Clues | Answers |
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Large Pacific Ocean eel, with dark brown circles around most of the iris | ringeye conger |
Level 42’s first appearance on Top of the Pops was with this 1981 single | Love Games |
Name used in the US for the Electric Light Orchestra’s debut album, as a result of misunderstood phone call records | No Answer |
Nikolai ____ wrote Taras Bulba | GOGOL |
Obsessive self-centredness | EGOMANIA |
Path followed by an airborne body under the influence of forces including gravity | TRAJECTORY |
Pen named after its Hungarian designer | BIRO |
Play thought to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare and George Wilkins | Pericles Prince of Tyre |
Pregnant, colloquially | in the club |
Scotland’s A70 road runs from Edinburgh to ___ | AYR |
Spanish cheese made with ewe’s milk | MANCHEGO |
Spanish tennis player who won two grand-slam doubles titles with Emilio Sanchez | Sergio Casal |
Stage name of the singer born Anna Mae Bullock | Tina Turner |
That which, in rugby union, is always worth seven points | penalty try |
The 1392 Statute of ____, limiting papal power in England, was later exploited by Henry VIII, eg against Wolsey | praemunire |
The Dying Swan was created for this ballerina | Anna Pavlova |
The largest province of South Africa | Northern Cape |
The lord chancellor is keeper of the ____ | great seal |
The most populous of New York City’s five boroughs | BROOKLYN |
Type of bridge restricted to pedestrian traffic | ROPE |
US actor who came to prominence as Dr Doug Ross in ER | George Clooney |
Vietnam’s capital | HANOI |
____ played Lorna Cole in two of the Lethal Weapon films | Rene Russo |
Clues | Answers |
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“I maintain that the phrase, a ‘long poem’ is simply a flat ____” (Edgar Allan Poe) | contradiction in terms |
18th-century publication for which Benjamin Franklin adopted a pseudonym | Poor Richards Almanack |
2015 David Baldacci novel which introduced detective Amos Decker | Memory Man |
A brightly coloured tropical freshwater fish, often kept in aquariums | TETRA |
A co-star of 10D in the “Ocean’s” film franchise | Brad Pitt |
Abalone of the Channel Islands | ORMER |
Actor who played Derek Bentley in Let Him Have It | Christopher Eccleston |
Actor who played Terry Duckworth in Coronation Street | Nigel Pivaro |
Actress nominated for an Oscar for her first film role, Alexandra Feodorovna in Nicholas and Alexandra | Janet Suzman |
An artist’s stand | EASEL |
Another name for a cataract (optical) condition) | pearl-eye |
Another name for Alces alces, which in British English is sometimes called “elk” | MOOSE |
Band whose debut single Go Now was their only No 1 hit | Moody Blues |
British reggae band of the 1970s and early 1980s, originally fronted by Ted Dixon | matumbi |
Canvas canopies often attached to shop fronts or caravans | AWNINGS |
Clothing chain founded in 1969 by Donald and Doris Fisher | GAP |
Collective noun for owls | PARLIAMENT |
District of north London between New Southgate and Woodside Park | Friern Barnet |
English winner of the decathlon at the 2006 Commonwealth Games | Dean Macey |
Former makers of bits, spurs and other small metalware (spelling with M) | lorimers |
Free of nervous agitation | unflustered |
Garden plant with pink flowers and silver woolly foliage | rose campion |
Ghostly | SPECTRAL |
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