| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Novella with first line “Marley was dead: to begin with” | A Christmas Carol |
| One given to reasoning based on theoretical deduction | apriorist |
| One name for the second-highest spiritual authorities in the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism | Tashi Lamas |
| Persona non grata | OUTCAST |
| Piece of tableware, used in the Middle Ages for serving condiments | SAUCER |
| Polaris is often called the ____ | north star |
| Powerful dog named after a people of western Alaska (spelling with only one ‘e’) | MALAMUTE |
| Rainer Maria ____ is one of the most popular writers of German poetry translated into English | RILKE |
| Shared areas of interest or responsibility | OVERLAPS |
| South Wales town, in the same valley as Mountain Ash | ABERDARE |
| Southern Italian code of silence | OMERTA |
| Suburb of London to which Samuel Pickwick retires at the end of The Pickwick Papers | DULWICH |
| The capital of Turkey | ANKARA |
| The first minister of Scotland | Nicola Sturgeon |
| The one-word anagram of SHATTERING | STRAIGHTEN |
| The ____ Chapel is named after the pope for whom it was built, in the late 15th century | SISTINE |
| The ____ is the largest organ of its type in the human body | sciatic nerve |
| Typographical marks which enclose a questionable word or phrase | scare quotes |
| WikiLeaks whistleblower jailed in 2019 for refusing to testify against Julian Assange | Chelsea Manning |
| With hands on hips and elbows turned outwards | AKIMBO |
| Wooden or bamboo stick used as a weapon in India, especially by the police | LATHI |
| ____ gardens, growing medicinal plants, were the predecessors of botanical gardens | PHYSIC |
| ____ wrote the opera Carmen | Georges Bizet |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| “There is a ____ about me that can never bear to be frightened at the will of others” (Pride and Prejudice) | STUBBORNNESS |
| 1992 Wimbledon singles champion who married the other 1992 Wimbledon singles champion in 2001 | Andre Agassi |
| A brief or insignificant love affair | amourette |
| A plant shoot or twig used for grafting; a descendant, especially of a noble family | SCION |
| A terrapin, tortoise or turtle | CHELONIAN |
| Abnormal forms of brain cell protein | PRIONS |
| Actor who played Adolf Hitler in the 2004 film Downfall | Bruno Ganz |
| Actress who played Nyota Uhura in the Star Trek TV series and films | Nichelle Nichols |
| An ice pinnacle or ridge on a glacier’s surface | SERAC |
| Another name for a verse in poetry | STANZA |
| Aural plasma around a star, visible during a total solar eclipse | CORONA |
| Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Brisbane Cricket Ground is often called the ____ | GABBA |
| Catchphrase of the game show The Price Is Right | Come on down |
| Colloquialism asking someone to stop doing something | leave it out |
| Coral island which encloses a lagoon | ATOLL |
| Detective created by Dashiell Hammett and notably portrayed by Humphrey Bogart | Sam Spade |
| Distilled from coal tar, a compound found in mothballs | NAPHTHALENE |
| Feral horse of the western USA | MUSTANG |
| French director noted for films such as I Married a Witch (1942) and And Then There Were None | Rene Clair |
| French theologian often remembered for his romance with Héloïse d’Argenteuil | Peter Abelard |
| Grain husks separated from flour after grinding | BRAN |
| Intense fear of horses | hippophobia |
| Italian for “barley”, and pasta in the shape of its grains | ORZO |
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