| Proverbial warning about unnecessary investigation | curiosity killed the cat |
| Richard Doddridge ____ wrote Lorna Doone | BLACKMORE |
| Selected as a member of a jury | empanelled |
| Synthetic polymer patented by DuPont in September 1938 | NYLON |
| Terry ____ was both captain and manager of Arsenal | NEILL |
| The 'black box' which is actually orange | flight recorder |
| The 1970 England World Cup squad’s No 1 hit | Back Home |
| The enemy of 'Billy Yank' in the American civil war | Johnny Reb |
| The oldest living former world chess champion | Boris Spassky |
| The parasite that causes scabies | itch mite |
| The poet among the three founders of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood | Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| The three-tiered version of this item is often used for afternoon tea | cake stand |
| Vitamin B3 | NIACIN |
| William Jennings ____ was the losing Democratic candidate in three US presidential elections | BRYAN |
| William ____ is best known for the book Rural Rides | COBBETT |
| Windsor Davies and Donald Sinden played rival antique dealers in the sitcom Never the ____ | TWAIN |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| 'His ____ is easy' is the chorus ending part one of Handel’s Messiah | YOKE |
| 'Paddy’s milestone' off the coast of South Ayrshire | Ailsa Craig |
| 'Winning is a ____. Unfortunately so is losing.' (Vince Lombardi) | HABIT |
| '____, I die a little' (Cole Porter song lyric) | Every Time We Say Goodbye |
| A description of most trees at this time of year | in leaf |
| A haddock as prepared in Arbroath | SMOKIE |
| A London market, or profane language | BILLINGSGATE |
| A manoeuvre placing someone wrongly in the blame | stitch-up |
| A meat and vegetable stew, especially one with sauce added just before cooking ends | RAGOUT |
| A policeman, informally in France | FLIC |
| A rugby union team’s ____ flanker usually wears number 7 | OPENSIDE |
| A tractor unit and multiple trailers | road train |
| Apfelwein is the German version of this drink | CIDER |
| Apocryphal book about a religious Israelite and (mostly) his son | TOBIT |
| Athyrium filix-femina, a plant found in shady woodlands | lady fern |
| Benign tumour of epithelial tissue with glandular origin and/or characteristics | ADENOMA |
| Bird with distinctive ear tufts | eagle owl |
| Corsica’s largest city, where Napoleon was born | AJACCIO |
| Dry white wine from Italy’s Veneto region | SOAVE |
| EastEnders character from October 1994 until he was killed off in August 2008 | wellard |
| Emperor of Japan for more than half of the 20th century | HIROHITO |
| English monarch who met Francis I of France at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520 | Henry the Eighth |
| Euphemistically, reprobate | no angel |
| First Soviet space station programme, 1971-86 | SALYUT |
| French poet born Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky | Guillaume Apollinaire |
| Game usually played with 144 tiles | mah-jongg |
| German dramatist Frank ____’s best-known plays were the basis of Alban Berg’s opera Lulu | WEDEKIND |
| Hero of Greek myth, transformed into a stag and killed by his own hounds after seeing Artemis naked | ACTAEON |
| Host city of the 1952 Winter Olympics | OSLO |
| In boxing, a wild swinging punch | HAYMAKER |
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