'Tinopolis' in South Wales, home of the Scarlets rugby union team |
LLANELLI |
A feeling of horror or revulsion |
CREEPS |
A name for some shrikes |
BUTCHERBIRD |
A young Italian man |
signorino |
An Etonian oarsman, rather than a cricketer |
Wet bob |
Andrea Newmans novel ____ of Barbed Wire was adapted for a 1976 ITV drama series starring Frank Finlay |
BOUQUET |
Arkwright and Granville sitcom |
Open All Hours |
Armenian composer of the ballets Gayane and Spartacus |
KHACHATURIAN |
Bellini opera based on the English Civil War |
I Puritani |
Capital of France’s Eure department, whose name comes from the Gallic Eburovices tribe |
evreux |
Cocktails with vodka, coffee liqueur and cream or milk |
White Russians |
Crackling on a vinyl record |
STATIC |
Director of Rosemary’s Baby in 1968 and Chinatown in 1974 |
Roman Polanski |
Distance calculator |
RANGEFINDER |
England’s World Cup-winning manager |
Sir Alf Ramsey |
Eponymous outlaw in a Walter Scott novel |
Rob Roy |
Formally install in office |
INDUCT |
Former Parisian palace designed for Catherine of Medici and burnt down in 1871 |
TUILERIES |
Garden plants with bright red, orange or yellow flowers and edible leaves |
NASTURTIUMS |
German art song — usually for solo voice with piano |
LIED |
Home of Nigeria’s oldest university, and capital of the state of Oyo |
IBADAN |
Hypnotic, tranquillising drug taken for the relief of insomnia |
nitrazepam |
Impose beliefs upon |
Force-feed |
In botany, split into three parts |
TRIFID |
In showjumping, a fence made of rough branches |
RUSTIC |
In which Ventôse, Germinal and Thermidor appeared |
Revolutionary calendar |
Informally, parts of the human heart |
COCKLES |
John Timpson’s co-presenter on Today from 1975 to 1986 |
Brian Redhead |