“When it is ____, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red” (St Matthew) |
EVENING |
1967 film about partners in crime |
Bonnie And Clyde |
(Latin) What good would that do me? |
cui bono |
A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible |
PROOFREADER |
A person who talks when you wish him to listen |
BORE |
A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the vice of idleness |
CONVENT |
A shackle for the free |
HABIT |
A tall vegetable intended by nature to serve as a penal apparatus |
TREE |
A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her |
BRIDE |
Belonging to me if I can hold it or seize it |
MINE |
Desire and expectation rolled into one |
HOPE |
The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue |
AUCTIONEER |
The patriotic art of lying for one’s country |
DIPLOMACY |
To dine |
OVEREAT |
To lie about another. To tell the truth about another |
DEFAME |
Unable to leave |
RESIDENT |
A blackwater tributary joining the Amazon at Manaus |
Rio Negro |
A cake and (in translation) a viceroy of India were named after this German town |
BATTENBERG |
A child aged about 12 |
TWEENER |
A communications innovation first used in the UK in Norwich (1959) and Croydon |
postal code |
A wide-mouthed pitcher |
EWER |
About four months pregnant |
MIDTERM |
Area of land with multiple buildings built for the same purpose |
ESTATE |
Bad handwriting or spelling, as any fule kno |
cacography |
Captured by means of force |
STORMED |
Clues in italics are from this 1911 book by American satirist Ambrose Bierce |
the Devil's Dictionary |
Cooker component in black, white and red |
ceramic hob |
Cream cheese used in making tiramisu |
MASCARPONE |
Device for retarding a vehicle’s motion |
drag chain |
Distance(s) most often used in connection with golf and American football |
YARDAGE |