Gastropod mollusc noted for its brightly coloured body |
NUDIBRANCH |
Greek island which served as a granary for Constantinople in the Byzantine period |
LEMNOS |
Heroine of the His Dark Materials trilogy |
Lyra Belacqua |
Impaired judgement due to uncontrolled anger |
red mist |
In textiles, the opposite of woof |
WARP |
Irish golfer who won the Open championship in 2007 and 2008 |
Padraig Harrington |
Last or final (French, masculine gender) |
DERNIER |
Parodist or copycat |
MIMICKER |
President Ronald Reagan’s Secret Service codename |
RAWHIDE |
Repeated performances or races |
RERUNS |
Resident of Australia’s 'Garden State' |
VICTORIAN |
School in which the Talmud is taught |
YESHIVA |
Ship's deck with at least two apostrophes |
fo'c'sle |
Sister of Elinor in Sense & Sensibility |
Marianne Dashwood |
Site of a Second Boer War battle in 1900 |
Spion Kop |
Surname of the actor 'waiting' in a 1984 Bananarama single |
De Niro |
The 'divine wisdom' of Madame Blavatsky |
THEOSOPHY |
The CEO of Ryanair |
Michael O'Leary |
The negative terminal of a dry battery |
CATHODE |
The only athlete to win two Olympic gold medals in the triathlon |
Alistair Brownlee |
The only planet whose name is derived from a character in Greek mythology |
URANUS |
The worship of sacred things, or saints |
hierolatry |
The ____, 1903 Jack London novel about a dog called Buck |
Call Of The Wild |
Third compartment of a ruminant’s stomach |
OMASUM |
This French-Canadian pop punk band performed at the 2010 Winter Olympics closing ceremony |
Simple Plan |
US state whose capital is Baton Rouge |
LOUISIANA |
Visitors to Cumbria may see this lake from Cat Bells |
DERWENTWATER |
What went in a hole in an old-style school desk |
INKWELL |
Zoroastrian holy scriptures |
AVESTA |
____ Ka-chun, snooker player originally from Hong Kong |
Marco Fu |