Clues | Answers |
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Mammal whose stomach is divided into four compartments | RUMINANT |
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island are Canada’s ____ Provinces | MARITIME |
No 1 UK single for 2 Unlimited in 1993 | No Limit |
Opera performed most in recent Arena di Verona seasons | AIDA |
Outer layer of an embryo, which develops to form skin and nerves | ECTODERM |
Patrick Stewart's first film appearance as Captain Jean-Luc Picard was in ____ | Star Trek Generations |
Period of up to four weeks before Christmas | ADVENT |
Playwright who wrote The Rivals | SHERIDAN |
Political party whose president is Cyril Ramaphosa | African National Congress |
Psychologist and former FBI agent created by James Patterson | Alex Cross |
Ring-shaped moulding, as at the top of a column | ANNULET |
Roman emperor ____ Valerius Aurelius Constantinus is also known as Constantine the Great | flavius |
Sacred choral composition | MOTET |
Shout of approval | CHEER |
Status Quo’s first hit single was inspired by this artist | L S Lowry |
Strong masculine pride | MACHISMO |
Swiss tennis player who won the 2016 US Open | Stan Wawrinka |
Swollen lymph node in the armpit or groin | BUBO |
The first American woman in space (in 1983) | Sally Ride |
The only one of the “seven wonders” whose existence has never been proved | Hanging Gardens of Babylon |
The process of feeding data into a computer | INPUT |
The royal family usually attends the ____ Gathering on the first Saturday in September | BRAEMAR |
The three Major League Baseball teams named after birds include the Baltimore ____ | ORIOLES |
The tremolo arm of a guitar is also called a ____ bar | WHAMMY |
The world’s only alpine parrot, found in New Zealand | KEA |
The ____ Railway is a heritage line running from Whitby to Pickering | North Yorkshire Moors |
The ____, 1967 film with Jason Robards as Al Capone | St Valentine's Day Massacre |
Theatrical comedy by Moliere, set in the house of Orgon | TARTUFFE |
Usually hooded wicker basket, used as an infant’s bed | BASSINET |
____ is credited with the invention of the postage stamp | Rowland Hill |
Clues | Answers |
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“They were summoned from the hillside” is the first line of this 1914 song | Keep the Home Fires Burning |
1996 Formula One world champion | Damon Hill |
A 1985 TV advertising campaign for this Japanese company used a version of the song “’Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?” | TOSHIBA |
A langlaufer is a cross-country ____ | SKIER |
A magazine rifle or pistol, named after a German inventor | MAUSER |
A place setting at a restaurant table | COVER |
A scrap of food | ORT |
A small web-weaving mite, a leaf pest | red spider |
A ____ orange is a variety of apple | BLENHEIM |
Alban ____ based his first opera on an unfinished play by Georg Büchner, and did not complete his second opera | BERG |
Anvil-shaped bone of the middle ear | INCUS |
Architect who designed the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme | Edwin Lutyens |
Author of Some of Me Poems | Pam Ayres |
Blackpool Pleasure Beach roller coaster which opened in 1994 | The Big One |
Bond girl Plenty ____ featured in Diamonds Are Forever | O'Toole |
Cloud type with rounded heaps on a dark horizontal base | CUMULUS |
Company whose logo depicts two walking fingers | YELL |
Composer whose symphonies include the “Bear” and “Surprise” | HAYDN |
Confectionery trademark which is a boy’s name reversed | trebor |
Distance between a vehicle’s front and rear axles | WHEELBASE |
Driving game series launched on the PlayStation in 1997 | Gran Turismo |
Fabric from Angora goats | MOHAIR |
Game won by taking (or not taking) the last matchstick | NIM |
Glands at the root of the neck which become vestigial in adulthood | THYMI |
Husband of Muhammad’s daughter Fatima, later the fourth Muslim caliph, assassinated in 661 | ALI |
In a nervous state | RATTLED |
In Greek mythology, a water nymph — one of the 3,000 daughters of Tethys | OCEANID |
In Rugby, a foul play in which the ball is hit forwards | knock-on |
Island where the Greeks hid their fleet near the end of the Trojan War | TENEDOS |
Japanese farewell, which translates as “if it must be so” | SAYONARA |
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