Clues | Answers |
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Large cloth used to protect furniture during redecoration | dust sheet |
Light-hearted pleasure or enjoyment | good fun |
Likely to show anger or irritation | WASPISH |
Make unnecessary objections | CAVIL |
Making the sound of a crow | CAWING |
Niche in a mosque wall, indicating the direction of Mecca | MIHRAB |
One of only two sailors, and six people in any sport, to win individual gold at four consecutive summer Olympics | Ben Ainslie |
One of the three classical orders of architecture | IONIC |
Private place to which very few people are admitted | SANCTUM |
Rapid growth, often of something undesirable | PROLIFERATION |
Russian writer of short stories and (more famously in translation) plays | Anton Chekhov |
Selection often including sweet sherry, port, champagne, burgundy and claret | wine gums |
Slow march of the Grenadier Guards, taken from a Handel opera about a Roman general of the same name, who defeated Hannibal | SCIPIO |
Someone in this is worth adding to your quiz team | the know |
Someone who ____ something does it thoroughly | goes to town on |
Strong fabric in strip form, used in military apparel | WEBBING |
Surname of the 30th US president, known as “Silent Cal” | COOLIDGE |
Swiss dish made with grated potatoes | ROSTI |
The capital and largest city of Croatia | ZAGREB |
The lowest choice in many product rating systems | one star |
True facts, or a description of something despicable | low-down |
US automobile brand, based in Auburn Hills, Michigan | DODGE |
William Walton’s ____ concerto was written for Lionel Tertis, but premiered by Paul Hindemith | VIOLA |
Clues | Answers |
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1934 Nazi purge, in which Ernst Röhm was one of the best-known people killed | night of the long knives |
1988 film which recalled the “golden age of American animation” | Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
A doubles game similar to hand pelota, played in some British schools | Eton fives |
A dual carriageway with controlled access, or an extensive communications network | SUPERHIGHWAY |
A patent medicine, or a favourite solution for other problems | NOSTRUM |
A toothed whale with one notable tooth | NARWHAL |
A very young bird | NESTLING |
Author of the Balkan and Levant trilogies | Olivia Manning |
Boxing punch often landed on the chin at close range | UPPERCUT |
British overseas territory comprising two parts of a Caribbean coral archipelago | Turks and Caicos Islands |
Canadian name for a bar in a hotel or tavern | beer parlour |
European “plum brandy” made from damsons | slivovic |
Fabric produced in Donegal and the Outer Hebrides | TWEED |
Family of typefaces, intended to be legible at small sizes | lucida |
First female Jamaican winner of Olympic sprint gold, in the 2004 200m final | Veronica Campbell-Brown |
Forename shared by composers Pachelbel and Hummel | JOHANN |
Game like hurling, played by women | CAMOGIE |
German town with a critical Rhine bridge captured by US forces in the closing days of the Second World War | REMAGEN |
I may be engaged in climbing hills | bottom gear |
Instrument used to measure angles of slope | INCLINOMETER |
Jocular term for a very religious person | God-botherer |
Joseph ____ was an essayist, poet and politician, and a co-founder of The Spectator | ADDISON |
Joshua ____ was the first president of the Royal Academy | REYNOLDS |
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